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My costume is Joey Ramone+Ramona Quimby=Joey Ramona Quimby. Hence, little girl dress, leather jacket, Converse, etc.

Leigh Johnson of Nowness has many more pictures of Tavi's Halloween costume, and I'm now having my "Where is Tavi from and how is she possible?" moment. I know that many friends of Hello, TypePad have already had such a moment, and I am way behind on this. I've arrived now.

After the count reached three balls and two strikes on Buster Posey in the eighth inning, Darren O'Day stood on the rubber and shook off a sign from Bengie Molina, who wanted a slider outside; O'Day wanted to throw a slider inside. O'Day stepped off the rubber, re-set, looked in for the sign — and Molina again was calling for slider outside. O'Day shook him off, Molina called for it again, and O'Day stepped off and the two met in between the mound and the plate for a lengthy conversation.

Molina made his case: If you throw the slider inside, that's the one place where he can really hurt you, where he can pull a home run.

O'Day listened, and knowing that Molina had half of this season with the Giants, he deferred to the judgment of the veteran catcher — and Posey rolled over the outside slider and grounded out to second base.

via Buster Olney, insider.espn.go.com

Adriana is rooting for the Rangers, I am for the Giants. Last night was actually the first time this year we saw the end of a postseason game (which is truly astonishing if you know us — all we do is watch baseball!)

ESPN.com's written coverage of the series has been excellent. I've been reading it before I get to the Baseball Prospectus' articles. The at bat Buster Olney describes above may prove to be the pivotal moment of the series, I've been telling all my webtard friends to quit it with the overconfidence. Winning two in a row is nothing for the Rangers; then it's a best of three series with the Rangers pitching Lee (who is not going to lose twice) and possibly facing Sanchez in game 7 (Sanchez ran out of gas in August).

Last night I was running in a Giants sweatshirt when a doorman on Riverside waved me down: "Giants fan! There aren't a lot of us!" I had to reprimand him: "Mets fan first, Giants fan otherwise."

Friend of Hello, TypePad and Giants superfan Andrew Anker cites a spiritual connection between these Giants and the '86 Mets, but I have to admit that the Rangers' attitude reminds me a little more of those late '80s Mets teams than the Giants do. I draw straight lines from Hamilton to Strawberry, Molina to Carter, Young to Keith, Andrus to Elster, Kinsler to Backman, Lee to Gooden, Lewis to Darling, Francoeur to Dykstra, Vlad to Foster, even Moreland to Hojo/Knight. Still, Go Giants.

RIP Bill Shannon (Loge 13)

It's impossible to say who is the best at what they do. We all have opinions on who is the best player in baseball, the best manager, the best GM or which is the best ballpark.

But the best official scorer in baseball was unquestionably Bill Shannon, who died in a fire at his home in New Jersey early this morning. He was the chief scorer at Yankee Stadium, Shea Stadium, Citi Field and for countless postseason games over the years after starting in 1979. He was 69.

via www.loge13.com

TV Casualty

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Friend of Hello, TypePad (and Apperceptive employee #1) zempf pointed me to this video of Ted Leo's Misfits cover band, "TV Casualty." I can't believe how good it is.

One of my best friends in High School wrote a book about the misfits, so I know them quite well. I'm impressed not just with Ted Leo's rendition, but with the crowd, who is keeping up the whole time.

My Sister got Married!!

My Sister got Married!!, originally uploaded by david.

Refinery 29 says:

If you thought there was no way you could be more excited about Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky's newest film starring Natalie Portman, with costumes designed by Rodarte, then we highly suggest you check out these four gorgeous new posters.

I was not excited, but now I am. Call me shallow.

Don't pollute a singular idea: man.

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I'm pretty sad this old link stopped working, but happy that it still exists in the Internet Archive.

Reading old posts is often embarrassing & horrifying, but occasionally it's exciting and surprising.

Hitchcock vs. Minnesota

Cannot be unseen:

I have lived in Minnesota my entire life. I just noticed that it looks like Alfred Hitchcock smashed his face into the east side of the state.

via www.cynical-c.com

My geography is embarrassingly bad. Now it is a little better.

Favoriting and Retweeting at Once Looks Cool

Look at that beautiful orange and green triangle. Nice job, Twitter.

How We Use Mechanical Turk to Do Data-Driven Reporting, and How You Can Too

At the urging of Panos Ipeirotis [5], a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, we began experimenting with [Amazon's Mechanical Turk] last spring to clean, de-duplicate and reformat data. We’ve since used the tool to collect or proof more than 28,000 data points, from the names of companies that received stimulus money [6] to the categorization of answers to our home loan modification questionnaire [7]. We’re impressed with the speed and accuracy of its results. For example, a project we estimated would take a full-time staffer almost three days to finish was completed on mTurk overnight for $37, with 99 percent accuracy.

Mechanical Turk has proven to be more than a shortcut. It has freed up staff time for more complicated work. We’ve also used it to retrieve data from government databases that prohibit scraping.

We’ve summed up our knowledge of the tool and lessons learned in this guide, “ProPublica’s Guide to Mechanical Turk [8].” A lot of credit also goes to Professor Ipeirotis, who has answered many of our questions and reviewed our initial mTurk projects.

via www.propublica.org