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The Miami Supermarket Parking Lot Chicken Heuristic

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This is a new method for evaluating supermarkets. Instead of wasting time going into each store, comparing product selection, prices and so forth, we need only compare the quality of the stray chickens in the stores’ respective parking lots. You think I’m joking? See for yourself:
 

Publix parking lot chicken
Publix parking lot
   Costco parking lot chicken
Costco parking lot

 
The data predict that Costco will be the superior store, and this prediction is consistent with the evidence. Our model thus has a perfect predictive record.

We could be onto something big here. Do the global-warming people know about this?

Can’t Stop Dancin’

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It’s Friday night!

Butch McGuire’s Has Christmas Spirit!

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The sports bar Butch McGuire’s on division street (famous for bars like “Mothers” and where the movie “About Last Night” was supposedly set) is known for their Christmas decorations. I went there recently to check them out (and have a beer) and was mightily impressed.

This is a view of the front bar from the doorway and you can clearly see the two levels of train tracks as well. There are also dual level trains in one of the other dining rooms off the bar.

Here is a close up of the trains.

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Dear Year 2012,

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we wish you a warm welcome! Nevertheless we’ll keep a close eye on you. We hope you won’t mind. Your predecessor had some issues, such as earthquakes, famines, nuclear disasters etc., etc., so we are a bit wary at this point.

But don’t let that put you off! Just relax, be yourself and things should turn out alright. Or else.

Kind regards

Ralf Goergens
p. p. Everybody else

What is on your Desk?

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Cross-posted from zenpundit.com

Time for a bit of lighthearted, blogging fun.

I spend a lot of time reading and writing and I do so primarily within a specific environment – my home office. The space reflects the man, to some degree.

Surveying my office space here at home, I noticed that my desk has begun, like a coral reef, to accrete various objects, oddments and curious like a layer of bric-a-brac sediment.  Some objects change, others stay forever.  Exclusive of papers, books, printers and a computer, here’s what my desk holds:

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