I used to blog. I had a pretty solid run on tumblr about a decade ago. Years after I stopped posting, the blog seemed to just disappear and has since been replaced with whatever is now on (http://alexwhines.tumblr.com). I was briefly distraught that I lost my archive but got over it. Months later, I discovered that the blog had survived; it had merely been moved to (http://alexwhines-blog.tumblr.com).

That screwed up any links to the site, but I scraped my greatest hits and fixed the url in the links below, for your reading pleasure:

Some of my better posts

• A multi-part analysis of Jeopardy! questions and answers, featuring some fun visualization (1,2,3,4)
• Swear words in Scrabble
• I play a lot of Boggle
• Arbitrage at the boardwalk arcade

• Pitchfork versus Metacritic, a quantitative analysis, and some more on the Metacritic data.
• A dialogue in song titles
• What'€™s the Scenario?
• I also used to maintain a tumblr about Songs from Treme

• One step of the Hokey Pokey is '€œdo the Hokey Pokey'€
• Fish fish fish.
• My idea for a TV show about 30 Rock and Studio 60
• If someone was reading The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe in the fictional universe of the movie Groundhog Day

• The hole in the Candy Bar Venn Diagram
• Diagrams of Scotch eggs and Snickers ice cream cones
• A guide for price-conscious people who want to buy chicken wings at the intersection of 7th St. and Q St. NW
• Tale of the Tape: E.L. Fudge and Double Stuffed E.L. Fudge

• Moonfish moon fish.
• Why improbably is interesting.
• Example sentences I have produced in school
• Buffalo people buffalo people.
• Hotspots/Potshots, Sleepover/Oversleep, etc.

• Just a photograph of me eating cheese puffs

In addition to all the the fun posts above that I am 100% not ashamed of, there were some missteps. Sorry for the bad opinions and shoddy work!