Author: seanv2
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Data Analysis of the Boston Qualifier Questionnaire Part I: Overview
About five years ago, I started asking random strangers on the internet how they qualified for the Boston Marathon. Incredibly, over 125 people have responded with more coming in all the time. If you want to take part, fill out the online form here. Since the beginning, people have been asking that the information be…
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New Year, New Books, New Miles – Totals for the Week Ending 1.3.2016
Run Miles for the week: 31.8 in 6:02:28 Run Miles for the year: 24.3 Projected total run miles for the year: 2223.5 Miles per day/week to reach 2016 miles 5.5/38.5 Run Streak: 3 Run Streak Mileage: 24.3 One that were just one stupid mile 0 Days Until I Beat My Old Streak 111 Bike…
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2016: My Reading Goals
2015 was another pretty good year for my reading. 52 books, half by women. I’ll take it. This year, I have two overarching goals: to dig deeper in a subject matter, and to increase the diversity of my reading further. Here’s how I plan to achieve that: Read fifty two books. I’ve done this now…
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2015: My Physical Year
What is there to say about my physical year? I did more than I did in 2014, but still not nearly enough. It’s never enough. I could beat myself up over that, but instead, I’ll let the numbers do the talking. Running I ran 1383.6 miles in 2015. That’s about 300 more than in 2014.…
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A Programing Note: 100,000 hits
Over the new year, this website reached 100,000 hits. Honestly, when I started it, I never expected that many people would check it out. By far, the vast majority of visitors to the site are interested in the Boston Qualifier Questionnaire, a project I started after asking a few people in an internet forum about…
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2015: My Year In Books
I set two reading goals for 2015 – to read fifty two books for the year and to have fifty percent of those books be by women. Unlike most of the other goals I set this year, I actually accomplished both of these.I’m pretty happy with that. Now that I’m a dad who almost never…
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365: A Programming Note
If you are one of the few people who follows this blog (as opposed to arriving here through googling or a social media link) you may have noticed a flurry of activity. That’s because I’ve been closing in on one of my goals for the year – to post 365 times in 2015. Well, through…
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Nabokovs Notecards
Research materials for Lolita 138 notecards that make up the as of yet unpublished The Original of Laura . V.N. would write them by hand, often in bed, or at a stand up desk. He would dictate them to his wife, Vera. After dinner, they often played games. Chess and Scrabble were favorites. VN was…
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Bridges Project: Borden Avenue Bridge
For a small body of water, the Newtown Creek and its inlet, the Dutch Kill, sure have a lot of bridges over it. Its not surprising of course, these have been working waterways for scores of years and are still lined with warehouses – crossing them was a matter of economic expediency, and since they’re…
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Bridges Project: Hunters Point Avenue Bridge
Long Island City may be more well known now for condos than warehouses, but if you head east off the Pulaski Bridge the condos quickly fade to warehouses and sketchy looking strip clubs. This is where you’ll find the little Hunters Point Avenue Bridge (#19 on the McCarthy List), a little bridge which takes Hunters…
Milo and the Calf 