I was at Ironman Florida, as you might recall. Jef Mallet of Frazz was also there, and he was a competitor! He turned in an 11:02:53 which is a time to which I can only aspire, right now. While it would have been cool to sit down and talk to some of the top triathletes …
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Frazz
One of the reasons I like this comic:
Election Maps
I was looking for an election map that was tallied by precinct and had a color code that indicated the percentage of the popular vote going one way or the other. I didn’t find it. But I did find a cool cartogram displaying the (projected) election results with the map shifted to indicate population sizes. …
Elections; Speeches; Moving On
Last night was the first time I stayed up until the polls closed and the election was called since 1988. The elections between that one and this one just didn’t have the draw for me. I was perfectly willing to go to bed and see who won in the morning (of course, I had a …
Ironman Florida 2008
Jenn and I attended Ironman Florida in Panama City Beach last weekend. The purpose was two-fold: first, to be there to sign up for the race in 2009; second, to watch the race. My flickr photo set is available here, although as of the time of this posting, I haven’t tagged or described anything. We …
Polling Location Demographics
In an exhaustive survey of one polling location, this intrepid researcher notes that the poll worker average age was about half what it was the last few times he voted. There was an honest-to-god teenager working the poll when I voted this morning. The person who checked my ID was about 30. The person who …
Happy Birthday Jenn!
Jenn turns 33 today. Wish her condolences for no longer being two to the fifth years old.
Election Dungeoneering
McCain needs to roll a double zero today, according to FiveThirtyEight.