I don’t want to read your blog. Just tell me how your day was.
Cartoon from USA Weekend, 27-29 January, 2006If they just knew how truthful this was… Except Mrs. Wingnut also wears glasses.
January 2006
Monthly Archive
Tue 31 Jan 2006
Tue 31 Jan 2006
Peter launched his campaign for Governor as an Independent and appeared on Almanac on 27 January, where he said that his leadership would not focus on the five G’s (Guns, Gays, God, Gambling, and Gynecology), the issues upon which we cannot agree, but on how to move the state forward, and to fix our broken government.
Sounds like someone I might want to vote for.
Tue 31 Jan 2006
It is impossible to overemphasize the immense need humans have to be really listened to, to be taken seriously, to be understood.
Dr. Paul Tournier, M.D.Tue 31 Jan 2006
In a large set of data, the frequency of the occurrence of the first digit of the numbers in the set is not evenly distributed. The number 1 turns up as the first digit about 30% of the time, more often than any other.
Dr. Benford derived a formula to explain this. If absolute certainty is defined as 1 and absolute impossibility as 0, then the probability of any number “d” from 1 through 9 being the first digit is log to the base 10 of (1 + 1/d). This formula predicts the frequencies of numbers found in many categories of statistics.
This law is being used to catch fradulent activity of all kinds. Read more at Rex Swain’s Home Page
Mon 30 Jan 2006
There’s a big difference between busy and real work.
Tom McGreal, Iowa farmerMon 30 Jan 2006
Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar WildeSun 29 Jan 2006
We grow small trying to be great.
E. Stanley Jones
