Alan N. Shapiro, Autonomy in the Digital Society

Blog and project archive about media theory, science fiction theory, and creative coding

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Cactus League Baseball: San Francisco Giants vs. Oakland Athletics

June 10th, 2011 in the categories: Baseball

It was early March on planet Earth. In any of the other places where I have hung out during my apparently long yet in fact rather brief life so far as coder and Richard Daystrom wannabe – Frankfurt, Berlin, New York, Boston, Ithaca, Bologna, Zurich – it would be freezing cold in the middle of winter.
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After Ebbets Field and Shea Stadium: CitiField

October 14th, 2010 in the categories: Baseball, New American Studies

I went to my first two games at CitiField in September 2010. The Mets won both games, beating up on a minor league team, the Pittsburgh Pirates. It was part of a four-game sweep.
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The Revolution will not be Televised, it will be led by Radical Software

April 13th, 2010 in the categories: Baseball, Casino Gambling, Humanities Informatics

In my story “Betting on Longshots,” I describe how I won $3000 in the casino on the Lido in Venice, Italy when I was 24 years old, starting from nearly nothing. If I had not won that money, maybe my European wanderings would have come to an end, and I would have gone back to New York and become a dentist.