The EIC of the otolaryngology journal sent an email about 6 months ago, using lots of all-caps and bold font (and possibly even highlighted font) saying that if ANY editor asked an author to provide P values, he wanted to be alerted IMMEDIATELY. (Apparently P values aren't as important as the hard data, which I understand, but the clear implication is that if any of the peon editors are stupid enough to ask for them, heads will roll.)

I'm glad that I never have to meet these EICs, because overall they come across like giant dicks. (The EIC of the dermatology is famous for loathing the freelance staff -- JUST the freelance staff -- and no one will tell me why. But the one time I had an email exchange with her, it was quite pleasant. Maybe she didn't realize I was a freelancer.)

We had some 1-inch sized hail here, and briefly lost power. Long enough for all the clocks to go wonky, but short enough that it took me longer to reset the clocks than the actual outage.

I am the editor of a journal and I have to look things up in our style manual all the dang time.

Casper is en route to the Jr. High Twilight Ball. She went with 5 friends (in 2 cars), all girls, all of whom were in short girly dresses. She is wearing a blazer and pants and just seemed so not confident and I am going to worry about her all night.

Aw, Casper. I hope she has a good time.

ETA: Excel just crashed on me. I think I will take it as a sign to just go home already.

You go, Casper! I hope she has loads of fun.

Tep, what's a P value?

Tep, what's a P value?

It's a value that indicates whether the probability of a given hypothesis is true.

The p value of me finding Chris Evans hot is ONE ZILLION PERCENT.

So, I had a split second reaction of explaining how that's not possible. Because there's always a little part of me that is indeed That Guy.

But I caught myself, and I'ma just say Awwww hell YEAH C Evans!

Timelies all!

Am at the con. The trip was pretty much uneventful, which is good.

Huzzah for the uneventful trip!

Huzzah for laws-of-probability-shattering hotness of C Evans!

I should be using my remaining daylight to weed the front yard but I don't want to so I ain't. The end.