2009/07/28

Jeff in minus 49 years

So, a lot of my friends have been using the “madmenyourself.com” website (as I did for my most recent Facebook profile image also). I haven’t watched the show (it’s on our Netflix queue), but it’s intriguing to imagine: what would I be like if I were essentially myself, except it’s 1960? I’d’ve been born in [...]

2009/07/28

just how nakedly undemocratic are we gonna get?

I suddenly was in a number-crunching mood, so…
I listed all fifty states by the number of their electoral votes. I also found a chart of the states’ total populations (as of 2001).
Then I added up the high-EV states until I got to 268 (I had to leap out of order at the end), i.e., just [...]