Comments on: Top Ten Occult Cities http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/ public domain playground. friendly entities welcome. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:09:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Tim Boucher http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/comment-page-1/#comment-12967 Tim Boucher Mon, 15 May 2006 18:07:08 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/#comment-12967 And if you think me writing about this is frivolous, then you ought to enjoy this full-on Reuters article about how Ireland is the "loneliest" place in the world because more people searched for the term "lonely" there than anywhere else. http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=THSMZV3DA0H4SCRBAEZSFEY?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=12205484 According to that article, it is indeed determined by where the searches originate. And if you think me writing about this is frivolous, then you ought to enjoy this full-on Reuters article about how Ireland is the “loneliest” place in the world because more people searched for the term “lonely” there than anywhere else.

http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtm...oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=12205484

According to that article, it is indeed determined by where the searches originate.

]]> By: Klintron http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/comment-page-1/#comment-12962 Klintron Sun, 14 May 2006 22:14:16 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/#comment-12962 A couple years ago I compiled some results from meetup.com's listings of popularity of certain meetups by city: http://www.technoccult.com/archives/2003/05/06/popularity-of-hobbies-by-geographic-location/ How does google trends work? is it based on where the search terms are originating? or is based on something like local media or something? A couple years ago I compiled some results from meetup.com’s listings of popularity of certain meetups by city: http://www.technoccult.com/archives/20...ty-of-hobbies-by-geographic-location/

How does google trends work? is it based on where the search terms are originating? or is based on something like local media or something?

]]> By: slomo http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/comment-page-1/#comment-12959 slomo Sun, 14 May 2006 14:54:43 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/#comment-12959 <blockquote>It appears the rankings have changed since your posting Tim.</blockquote> All this says is that the rankings are time-dependent. It would be interesting not only to normalize by population but also time-shift the data by time zone (since the time-series is almost certainly driven by work schedules).

It appears the rankings have changed since your posting Tim.

All this says is that the rankings are time-dependent. It would be interesting not only to normalize by population but also time-shift the data by time zone (since the time-series is almost certainly driven by work schedules).

]]> By: JK http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/comment-page-1/#comment-12956 JK Sun, 14 May 2006 07:55:28 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/#comment-12956 It appears the rankings have changed since your posting Tim. What's going on with Cincinnati? What's with the algorithims in "google trends" that makes search terms so damed fluid, if not fickle? To me, it's but another example of how important it is that databases not under your control must be perpetually fucked around with. Databases are shite and unworthy of their voracious consumption of humans. 1. Cincinnati United States 2. Tampa United States 3. Rochester United States 4. Dallas United States 5. Austin United States 6. Seattle United States 7. Portland United States 8. Los Angeles United States 9. St Louis United States 10. Sacramento United States It appears the rankings have changed since your posting Tim. What’s going on with Cincinnati? What’s with the algorithims in “google trends” that makes search terms so damed fluid, if not fickle? To me, it’s but another example of how important it is that databases not under your control must be perpetually fucked around with. Databases are shite and unworthy of their voracious consumption of humans.

1. Cincinnati United States

2. Tampa United States

3. Rochester United States

4. Dallas United States

5. Austin United States

6. Seattle United States

7. Portland United States

8. Los Angeles United States

9. St Louis United States

10. Sacramento United States

]]> By: JK http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/comment-page-1/#comment-12955 JK Sun, 14 May 2006 07:46:14 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/#comment-12955 The fact that Denver's not on this list makes even more perfect sense than Pittsburgh being #1. The fact that Denver’s not on this list makes even more perfect sense than Pittsburgh being #1.

]]> By: Zeno Izen http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/comment-page-1/#comment-12954 Zeno Izen Sun, 14 May 2006 06:56:43 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/#comment-12954 "I am suprised New Orleans was not on the list. Even after Katrina I thought there would still be a large occult population." I think New Orleans might be secretly anti-internet. Or anti-something. God knows they can hardly support their bookstores. There is a large occult population in NOLA. Huge, really. Not at all like in the movies. A lot of it is pure tourist hogwash. But there's also a great deal of true form voodoo. And my own half-ass magic seemed to work a lot better down there. But then, the backlash was also equally strong. All my money spells seemed to be financed by ME losing the exact SAME amount of money just a month later. “I am suprised New Orleans was not on the list. Even after Katrina I thought there would still be a large occult population.”

I think New Orleans might be secretly anti-internet. Or anti-something. God knows they can hardly support their bookstores.

There is a large occult population in NOLA. Huge, really. Not at all like in the movies. A lot of it is pure tourist hogwash. But there’s also a great deal of true form voodoo. And my own half-ass magic seemed to work a lot better down there. But then, the backlash was also equally strong. All my money spells seemed to be financed by ME losing the exact SAME amount of money just a month later.

]]> By: Ant http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/comment-page-1/#comment-12953 Ant Sun, 14 May 2006 03:48:30 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/#comment-12953 WEIRD. That's pretty much where I'm from. :) WEIRD. That’s pretty much where I’m from. :)

]]> By: Fell http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/comment-page-1/#comment-12950 Fell Sat, 13 May 2006 19:51:57 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/#comment-12950 Weird, I was doing the same thing and was reviewing the countries. India came up number one, though that also has to do with their massive population. It'd be more interesting to find numbers per capita. Pittsburgh, though, eh? Weird, I was doing the same thing and was reviewing the countries. India came up number one, though that also has to do with their massive population. It’d be more interesting to find numbers per capita.

Pittsburgh, though, eh?

