March 2012
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“Despite being traded to the AL, McGee had already accumulated 542 plate...”
– Willie McGee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I had no idea.
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re: Yesterday
I don’t normally give a shit about pop culture, but yesterday, I walked into a patient’s room, and saw that Chris Brown was performing at the Academy Awards. “Hmm, Rihanna must not have an older brother,” is all that I muttered.
Anybody with a younger sister knows exactly what I’m talking about.
Anonymous asked: I have a ridiculously huge crush on you...
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My Brother
msteach2all:
I get songs in my head a lot. Occasionally the origin dawns on me way after the song has solidified and it will kinda start to bug me that it keeps coming back.
All through my bedtime routine (pajamas,coffee,eyes,face,teeth,etc.) “Bicycle (3 times) I want to ride my bicycle, bicycle, bicycle I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride my bike I want to ride my bicycle I want to...
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Is the Best Travel Search Engine Around the... →
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“For the drink-maker, the Manhattan serves as both training wheels and merit...”
– The Manhattan Project - WSJ.com
My parents have been making manhattans for as long as I can remember.
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“As the marketers explained to Pole — and as Pole later explained to me, back...”
– How Companies Learn Your Secrets - NYTimes.com
This applies to pretty much everybody I know. They only buy a few items, or types of items, at Target. When they eventually decide to cut down on trips, Target is going to have much more of everybody’s money.
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You have no idea how much happiness this song...
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“6) I have the right to be taught by teachers who know how to manage the use...”
– Educational Technology Bill of Rights for Students | Digital Learning Environments
Idealistic. None of my teachers could ever figure out how to operate a VCR.
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“Every meeting must have one clear decision maker. If there’s no decision...”
– How Larry Page Changed Meetings At Google After Taking Over Last Spring
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Carpet Bagger
whatthehale:
In United States history, carpetbagger was a pejorative term Southerners gave to Northerners (also referred to as Yankees) who moved to the South during the Reconstruction era, between 1865 and 1877.
(via the Wikis, re: this)
My grandpa used this term, most frequently to describe someone who moved somewhere to which they had seemingly no connection, simply to run for office....
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“After 10-20 Years of Sitting More Than Six Hours a Day
Sitting for over six...”
– How Sitting All Day Is Damaging Your Body and How You Can Counteract It
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“But no one knows why so many runners get hurt, although a number of theories...”
– Phys Ed: Does Foot Form Explain Running Injuries? - NYTimes.com
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s because in most situations. running is simply not natural.
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Good God, Apple is going to hit 500
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“The opposite is also the case. People with dyslexia, who have a bias in favor of...”
– The Upside of Dyslexia - NYTimes.com
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“Best Practice This refers to a method or technique that delivers superior...”
– The Most Annoying, Pretentious And Useless Business Jargon - Forbes
Or as I like to say, completely fucking obvious.
Assumptions The probability of seeing a state license plate A in another state B depends on the distance between their state capitals. It is scaled by the number of licensed drivers in state A. (This indirectly means that the probability does not depend on how long we are in a state).
Seeing state license plates A, B, etc. are independent from other license plates in a given state D.
Seeing given state license plate A is independent when driving across states B, C,…
We do not adjust for round trips.
The distance between state capitals was found here. The number of licensed drivers per state is here. I estimated the odds of seeing a license plate from state A in state B is captured by this formula: P = exp(-K * (Distance from A to B in miles) / # of licensed drivers) with K = 7000 – 2000*Summer01 – 1000*ExpensiveGas01. Summer01 is 1 if it is summer break and 0 otherwise. ExpensiveGas01 is 1 if it gas is “expensive” and AAA predicts that road trips will be down and 0 otherwise
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“I don’t have credit card debt because Suze Orman advises against it, but I was...”
– Banks Taketh, but Don’t Giveth - NYTimes.com
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