Tag Archives: coffee

Writing the Book (15 Dec 08)

I’m pressed for time this morning, so we’ll be quick. Work and various other commitments kept me from writing at all during the week, so it was another 20-hour weekend. Really, with enough coffee, almost anything is possible.
Oh, and I’m sporting a sweet mullet these days. Think of a cross between Barry Gibb and Larry [...]

You Read It, You Name It

I enjoyed my day off so much, I believe I’ll take another. The agenda is roughly the same:

Drink coffee
Play with dogs
Watch Stargate SG-1
Play Mob Wars
Read Lillian Ross’ Reporting Back (where I learned, among other things, that the great Hungarian composer Bela Bartok once wrote a piece for Benny Goodman; I’ll need to get my hands [...]

Friday Links (28 Sep 07)

Coffee in the bloodstream, jazz in the ears, baseball on the brain. Let’s get busy…

Trade winds blow true (San Diego Union-Tribune). Tom Krasovic tells us what we already know: Kevin Towers is good at that trading thing. Here’s a passage that helps confirm some things we’ve long suspected:
Padres statistical analysts deserve credit, Towers has said. [...]