New widget

I deleted the Twitter widget. The military might find it dangerous, I just found it boring.

I added a widget for fivethirtyeight.com, the meta poll site. I will leave it up for a few days.

A new demogrphic?

Actually, maybe it's a sociolographic????

Anyway, one thing that distinguishes Red States from Blues States is the Starbucks/Walmart ratio.

From FiveThirtyEight.com (a meta polling site):

Starbucks:Walmart ratio is exactly what it looks like: take the number of Starbucks in the state and divide by the number of Walmarts. While there is a connotation that Starbucks is a place where liberals go and Walmart is a place where conservatives go, it's probably more strongly correlated to population density. There are rarely Starbucks sitting out in the middle of farmland, and you can't have a Walmart on every corner of a big city.

Either way, though, lots of Starbucks relatives to Walmarts is a good sign for Obama. The ratio in Oklahoma is one of the lowest in the country.

From TS Perspective:
Top 7 highest Starbucks to Walmart ratios:
Washington (13.6:1)
California (12.5:1)
Oregon (8.4:1)
Nevada (8.0:1)
Hawaii (7.4:1)
Colorado
New York (4.6:1)
All of these states will/should go to Obama on Tuesday.

Now the bottom 7:
Arkansas (0.19:1)
Mississippi (0.29:1)
West Virgina (0.41:1)
Oklahoma (0.41:1)
New Hampshire (0.42:1)
Alabama (0.44:1)
Louisiana (0.51:1)

Except for independent leaning New Hampshire, you get the picture.

Where's Waldo? I mean Rooty?

Did you find him?

A couple better pictures below!

This is so strange...

..you won't get any work done the rest of Monday!

Those damn Methodist-terrorist are using Twitter again!

Twitter is a web-based service that lets you keep asking people "What are you doing now?"

That's it.

It's very popular.

So popular that military intelligence is afraid it will be used by terrorists, you know, people like these:

"Twitter has also become a social activism tool for socialists, human rights groups, communists, vegetarians, anarchists, religious communities, atheists, political enthusiasts, hacktivists and others to communicate with each other and to send messages to broader audiences."

READ MORE HERE

I've added a Twitter "badge" to this blog so you can know what boring things I'm doing!

Every person she knows needs a "I'm with stupid" t-shirt.

A Republican campaign worker in Pittsburgh claimed she had been robbed at an ATM machine by a 6'4" Black man who punch her and carved a letter "B" on her face because of her Barack Obama bumper sticker.

Police suspected all along that she might not be telling the truth, since the "B" was backward, you know, like you might do if you scratched a "B" on your own face while looking in a mirror! Dah!

[She's from College Station, Texas. Texans feel free to insert an Aggie joke about here.]

How many Aggies does it take to eat an Armadillo?
Two. One to carve and one to watch for cars.

Why do Aggies hate M&Ms?
They're too hard to peel.

Take D to TT to T, turn left for Traffic Court

I have often joked about Missouri Highways T, TT, D, DD, and Z all being bunched in one small part of the state.

If you look closely, you can see that T is the highway heading south out of Foristell -- Foristell is on I-70 west of St. Louis.

Foristell has a population of 350 people, and 16 cops!

Ya might want to check your speedometer!

There's geeks in the Googleplex!

I went to Google Books today, just see see what's new.
There is a section on the Books page called "Interesting." (see above.)
Below is one of the four books. Says geeks to me!

From Wikipedia: In mathematics, computing, linguistics and related subjects, an algorithm is a sequence of finite instructions, often used for calculation and data processing. It is formally a type of effective method in which a list of well-defined instructions for completing a task will, when given an initial state, proceed through a well-defined series of successive states, eventually terminating in an end-state. The transition from one state to the next is not necessarily deterministic; some algorithms, known as probabilistic algorithms, incorporate randomness.

I wonder if it takes requests?

It's a highway that sings!
It's in Lancaster, California.
It's their second.
The first was for a Honda TV commercial -- the road played the William Tell Overture (perhaps better known as the theme for The Lone Ranger). The folks living next to the road got tired of it so the city paved over the William Tell groves.
Many folks sad.
So city grooved a highway in the desert.
It will be Lancaster's major tourist attraction.
That's little sad, but the road seems to make people laugh and smile.

Rooty checked his stocks...

...and decided to hide under his bed!

[His nose is tucked under the sofa. He is under a pillor from the sofa, with his back partially under one of his bed pillows. You can see the tassels on the rugs under the coffee table.]