In my last post, I described my new effort to collect enough Kinder Surprise eggs to win all eight Astérix figurines. I’ve done it. What’s more, I managed to do so having only gone through 35 eggs! That’s almost hilariously quickly, if you think about it. I wish I had kept track of how I [...]
Astérix turns 50 this year, as does Fererro, at least in France. The two culture industries for youths have teamed up to provide Kinder Surprises with little figurines from the Astérix series in them (among other prizes, of course). The above was a death sentence for any sort of plans about avoiding chocolate I may [...]
[I'm not entirely sure why I'm turning this into a post. It's essentially my final project for my Advanced GIS class. I think it's rather provocative, however, and it shows a few immediate possible further directions for analysis.] In my earlier geospatial analysis of the U.S.A. trilogy by John Dos Passos, I decided that I [...]
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(This is how I spent GIS Day) I was surprised in my previous post by how young and black Louisiana was (in 2000), yet how not for Obama it went. Only 10 of 64 parishes were carried by the Democrat, though they included three of the four most populous parishes. I wondered if maybe there [...]
[I massively updated the middle part of this post after thinking about it on the ride home] I was pretty startled by the two maps I saw at Strange Maps over the weekend. They showed a distinct correlation between cotton production in 1860 and Obama support in 2008. Where more cotton was picked 150 years [...]