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For the Record

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It’s not me in Scott Meyer’s How To Fake A Smile, although it does look like me, especially in this frame. Also, I’d never use someone’s skin for a poncho, unless of course it rubs the lotion on its skin….it does this whenever it is told.

I was just listening to Q Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses

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December 6th, 2007 | 3:27 PM

City Stats

City-data.com has compiled a wide bearth of mostly interesting, some random and a few useless statistics on American cities. I can’t get enough. For these examples, I selected lists for cities with populations over 50,000. Yes, it gets that detailed:

Top 101 cities with the largest percentage population decrease from 2000 to 2006:
#1 - New Orleans, LA: -53.9%

Top 101 cities with the most people born in the same U.S. state as the city:
#1 - Cheektowaga, NY: 88.4%

Top 101 cities with the highest average humidity:
#1 - Bellingham, WA: 79.4%

I thought I should include my hometown, seeing that it made the top 20:
#14 - Brazosport, TX: 77.4%

Top 101 cities with the highest average snowfall in a year:
#1 - Syracuse, NY: 115.6 in

Top 101 cities with the highest number of arson incidents in 2006 per 10,000 residents:
#1 - Youngstown, OH: 38.70

Top 101 cities with the highest number of rapes in 2006 per 10,000 residents:
#1 - Galveston, TX: 20.31

Top 101 zip codes with the most alcohol drinking places in 2005:
#1 - 78701 (Austin, TX): 80

My neighborhood makes the top 10:
#7 - 10009 (New York, NY): 53

Top 101 cities with the most people taking a bicycle to work:
#1 - Stanford, CA: 41.7%

Top 101 cities with the most cars per house:
#1 - Milpitas, CA: 16.9% 4 or more vehicles

Top 101 cities with the most people having Doctorate degrees:
#1 - Palo Alto, CA: 8.3%

Top 101 counties with highest percentage of residents voting for Bush (Republican) in the 2004 Presidential Election:
#1 - Cass County, ND (Fargo, West Fargo, Casselton), pop. 123,138: 91.5%

Top 101 counties with highest percentage of residents voting for Kerry (Democrat) in the 2004 Presidential Election:
#1 - Wayne County, MI (Detroit, Livonia, Dearborn), pop. 2,061,162: 94.8%

I could keep going…

I was just listening to Justice - New Jack

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November 9th, 2007 | 12:51 PM