During a recent voicemail segment on Rob Has a Podcast (RHAP), Rob Cesternino and Angie Caunce, discussed former-NBA player Scot Pollard’s performance so far in Survivor Kaoh Rong. Specifically, they asked the question: Is Scot Pollard the best big man to ever play survivor? There’s been a number of rather tall men that have played Survivor: Mitchell Olson, Australian Outback...
I am a big fan of both Survivor and the Survivor-related podcasts on Rob Has a Podcast (RHAP). One of the weekly segments Rob does during the Survivor season is a voicemail segment with a guest host. Rob and his guest host spend about an hour each week answering questions related to the latest episode. In a recent voicemail segment with Amy H, they talked about how it would be interesting to...
The Seinfeld Recap Podcast is one of my favorite podcasts on Post Show Recaps and if you’re a Seinfeld fan, I highly recommend it. Recently I wrote about how I extracted 20 questions from the The Seinfeld Recap Podcast. One of the hosts, Akiva Wienerkur, has ranked all 180 episodes of Seinfeld. In each episode, he lets us know where the episode falls in his rankings. In the last episode...
Well I’m back again with a follow up project to my original Seinfeld Recap Podcast work that I posted about a few weeks ago (you can here me talk about this project here). The genesis of my latest project came from a suggestion by Mike Bloom. He had contacted me and suggested that it might be interesting to look at how different podcasts and their hosts use language. I started thinking...
It’s been almost three years, but I’m back again with another super nerdy blog post! I’ve written a lot in the past about different computer programs or stats stuff that I’ve written, usually related to programming competitions, ontologies, and CrossFit, but today, something a little different. I have been a big fan of Rob Has a Podcast and PostShowRecaps almost since...
Don’t care about my post and just want the good stuff, follow this link: CrossFit Data Explorer My last blog post was quite easily my most popular post to date (although my Searchy-type problems post did receive a fair amount of attention). One former student of mine explained that my entry had, “the most practical findings for average people. Most of your posts even I have trouble...
