Nouns! Nouns are your *friends*!

Really, this is a grammar rant, not a political rant.

So, BeatBushGear.com sells T-shirts and bumper stickers and whatnot, according to their ad. And they have a new line of garments for you to beat Bush with, introduced with the line:

"Hurricane Katrina is yet another example of the incompetence and callousness of the Bush administration."

NO.

If you like, The response to Hurricane Katrina is yet another example, etc. Or the lack of response. Perhaps, "The Administration's slow and fiscally corrupt response to the Katrina disaster is yet another example of its incompetence and callousness." This is the idea that is meant, but it is not in point of fact what was written.

The hurricane itself is not an example of anything about the administration. George Bush cannot make hurricanes. Gah! "Katrina is the subject of the sentence," to paraphrase Schoolhouse Rock, and it is the wrong subject for that clause.

*deep breath* Clearly, I need to get some coffee if I am getting this worked up about poor grammar in a blog ad. Coffee, and a clean data set.

Oh, the data drama continues

So I decided to see if I could find any trends in my data. I went through each trajectory and, using the highly scientific technique of Looking At It, classified it as OK, Weird, or Crazy-Ass. OK trajectories went from Point A to Point B with a minimum of wiggling. Weird trajectories took odd detours of a few meters, or had one, maybe two sharp zigzags. Crazy-Ass trajectories were exactly that.

The Excel spreadsheet is saved as Crazy Ass Trajectory Analysis.xls.

But behold, there was a pattern! For the last two data sets, where Magic Number #2 was set to 4 or 8, 10 out of 14 trajectories were OK! And, tellingly, the last guy to use this program had Magic Number #2 set to 10. (He had Magic Number #3 set to 0, though, and I want it set to something not-zero.)

So! There is a glimmer of hope on the horizon. I am taking data for Magic Number #2 = [10 15 20 25 30 35] and we will see what we will see.