My Curmudgeon’s Corner cohost Ivan’s wife Juana just set up a new Etsy shop and asked me to post a link for folks to check it out. So here it is: Evolution by Juana Venegas
 In the geography quiz he gave I knew that the exclave of Cabinda is administrated by Angola. Woo! Ken Jennings was here promoting his new book Maphead. Of course, my favorite map related thing is still the Random Spot Tool that I made for my Random Trips a few years back. So, as of the review posted for First Meetings… Percent of the last 20 books I’ve posted reviews for available on Kindle is now up to 75%.
And the percentage of the last 20 books I’ve read available on Kindle stays at 65%.
If so, I’m on there as, what else, Abulsme. Just invite me to a game. I figure now that it is available on Android in addition to iPhone and iPad and such, there might be a few more out there who might want to play. Links to all the downloads on the Words With Friends website. For anybody who doesn’t actually know, it is a Scrabble-like game where you play when you have time to make a move rather than everyone having to be available at the same time. Personally, unless I get unexpected free down time, I’m often just a one or two moves per game per day guy, but every once in awhile I’ll happen to be on at the same time as someone else and go a bit faster. :-) I had been playing Scrabble via Facebook with a bunch of folks last year, but then Facebook went and changed something about how their notifications worked, and all of a sudden anyone actually playing via Facebook rather than through the iPhone app never seemed to get notifications that it was their turn. That sucked, so I dumped Scrabble and moved to Words with Friends. I’ve been playing with a few friends since then, but since the game has only been available on iPhone, it has limited who might be able to play. Now that it is on Android too, maybe there will be a few more folks who want to play. Of course, the universe of people with iOS or Android is still somewhat constrained. But it is more now than it was. So… anyone wanna play? As of right now it just turned 2011 UTC-wise. So Happy New Year everyone!
Another chart I thought was interesting. This looks at a “mood index” that I enter once per day. It is a purely subjective measure, where I just enter the first number that comes to mind, and try not to consciously think about it. Basically, 100 would be ecstatically happy to the point of uncontrollable glee, zero would be depressed to the point of not being able to function or move under my own power. As you can see, normally I’m in a pretty decent mood, in the 70 to 80 range on average with points outside that range a few times a month on either side. So these are variations within a fairly constrained range to begin with. But when you look at this chart on a six month range, where I then add a trend line smoothed over about an 18 day radius, suddenly you see what looks to be a clear monthly oscillation on top of the large scale mood trend. It looks like, at least for the last six months, I have generally been happier and in a better mood in the first half of each month, and in a bit worse state of mind in the second half of the month. Neat.
The percentage of my life spent asleep as it has changed over the last year. Down roughly from 29% (about 6 hours 58 minutes per night) to about 26% (about 6 hours 14 minutes per night) over the course of the last 365.242 days. The best was last December when I hit about 30% (about 7 hours 12 minutes per night) and the worst was in early November when I was at about 25.5% (about 6 hours 7 minutes per night). Those are of course from the general trend lines, as you can see, some specific data points have been significantly higher or lower than those trends. The data points themselves are not single nights, but rather represent daily samples of the trailing seven days. Anyway, I thought it was an interesting chart. :-) [tube]-nIej5weq1U[/tube] (via io9) |
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