I think I get to whine at 2am

[flea]

It got hot. 90 yesterday and for the next 2; mid-60s at night. Which is normal, but we'd been having this lovely 75 day/50 night weather for so long...
Set AC: on
Set garden: neglect
Set flea: suffering and whining

I am stressed due to mother's visit. Hence tonight's unsleeping. Also, despite her plans she has not yet begun to either pamper me or clean my house. But did manage to make me rack up a huge Whole Foods bill. (Note to self: do not shop at Whol;e Foods with rich people unless they are buying.)

Baseball sabermetricians on my flist (yes, both of you) may be interested in the book The Wages of Wins, reviewed by Malcolm Gladwell in the current (May 29 ) New Yorker. It's by economists and about basketball and valuing players; it's much more complicated to determine what contribution a basketball player makes to the team's success based on stats. Interesting.

Comments

[dxmachina.livejournal.com]

I'll take a look at the basketball book, but I'm skeptical. Sorting out the individual contributions of players in that kind of team framework is hard enough, but when you tack on basketball's bizarre economic system, things go right to plaid.

[veejane.livejournal.com]

(There's a person on my flist who worked directly with that book, and I worked a little bit more indirectly on it myself. Mostly, on the marketing and ancillary stuff. But, yeah. I knew about that book!)