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Entries from October 2008

Tracking Politics

October 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Engineers love data.  And graphs.  We love graphs, too.  Toss in some statistics and some simulations and we’re as happy as can be!
A friend recommended a site that collects all of these together to try and help track polling data for the Presidential election as well as state races.
The site is: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/
The name comes from [...]

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Tags: Personal

Small changes

October 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Finally got around to adding some more Front Page Pics from the last couple years.  Also added an album page for all the Front Page Pics so you can look at all of them.  Finally, added a link on the front page to the album.  Thinking about some other changes to the site.

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Tags: Personal · Web

Make: Pumpkins!

October 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Here are the results of my first pumpkin efforts of the year. I have a plan for another one, but that’ll have to wait for next weekend.

Some links for ideas for pumpkin carving:

http://www.pumpkingutter.com/
http://www.extremepumpkins.com/
http://www.villafanestudios.com/pumpkins.htm

Last years pumpkin: The Cannibal Pumpkin!

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