i'm a pixel here, myself

Just posted in a comment to estrella30:

It seems they're [the Idol producers] determined to have winners only from the South and Midwest. Is it a red-state blue-state thing? To wit:
winner, s1: Kelly (Texas), runner-up Justin (Pennsylvania -- outlier)
winner, s2: Ruben (Alabama), runner-up Clay (North Carolina)
winner, s3: Fantasia (North Carolina), runner-up Diana (Georgia)
winner, s4: Carrie (Oklahoma), runner-up Bo (Alabama)

top 4 girls, s5: Mandisa (Tennessee), Paris (Georgia), Kellie (North Carolina), Kat (California -- outlier)
top 4 guys, s5: Ace (Colorado -- outlier), Elliot (Virginia), Chris (North Carolina), Will (Texas)

Seriously, WTF? I know it's partly a function of where they hold auditions, but they had auditions in SF, Denver, Chicago, Vegas and Boston in addition to the Greensboro and Austin auditions, and where the hell are the people from those areas?

Learn me, people.

I may have mentioned before that I work with big datasets? This job I'm running is currently at 19 hours and going strong -- still at least a third of the data left to crunch. It boggles the mind, sometimes.

So there's this Remix challenge, right? And I did it last year and had a lot of fun, and when I signed up this year I said I could write SPN, so I got given an author who's done both. And obviously, given my current obsession I'm going to write SPN. But I'm reading her stories and I'm trying desperately to think of a way to remix them -- and failing. Have any of you seen my creativity? It seems to have escaped me in the night. I'd like it back, please.

( Because I feel the need to relieve myself of boredom, a Jensen picspam! )

Well, I found it. Accidentally, but I found it. The connection between Project Runway and Supernatural.

Eric Kripke [says] a lot of the philosophy for the show comes from Joseph Campbell. Guess where Dan Franco's "follow your bliss" comes from? [Joseph Campbell]. You can't make this shit up, people. You really can't.