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Top Ten Posts (as of July 2014)

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jnl-faceThere was a gigantic spike in web traffic a while back, all of it a result of my piece on optimizing the DC Metro. The bump literally pushed 2014 to the Busiest Year Ever slot over two days in May!

(I guess I can take the rest of the year off…)

Now that the surge has died down, I thought it might be a good time to do a revised Top Ten Posts list. As I was putting the numbers together, I also realized something intriguing: the list clearly adheres to a power law. For fun, I included a graph showing this Pareto-like distribution of the Top Ten. Continue reading

Category: About Me

Happy July 4th!

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Pastriotism

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Odd Thought on Numerals

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OddThoughts“Hang Ten!”

Fun, from a surfer.

Not so fun, from a prison camp warden.

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Odd Thought on Portmanteaus

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OddThoughtsI was going to write a crabby letter but I ran out of crustacionery.

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We’re all like Game of Thrones now

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To be fair, the Washington Post piece is actually about all the bad analogies to Game of Thrones. Check it out for a good chuckle!

BRACE YOURSELF

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Odd Thought on Inventions

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OddThoughtsNicéphore Niépce: I’ve invented something wonderful!

Friend: Photos, or it didn’t happen…

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Odd Thought on Fire Protection

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OddThoughtsI was walking through a home improvement store the other day and saw a sign that read: “SMOKE ALARMS”

 

And, I thought, “Yes, it tends to.”

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Odd Thought on Funerals

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OddThoughtsWhen the oldest tailor in the country died, the other tailors dedicated the day of his funeral to offering free measurement services for the poor.

It was a fitting tribute.

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Visual Poetry – That Key Love

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ThatKeyLove

Category: Poetry

Odd Thought on Hearths

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OddThoughtsThe log had been waiting in the woodpile for months.

When he finally made it to the fireplace, he was stoked!

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