corrolation? causality?
Sep. 22nd, 2004 02:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saint_monkeyamusing picture, not sure how accurate it is, but it is ironic nonetheless.
http://www.bartcop.com/message-from-God.gif
Now for some fact checking! Yay! Facts!
Weather: (from the NOAA):
Charley's track:
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/2004/aug/charleytrack.gif
(Frances' curve into Marion County is the suspicious bit of the whole "god" map for me, but it looks pretty Kosher.)
Frances' track:
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/2004/aug/francestrack.gif
(Ivan's track is the big thorn, since the eye came ashore right dead on Mobile Bay in Alabama, so this line, tracing it through Walton county, is pure fiction, baby. However, as the gif notes, Alabama went to Bush as well... Specifically Baldwin and Mobile counties, which split Mobile Bay down the middle.
http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/alabama/politics/alabama2000election.jpg )
Ivan's track:
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/2004/aug/ivantrack.gif
Source: http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2004/hurricanes04.html
Election:
The election results are downloadable just about everywhere, this GIF seems to draw it's county-by-county breakout from the map supplied by USA today, and cited by lots and lots of right-wing talk show types, (Who somehow seemed to think that the number of square miles that went for Bush was actually relevant in the scope of the popular vote... Miles don't vote, people do.)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/vote2000/cbc/map.htm
So .... the end result? Not too far off. Feel free to be amused by this map and chuckle over it with your friends.
Oh yeah, Vector: metafilter, where you can read what other blowhards and panjandrums have to say as well.
(If everyone is wondering why I'm posting so much, I have an awful cold, and I'm hopped way up on dextromethorphan. I've been having these two hour bursts of speedy heightened productivity, followed by a sort of buzzing bleary wave of a complete inability to concentrate. Now, I've done all my work in a sort of softly vibrating pink haze, and I've another half-hour to burn. Hang ten!)
http://www.bartcop.com/message-from-God.gif
Now for some fact checking! Yay! Facts!
Weather: (from the NOAA):
Charley's track:
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/2004/aug/charleytrack.gif
(Frances' curve into Marion County is the suspicious bit of the whole "god" map for me, but it looks pretty Kosher.)
Frances' track:
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/2004/aug/francestrack.gif
(Ivan's track is the big thorn, since the eye came ashore right dead on Mobile Bay in Alabama, so this line, tracing it through Walton county, is pure fiction, baby. However, as the gif notes, Alabama went to Bush as well... Specifically Baldwin and Mobile counties, which split Mobile Bay down the middle.
http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/alabama/politics/alabama2000election.jpg )
Ivan's track:
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/2004/aug/ivantrack.gif
Source: http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2004/hurricanes04.html
Election:
The election results are downloadable just about everywhere, this GIF seems to draw it's county-by-county breakout from the map supplied by USA today, and cited by lots and lots of right-wing talk show types, (Who somehow seemed to think that the number of square miles that went for Bush was actually relevant in the scope of the popular vote... Miles don't vote, people do.)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/vote2000/cbc/map.htm
So .... the end result? Not too far off. Feel free to be amused by this map and chuckle over it with your friends.
Oh yeah, Vector: metafilter, where you can read what other blowhards and panjandrums have to say as well.
(If everyone is wondering why I'm posting so much, I have an awful cold, and I'm hopped way up on dextromethorphan. I've been having these two hour bursts of speedy heightened productivity, followed by a sort of buzzing bleary wave of a complete inability to concentrate. Now, I've done all my work in a sort of softly vibrating pink haze, and I've another half-hour to burn. Hang ten!)
