Reed Me : election

Yeah, I know I said I’d never run for office again...

reedme — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:07:43 GMT

But then I went and put my name in the hat once more... because it’s for a good cause!

No, it’s not April Fool’s. That’s tomorrow.

Personally, I’d like to thank L.D. Kirshenbaum (the author of the article below) for giving us a fair shake. I’m sure that there were some embarrassing quotes among all the hours that we chatted which she could’ve taken out of context, but she was very professional.

The Gun Club at Microsoft

March 31st, 2009 | Posted in American Bulletin

Right now, the Gun Club has 756 members.
At left, new President David Reed celebrated his wedding anniversary with his wife, Samia, at the shooting range.

Photos by Andrew McDonald.

We’re having a big get-together for Second Amendment Day on Saturday, if anybody wants to come out and celebrate with us.

Yeah, I’m a month overdue on a fitness duel update, a bike update and all that. I’ve been busy (and not necessarily in a fun way). Now that everyone @ Fort Reed is reasonably healthy again, I’ll have more time to goof off.

Voting in R’lyeh?

reedme — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:22:40 GMT

I’m pretty sure that Lovecraft would know how to interpret these “mysterious massive waves”, especially since the last time that New England (home to Arkham and other scary places in ‘20s pulp fiction) saw this kind of big wave was in the ‘20s... Our pal H.P. would tell us that Cthulhu woke up long enough to vote.

Specialists have posed a variety of possible explanations, saying the waves could have been caused by a powerful storm squall or the slumping of mountains of sediment from a steep canyon in the ocean - a sort of mini tsunami. The last time such rogue waves appeared in Maine was at Bass Harbor in 1926. Massive waves a mystery at Maine harbor (boston.com)

Who that particular Great Old One voted for, in your opinion, probably depends on your political persuasion. I personally think that Cthulhu got more than one write-in vote today. Heh.

I do think it’s interesting that there seem to be no reports of seismic activity, which would seem to rule out a tectonic angle or large impact. Hrm.

INSERT your.own.data INTO election.spreadsheet

reedme — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:48:11 GMT

No, this isn’t a Schneier-induced rant about electronic voting machinas… Kevin just dropped a template into Office Online for those of you who would like to model your own election results.

Simple Electoral College Election Predictor - Templates - Microsoft Office Online

You can play “Let’s pretend” to your hearts content for your favorite US presidential candidate.

Yeah, it’s just data in Excel, but it’s data, so I’m counting this as on-topic. Heh.