The beaver is a proud and noble animal
Notes from a bemused canuck
(don’t laugh – I know it’s early and I know I ranted about it earlier, but I was asked about it a few times already)
I would like, in no particular order:
– A multi-region DVD player with HDMI connections that can do 1080p upscaling with divX playback
possibly: http://www.mrmdvd.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1045
– Star Trek DVD
– FurTV DVD Box Set
– The Boat that Rocked DVD
– a smoke box and rib rack for the BBQ
– new frying pans
– more Robert Welch kitchen knives
As a follow-up to this post, I found out why the same numbers were always coming up. It has to do with the sorting of the numbers and the distribution it produces.
In a nutshell, if you simulate 1,000,000 lottery tickets and plot the frequency of the sorted numbers at each position, you get the graph as above. Increasing the number of simulated draws just improves the normality of the distribution at each position.
Not rocket science, but still a pretty picture :)
Having Halloween displays in September? Early, but acceptable.
Having xmas displays at the same time???
Don’t get me wrong, I love xmas. I really, really do. But it really gets my goat when the displays start creeping in earlier and earlier every year. September??? I mean, come on!
I just passed a coworker in the corridor. The following conversation is verbatim:
CW: Hello
Me: Hello
CW: It could be worse.
Buh?