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Polling Retrospective

Polling Retrospective

We Americans have a lot of November traditions. Thanksgiving. Black Friday. Cyber Monday. Playing Christmas music waaaaay too early. Voting. And a new one over the past few decades, complaining about polls. In case you have been living under a rock, we in the United States had an election last […]

Bats

In celebration of Halloween, let’s talk about bats. What do bats have to do with Halloween? No idea. They arent scary or anything. But I see lots of bats decorations around Halloween time so bat facts are in vogue. There are a lot of bats out there. In fact there […]

The 2024 election

We need to talk about the 2024 presidential election. I’ve mostly tried to keep politics out of this blog. I understand I have friends and followers of many different political orientations, and I certainly don’t want to offend people. Donald Trump has always been a controversial political figure. He entered […]

Introducing Newsasaurus

It was 11 years ago today that Google killed Google Reader. The RSS reader with popular with a niche crowd, but never really expanded beyond it’s core use case. In the end it was ditched for more algorithmically driven ways to get the news such as Google News and various […]