Seven ate nine

I’m back.

No rain please

Realization: the biggest loser in the decision to move Conan to 11:30 is the television viewer in the post-Kimmel 1:00 to 1:35 range. All the funny people in the world and we have to watch Fallon v. Ferguson?

I’m going to the midwest this afternoon, posting will be exceedingly light for the next week.

Speaking of Detroit, Finale’s Heat:

(”Underground like I’m speaking through a manhole/with muscle big enough to start a Barry Bonds scandal.”)

Only in Ohio!

This should be an Ohio tourism advert to rival Michigan’s Tim Allen campaign.

So it goes

They had to?

Via Pat, 95% funny:

Feeling gooooooooooooood

So… what’s cracking?

Just drinking some water, racquetball skills not progressing.

In a good way!

Meghan:

you’re like my invisible-stalker-gchat fairy godmother.

Four grand per passenger

I finally saw a Ford Flex in person this morning. It’s a really attractive car. Plus, it seats seven, so you could use it in place of a minivan. This is to the Windstar as Megan Fox is to Rachel Dratch. No offense to the hilarious Rachel Dratch.

Sloan is 665

Apropos of nothing, the most common names in the United States via the Census Bureau:

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First ten entries in dist.all.last
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name freq cum.freq rank
SMITH 1.006 1.006 1
JOHNSON 0.810 1.816 2
WILLIAMS 0.699 2.515 3
JONES 0.621 3.136 4
BROWN 0.621 3.757 5
DAVIS 0.480 4.237 6
MILLER 0.424 4.660 7
WILSON 0.339 5.000 8
MOORE 0.312 5.312 9
TAYLOR 0.311 5.623 10
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First ten entries in dist.female.first
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name freq cum.freq rank
MARY 2.629 2.629 1
PATRICIA 1.073 3.702 2
LINDA 1.035 4.736 3
BARBARA 0.980 5.716 4
ELIZABETH 0.937 6.653 5
JENNIFER 0.932 7.586 6
MARIA 0.828 8.414 7
SUSAN 0.794 9.209 8
MARGARET 0.768 9.976 9
DOROTHY 0.727 10.703 10
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First ten entries in dist.male.first
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name freq cum.freq rank
JAMES 3.318 3.318 1
JOHN 3.271 6.589 2
ROBERT 3.143 9.732 3
MICHAEL 2.629 12.361 4
WILLIAM 2.451 14.812 5
DAVID 2.363 17.176 6
RICHARD 1.703 18.878 7
CHARLES 1.523 20.401 8
JOSEPH 1.404 21.805 9
THOMAS 1.380 23.185 10

Smooth moving

Left my laptop’s power supply at home. Battery power didn’t last long enough to load windows. Currently attempting to teach a pigeon to fly to my house and get it.