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Ok. It’s been a bit. And I’ve been meaning to post this here. As some of you remember I went to NYC a few weeks ago for business. Only the second time I’ve been to NYC as an adult, and the first time I’ve really been able to get a feel for the city. On a sojourn from the Brooklyn Bridge to Time Square taking pictures I end up running into the tail end of this:[kml_flashembed movie="http://youtube.com/v/iNu8MjgQIUw" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] (more…)

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No joke. More here. I thought about commentary…then I left it alone. Something like this speaks for itself.

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Ok. Here’s what I have. I’ve got a couple of folders with some 30,000 text files.I want to both randomly generate a list of 3,000 of these files.Then I want to somehow automatically take the text files on this list and place them into another file, preferably copying them.I know how to generate a random list using something like Excel, or SPSS, or Stata.What I don’t know how to do is automatically put them into a file as opposed to moving them there manually.Any suggestions?  I’ve got a mac, and I was figuring that maybe automator might work, but I don’t know.

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I’ve been reading about Gary Sheffield’s (expanded) comments about the relative absence of African Americans in Major League Baseball. To tell you how much I know and how deep this situation is, until Sheffield made his comments I just assumed that Sheffield himself was Latino. I know that Bonds is an African American, and that Griffey is African American…but after that? My mind is a blank. (Oh. Cecil Fielder’s son Prince is African American.) The Tigers are now good enough for me to follow now, so hopefully that situation will change.But whatever the case I think that Sheffield’s comments are worth thinking about, and fleshing out. I’ve read at least one commenter who got some of it right. And another who also came close. But there’s more than a few idiots floating around. The following represents a piece I wrote over at my old haunts, with a few modifications. (more…)

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Got this from Mike.

Your results:
You are Magneto

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You fear the persecution of those that are different or underprivileged so much that you are willing to fight and hurt others for your cause.

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