Dawn: I think a date should be in a real fancy restaurant, then champagne at a night club with a floor show, then ballroom dancing. Joyce: Unfortunately, we're not dating in a movie from the thirties.

'Get It Done'


Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People  

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.


sarameg - Oct 17, 2006 7:32:49 am PDT #3953 of 10001

Order values, take the one that falls in the exact middle. 20 values, you take the one that falls in the 10th place.


Jessica - Oct 17, 2006 7:33:37 am PDT #3954 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

This is awesome -- PCWorld has collected a bunch of old computer ads from YouTube and posted them in chronological order.


bon bon - Oct 17, 2006 7:34:26 am PDT #3955 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Congrats bon bon. What specifically are you searching for in regards to neurology? I might be able to help you narrow down your search.

Thanks, I googled the title of the study and was able to get it. When all else fails...google.


tommyrot - Oct 17, 2006 7:34:33 am PDT #3956 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

20 values, you take the one that falls in the 10th place.

To be very nitpicky, if you have an even number of values, you take the mean of the two middle ones. So for your example, you'd average the 10th and 11th values.


Jesse - Oct 17, 2006 7:35:38 am PDT #3957 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh, thank goodness tommyrot nitpicked before I had a chance to.

Thanks, I googled the title of the study and was able to get it. When all else fails...google.

Seriously.


sarameg - Oct 17, 2006 7:38:32 am PDT #3958 of 10001

Yeah, I tend to go with the close-enough shorthand a lot of the time because I'm usually dealing with a list of thousands and that one 0.000023 difference I don't care about. And the stupid*&#$*#! code I inherited is...well, stupid.


Allyson - Oct 17, 2006 7:40:18 am PDT #3959 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Whoot! Now bon bon's rank on the list of awesome people I know has edged up a notch.

See how I made that all about me? It's a gift.


§ ita § - Oct 17, 2006 7:42:41 am PDT #3960 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Thanks, sara. Good info.


Connie Neil - Oct 17, 2006 7:50:22 am PDT #3961 of 10001
brillig

I'm very surprised that the median age for females getting married in 1890 is so high. In my genealogy, most of the girls at that time period were married before 20.

edit: Unless that figure is counting all marriages, which includes widows remarrying.


Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 17, 2006 7:50:35 am PDT #3962 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Congrats bon bon!

I am now off to buy plastic hangers and see if I can find a usably slim light bulb that will still fit the socket of my hanging lamp.