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Scott Alexander (soccer)
Scott Alexander may refer to: * Scott Alexander (baseball) (born 1989), American baseball pitcher * Scott Alexander (born 1963), of American screenwriting duo Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski * Scott Alexander (Indiana politician), member of the Indiana Senate * Scott Alexander (Kentucky politician), member of the Kentucky House of Representatives * Scott Alexander Siskind, author of the Slate Star Codex and Astral Codex Ten blogs under the pen name Scott Alexander See also * Alexander Scott (other) {{hndis, Alexander, Scott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Alexander (baseball)
Scott Alain Alexander (born July 10, 1989) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants. Alexander played college baseball for Pepperdine University and Sonoma State University. He was selected by the Royals in the sixth round of the 2010 Major League Baseball draft, and made his MLB debut in 2015 with them. Career Amateur career Alexander played Little League Baseball and attended Cardinal Newman High School in Santa Rosa, California, where he was named the North Bay League player of the year as a senior. He set the school records for strikeouts in a season and a career, and led them to the league championship in 2007. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 37th round of the 2007 Major League Baseball draft but did not sign, and instead attended to play college baseball for the Pepperdine Waves. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Alexander And Larry Karaszewski
Scott Alexander (born June 16, 1963) and Larry Karaszewski (; born November 20, 1961) are an American screenwriting team. They are best known for writing postmodern biopics with larger-than-life characters. They coined the term "anti-biopic" to describe the genre they invented: Movies about people who don't deserve one. They are uninterested in the traditional "great man" story, focusing instead on obscure strivers in American pop culture. They met at the University of Southern California where they were freshman roommates; they graduated from the School of Cinematic Arts in 1985. Biography Their first success was the popular but critically derided comedy '' Problem Child'' (1990). Alexander and Karaszewski claim that their original screenplay was a sophisticated black comedy, but that the studio replaced them and watered it down into an unrecognizable state. With the studio in a hurry to make a sequel, they returned to write ''Problem Child 2''. In 1992, dissatisfied with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Alexander (Indiana Politician)
Scott Alexander is an American Republican politician serving the 26th district in the Indiana Senate. He was elected to the position in the 2022 File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; 2022 Sri Lankan protests, Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretari ... election against Democratic opponent Melanie Wright. He currently serves on three committees: Judiciary, Local Government, and Natural Resources. Alexander owns Alexander & Company Real Estate Appraisers. He graduated from Delta High School in 1984. References Living people Republican Party Indiana state senators 21st-century American legislators Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Indiana politicians {{Indiana-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Alexander (Kentucky Politician)
Scott Alexander is an American politician from Kentucky currently serving as Judge/Executive of Perry County. Alexander was elected Judge/Executive in 2014, defeating incumbent Denny Ray Noble in the May primary election. He was previously a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1997 to 2001 and briefly in 2008. He was first elected to the house in 1996, but was defeated for reelection in 2000 by Republican Brandon Smith. He was again elected to the house in a March 2008 special election when Smith was elected to the Kentucky Senate. Alexander faced criticism when he left the state soon after being sworn in, in order to chaperone his daughter's school field trip to Costa Rica Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República de Costa Rica), is a country in the Central American region of North America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the no .... References Living people 21s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slate Star Codex
''Slate Star Codex'' (SSC) was a blog focused on science, medicine (especially within psychiatry), philosophy, politics, and futurism. The blog was written by Scott Alexander Siskind, a San Francisco Bay Area psychiatrist, under the pen name Scott Alexander. ''Slate Star Codex'' was launched in 2013, and was discontinued on June 23, 2020, as Alexander feared publication of his full name in a ''New York Times'' article. , the blog is partially back online, with the content restored but commenting disabled. A successor blog, ''Astral Codex Ten'', was launched on Substack on January 21, 2021. Alexander also blogged at the rationalist community blog ''LessWrong''. Notable posts ''The New Yorker'' states that the volume of content Alexander has written on ''Slate Star Codex'' makes the blog difficult to summarize, with an ebook of all posts running to around nine thousand pages. Many posts are book reviews (typically in the social sciences or medicine) or reviews of a topic in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
