Gordaen's Blog

For those of you who haven’t spent a significant amount of time as a pedestrian, I figured I’d give you a quick guide to the possible encounters you’ll have with other pedestrians.

Senator Larry Craig (R.-Idaho) says “[Industrial Carbon Dioxide] is not a pollutant.” Senator James Inhofe (R.-Okla) has been quoted for saying that global warming is a “hoax.” Here’s a quote from an article he wrote:
Despite the lack of a scientific consensus to warrant such measures, climate change alarmists — in the heat of [...]

For those who don’t know, I am often fascinated by statistics. It’s interesting the things you can prove, and the things people think they prove by misinterpretting statistics. Here’s an example:
For young males, driver fatalities rose by 1 percent [from 1994 to 2004], compared with a 15-percent increase for young females

I find it funny that of all the photos I took, this one turned out the coolest. The others I took because I wanted to capture how nice the car looked in the sun after the hours of cleaning. This one I took because I wanted to show some of the other MR2 [...]

I have my Google Homepage setup to display news articles from various sources as well as RSS feeds and other useful data, so that I don’t have to check too many sites (the ultimate point of technology is to make us as lazy as possible, right?). This morning I saw an article about drunk [...]