Although the URL somehow got reshuffled and I have long forgotten the login password, my old Tumblr blog Alex Whines is still on the internet. When the tumblr was still active, I kept a list of greatest hits. I reproduced the list when I my previous abandoned blog, so it was easy enough to migrate to the new future abandoned blog.

In addition to all the the fun posts below that I am 98% not ashamed of, my old blog did contain some missteps. Sorry for the bad opinions and shoddy work!

Games:

• A multi-part analysis of Jeopardy! questions and answers, featuring some fun visualization (1,2,3,4)
• Swear words in Scrabble
• I play a lot of Boggle
• Arbitrage at the boardwalk arcade

Music:

• Pitchfork versus Metacritic, a quantitative analysis, and some more on the Metacritic data.
• A dialogue in song titles
• What's the Scenario?
• I also used to maintain a tumblr about Songs from Treme

Nesting and recursion in fun places:

• One step of the Hokey Pokey is 'do the Hokey Pokey'
• Fish fish fish.
• My idea for a TV show about 30 Rock and Studio 60
• If someone was reading The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe in the fictional universe of the movie Groundhog Day

Food:

• The hole in the Candy Bar Venn Diagram
• Diagrams of Scotch eggs and Snickers ice cream cones
• A guide for price-conscious people who want to buy chicken wings at the intersection of 7th St. and Q St. NW
• Tale of the Tape: E.L. Fudge and Double Stuffed E.L. Fudge

More words:

• Moonfish moon fish.

• Why improbably is interesting.

• Example sentences I have produced in school

• Buffalo people buffalo people.

• Hotspots/Potshots, Sleepover/Oversleep, etc.

• Just a photograph of me eating cheese puffs