{"id":2941,"date":"2012-03-17T17:49:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T01:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=2941"},"modified":"2012-03-17T17:49:25","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T01:49:25","slug":"cold-vancouver-creeping-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=2941","title":{"rendered":"Cold Vancouver, Creeping Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m on my way to Vancouver for a week (no, I can’t tell you why just yet \u2014 hopefully soon). And I gotta say, looking at the weather forecast I am not happy.\u00a0 I lived in Vancouver for over a decade, and among its many pleasures was the torrent of cherry blossoms and the t-shirt weather you’d experience in late February while the rest of the country was locked into deep freeze.<\/p>\n

Well, I’m in the rest of the country now; Toronto temperatures have been in the teens all week and are gearing up for mid-twenties next.\u00a0 And while everyone here is basking on patios? It’s gonna be rain and single-digit temperatures in Lotus Land the whole time I’m out there.<\/p>\n

This is not<\/em> the way it’s supposed to be. I swear I’d phone ahead and get them to change the dates, but everyone’s long since gone home for the weekend.<\/p>\n

Anyway, posts over the next week will probably be sporadic and brief, and I won’t be able to monitor the ongoing Bookies<\/a> race as closely as I’d like to.\u00a0 And I would<\/em> like to; interesting things have been happening over the past day or so. The Pattern Scars<\/em> had a strong 13-point lead at noon yesterday; suddenly votes started flying in for Wonder<\/em>, <\/em>and Scars’<\/em> lead had all but vanished within the hour. PS<\/em> spent the rest of the day clawing back her advantage, opening up another eight or nine-point gap by the end of the day. Then, whump<\/em>: another furious torrent of Wonder<\/em> votes starting at midnight, once again eating away all but two percent of Caitlin’s lead. It’s like some kinda BFG (or, I dunno, maybe a secret mailing list) opens fire every time The Pattern Scars <\/em>closes in on 40% of the popular vote.<\/p>\n

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Anyhow, the statistician in me is stirring. I’ve started taking regular screen grabs of the voting results, just to see if any interesting patterns emerge. Of course, I won’t be able to do that while I’m in the air. Or working. Or sleeping. So if any of you feel a strange compulsion to hit your screen-grab button and make note of the time and date, I certainly wouldn\u2019t turn down any jpegs you might send over the next week.\u00a0 Alternatively, you could just keep on voting until the end of the month; that’s way more important, in fact.\u00a0 Keep the pressure on. Keep up that slow steady current of tortoise votes against the mad hareish dashes thrown against it. Two weeks and counting.<\/p>\n

I’m off. See you on the other side.<\/p>\n

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