Note: I edited this 9/29, to add the # of seconds and equate it all with $. Amazing how much better my brain works in the morning vs. the evening.
I recently got an email forwarded to me titled The Economic Plan I Endorse, which argued that the $85B buyout of AIG should instead be [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2008’
How Much is 700 Billion Dollars?
Gas Price Fluctuations
Jamie and Rich v’s comments on another post got me looking at gas price trends before Presidential elections. I’ve heard comments that gas prices go down prior to an election, and even suspected there may be some manipulation at work.
But as I was looking into data for THAT story, I found it fascinating to analyze [...]
A Tale of Two Cars
Last year, I sold my sports car for a Honda Fit. I wanted to do something with all this mileage data I collect, so I thought comparing a full year of ownership for each car would be fun. Little did I know how much money I’m saving since I sold that car (I guess I [...]
Your RNC / DNC Convention Reduced to a Word Cloud
Now that the Democratic and Republican National Conventions are over, I grabbed all of the (available) speech texts from the DNC and RNC Web sites and threw them into wordle.net just for fun (yep, I’m sadistic that way sometimes). It is hard to compare word occurrences because the Republicans don’t have nearly as many speeches [...]
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