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High today, here: 16. Dewpoint then: 13. High dewpoint: 15.
High today in TO: 17. Dewpoint then: 14. High dewpoint: 15.
High yesterday, here: 17. Dewpoint then: 11. High dewpoint: 11.
High yesterday in TO: 18. Dewpoint then: 7. High dewpoint: 10.
Good grief. Pujols just did it to Lidge again. Again!
Now that it's pretty much post-mortem time, Pujols stands out as one of my four fatal underestimations going into the draft--I figured him just slightly ahead of A-Rod, but gave A-Rod the edge by virtue of position. Actually, Pujols is head and shoulders above the rest of baseball. A second underestimation also relates to A-Rod: David Wright. A-Rod is not a whole lot better than David Wright, who also plays third. Same thing for shortstop and Michael Young. No reason to take Tejada in the second round when there's also a Michael Young. Finally, Johan Santana. Taking Oswalt ahead of Santana, in retrospect, was insane--even though, if you stuck Oswalt on half the teams in baseball--i.e., the half with more than one hitter--he'd be a Cy Young contender.
Spent today working out a short-term compromise with The Real World (TM). The terms aren't bad. Shortly I will become Data Monkey, for a little while. If I'm not mistaken, the last time I did anything just for the money was ... holy crap, just over eleven years ago. Mostly smashing plaster.
Strauss does actually agree with Kojève (as I had vaguely remembered, but doubted) that Hiero won't take Simonides's advice. So my projected punchline doesn't quite come. I take it back: this book is more interesting than I'd hoped. Amusing, actually. The thing is, he keeps taking back what he's just said. (That's close to something my supervisor complained about in my dissertation--you keep saying you're not saying what you seem to be saying; so what are you saying?) He gives a very interesting, plausible-sounding interpretation of something, and then he gives a different interpretation that shows why the first one can't be right, and so on. Now that's a dialectical method.
High today in TO: 17. Dewpoint then: 14. High dewpoint: 15.
High yesterday, here: 17. Dewpoint then: 11. High dewpoint: 11.
High yesterday in TO: 18. Dewpoint then: 7. High dewpoint: 10.
Good grief. Pujols just did it to Lidge again. Again!
Now that it's pretty much post-mortem time, Pujols stands out as one of my four fatal underestimations going into the draft--I figured him just slightly ahead of A-Rod, but gave A-Rod the edge by virtue of position. Actually, Pujols is head and shoulders above the rest of baseball. A second underestimation also relates to A-Rod: David Wright. A-Rod is not a whole lot better than David Wright, who also plays third. Same thing for shortstop and Michael Young. No reason to take Tejada in the second round when there's also a Michael Young. Finally, Johan Santana. Taking Oswalt ahead of Santana, in retrospect, was insane--even though, if you stuck Oswalt on half the teams in baseball--i.e., the half with more than one hitter--he'd be a Cy Young contender.
Spent today working out a short-term compromise with The Real World (TM). The terms aren't bad. Shortly I will become Data Monkey, for a little while. If I'm not mistaken, the last time I did anything just for the money was ... holy crap, just over eleven years ago. Mostly smashing plaster.
Strauss does actually agree with Kojève (as I had vaguely remembered, but doubted) that Hiero won't take Simonides's advice. So my projected punchline doesn't quite come. I take it back: this book is more interesting than I'd hoped. Amusing, actually. The thing is, he keeps taking back what he's just said. (That's close to something my supervisor complained about in my dissertation--you keep saying you're not saying what you seem to be saying; so what are you saying?) He gives a very interesting, plausible-sounding interpretation of something, and then he gives a different interpretation that shows why the first one can't be right, and so on. Now that's a dialectical method.
