Monthly Archives: March 2009

On Being Separate

This issue has rattled around in my brain for too long. Google provides the answer…
Separate:
1. verb
To put apart; to disunite; to divide; to make a boundary, barrier or space between; to single out from others
2. adjective
Divided from the rest; disconnected; distinct; individual; solitary; isolated  
 

Seperate:
1. nope
The second most common misspelling [...] Read more »

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Amplification of the Signal

In one of my classes we are studying signaling mechanisms in life forms (first plants, now animals). As always, there are powerful connections between the natural world and the human existence. From  Wikipedia:

In biology, signal transduction refers to any process by which a cell converts one kind of signal or stimulus into another…The number of [...] Read more »

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Spring

One thing I learned early on is that gauging weather patterns on a college campus is impossible if you are using male attire as the metric. I’d forgotten, I’m sorry to say, that we fellas don’t need much clothing, even in the dead of darkest winter. Shorts, flip-flops, wrinkled t-shirts? It must be December. Jack [...] Read more »

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Who’s In Charge Here?

 
Rich Galen, author of the wonderful Mullings, points out some finger-pointing rhetorical misdirection on the part of The One in tonight’s press conference:

The predicate to Henry’s answer was a question by CBS’ Chip Reid about the $2.3 trillion difference in the size of the debt between the Administration’s estimates and the Congressional Budget Office. "Some [...] Read more »

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Busted By The Bracket

This is my reward for picking with my heart instead of with my academically motivated, statistically driven, algorithmically programmed decision model:
 
NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament 2009

PTS
PCT(%)
RNK
PPR

270
33.35%
3086071
1420

 
These terrible numbers as of 7:27PM with games still underway. In descending order of screwed, I have been hosed by Clemson, Wake Forest, and Mississippi State. I had Clemson making it [...] Read more »

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