I'll be going to two political events in the next week or two. I'd like to invite you to join me, and let me know ( Read more... )

Anybody have a compact flash reader around they aren't using? I haven't seen mine since the move (is it in the garage? is it packed in Matt's basement? Or was it the One Thing left behind? I really don't know.)

I almost forgot: President Barack Obama.

You had, when you were growing up, relatives. I'm fairly sure of it, at least, I've been told you did. Some of them, you liked. Some of them, meh. There were, of course, the terrible ones worthy of telling stories, but in some ways, those are good relatives too ( Read more... )

The Open Primary is a ballot measure in Oregon whereby everyone can vote, in the primary, for anyone they want. The top two vote receivers will move on to the general ( Read more... )

The desktop I'm working on getting set up has an on-board video card. The BIOS, however, turns it off when you install an AGP card, which I'm told by the internet is non-fixable. I've got two monitors. I could go buy a card, or I could go to FreeGeek, but I figure among you geek hoarders out there, one of you has either a PCI video card, or a dual- ( Read more... )

Congress passed a bad FISA law. If you'd like to put your name on the advertisement the ACLU is taking out to protest the law, here's the site.

Waiting at a bus stop, I wondered why the cars didn't stop to pick me up ( Read more... )

I'm sorry. I know that your lives will be better without reading this. And I don't know that calling our representatives repeatedly will accomplish anything. So this description of what we, the people of the United States, through our instrument, the Government of the United States, did to people, this description of abuse that I can barely read ( Read more... )

stereotype441, chadversary and I were talking about the Math Appreciation class, and I pointed out that Bayes should be discussed. We then had a long conversation about Bayes. The useful thing was that, as a result of the conversation, I believe I can simply explain why Bayesian statistics is better than traditional statistics. This is relevant because, as Chad said, " ( Read more... )

A note, before reading this: I did not need to be told the absurdity of my venture ( Read more... )