Three from much earlier this year. In non-fiction, Charles Wheelan’s Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from Data. Professor does stats for dummies. Lots of baseball. I kind of like baseball and there are some amazing things being done with numbers in baseball. But mostly it’s the old standbys, drug research and the large scale health surveys …
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Questionable
Not quite a day late, but pretty much a dollar — or a piece of software and a margin change — short. So without further ado — or proper inking — I give you the first installment of The Big G.
Molly Crabapple Has Your Heart (and I have no motivation)
Today in procrastination follies. I should be adding ID headers to the video from last weekend’s Mock Trials. But A) I am too dizzy to stand up and work and B) I need to call my doc about that particular side effect. But C) I don’t have my new doc’s number in my phone and …
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#fridayreads 19.oct.2012
I’ve missed a lot of reading time this week. We saw some awesome music.… Knopfler and Dylan on Saturday, Andras Schiff played all of Book 2 of the Well-Tempered Clavier on Monday and last night Mozart, Beethoven, Hayden and a world premiere — Dai Fujikura’s Mina, Concerto for 5 Soloists and Orchestra. That last piece …
#FridayReads — 5.Oct.2012
Things I’m in the middle of: Forensics for Dummies, Douglas P. Lyle — What it says on the tin. Simplistic but it does the trick as all I’m looking for a smattering of background and some vocabulary lessons. The interesting stuff will come later. 29th Years Best Science Fiction, Dozios — Dipping in and out. This …