{"id":165,"date":"2009-03-17T16:58:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T00:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2009-03-17T16:58:44","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T00:58:44","slug":"day-34-the-wheres-and-middle-infielders-of-outrageous-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Day 34: the wheres and middle infielders of outrageous fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"

24 hours from now, I\u2019ll be on a plane to New York.  I\u2019ll keep posting every day, but expect updates for the next week or so to be on the briefer side of things.<\/p>\n

Once again, I\u2019ve decided to throw my hat in the ring for another season of fantasy baseball.  This means that I\u2019ll be spending week after week obsessing about numbers and \u2013 because our league is going Roto this year, instead of being head-to-head points-based \u2013 I\u2019ll actually have no recourse of blaming \u201cbad luck in the matchups\u201d when I lose horribly.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t plan on losing horribly, but my teams haven\u2019t done all that well the past few years.  My confidence is middling right now.  We\u2019ll see how our draft goes.  My first big decision of the year: should I give up my first few draft picks to keep core players like Holliday, Rollins, and Hamels?  I have the #3 pick in the first round, but there aren\u2019t too many elite players that aren\u2019t being kept this year.<\/p>\n

I also got an email today about Script Frenzy<\/a>, which sounds somewhat exciting and somewhat tiring.  One month-long writing guilt-fest might be enough for me per year.<\/p>\n

A few days ago, I also started using FireEagle<\/a>, because I got tired of waiting for Google Latitude to be released for my iPhone.  Geolocation is interesting to me, mainly because of social gatherings where most of the people involved broadcast their location.  This would make meeting up with people easier in locations that weren\u2019t as well known.  It would also be a helpful gauge for how far away someone was, and how much time it would take to get together.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think we\u2019ll get there for a while, though.  Part of the reason is just because the technology is not quite that ubiquitous yet, the other part being the initial hump of getting over the feeling of a loss of privacy.  As long as these applications continue to allow tunable privacy settings, I do think we\u2019ll reach a point in time where everyone\u2019s phones (or other mobile devices) will broadcast their locations to their specified friends.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m hungry.  I could go for some ribs.  Or, even better, a rib buffet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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