Sunday, October 19, 2014
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Yes, Virginia, that is statistically relevant
I wonder how many of the remaining Bush-stole-the-2000-election die-hards* would admit that maybe those interesting IRS revelations aren't anecdotal anymore.
* Florida recount
* Florida recount
Friday, December 27, 2013
Toxoplasma gandhi
I read about a parasite that supposedly causes people to like cats, and was thinking about how some people inexplicably exalt others in spite of all evidence that they shouldn't, and my subconscious couldn't help itself.
Sunday, December 8, 2013
“Chess is mental torture” - Garry Kasparov, who beat me to it
“There just isn't enough televised Chess ” - David Letterman
“We don’t really know how the game was invented, though there are
suspicions. As soon as we discover the culprits, we’ll let you know”
- Bruce Pandolfini
I play chess when somebody, usually one of my children,begs asks me to. If chess is life, then I think of it as life in a straight jacket.
My favorite middle child went 3-0-1 in his chess tournament yesterday. Yay Wolfie! Don't get a big head. Now go do your chores. Love you!
“We don’t really know how the game was invented, though there are
suspicions. As soon as we discover the culprits, we’ll let you know”
- Bruce Pandolfini
I play chess when somebody, usually one of my children,
My favorite middle child went 3-0-1 in his chess tournament yesterday. Yay Wolfie! Don't get a big head. Now go do your chores. Love you!
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Like a good neighbor
Surfing brought me to this article from Britain, describing a murder-suicide of a father and his two small boys. Here's a snippet:
Miss Dodman was woken at about 5am by a loud thud on her bedroom wall, which was next to the boys’ room.
She said: “I could hear the older boy screaming, ‘what are you doing to me?’ It was exceptionally clear and he must have done it four or five times.”
She said there were a series of little bangs on the wall and screams which sounded like the older boy “flailing about”.
Miss Dodman said: “The little boy, who was scared, was crying – I don’t know how to describe it. The older boy’s scream was very loud.
“I just can’t really describe it, my stomach just clenched and I thought that’s not right.”
Miss Dodman said she thought the screaming had gone on for about an hour in the early hours of August 30 last year before she fell asleep.
HUH!?!? That last sentence really threw me. I had to read it twice more to be sure. RTWT.
Add it the the Anti-Hero of the Year list along with the seven witnesses of this, and the several men who watched this happen. The examples are endless.
Just... wow.
Miss Dodman was woken at about 5am by a loud thud on her bedroom wall, which was next to the boys’ room.
She said: “I could hear the older boy screaming, ‘what are you doing to me?’ It was exceptionally clear and he must have done it four or five times.”
She said there were a series of little bangs on the wall and screams which sounded like the older boy “flailing about”.
Miss Dodman said: “The little boy, who was scared, was crying – I don’t know how to describe it. The older boy’s scream was very loud.
“I just can’t really describe it, my stomach just clenched and I thought that’s not right.”
Miss Dodman said she thought the screaming had gone on for about an hour in the early hours of August 30 last year before she fell asleep.
HUH!?!? That last sentence really threw me. I had to read it twice more to be sure. RTWT.
Add it the the Anti-Hero of the Year list along with the seven witnesses of this, and the several men who watched this happen. The examples are endless.
Just... wow.
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