- RT @jayrosen_nyu: One lesson that absolutely applies to both Andrew Sullivan and Nate Silver. Develop your own domain name and don't sell i… 02:44:19
- What, they didn't highlight Curmudgeon's Corner? -> Apple celebrates 1 billion podcast subscriptions (Zachary Lutz) http://t.co/LIJHEEUHXb 04:21:25
- RT @AlexMinter1: I feel like the first gay president is going to be a bigger deal than the first black president was 04:27:24
- .@AlexMinter1 Buchanan http://t.co/SjebGQyXZn But you may be right on the NEXT one. :-) in reply to AlexMinter1 04:28:16
- You were like 30 seconds late. Maybe. :-) RT @BYUfan: @abulsme I may be a few minutes late. 05:49:11
- This week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner with guest co-host @BYUfan is all done and recorded. Out later in the week as usual. :-) 05:51:47
- Just got yelled at by neighbor 4 talking at a normal volume in our driveway while setting up telescope Alex asked to use. That was fun. 06:20:17
- No screaming or loud music I understand, but just a conversation in front of our house? Really? Bah humbug. Makes me want to be louder. 06:24:56
- We won’t be of course. But we did finish, and Alex got to look at the moon through the telescope as he had requested. 06:26:37
- Will never get used to fact so much of this neighborhood is trying to sleep even at 10 when it is barely dark. I understand it is normal… 06:29:07
- But it is very odd to me. Alex (3 yr) and I are often walking the dog around 11 PM. Whole family generally only starts winding down near 12. 06:31:34
- I know that makes US the oddballs but still. We were only talking. Not yelling. Not making racket. Suppose we should have been whispering. 06:34:07
- So should we be leaving a note apologizing for disturbing them? Even though we think they we being kind of unreasonable? 06:39:10
- Or should we ignore it (not the first time we have bumped heads with them, maybe every 6 mo) letting the beginnings of a family feud fester? 06:40:58
- I do acknowledge the possibility that we were louder than we thought we were. We spoke normally, but our normal voices not quite subdued. :) 06:42:17
- And it WAS 11:15 PM or so, which while still prime time for us, I realize is late for some others. Presumably including these neighbors. 06:45:30
- I should add that when they yelled out window for us to shut up, Brandy’s response was not exactly polite either. :-). So Twitter, thoughts? 06:49:10
- upstart from our macaron light us had by where that navalnys may for in and son the salsa royal be 07:38:44
- RT @imbou: @abulsme just let it go, it's like you don't have nice neighbors, they could have been polite to you. 17:05:37
- .@imbou Lot it go like apologize? Or let it go like ignore. (Wasn't planning on intentionally aggravating them. :-) ) in reply to imbou 17:06:22
- .@imbou For the record, I wanted to leave a conciliatory note and make nice with them, but was overruled by the two women in the house. in reply to imbou 17:07:27
- .@imbou I also had completely forgotten about the whole thing by the time I woke up, until I saw your tweet. :-) in reply to imbou 17:09:31
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- RT @bjmartino: Sad image: Lonely Wiener staffer wipes white board and writes a zero under "Number of days since last sex scandal:" 20:10:07
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- Don't boat and tweet! :-) @BYUfan: .@abulsme I was on my boat pulling my son wakeboarding when I tweeted that. 23:49:07
Envisioning Information is the second of the series of information design books from Edward Tufte. After the first book, I thought, yeah, he makes some good points, but he is a bit overhyped. It has been a long time since I read the second book, but I don’t remember anything that changes that assessment. In addition though, it seemed that most of the good points were made in the first book and there was a lot of repetition in the second book. More and different examples to be sure, but used to make the same general points over and over again. Some of the points Tufte makes (making sure what you present is clear and uncluttered by “chart junk” for instance) I think are great. Others, such as where he pushes the idea of super high density information displays of information I think are not as well placed. SOMETIMES having those sorts of things that are jam packed with information that you can explore for hours is great. But MOST of the time, having something that as clearly as possible focuses in on the specific things you are looking at can be far more useful. There is indeed a place for both of course. Anyway, there are of course lots of nice examples of information design. Some Tufte calls out as wonderful, some he calls out as horrible. Sometimes I agreed with him, sometimes I did not. And don’t get me wrong, a lot of this is fun to look at, and there is good discussion. I just felt I had probably gotten most of what I was going to get out of it in the first book. And of course, this isn’t the last of the series. And now, the ranking of the last 10 books reviewed by reading speed (ones with kindle locations first, then ones with only page speeds):
And now the graphs: % of the last 20 books I reviewed that are now available on Kindle:
% of the last 20 books I read (including 27 I haven’t reviewed yet) that I actually read on Kindle:
(I bought my Kindle when the first ratio hit 50%. I will do these charts until each ratio gets to 90%. We are close, but not quite there yet.)
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