Monthly Archives: July 2011

Voting in Vivint Gives Back: Conejo Valley Friendship Circle Disqualified

This is the fifth entry in a series about vote compensation in Vivint Gives Back. Here are entries one, two, three, and four. I found on rising this morning that half a dozen people had sent me the news that Conejo Valley Friendship Circle … Continue reading

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Paying for Votes in Vivint Gives Back: Video Proof, Payment Proof, An Ongoing Graph

This is the fourth entry in a series about vote compensation in Vivint Gives Back. Here are entries one, two, and three. Helen Watkinson made a video of herself completing one of the gWallet/RadiumOne Social offers on July 16th. She sent … Continue reading

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Paying for Votes in Vivint Gives Back: Emptying Out gWallet

This is my third entry about vote compensation in Vivint Gives Back. Here’s the first entry and here’s the second (which is just a graph). Vivint has all of this information in hand. I thought I’d do an exhaustive search of … Continue reading

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Voting in Vivint Gives Back: Daily Vote Totals Graph

Just a real quick one here. A poster on Phoenix Rising has been keeping a tally of votes by day. So I asked her if she’d mind throwing together a graph comparing the pattern of daily votes for the charity … Continue reading

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Paying for Votes in Vivint Gives Back

So here we are again. I had hoped never to need to write another post about cheating in a charity contest. When Vivint Gives Back started, several people asked me if I was going to be keeping an eye out … Continue reading

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Thin Thighs in 35 Years

I always wanted to have great legs. The picture at right is of my mom (center), her sisters, and me, in 1993. As you can see, my mom has great legs. Her three sisters have great legs. Their older brother … Continue reading

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