Completely useless all day.
Not exactly sure what happened but productivity went way down.
Where do you live?
I came across this map today from the 2000 census stats, it caught my interest for a minute or two. I’ve lived in all four of the different ranges at some point or my life or another. Some of the other things that I noticed include:
- The large white areas in Oregon, Maine, Northern Michigan, Northern Arizona, Ohio, and West Virginia. Northern California didn’t surprise me that much.
- The oddity of counties being extreme opposites next to each other. Like the one white spot in North and South Dakota, is that Tom Daschle’s house?
- Mormons live in one spot
I’d like to see this map overlaid with some other maps including voter registration and voting results maps. I’d also like to see what it would have looked like at certain points between then and now. I bet you would see some spikes at certain times (ie. September 11th and Katrina/Rita devastation). I know our church grew for a while after each of those events before slowly starting to taper off. Other ones that would be interesting to me to compare them to would be previous decades and maybe a current day version.
Who knows, maybe you won’t spend as much time thinking about it as I did…
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Silence wasn’t so golden…
Maybe some of you have noticed my lack of any contact over the last week or two. It wasn’t cause I didn’t have anything to say, more so cause I didn’t have the energy to say it. Hopefully over the next few days I’ll give a better write-up. Until then, my body created a new skin tone similar to that of an Appaloosa horse…
Anyone roughly my age that wouldn’t want to work here?
note: song has a couple of questionable lyrics, not too bad though.
Lip Dub – Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from and Vimeo.
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Attn: American car makers….
you got passed up a long time ago. For quite some time now car makers like Toyota, Honda, Subaru, and Volkswagen have made better looking cars and made them higher in quality all at the same time. Some new guys are even creeping up on you as well. After spending some time at the bottom of the barrel in the 70’s, 80’s and early 90’s Nissan has stepped up their game. And one of my new favorite designs on the road, the Sonata by Hyundai boasts a 10-year 100,000 mile warranty.
I will cut the American boys a little slack due to some new rides out this year and some of their higher priced vehicles, but why are you still producing Buick’s, most Pontiacs, Chrysler, and the little ditty called the Hummer. For some reason people actually buy that overpriced gas guzzler around here.
Today, American auto makers, you have been trumped again. Pictures of the 2008 Honda Accord have surfaced and I can’t say I could be any more pleased with the body style of this car:
Pure beauty. More pictures of it and the ultra sharp 2-door coupe after the jump
To also give credit Ford and GMC have taken notice and also created rides that we would own if free or greatly reduced. (Like Aspen and Logan’s Equinox)
and GMC Acadia:
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