Stuff That Interests Me
Stim
- Location
- Chicago, Illinois,
- Birthday
- January 09
- Bio
- Born in Iowa. Then some other stuff happened.
MY RECENT POSTS
- It Was 20 Years Ago Today
May 30, 2012 12:01PM - The Nutritionist
April 23, 2012 12:25PM - No Pulitzer for Fiction? What
Kind of Story is That?
April 17, 2012 10:53AM - Now a Word from Our Sponsors
April 09, 2012 02:52AM - What Would You Do With $540
Million? Now Updated.
March 29, 2012 11:54AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “phyllis - Thank you. The
wedding details actually came
off as
we
planned.
Lea -
Y…”
11:48AM - “I'm so sorry and deeply
empathize with you. Our furry
friends
leave us too
soon…”
5:55PM - “h-Julie -
thanks.
Out on a limb
- mixing it up, like chocolate
and
peanut
butter.…”
5:33PM - “There was the ongoing
mystery as to where the hell
was The
Squirrel's
restaurant.…”
5:29PM - “I still carry the scars
from the Fortran class I
attempted in
college. We used
[…”
5:09PM
Stim's Links
- Other Things to Read
- 45s and Under
- Heavy Early
I've never been wrong in predicting the winner of Dancing With The Stars. Ok, so I only started predicting last season. The point is that I developed the
DWTS Overthinking System, which correctly predicted Shawn Johnson winning Season 8.
Based on the results of past seasons, the Ov… Read full post »
Move over, Nate Silver. There's a new forecaster in town.
About five days before Season 8 of Dancing with the Stars began, I wrote a post called Know the Winner Through Over-Thinking. As my two readers may (probably not) remember, I presented my criteria for predicting… Read full post »
I know who the new champion of Dancing With The Stars will be. I state this with all the self-confidence of a Tom Friedman predicting events in Iraq.
I don’t pretend to know the first thing about dancing, much less ballroom dancing. I did take a ballroom dancing class for… Read full post »

I took the above photo in early October while on safari in Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve.
I'm not even a quasi-knowledgable amateur on cheetahs. My guess is that the cubs were 4 months old or less. I'm basing the guess on that they were mostly spott… Read full post »
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