The Electoral College's bias is horrible.  Montana has a population of 1 million and 3 electoral votes, whereas Georgia has 10 million people (ten times as much) but only 16 electoral votes (5.33 times as much).

That means that the power of a voter in Montana is 87% more than that of a voter in Georgia!

It's no wonder that all our presidential ( Read more... )

Someone asked on the Escape Room Slack: What was your first escape room? Was it enough to get you immediately hooked?

I'll immortalize my response by posting it here:

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I had a surprisingly vivid/detailed dream/nightmare today.  I was organizing a puzzle hunt in honor of Ian Tullis' birthday (April 15th, if you didn't know).  Well, I was writing most of the puzzles, other people were doing the logistics.  It happened to dovetail with a large group touring several wineries -- the idea was that small teams would get ( Read more... )

This is a review of LC Networks that I plan to post on Yelp after I reduce the number of characters. The full version is here for those who want to read the whole story ( Read more... )

I just had a rather detailed dream where I was sitting at my piano, picking up an old book of sheet music which I had just purchased, a collection of songs from different musicals, and trying to work through the first song in it, an opening theme to a musical that I had never heard of before ( Read more... )

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So in the last two weeks I've played two of the most acclaimed indie releases of 2013: Gone Home (http://fullbright.company/gonehome/) and The Stanley Parable HD Remake (http://www.stanleyparable.com/). The two games are ( Read more... )

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I have been told that, unless some major news item shows up to pre-empt it, that the 2012 US Puzzle team will be the focus of an article in Time Magazine next week ( Read more... )

So my personal trainer is doing a "push-ups for Hurricane Sandy relief" fundraising thing at her company. The idea is that each of the trainers pledge to do a certain number of push-ups next Monday (my trainer went for 400). They try to get people to pledge them money to do this, either unconditionally or to be given if they match their push-up ( Read more... )