I am contemplating finding that Ben Stein piece, but I probably should let it lie.

Just reading about it existing makes me fume so I think I'll not investigate further.

Here's the HuffPo piece. What you do beyond this is your business.

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Or you could watch Darth Vader playing salsa trombone instead.

Kids hope to attend party — but parents say world's going to end

Interesting... and sad.

“People look at my family and think I’m like that,” said Joseph, their 14-year-old, as his parents walked through the street fair on Ninth Avenue, giving out Bibles. “I keep my friends as far away from them as possible.”

“I don’t really have any motivation to try to figure out what I want to do anymore,” he said, “because my main support line, my parents, don’t care.”

His mother said she accepted that believers “lose friends and you lose family members in the process.”

Guh, I restarted my PC in safe mode and ran the anti-virus things, nothing. I looked for the nasty stuff, nothing. I restarted normal and BAM there it is again. I think I may have gotten rid of it now, I found registration codes to use on the bogus "purchase" page for this software it is representing, that deactivated the take-over of the computer and I could remove the process via task manager, at least I hope. hate!

I suppose that's the image I had, ita. To the extent that it's not true, I'm glad to hear that, I suppose, Even if it means I have to amend the pictures in my head from time to time. ETA: Amy, glad to hear about the wrestler, too. There is still no excuse for Stein's BS, however.

Guh, I restarted my PC in safe mode and ran the anti-virus things, nothing. I looked for the nasty stuff, nothing. I restarted normal and BAM there it is again. I think I may have gotten rid of it now, I found registration codes to use on the bogus "purchase" page for this software it is representing, that deactivated the take-over of the computer and I could remove the process via task manager, at least I hope. hate!

Oh msbelle, I have had that malware both at home and work recently. It seems to come from infected webpages. I had the same trouble with it being invisible to antivirus software. Googling led me to Malwarebytes, which has done the trick.

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I has a math/statistics question.

I am typing up the results for a survey someone did. They do not seem to be able to explain to me what they want. There is a question where they have asked the respondents to order 10 items with 1 being the one they most want and 10 being the one they least want.

Does anyone know the standard way you would show those results? My instinct is to go all preferential voting, and assign point values to each of the ranks and add them together, but that would obviously work better if 10 was high. And also, that is ten items. But the other way to do it would be to count, for each item, how many 1's, 2's 3's etc it got. But that doesn't seem helpful.

MalwareBytes is awesome. It saved my butt a couple different times.

It's cold and wet in Utah. I should not be hunting for extra blankets in mid-May. The snow in the mountains should be seriously reduced by now, but instead the snow pack is increasing. Can we say floods?

It wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't sure that in less than a month it's going to be regularly in the 90s. We need that transition, dammit.