Monthly Archives: January 2008

Objective Redistricting: A Procedure

I have posted my Procedure for Objective Redistricting. I’m still testing it, getting bugs out, working through problems, and still have to write up a section about revising after a plan is already in place, but this should be enough to get anyone started. Let me check it against my criteria previously posted: 1. No […]

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The World, Halved and Re-Halved

“What are we going to do tonight, Brain?” “The same thing we do every night, Pinky: Try to take over the world!” But what would you do with the world once you’ve conquered it? My answer — start dividing it up again. The second step in the Objective Redistricting process (after step one – make […]

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Mind Map

I love living in the 21st century.  I have found a new tool, just yesterday, that I’ve been looking for for years.   I had, to myself, called it a Tree Processor, analogous to Word Processor, a program that would allow one to work with Trees of information, for things like Genealogy, Ranking, and of course, […]

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A sample result of the Redistricting Project

I am going to try to upload a kmz file, to be used with Google Earth, called “World Split”.  The way it works is, if you need to district the world into X districts, check all the boxes of that number or lower, and voila, you have that many divisions of the world.  The results […]

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Lesson on maintaining web sites

I just looked at the links on my Best of All Time Web Site. Not a single link on it went anywhere relevant to the thing it was intended to link to. Sorry about that.

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The Actual BOAT List

This is the list as it stands now. A few songs have been added since 1997, Numbers 586-595. The actual rank is more about the order in which the songs were added to the list, and more about what I liked 12 years ago than what my preferences is today. I still love most of […]

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Objective Redistricting: Statement of the Problem

Besides list, the other thing that I have been obsessed with for most of my life is Maps.  One day, in the Summer of 2005, I had an idea.  As time went on, I refined the idea, which I will be explaining on this blog as I work out the bugs (it’s not finished yet). […]

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My previous online work, or, Best Of All Time (BOAT) v. 1.0

I made a list, working on it mostly from 1994-1997, of the Best Songs of All Time . You see, I got married in the spring of 1998, and so I declared that project complete at 550 songs or so, and moved on to other things. I love living in the 21st century. Now, we […]

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Hello world!

All right, for my first post, I suppose I ought to set forth why I’m doing this (in case I forget later).  You see, all my life I have been obsessed with making lists.  If I want to learn about a subject, the best way for me to do so is to make a list […]

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