Olympians #1 : Womens 100M Hurdles

                Dawn Harper, 2008, USA

 Joanna Hayes, 2004, USA

Olga Shishigina, 2000, KAZ

Things I Learned From Video Games #1

 

 

It’s important to gain a wide variety of awesome skills.

Gay Adoption

“Jennifer Crisler, executive director of Family Equality Council, had asked both candidates to outline their plan to “recognize, respect, protect and celebrate all of the loving families [they] seek to represent” after John McCain had declared in an interview that he was not in favor of LGBT adoption. The McCain camp has not issued a response to her request.

Obama said, “But we also have to do more to support and strengthen LGBT families. Because equality in relationship, family, and adoption rights is not some abstract principle; it’s about whether millions of LGBT Americans can finally live lives marked by dignity and freedom. That’s why we have to repeal laws like the Defense of Marriage Act. That’s why we have to eliminate discrimination against LGBT families. And that’s why we have to extend equal treatment in our family and adoption laws.”

His letter ended, “I’ll be a president that stands up for American families – all of them.” (The full letter is here.)”

From 365gay.com

Something’s Gotta Give

Think Big!

A 30-minute musical adventure pits 1986 World Champions Gary Carter, Mookie Wilson and Roger McDowell against an unbeatable, computer-generated baseball team called the Megabats. And as they map out their gameplan, they help their two young friends realize that if you want to be a winner in life, you’ve got to THINK BIG.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

This is remarkably terrible.

Library of Congress #13

 

Cold Harbor, Va. African Americans collecting bones of soldiers killed in the battle, from the main eastern theater of war, Grant’s Wilderness Campaign, May-June 1864.

Obama the Professor

Here’s the  begining of a question from his 2003 Constitutional Law Final. See all his Exams here.

Charts and Graphs #4

I tracked the number of subway cars I rode for a month and discovered that I ride about 497.7 Subway cars per year which has amounted to 1,990.86 Subway cars since I first moved to New York, or about 31.1% of the total number of Subway cars in the city. Below is my breakdown by train line and daily subway use.

 

 

 

As a general rule, I refuse to transfer twice after ten pm.

Popularity Contest

This was in today’s Times:

 

“While there is no single metric for success on the Internet, there are some leading indicators. For example, Mr. Obama has about 1.2 million Facebook friends, while Mr. McCain has fewer than 200,000.”

Wouldn’t this be crazy:

I was fooling around with NPR’s election map today and ran across this very plausible scenario:

Imagine 269 to 269. Obama wins CO & NM and John McCain wins OH, FL & VA. According to NPR in case of a tie congress decides. That would be nuts!