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A fan's proposal for a new stadium in Toronto would have it outdoor and baseball-only →

I missed this back in 2009 when it first came out. The linked PDF contains the proposal in full, written by Jeffrey A. Citron and David Steinhauer. It came out before the new outdoor park — Target Field — in Minneapolis (which has similar weather to Toronto) was completed.

tags: Toronto, Toronto Blue Jays, baseball | # | comment Jul. 4th, 2011

Minor League Baseball: Investing in the Future →

“[M]ost players at the minor league level who haven’t reached minor league free agency are lucky to make $10,000 over the course of a season; a survey of players revealed that those in rookie ball make $1,250-1,300 a month while players in Triple-A, the highest level of the minors, can make roughly $1,000 more per month while under the contracted amount.”

tags: Trenton Thunder, baseball | # | comment Sep. 5th, 2010

Illustrated Vancouver catalogs the city of Vancouver, British Columbia represented in art →

tag: Vancouver | # | comment Sep. 2nd, 2010

A history of Vancouver’s love affair with baseball →

tags: Asahi Tigers, Nat Bailey Stadium, Vancouver, Vancouver Canadians, Vancouver Capilanos, Vancouver Mounties, baseball | # | comment Aug. 18th, 2010

It’s time we had an intervention with the game of baseball →

On announcers: “Watch a game for an inning with no volume. See if you miss anything.”

tag: baseball | # | comment Aug. 4th, 2010

Gary Wolf of The Quantified Self on the data-driven life →

“Self-tracking can sometimes appear narcissistic, but it also allows people to connect with one another in new ways.”

tag: self-tracking | # | comment May. 2nd, 2010

Stephen J. McNamee and Robert K. Miller, Jr. summarize their book The Meritocracy Myth →

tags: merit, meritocracy, nonmerit advantages, via:gordonr | # | comment Apr. 4th, 2010

The generalist’s dilemma →

tag: generalist | # | comment Jan. 18th, 2010

Ed Smith asks "are we too professional?" →

“At the end of the 19th century, an amateur meant someone who was motivated by the sheer love of doing something; professional was a rare, pejorative term for grubby money-making.”

tag: professionalism | # | comment Jan. 18th, 2010

"It is time to look at China, not for what it says, but for what it does, and to judge it accordingly." →

“Although the politics of China remains communist, the economics might be called Advanced Mercantilist.”

tag: China | # | comment Jan. 16th, 2010

The Reykjavik Grapevine's Paul Nikolov summarizes the current crisis in Iceland over Icesave →

tags: Iceland, Icelandic economic crisis, Icesave | # | comment Jan. 8th, 2010

10-minute documentary featuring Copenhagen-based street art heroes Lints, Kissmama, and Basco 5 →

tags: Basco 5, Copenhagen, Kissmama, Lints, art, street art | # | comment Dec. 26th, 2009

Melissa Goldstein interviews Vancouver photographer Jeff Wall on The Economist's blog →

tags: Jeff Wall, Vancouver, art, photography | # | comment Dec. 24th, 2009

A Mathematician's Lament by Paul Lockhart →

Lockhart argues in part essay, part dialogue between Salviati and Simplicio, that math is an art to be discovered, not to be taught by rote.

tags: education, education reform, math, mathematics | # | comment Nov. 15th, 2009

Iceland's lost puffins →

Kids from the Westman Islands gather at night and rescue birds fooled by the town's lights.

tags: Iceland, Westman Islands, puffins | # | comment Nov. 15th, 2009

The Reverse Geocache Puzzle →

Using GPS and some scripted logic, Mikal Hart built a box that a newly-married couple could only open at one spot on earth.

tags: Arduino, GPS, hardware hacking | # | comment Nov. 14th, 2009

The Fairtilizer blog interviews Icelandic synth band FM Belfast →

Features an preview of their album, How to Make Friends.

tags: FM Belfast, Iceland | # | comment Nov. 9th, 2009

New York Times obituary for John DeFrancis →

News to me, he died in January of this year. He was a giant in Chinese language studies, and helped shape some of my understanding when studying Mandarin.

tags: Chinese, John DeFrancis, Mandarin, linguistics | # | comment Nov. 5th, 2009

Why women might end up coming across "cold" to men →

“When strangers do make threats against women they generally make a move when the woman is alone, so by definition you cannot have possibly been there to see and know what the woman has had to deal with in the past.”

tags: feminism, women | # | comment Oct. 26th, 2009

Notes by Stephen Rees on the Metro Vancouver Sustainability Breakfast about rail in the Lower Mainland →

tags: SkyTrain, TransLink, Vancouver, rail, streetcar | # | comment Oct. 7th, 2009

Sacha Chua's amazing presentation "The Shy Connector" →

She's turning the presentation into a series on how to get strangers to talk to you in different situations.

tags: introverts, shyness | # | comment Sep. 23rd, 2009

Frances Bula profiles Vancouver's directory of city planning Brent Toderian →

A cautious, ecologically minded and technologically savvy planner? Say it ain't so.

tags: Brent Toderian, Vancouver | # | comment Sep. 18th, 2009

Knute Berger reviews Envision Cascadia, an art exhibition at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center →

“[T]he scary thing about [Jack] Gunter's painting is that all of us have seen that development somewhere in the Northwest, be it Snoquamlie Ridge or North Vancouver.”

tags: Cascadia, Jack Gunter, North Vancouver, PDX, Portland, Seattle, Snoquamlie Ridge, Vancouver | # | comment Sep. 10th, 2009

Christine McLaren compares Portland's and Vancouver's bicycle infrastructure →

PDX comes out ahead in both results and attitude, she says.

tags: PDX, Portland, Vancouver, cycling | # | comment Sep. 7th, 2009

A day in the life of a bus driver →

Shot in 1965 for the CBC. Who's up for recreating this in present-day Vancouver?

tags: BC Hydro, Oakridge Transit Centre, Vancouver, transit | # | comment Sep. 6th, 2009

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