]]> By: Citizen Candy Cane http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/comment-page-1/#comment-12946 Citizen Candy Cane Sat, 13 May 2006 16:22:15 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/#comment-12946 I am suprised New Orleans was not on the list. Even after Katrina I thought there would still be a large occult population. Or what about San Francisco? So many interesting stores of people there it boggles my little mind. I am suprised New Orleans was not on the list. Even after Katrina I thought there would still be a large occult population. Or what about San Francisco? So many interesting stores of people there it boggles my little mind.

]]> By: nico http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/comment-page-1/#comment-12935 nico Sat, 13 May 2006 03:30:00 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/#comment-12935 Just to add to what Allison said about the south.... Maybe Miami is topping Seattle b/c of the large Haitian population there. Haitians are notoriously stereotyped for occult practices - Vodou. There are other Caribbean/Latino populations there involved in Santeria and so forth. Between the heat, the sin, the occult, and the sex that presumably runs amok down here it's surely "evil." When I was living down there, one church minister said that Miami was the home of "Babylon the Great." Just to add to what Allison said about the south….

Maybe Miami is topping Seattle b/c of the large Haitian population there. Haitians are notoriously stereotyped for occult practices - Vodou. There are other Caribbean/Latino populations there involved in Santeria and so forth. Between the heat, the sin, the occult, and the sex that presumably runs amok down here it’s surely “evil.” When I was living down there, one church minister said that Miami was the home of “Babylon the Great.”

]]> By: Jennifer Emick http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/comment-page-1/#comment-12932 Jennifer Emick Sat, 13 May 2006 02:18:56 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/#comment-12932 Pittsburgh I can't explain, but I do know that Austin has a large occult community. otherwise, I think Allison has the right idea. Pittsburgh I can’t explain, but I do know that Austin has a large occult community. otherwise, I think Allison has the right idea.

]]> By: Allison http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/comment-page-1/#comment-12930 Allison Sat, 13 May 2006 01:42:16 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/#comment-12930 Call me a big fat stereotyper, but there are a lot of southern cities on the upper half of that list, and what I can't help but envision is a lot of very superstitious Christians filled with intense and deeply instilled fears about the "dangers of the occult" researching 'the enemy' as part of spiritual warfare. Anyone who had the same misfortune as I, of watching a certain "dark-sided" episode of Trading Spouses (the only episode I ever watched, I swear. It was an accident), might have the same mental picture going on that I do right now. Call me a big fat stereotyper, but there are a lot of southern cities on the upper half of that list, and what I can’t help but envision is a lot of very superstitious Christians filled with intense and deeply instilled fears about the “dangers of the occult” researching ‘the enemy’ as part of spiritual warfare.

Anyone who had the same misfortune as I, of watching a certain “dark-sided” episode of Trading Spouses (the only episode I ever watched, I swear. It was an accident), might have the same mental picture going on that I do right now.

]]> By: Joshua H http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/comment-page-1/#comment-12928 Joshua H Sat, 13 May 2006 00:11:19 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/#comment-12928 Miami actually makes perfect sense to me, given the Santeria community is fairly large there. Miami actually makes perfect sense to me, given the Santeria community is fairly large there.

]]> By: slomo http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/comment-page-1/#comment-12926 slomo Fri, 12 May 2006 23:33:27 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/#comment-12926 <blockquote>Did you write that as a comment before or after my most recent post?</blockquote> Before... But I guess I can see how it applies. I picked up that saying in college in the 80s....

Did you write that as a comment before or after my most recent post?

Before… But I guess I can see how it applies.

I picked up that saying in college in the 80s….

]]> By: Tim Boucher http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/comment-page-1/#comment-12924 Tim Boucher Fri, 12 May 2006 22:54:15 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/#comment-12924 <blockquote>“Those who know don’t tell, those who tell don’t know…..”</blockquote> Did you write that as a comment before or after my <a href="http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/words-are-meaningless-and-forgettable/" rel="nofollow">most recent post</a>?

“Those who know don’t tell, those who tell don’t know…..”

Did you write that as a comment before or after my most recent post?

]]> By: slomo http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/comment-page-1/#comment-12922 slomo Fri, 12 May 2006 22:26:46 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/#comment-12922 "Those who know don't tell, those who tell don't know....." * tell = google-search?? “Those who know don’t tell, those who tell don’t know…..”

* tell = google-search??

]]> By: Tim Boucher http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/comment-page-1/#comment-12921 Tim Boucher Fri, 12 May 2006 22:19:11 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/#comment-12921 Well, maybe it's a better depiction of cities with people who have the most hunger for this sort of thing because they don't have access to it in real life? I don't know. There's also a remote possibility, I suppose, that my living in Pittsburgh for two years and writing almost full time for this website skewed the results in our favor... Well, maybe it’s a better depiction of cities with people who have the most hunger for this sort of thing because they don’t have access to it in real life? I don’t know.

There’s also a remote possibility, I suppose, that my living in Pittsburgh for two years and writing almost full time for this website skewed the results in our favor…

]]> By: Aditi http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/comment-page-1/#comment-12920 Aditi Fri, 12 May 2006 21:59:34 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/12/top-ten-occult-cities/#comment-12920 It doesn't make any sense that Miami would top Seattle in this listing. Nor Austin. Having recently lived in Austin, I know that while it has a nice little smattering of different groups, it is nothing like what can be found in Seattle. It doesn’t make any sense that Miami would top Seattle in this listing. Nor Austin. Having recently lived in Austin, I know that while it has a nice little smattering of different groups, it is nothing like what can be found in Seattle.

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