From Twitter 09-30-2009

• 08:25:58: @Sgboy01 sorry. i'm always sorry about death. reminder of our common mortality.
  
• 09:41:55: Austin Lee sees no license in his future: RT DentonPolice: http://twitpic.com/jp59t - 09/30/2009 03:11 | 24 yrs | DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED
  
• 10:11:15: @Sgboy01 Ask not for whom the bell tolls...it tolls for thee.
  
• 10:19:58: Ripe for a drunk prank: RT DentonPolice: http://twitpic.com/joysl - 09/30/2009 01:00:07 | 21 yrs | ALCOHOL/PUBLIC INTOXICATION
  
• 10:23:51: @littlepigy good morning to you, one day late! i wasn't compos mentis yesterday...
  
• 10:33:43: @Sgboy01 which one?
  
• 11:23:05: @HeriCabral ok, you can't tweet that tweet without telling us what the awkward experience was!
  
• 11:23:31: @thatsam I was in the 6.6 Los Angeles earthquake. Not pleasant at 4:30 am.
  
• 11:28:01: @HeriCabral well then, don't tease us! Don't Tease the Animals!
  
• 14:23:38: @soveren what the heck is a badge in this context? You gotta link?
  
• 19:45:18: @Joe Hump Day is a very old name for Wednesday as you are in the middle of the week. Not trendy at all.
  
• 19:59:16: @SurferBoris you can inject me anytime. i can take it...
  
• 20:52:26: Wow! This kid is very good! RT @orrh: Ang Moh boy speaks Singlish better than Ris. http://bit.ly/dv4lf
  
• 21:20:42: @Sgboy01 i try to keep up with singapore news. the whole thing was very sad. lots of beauty queens think their past won't catch up with them
  
• 21:22:31: @Naoij good night! please sleep well!
  
• 21:22:48: Gotta retweet a SQUEE! RT @urbanbohemian: I am doing laundry.. in my own washer/dryer. *SQUEE!!
  
• 22:28:39: @jonk have you considered Vaseline?
  

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Happy birthday, rustnroses

...and many happy returns of the day.

Statistician on upcoming Maine marriage-ban vote

As you may be aware, years ago I earned my crust in the market research biz. It's an interesting profession—reviled by those who are called away from their dinner tables by interviewers but much prized by politicians and product marketers (dubious recommendations, I suppose…). The statistician was a person ensconced in a hidden-away office in the corner who cooked up ways of statistically sampling populations so that the surveys that resulted from the polling were representative of the entire population.

A gentleman named Nate Silver has done a statistical analysis of the situation for gay marriage bans, with a special concentration on the state of Maine, as its vote is coming up in a month or so. His conclusions will give hope to those who are working to defeat the ban.