Minor League Franchise Continuity
Posted on Friday, October 26, 2007 @ 9:41 pm
Filed Under BB Research Notes, Baseball, MWLguide
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I was a season ticket holder in Battle Creek. That's given me no emotional stake in the successor franchise, Great Lakes--and I rooted against the Springfield and Madison predecessor franchises when they actually existed. I've now transferred my loyalties mostly to the Lugnuts, and I root against the Loons.
Of Iron Men, and Dubuque Finances
Posted on Friday, October 26, 2007 @ 5:45 pm
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Matching iron man attempts, Bill Bauernfeind of Michigan City and Joe Schaffernoth of Paris opposed each other in both games of a Midwest League double-header, August 21.
Dear Old Macalester
Posted on Thursday, October 18, 2007 @ 9:31 pm
Filed Under History, Macalester College
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Every campus has a narrative, and that narrative shapes the college culture. These stories may emphasize unimportant details; they ignore entire decades. Macalester's, like most, begins with a founder, has a key figure who shaped the college, skips lightly through the decades, mentions some key teachers and graduates, describes a major crisis, and looks brightly to the future. To the best of my ability, here's the Macalester story.
Railroad Fever
Posted on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 @ 7:45 pm
Filed Under History, Michigan, Railroads, Stories
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The entire nation had the Railroad Fever in 1869. Michigan was nursing two outbreaks: Promoters were raising money to build a more direct line (an "air line") between Detroit and Chicago which would roughly follow the route of the Chicago Road, and actual construction was occurring for a line connecting Jackson and Grand Rapids. Both remain interesting, for different reasons.
WP Themes: Lessons from Gangway
Posted on Monday, October 15, 2007 @ 6:27 pm
Filed Under WordPress
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Within the past week I've called LightCMS "well-crafted" (Sreejith is a code artist), Cutline "workmanlike" (Chris Peterson's a problem solver), and ModernPaper "delightful" (Brian Gardner's unusually disciplined). Although they're very different in detail, all use the same basic CSS vocabulary for describing the document. Since I don't follow the CSS discussions, I don't know what standards someone's trying to enforce, but I've read enough code in my life to have preferences. CSS is a rather spare coding language, but you don't need to look at many stylesheets to learn that there are a variety of coding practices (normally I'd call these "styles," but that would be confusing), and that some of those practices are more readable than others. Gangway's style sheet fails the readability test.
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