Also, the whole Rick Scott vs. Charlie Crist's fan thing is fantastic
I managed to postpend the syllable "fic" to the syllable "fan" in reading the above, and I'm sure you can imagine my disappointment when I discovered the mistake.
Mark my words,Scott/Crist slash will be a thing by the end of the week.
"Charlie Crist is afraid of getting hot and sweaty with me."
"I'm not and I can prove it."
OR (now that I see what the referent of "fan" actually is), it could be centered on the air-circulating device itself! It has a serious duty to discharge, but has always been concerned to operate within the rules—is what its fellow appliances say right, that keeping a steady stream of air on Crist's pendulous nads really a serious breach? Will the fan be able to bring it off (ahem), and is it really feeling only nervous apprehension as the debate approaches—or is there some excited anticipation as well?
I see something not entirely dissimilar is already sort of in the offing.
I no longer desire Scott/Crist slash and solely desire Crist/Crist's fan slash.
Somehow I missed that mishegas, but wow. The WP quotes the Scott campaign's response: "'Charlie Crist can bring his fan, microwave, and toaster to debates - none of that will cover up how sad his record as governor was compared to the success of Rick Scott,' Scott campaign manager Melissa Sellers said in a statement. 'Crist should buy a fan for the 832,000 Floridians who lost their jobs while he was governor.'"
So we have three appliances as potential characters already.
Bringing a toaster seems counterproductive.
I feel like there should be a dehumidifier in there somewhere.
A toaster, a blanket, a lamp, a radio, and a vacuum cleaner.
Well hold on. Let's not make this just about the appliances. Crist should still be the focus—shouldn't he?—even if not the focalizing character.
@YouAreCarrying might be useful here.
Sellers did not add, "But no computers or spreadsheet software because then Crist might be able to point out exactly how much money Rick Scott's company stole from Medicare while he was CEO. Fortunately, as we all know, there's a certain amount of money below which you will be prosecuted for theft, and above which it's more important to look forward, not back, and Rick Scott easily passed that test."
Is it even possible to live in Florida without stealing money from the government?
I was running a site that was a competitor to electoral-vote.com in the 2004 elections. We were neck in neck in the Google search results for electoral vote related keywords for a while, but eventually he ate my lunch. Mostly because he did a much better job at election tracking than I did, whereas I was mainly focused on pulling in money from AdSense, which was new and exciting at the time.
Doesn't the OP represent a "gaff" gaffe?
We must not allow a mineshaft gaffe gap.
I'm hoping our Wobbly uses a gaff on Rep. Daines at their debate tonight.
Insane fuckwads poised to take over the world's worst deliberative body.
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I have just leechblocked (Stayfocusd, actually) a site (not this one) for the first time in my life. I've probably needed to do it for others (including this one) but this time normal behavioral controls/fears are failing spectacularly.
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The "kinder, gentler" version of DIVE. Likelihood of a prime being seeded is proportional to the number of numbers on the grid of which it is a divisor rather than all divisors being weighted equally. In practice it leads to much higher scores (and a really long tail)--my best is ~7900 classic and ~41,000 for this version. The dude who did this fork has gotten to 169,698! Discussion including creator and forker here.
When I first saw it, the max score I saw the guy had was 29K; that night at home I ripped off a 19k and was hooked. Then I saw the stupendous score which might have discouraged me. But it is fun to unleash something like 2137 (I think about the biggest I've had), and it is clear that the tail is quite long and potentially achievable--I had a 30k+ the other day that I effed up stupidly (part of why it is so addicting).
I do the original on the phone since the the fork happened before a few graphics enhancements that help make it work better visually on the phone. (and you can also forget *which* you are playing in the middle of a game--I actually think it could be the basis for a very evil but revealing sociology experiment, give some the kinder, gentler version and some the hard; the former is really just the latter but with generally much better "luck."
9. "The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Florida."
Wow, what is wrong with you all? That game holds absolutely no appeal for me whatsoever. Possibly because I'm terrible at arithmetic.
I'm a big fan of numbers going up. Easily in my top ten of things numbers do.
29: Here ya go, heebs, does this not look like fun? That game I did go to a prime factors calculator to make sure I knew what went into what. Did not get much further on that one, however; what you really want is just a couple of monstro cells and divisors and the rest small and "normal" (like this one that shows the guy on his way to 169k).
Actually I was going to include this as a sub-part of a Friday Puzzler Guest Post, but then I had to leechblock.
28 see 12.
(as usual I had no idea if my reference was too subtle, too obvious or just right, but not worth noting.)
Not quite the Diomedes, but Begich Alaskan island GOTV.
31: that is a whole lot of prime factors to keep track of. Good job?
34: I counted two factual errors in the first two paragraphs and stopped reading. Charley may find it interesting, though.
In other relevant news, I got three anti-Sullivan flyers in the mail today.
There was also a guy from the going door to door in my building a few days ago, trying to get Begich supporters to vote early. Their microtargeting and ground game really are impressive.
35: You can keep track, or not and just let it rip. But sure, definitely the kind of thing that is either appealing to one or not; and i'd not waste a second trying to "sell" it to someone In the latter camp.
Amanda Curtis didn't need a gaff afterall: she gutted Daines with his record.
How much of a chance would you say she has? That's a race that hasn't gotten much national attention, and the prognosticators seem to have generally assumed Daines will win, but I doubt there's been much polling.
It's a tough race. But Daines is just so awful.
It's funny, but with the long tradition of ballot splitting, it may be that if Daines wins the Senate seat, Dem John Lewis will win the House seat Daines is vacating. No big deal for the national picture, but it's better than getting swept. Which might happen also. Lewis has been getting newspaper endorsements, from papers that haven't endorsed a Dem in a long long time. We haven't had a Dem congressman since Pat Williams retired in 96.
I'll be calling quite a bit next week. It gets easier and easier to microtarget as people mail their ballots in.
JP, have you tried English Country Tune for the phone?
43: Thanks, I'll take a look. It is hit or miss with me as to which of these abstract games I like. 2048 itself, for instance, I had no use for.
43: Thanks, I'll take a look. It is hit or miss with me as to which of these abstract games I like. 2048 itself, for instance, I had no use for.
26: Oh, dear. I'll be ignoring that.
No. I need you to be writing an "instrumented" version, and then eventually an AI testing my strategies while I support you in email. (I should use it as a project to get myself back programming but am too busy playing it and other time wasters to waste time semi-productively.) Let me know when you can start.
