Kind of like Ryan's forward regarding the work ethic of our congresspeople...which, if you didn't receive, you need to hit him up for. Simply FAN-tastic.
So, Laurie is well acquainted with my love for the SNL song "My **** in a box!" Turns out some folks at Johns Hopkins in the dept. of statistics or somesuch came up with another version, regarding interquartile range (IQR). Even though I have only the slightest grasp what IQR means, it appeals to my supremely nerdy/geeky side. Here 'tis:
As it happens, the woman behind that brilliance also came up with a rip-off of MC Hammer's "Too Legit" called "Too Logit." SO cool! No video to go with it, but the lyrics are here, and there's a link from that page to the .mp3 file.
I was finally spurred to post because of this article from Time, entitled "The Kitchen Stinks." Some of my favorite excerpts:
I care about the environment as much as anyone else. If the environment wasn't looking where it was going and was about to get hit by a car, I'd yell, "Hey, environment, watch out!"
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I realize our planet has limited resources and Chinese people want cars and all this is making our planet warmer for reasons I'm pretty sure I understood when I left the Al Gore movie and have no idea about now and am not nearly interested enough in to watch that Al Gore movie again.
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People were living in communes, crocheting their own Rasta hats and conserving office electricity by not getting a job long before they knew it was preventing global warming. So don't pretend that some of this environmentalism isn't about pushing a lifestyle. Somewhere someone is arguing that carbon emissions are somehow reduced by jam bands.
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And this, from MSNBC's "News of the Weird," passed on because the Pottstown Mercury is practically my hometown paper:
Questionable Judgments: Jason Fife was sentenced to probation and community service after harassing his estranged wife's boyfriend with a special package delivery. Fife, said his lawyer, now "understands that in a civilized society, a person cannot send (someone) a severed cow's head ...." [Pottstown Mercury, 1-8-08]
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As for life, well, it's been crazy busy with school. Things look to relax a bit after tomorrow evening around 8pm, and will only crank up again briefly about another week from that. Then it should be smooth sailing through the end of the semester.
We CAN'T WAIT for KY and camping with the DeYoungs...I could really use a little communing with nature, and I'm psyched to see how Cae handles the great outdoors. Little dude spends roughly 40% of his time out in the fresh air with his tongue hanging out so he can feel the breeze--this down from about 90% when he first discovered his tongue. Maybe he'll be the catalyst that gets my latent crunchy outdoorsy interests kicked into a slightly higher gear. Here's hopin'!
In other news, I've received the O-fficial word from BYU that I've been accepted to their program for the summer. Word from the Feds regarding whether I'll need to incur debt to attend will come roughly a month from now, so prayers along that vein would be appreciated. Thankfully I've been too busy thinking about other stuff to really worry about it much.
Alrighty, bed time for Timmay!
Oh, wait...one last video, of my friend Rob performing in a Beninese music video. By law, 60% of Beninese TV content has to be locally-produced. There's not a whole lot of capital out there to create original programming, so this means that of 3 local TV stations in the entire country, two are dedicated full-time to music videos, and one alternates music vids with the news. My buddy Rob is the white guy drumming and lip-synching, while the three white girls are another missionary girl and the two current FBers.
Penultimate but not least, here's a halfway decent article by OSC regarding the whole Obama-Rev. Wright issue. I'm glad to see his hardcore conservative streak didn't prevent him from saying a lot of really good stuff about the situation...but then his rabid anti-Hillary streak came out, and he becomes guilty of the sort of one-sided sneering and intellectual dishonesty of which he accused her. Anyway, it's pretty good, and short.
Finally, if you've not seen the blog Anna threw up for Cae, check it out at CaedmonsWorld.blogspot.com -- lots of pictures, videos she's taken, etc.
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Thanks for the video... IQR isn't that hard to explain and understand. It's really a middle or high school statistics topic but often gets missed because of stupid state tests and curriculum guides whose success rate determines how much money a school gets to do its job. I don't think the college students are actually learning about box and whisker plots, just that their data is displayed that way?
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