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[which_chick]

Meme from not_your_real: place the state

I got 92% (46 out of 50), average error of 20 miles. I would have done worse, but I got a lot of good states (coastline) first.

We painted the burned kitchen today. It'll need another coat before it's done. I also got to take apart a sink faucet to fix dripping. Roy did one as an example and then put it back together so that I could do two all by myself (this is like doctor internships -- see one, do one, teach one) and I reassembled them successfully, so go me.

I fell asleep last night before I got around to watching bad movies, so those will be tonight's entertainment.

Also, I picked up collard seeds at the WalMart, which regrettably didn't have circular knitting needles in size 4. I'll have to look elsewhere for knitting needles, but at least I have collard seeds for the great collard experiment this spring. (Yes, there is still snow on the ground. I believe in being prepared.)

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[which-chick.livejournal.com]

I devoted a fair amount of time to thinking about how the place-the-state test could be made more "fair"... The order of states appears to be random, and that means that you can get a good draw (lots of edge-states first) or a bad draw (all those square western states) and thus appear much more or less clueful than you actually are.

I think it would be a MUCH nicer test if, for each state, you started with an empty map. You could still get the states in random order, but there would be no advantage to that one way or the other.