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:
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Moonfish moon fish.
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Why improbably is interesting.
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Example sentences I have produced in school
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Buffalo people buffalo people.
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Hotspots/Potshots, Sleepover/Oversleep, etc.
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Just a photograph of me eating cheese puffs