Jan 24, 2007
State of the Union
A lot of people I know are fond of playing drinking games, in particular the State of the Union drinking game. I’m not sure of all the rules, but it’s something like, take a drink whenever Republicans stand up and Democrats don’t, every time the President says or does whatever … that sort of thing.
Anyway, a few of the rules involve drinking when the President says a particular word or phrase. If you’re interested in seeing how many drinks you should have taken based on words, this handy little tool from the NY Times site will help you out. It counts how many times the president says certain words, and compares them across all other State of the Union addresses he has made. Nifty!
The rules… http://www.drinkinggame.us/
I’m really nerding out over this. Best example of information visualization I’ve seen in a long time.
Drink every time he says America
“Marge, try to understand. There are two kinds of college students — jocks and nerds. As a jock, it is my duty to give nerds a hard time.”
In other words, I’m just saying the Jif is obviously a nerd. That likes al-ke-hall.
Oh, and I’m obviously procrastinating.