So…How about writing a few letters?
Mitch Berg is my favorite blogger. Which is why this post is going to be a little painful for me, but Mitch touched on one of my pet peeves of blogging:
Observation: The Strib, when they publish a conservative’s letter to the editor at all, will usually publish precisely one [...]

Still on a post-Olympic graphing high
I updated the numbers on the medal count versus GDP per capita (with the finalised medal count I didn’t have when I did my first post), ran the numbers and found Per Capita GDP is correlated to Olympic success at a .524 clip:I also decided to try out the numbers [...]

Random Link o’ the Day:
http://www.rcfp.org/foi_letter/generate.php

Graphs are awesome
I think I’m going to start incorporating graphs into the blog more often. I ran some numbers on the Olympic medal count and compared it to per capita GDP, and got the following result:

I really didn’t have any purpose in running these numbers. They’re interesting, there’s a relationship there, just not a big [...]

A “Word Cloud” representin’ my blog,
h/t Market Power

I’m a Talent!

You’re a risk-taker, and you follow your passions. You’re determined to take on the world and succeed on your own terms. Whether in the arts, science, engineering, business, or politics, you fearlessly express your own vision of the world. You’re not afraid of a fight, and you’re not afraid to bet [...]

Pride in the wrong things…
I was digging around http://firstgov.gov this week. The website is awesome. Finally there’s an easy, one stop portal to all the crap the government has/does/sells/buys/requires/services/worships. I was looking for any information on GSA auctions when I noticed that the IRS has an online gift shop. I found [...]

Open Thread!

Random Link o’ the Day:
http://www.hackaday.com/

How dangerous is hunting?
I had to listen to some crazy anti-hunting lady being interviewed on some weekend talk show a few days ago (late night weekend radio between major markets, I take what I can find) due to my insane traveling schedule. She was tirading against hunting. Cheney’s accident being in the news, [...]