use re.finditer for egg finding
mixed tab/spaces + trailing whitespace cleanup
string building cleanup
remove unused imports
remove introduced space
count records, not response length
disclose worker sleep factor, clarifies recs/s metric
fix stream creation

* kinesis.create_stream always returns none
* there was no call to describe in the while loop
* creation takes a while, so .5 sec polling seems too frequent
* added feedback as to stream status
Merge pull request #1 from ptoneaws/ptone-contribs

Assorted contribs