OK one thing I can't resist:

"Spanberger wins in Virginia, Nothingburger wins in New Jersey."

Honestly I'm just trying to find ways to keep myself from talking about Mikie Sherrill because good god, *nobody* cares about Mikie Sherrill.

Yeah I was going to say, one of the side-effects of Staten Island basically being New Jersey is that it has better pizza than real New York does.

I have it filed in my brain next to Garner calling the vp job a bucket of warm piss.

Yeah this is a thing they say. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...

Ok Burn Notice is a better comp though

Kinda shocked there was no dad on, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_...

Archer’s heyday is 2009-2013 and is mommy-son drama

Hah, it could be a video game where you die if you hit a record highs starting in 1900 and it gets harder and harder as you go.

Not that anyone would be able to understand that at a glance! Just fun to have additional channels

Huh, and there's also two separate sets of *radiuses* you could use to encode -- from the circle that runs in the center of the torus that could encode hourly information, and also from the point in the middle of the donut hole.

You'd really want a moving average, but there's some way I'm sure that one could model spring mechanics to spread that change out over years.

I was sort of wondering if there's some way to use the tension of the spring -- the gap between the coils -- to encode year-to-year change? Like if it's warming stretch the spring out, if it's cooling compress it together

Don't need to animate -- that could just look like a spring if there's detailed hourly city time-series

I'll stay committed to the bit even if it doesn't work:

Yeah I shouldn't have put that in the title probably -- it's just the same joke about psychology being the worst discipline, but it doesn't really work there.

Ten-year changes in majors by field -- when I first made this for the American Historical Association in 2018, history had the bottom slot, so slightly nice to see that it's rising.

Fortunately every person working in venture capital is a polymath with intellect of remarkable depth and breadth; otherwise I'd be in a real bind.

Yeah humanities are indexed against peak because they all went down and have a peak from 2000-2008, but doing that for social sciences doesn't really make sense when some are at peak today. TBH probably indexing against peak never made sense, but I've been making that chart that way for years now.