I should be happier
According to CareerCast.com and the Wall Street Journal, I should be one happy guy. This is because Career Cast has done a "study" to rate the best jobs, and mine…
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Panda Runner
The site Panda Runner went live over the weekend. You haven't been there yet? Now's your chance. The site is a collaboration between my number one son and his best…
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A day in the life of a statistician
24 March 2009 3:01 am. Up. Not that I want to be, but I am. I have to give a lecture at 6:30 am to a bunch of surgical residents.…
Pink horror
Why do people occasionally enjoy having the bejesus scared out of themselves by watching horror movies? Maybe it's a way to relieve stress or to recall vague, primal memories of…
Hey, Hollywood, I’ll do it for free
The Problem This relevant scene appears in an uncountable number of movies. What happens when you plunge head first through a glass window? Anybody? That's right. You die. It's you…
On tolerance
Conversation was thick at the Cigar Inn today. Mostly over lunatic James W. von Brunnm who walked into Washington, D.C.'s Holocaust museum and murdered guard Stephen T. Johns, who had…
Never too old to learn
I'm at Cornell, teaching my now-annual statistics course to a group who have come up from the city and are there enrolled in a Masters program. Cornell requires students to…
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Internet Advertising Company to Fund Itself With Advertising
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Internet Advertising Company to Fund Itself With Advertising New York - July 4, 2009 - Word leader in being a new company engaged in ways of bringing…
