Here’s what Google Trends says about the search volume for the four Mastodon albums. You can see that Crack the Skye came out in the end of March, people listened to it, realized it sounds like crappy nu-metal produced by the guy that did all of the Stone Temple Pilots records, and then remembered how [...]
I was just emailing back and forth with a professor about errors in some data that I had prepared for him, speciffically for unique ID’s for a bunch of different firms. These ID’s are supposed to be 8 alpha-numeric characters, and he was saying that the ID’s I provided him are not all 8 characters [...]
My father just forwarded me an email from his company warning about an increase in spam email for the holiday season. The chart they included is pretty crazy. It looks like about a 70% increase in spam in the month of October. So if 98% of all email gets blocked by spam filters, and let’s [...]
After seeing this post, I came across a copy of East of Eden and picked it up. Everyone in the world should read Travels with Charley via the impossible cool.
I grew up in a touristy New England beach town, so my family never really went to the Cape, Vineyard, etc. I went for the first time this weekend with my friend Kate, hoping to meet up with our old friend Barry O. I didn’t find him, but I did get to enjoy some Barack-o-Guaco [...]
The Guardian posted a bunch of data about IED explosions in Afghanistan from the WikiLeaks data that just came out. Drew Conway took a look at it and it looked pretty similar to the plots that I made the other day. So here’s what I wanted to see: what percentage of the deaths/injuries reported were [...]
A coworker is doing some kind of sports research and needed some NHL data. I’m going to see what I can do with it as well. Black = missed shots Red = goals Ice = imaginary
The other day my cat Olive (seen here preparing a drink) was chasing a fly around for about 1/2 hour, and when he finally caught it, he was panting like crazy. As I sit here now sweating in my living room I was wondering, naturally, if monkeys and other primates sweat or pant to cool [...]
This man is truly incredible. I saw him talk recently and he was sharp, charming and modest. Some material things make my life more enjoyable; many, however, would not. I like having an expensive private plane, but owning a half-dozen homes would be a burden. Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing [...]
I wish I had this bad boy last weekend.