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clothing rant
So, most of my work clothes come from Ann Taylor Loft. I am, in general, a big fan of their clothes. Here is the problem. At first, I thought it was really cool that they always included extra buttons with their clothes. How kind of them to be so thoughtful ( Read more... ) -
pandora observation
I think it's hilarious that in the midst of a string of really great songs, Pandora decides to play me "The Macarena." *facepalm*
Recent Pandora finds:- Matro Station - Shake It
- Shock Stars - Butterfly
- Tim Seely - Funeral Music
- Jonezetta - Get Ready (Hot Machete) (It's very catchy, but the lyrics are nonsense. It's a dance anthem, and the chorus ( Read more... )
- Matro Station - Shake It
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via a friend on facebook
Proof that the founding fathers did not consider the US a Christian Nation. See Article 11, and note at the top that this document was presented by John Adams in 1797.
For those too lazy to click the link, this is Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli, relevant text bolded: As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, ( Read more... ) -
a quote that explains exactly how I feel
From a commenter on this metafilter thread (thanks quigonejinn), emphasis mine.
I wish we could separate religious marriage from legal unions. Give people all the rights and benefits of marriage, but make the religious aspect something akin to baptism or confirmation: a ritual that has no ramifications outside that religion. Then people could discriminate ( Read more... ) -
question about constitutional amendments . . .
Is the California process weird? I thought that in most states you needed at least 60% of the vote for a constitutional amendment to pass. Is it 50% in CA? -
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So everyone was excited to see Ohio and some other states go blue . . . but why is nobody excited about Indiana??? (OK, I know, we have only 11 electoral votes, but still.) Indiana voted democrat for the first time in 44 years. Woohoo!
(Still at 99% reporting, and Obama only ahead by about 30,000, but it's been called everywhere.)
I'm still ( Read more... ) -
math/engineering/physics gurus, I need your help
I'm trying to understand a section of a paper. They're talking about the signal generated by a photomultiplier tube when photons from fluorescence are coming into it. The sentence says, "Since the number of photo-electrons ultimately captured by the PMT is finite, the signal quantitation is stochastic with a variance governed by the Poisson ( Read more... ) -
political misc
- I think it is frightening that saying Obama's plans will "spread the wealth" is considered negative campaigning. I thought the appeal of living in a prosperous country was that we could all share in the prosperity -- but apparently that makes me a socialist, and therefore Un-American. (WTF.)
- There is this ridiculous anti-Obama ad running on TV out ( Read more... )
- I think it is frightening that saying Obama's plans will "spread the wealth" is considered negative campaigning. I thought the appeal of living in a prosperous country was that we could all share in the prosperity -- but apparently that makes me a socialist, and therefore Un-American. (WTF.)
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funny typo of the day
From comments on the latest PhD comics which was about academic salaries and points out some discrepancies between men's and women's salaries . . . Someone started talking about the "sex ration."
