Monthly Archives: September 2008
Statistics and political rhetoric
Lincoln recently put a link on his blog to a post on EdWired about computer visualizations of text. Actually the site that does these visualizations will do them for nearly any data set. One of the highlights I found quite … Continue reading
Making the Help Desk happy
I had a funny experience today at work. I was trying to do some work in Excel but when I would copy or paste a cell, I would get an error saying “Unable to empty Clipboard” or something like that. … Continue reading
Hurricane predictions
Price per gallon today at Hess: $3.55. Line: 4 cars. Price per gallon today at Citgo: $3.54. Line: 1 car. Price per gallon today at Chevron: $4.19. Line: You must be joking. I will laugh if the price per gallon … Continue reading
They don’t get it: More musing on Sarah Palin
The media was doubting whether Sarah Palin would actually appeal to women. They failed to realize how effectively she could appeal to mothers. In the typical modern feminist mindset, women are not mothers, at least not primarily. But Mrs. Palin … Continue reading
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Republican Convention Wednesday
I discovered tonight that I can watch the Republican National Convention live from their website without the hassle of commercials and insipid commentary. How nice. Of course, not very many speakers tonight were nice–at least not when they were talking … Continue reading