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Saturday, December 20th, 2008

Deerhunter enjoyment graph

Been listening to some music tonight. Here’s the graph for my enjoyment of the Deerhunter album Microcastle (similar to what I did with the Deathcab album, but with crappier, less detailed graphing software):

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Monday, December 8th, 2008

Paulson’s last days?

From money.cnn.com, what I guess was supposed to be a video on Henry Paulson’s last days as Secretary of Treasury… However, this error pretty much sums it up: He’ll likely be dealing with the unspecified fatal error that has occurred in our nation’s economy.

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Friday, November 28th, 2008

Why do I feel so apathetic about the auto industry failing?

You would think I’d think a socialist style bailout of an industry where the workers make good wages with good benefits would be a great idea. But I just don’t see it helping. And for some reason it makes me mad that these companies set themselves up for this kind of failure again and again […]

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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

new song over at PTS

Just finished this little thing.

Sit Up, Sit Down

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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

the haps

This past Sunday, my friend Chris and I went up to Lansing to record with John, this time so Chris could lay down his saxophone part on one of the songs, and also so he could record some piano on some others. We didn’t end up finishing (everything in the studio always takes more time […]

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Saturday, November 15th, 2008

Worldmapper

Quick note to mention this:
Worldmapper
This site has a ton of world maps with the sizes of the countries adjusted to show various attributes proportionally. The map above is the one for world population. I first found this when I was directed to the site of Mark Newman, a physicist at the University of Michigan. He […]

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Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Marshmallow Mission at Part Time Songs

Check out my new song.

Part Time Songs

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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

Global Status of Evangelical Christianity

This map was in the church where I voted today.*

Also, there was a pile of “No on Prop 2″ pamphlets on a table right next to the line, which I thought wasn’t appropriate inside a polling place. There was also a box of Kleenex on the same table, so I put the box on top […]

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Friday, October 31st, 2008

Ugly

That last post was pretty ugly, eh? Those images are way too big for my blog format. I am thinking about switching to a theme that’s wider… But I spent so much time customizing this one that that’s a time investment that I’m not sure I’m ready for.
Well, Friday again. My plan is to finish […]

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Friday, October 24th, 2008

taxation without (proper statistical) representation

Hi. Been super busy and a lot has been going on in all aspects of my life. Sorry for the lack of content.
Just wanted to make a quick post pointing you to this other blog post that compares the McCain tax plan to the Obama tax plan. It takes the popular diagram made by […]

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