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Friday, December 16, 2016

Scotland's UEFA Coefficient: Champions League Changes

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One of the questions hanging over the computation of the 2017 UEFA coefficients has been how they would affect the 2018-9 qualifying, given ...
Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Geocaching Vermont, Canada and Northern Virginia

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Geocaching, particularly with the aim of generating particular statistics, is a bit of a strategy game, and like any game, it's best whe...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Scotland's UEFA Coefficient: Group Stage Review

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" Stitched Celtic Stadium-1 " by Zhi Yong Lee is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Well, the group stage is over, and for Scotland, ...
Thursday, December 08, 2016

Jon Grantham 1942-2016, a eulogy

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Thank you for coming to my father’s memorial service. Believe me, he would not have wanted to go to yours. He would have loved to share a m...
Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Scottish Football: Big Clubs, by the numbers

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Celtic just won their 100th major trophy by picking up this year's Scottish League Cup. I was surprised the number was so low. Let'...
Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Return of Where's Jon?: Towson Edition

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I haven't done a "Where's Jon?" post (where I link to conference photos and invite the blog reader to locate me) in a whil...
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Geocaching: First Letterbox and Miscellany

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Last month, I found my eighth geocache type when I found my first webcam cache. This month, I went for number nine, and the last of the mai...
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Geocaching Update: Hunting the Elusive Webcam Cache

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On the geocaching web site, you can search for nine different types of caches. There are other, rarer types, but I think they are considered...
Thursday, October 20, 2016

Scotland's UEFA Coefficient: Group Stage Halfway Point

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I didn't want to let six matchdays go by without checking in, so here's where we are halfway through the group stage of the Champi...
Saturday, October 08, 2016

Geocaching: Year 2002 Caches

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On Friday, I found a virtual cache in Virginia that was placed in January 2002. Not only did this bring me one month closer to finding a...
Saturday, October 01, 2016

Scottish Football: Thinking About Elo

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The American data journalism site fivethirtyeight.com uses Elo ratings pretty heavily in its sports coverage, but the ratings are actually p...
Friday, September 23, 2016

Geocaching North Carolina

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Looking back on my last few geocaching posts, they've been mostly dry sifting through numbers. So I'm going to try to mix in more na...
Saturday, September 10, 2016

Geocaching: County 26

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Last month, I made it up to 25 of the United States' 3142 counties (or county-equivalents). I'm pleased to say I've added Fairfa...
Thursday, September 08, 2016

Go Update: 5 years, 1 kyu

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It has been exactly five years since I've checked in on my on-line go rating. What has happened? Well, looking at the above graph, it...
Sunday, August 28, 2016

Geocaching: The Difficulty/Terrain Matrix (and my place on it)

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Every geocache has two numeric attributes that range from 1 to 5: difficult and terrain. It wouldn't be too far off to say that terrain ...
Saturday, August 27, 2016

Geocaching: California County Caching

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After adding a new Arizona county last month, I added two more counties on our trip to California. The first was a virtual cache inside o...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

Scotland's UEFA Coefficient: Group Stage Preview

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Playoff-Round Review Well, Celtic qualified for the Champions League, but everything about it was ugly. They let their opponent score...
Saturday, August 06, 2016

Scotland's UEFA Coefficient: Playoff-Round Preview

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Third-Round Review Celtic secured advancement to the playoff round with a draw and a win. That's very good! It's just a hair of...
Friday, August 05, 2016

Geocaching Arizona

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We spent last week in Arizona visiting my parents, and I found two geocaches to go with the one Christina and I found in 2007 . The first wa...
Sunday, July 24, 2016

Geocaching: Caching Bristol

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I had a nice week of geocaching in Bristol. I had ambitions of doing some "numbers caching" -- either breaking my record of 5 days...
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