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Olympic Medals and GDP

Can you buy an Olympic medal? I pulled down the list of the top 10 countries by total medal count and their Gross Domestic Product data from 2010. It definitely seems like the richer countries win more medals, though Russia and South Korea bucked the...

Softball Stats

When people ask me why I don’t have an iPhone, my immediate response is always “Because Steve Jobs won’t let me write apps for it. I have to buy a Mac to write an app and then get it blessed by his goons before I can distribute it.” The next question...

Charity Auction

Did you know that in the course of the year, the average Microsoft employee donates over $1200? Not too shabby. A lot of that money is given in October for the annual Giving Campaign. Part of that campaign is an internal auction. Last year I won the ski...

Geeky NASCAR Fan

I bet I'm the only person in the world who is watching Nascar and learning about generating random fractal terrains with OpenGL.