I’m revamping my blog, and the first step is I’m moving off of the BetweenElse Tumblr account. For those of you who visit me via Doorley.org, you’ll notice no change. For those of you who’ve followed me on Tumblr, check out “cdoorley” and follow me there now.
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Last call for SXSW by the fire pit at Key Bar. Perfect way to end another great time to Austin.
Can.Not.Wait.
The first photo in Project C.365’10, a personal photo project. One photo a day taken that day every day for each day of 2010. This is photo 001, a picture of my first cup of tea for the year. Green tea, if you’re so inclined. You can follow the photo stream on Flickr here.
Kasabian Soccer Hero. This is awesome if you like Guitar Hero, soccer or people who play life-sized videos game.
MY SOURCES INFORM ME THAT YOU HAVE NOT GIVEN AS MUCH GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD AS POSSIBLE!
OBEY!
“What do you wear when you can’t find your hippopotamus costume?”
(picture taken by somebody I know but who isn’t me)
Saw this map (from Regional Plan Association) of emerging megaregions and it got me thinking about election data. Because of recent (and continuous) Democratic victories in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver, Los Angles, San Francisco and Seattle, common wisdom has it that Democrats win the urban center. Well, what about the “Megaregions”?
While on some level, this simple map overlay seems to suggest the megaregions fall into the Democrats column, I think what’s interesting is how divided the Great Lakes is and that Democratic gains in the south are outside of the Piedmont Atlantic megaregion. I would have expected more of an alignment in the south with Democratic gains and urban clusters. Not so, it seems. The clearest strong hold for Republicans is the Texas Triangle, though the blue encroachment in southern Texas is something to be worried about for them. My gut says that as Texas trends blue, the Great Lakes will trend red.
This was just a simple little overlay of two data maps, but I want to play around with this some more and see what else I can come up with. I’d like to build a real trend map of election data over the past 10 years and merge that with the Megaregions data.
(big map)
Had dinner in Bishop’s Park at the National Cathedral; am told I’m being egotisical by posting, but I just wanted to share.
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