Yes -- congratulations Jim and Penny!
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Yay for Jim and Penny!
Have fun in Toronto Sheryl. I've only been in the summer, but I liked the city quite a lot.
Best wishes, Jim and Penny!
I am *so* not drinking the water, here.
hey, what's that site where you can look up when shows are coming out on DVD?
Amazon April Fool's?
The reader reviews are hi-larious.
TV Shows On DVD, Vortex.
This (from that Salon article linked to above) made me think "aha!":
The press also downplayed references to a 2000 trial at which Schiavo's extremely conservative Roman Catholic parents conceded that even if Terri had told them she would never want to be kept alive with a feeding tube, they would not have honored that request (an acknowledgment that goes a long way toward explaining their actions in the case). For the most part, the press portrayed Schiavo's parents, Terry and the hospice protesters as simply being overly concerned and vaguely conservative. And nothing more.
The book, A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates, is real, and something of a classic in the field of cryptography and computer science, although it's somewhat obsolete nowadays.
It's notoriously difficult to produce random numbers on a computer that are truly random and unpredictable. If you were doing an experiment or some sort of encryption that required some sort of actual randomness, the book was quite useful.