Author: bengarvey
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Odd Man In Login Issues
A few of you emailed me about the login issues on Odd Man In and I’ve decided to unlink it for now on the main site until I get it fixed.
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5K Results Reimagined
This graph shows and is sorted by the relative times for each runner on the left, their relative age on the right, and their gender by color. It seems to show that on average, men ran the race faster than women. This graph below is the same data, but sorted by the participants’ age. Image…
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Why You Should Try Twitter
Twitter isn’t for everyone. A lot has been written about it’s slowing growth, but part of that is because the stats don’t include 3rd party apps. Still, I think Twitter has limited appeal depending on what you want to get out of your time online. For most people, facebook does everything they’d want a social…
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Tufteized the Charts
Over at my Conveyor Blog I made a post about some charts I updated at work based on a book I read by Edward Tufte, the Visual Display of Quantitative Information.
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Opt In, Relevancy, and Marketing on Trust
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about marketing for two reasons. 1. I’m trying to figure out the best way to grow our business. 2. I just joined the board of directors of our industry trade organization, whose primary focus is putting on a yearly trade show. Do traditional marketing campaigns (ads, trade shows, mailings,…
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Twitter Tip: Use Favorites as Bookmarks
The most neglected feature of Twitter has to be favorites. It’s not used for much and none of the clients do anything interesting with them. Unlike Facebook’s “like,” categorizing a tweet as a “favorite” seems like a big commitment and the new Retweet features seem to support the concept better anyway. So what do you…
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Famous Missions Review
A mad bomber has planted a device in the building and you have to put together a team of experts to find the bomb and dismantle it. Do you call the bomb squad? A SWAT team? No, you call Gene Simmons, Mr T, and Albert Einstein. Famous Missions by Jason Tagmire is a new card…
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Hello 2010
So for future record I’d like to post some personal goals for 2010. I was never into resolutions before, but that was because I had the time to do all the things I wanted to do. Now I have so much going on it is difficult to make time for higher altitude goals, and by…
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Santa’s Lap 2009
I’m too lazy to scan this in, so this is what they’re talking about when they talked about the good enough revolution. I just took a picture of a picture with my phone.?The picture itself is super cute, though. Kristin also made a super cute robot quilt for Owen. Check it out.
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Haddon Twp Turkey Trot 2009 Results
It took me forever to find the results for the Haddon Township Turkey Trot 5K. I don’t see them linked anywhere on the official website, but google had indexed them somehow. One thing I found out after seeing the results was that I didn’t actually get 3rd place in my age group. The overall winner…
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Top Ten Albums of the 00’s I Forgot to Include
Two days after I posted my list of the Top Ten Albums of the Decade I noticed some glaring omissions. 10. Franz Ferdinand – You Could Have it So Much Better, 2004 9. Radiohead – Hail to the Thief, 2003 8. Blur – Think Tank, 2003 7. Feist – The Reminder, 2007 6. Of Montreal…
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My Ten Favorite Albums of the Decade
They say the older you get the faster time goes by, but 2000 – 2009 seemed like a long time to me. I don’t know if this decade offered a whole lot of originality or if I was just too lazy to find it. The main thing I took away from it was that the…
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Attention OMI Players
To the 6 people still playing Odd Man In (you rock by the way), the game may break when I upgrade the site to php5 tonight. Let me know if you see anything weird that I don’t catch. Thanks.
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Buffalo Wing Rating Scale
I have an informal Buffalo Wings rating scale of 1-10.? This is not your normal scale where 1 is awful, 10 is perfect, and everything in between could be graphed linearly. My scale is more of a logarithmic function like this: As you can see, there is a difference between wings rated a 3 and…
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They Sold You Out: Screw You Orbitz, Shutterfly, Fandango, and more…
I only called out Orbitz, Shutterlfy, and Fandango because I’m a big customer of theirs. Fandango not so much since I hardly ever go to the movies anymore, but I use it almost every time I go. Each company built great technology and delivered a great product until they got greedy and decided to break…
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New Conveyor Blog Launched
As part of our new marketing effort, I’ve launched a conveyor blog at work. Today I posted a video of one of the best ways we landed a project ever. Who else would run lit candles on a conveyor?
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Beer Camp Philly Recap
On Friday I participated in Beer Camp, a homebrewer kickoff to Philly Bar Camp and was hosted by Two Guys on Beer and Indyhall. It was a blast. Congrats to @howdiz and @SymbiotDesign for their award winning brews. Howie brewed a Smoked Maple Porter (which I dubbed the Bacon Beer) and Symbiot’s was a Pumpkin…