Category: Miscellaneous

As CalPundit pointed out, there is a lot of info available about your neighborhood on the Census website. It appears though that he has made a mistake in reporting the data (122 people) for his census tract. According to the Census Bureau, Census tracts generally have between 1,500 and 8,000 people, with an optimum size… Continue reading Census Data

You are 33% geek You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important… Continue reading Definitely Broken

Michele of A Small Victory asked her readers to send her comments about their home states: What is so great about America, anyhow? What makes it such a wonderful place? What would you tell a foreigner about your home state? Pick a state, follow my example, provide links. Leave it in the comments and I’ll… Continue reading What Do You Like About Your State or Country?

I am π Everyone loves pi what number are you? this quiz by orsa

How evil are you?

Our names are represented within the first 4 billion binary digits of pi (=3.14159…) if you encode the alphabet into 5-bit binary numbers. Here are the results: search string = “zack” 20-bit binary equivalent = 11010000010001101011 search string found at binary index = 1514694396 search string = “ajmal” 25-bit binary equivalent = 0000101010011010000101100 search string… Continue reading Part of Pi

Kieran Healy, posting from the future, has a neat poem from the blogger to his Valentine.

Welcome. If you are following a link from Burt Lum’s article in the Honolulu Advertiser, the post he refers to is available here. While you are here, please go through my weblog. I have quite a few interesting posts about politics, Islam, Pakistan, etc.

I really liked the “That’s Quite Interesting to Mo Rocca” on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Here are some quotes: “SUVs: They are big, they are bold and they consume ungodly amounts of fuel. In short, they embody America.” “Now you may say, yes the car is an improvement over the horse, but why… Continue reading SUVs

My prayers for the families of the seven astronauts, Rick Husband, Michael Anderson, David Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Clark, William McCool and Ilan Ramon. May they rest in peace. When Challenger blew up, I was in the 10th grade and had a lot of interest in space travel. I was shocked by the accident but… Continue reading Columbia Tragedy