Archive for October, 2006

More pics in the gallery.

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

-Like I said, more pics in the gallery. Enjoy! Here is a direct link to the gallery, hope it helps.

First order approximations.

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

Yesterday I made some quantitative predictions about seat losses and gains in the Senate and House.  Today I realized that all of the House seats that are currently ranked as “no clear favorite” are all incumbent Republicans (of course they are, my bad).  I used the polling on the “generic congressional vote” to estimate the [...]

Hogtie the Juggernaut?

Monday, October 30th, 2006

Nov. 7th is creeping up. I’ve been too busy to give any close scrutiny to the races of interest (those transition dipole orientation autocorrelation functions aren’t going to calculate themselves). But I do have a coarse prediction based on the seats that are currently considered to have no clear favorite. That, and the polling of [...]

Love Canard

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

I was poking around some online Science and Engineering resources and came across Case Western Reserve University’s online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science. I was floored to read their accounting of the Love Canal disaster,

Going to Costco

Saturday, October 28th, 2006

(This is what I wish costco would look like when I shop there- empty) We went to costco today because I really needed some Prilosec OTC and we were out of lightbulbs.