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October 12, 2005

Threesies

Another meme via Red:
Three Things I Do Not Understand

  1. The enduring popularity of Will and Grace.
  2. Statistics.
  3. Why "System Of A Down" has sold a single CD.
Three Things On My Desk (Work edition)
  1. Two empty liter bottles of water.
  2. A blessedly idle telephone
  3. Clutter.
Three Things I'm Doing Right Now
  1. Dreading paying bills.
  2. Eating some soy nuts.
  3. Thinking about waking up the kids and getting the day started.
Three Things I Want To Do Before I Die
  1. Bike through Europe.
  2. Skydive.
  3. Ski (downhill).
Three Things I Can Do
  1. Learn to crank out a tune on almost any musical instrument, very quickly.
  2. Find a joke (albeit often bad, sarcastic or cutting) in almost every situation.
  3. Keep my cool when everything is falling apart.
Three Ways To Describe My Personality
  1. Impatient.
  2. From "The Far Side"
  3. Boundlessly loyal.
Three Things I Can't Do
  1. Tie a cherry stem with my tongue.
  2. Watch Gone With The Wind
  3. Work up any enthusiasm for the NBA.
Three Things I Don't Think You Should Listen To, Ever
  1. I have nothing in this category. Listen to everything - all music, all poetry, all speeches, everything you can listen to - and make up your own mind.
  2. Except "Asia", the early-eighties supergroup featuring the loathsome Steve Howe and John Wetton.
  3. And We Built this City, by "Starship".
Three Things I Say
  1. "What the f*****g f*****g f**k?"
  2. (In bad Yiddische accent, to kids) "My fingers for you to da bone I voik, and for vat? Such disrespect!". They love that, I tell ya.
  3. "It's Showtime"
Three Things I'd Like To Learn
  1. What love is all about.
  2. How to homebrew a really good stout.
  3. CSS.
Three Beverages I Drink Regularly
  1. Water
  2. Summit India Pale Ale
  3. Coffee (from Java Drive on Snelling).
Three Shows I Watched As A Kid
  1. Hogan's Heroes
  2. The Odd Couple
  3. I kid you not, Upstairs Downstairs when it was on Masterpiece Theatre with Alistair Cooke. Loved it. I also watched every epi of Alistair Cooke's America, on the first run and at least three times in rerun.
Three Things I Wish People Would Learn To Do
  1. Quit interrupting.
  2. Admit that they are not good drivers.
  3. Forgive.

Posted by Mitch at October 12, 2005 05:58 AM | TrackBack
Comments

hey, I'm no genius when it comes to statistical analysis, but I have to recommend continued efforts to gain some degree of competency in this field. One gains a much deeper understanding of the world with such an ability, and perhaps more importantly, one's b.s. detector becomes much more accurate.

Posted by: Will Allen at October 12, 2005 11:11 AM

Stats is just a complicated way to make sense of the things you count, be they people, cattle, or weather

Posted by: Marty at October 12, 2005 04:49 PM

40 percent of all statistics are wrong.

Posted by: Craig Westover at October 13, 2005 08:19 AM

"40 percent of all statistics are wrong..."

and the other 60% are made-up.

Posted by: JamesPh. at October 13, 2005 10:06 AM

System of a down is awesome and i so looooove your yiddish accent (can you sense the sarcasm)

Posted by: you know at October 13, 2005 03:54 PM

66.4% of all statistics are made up on the spot

Posted by: Ryan at October 13, 2005 09:15 PM

They say three percent of the people use 5 to 6 percent of their brain

97 percent use 3 percent and the rest go down the drain

I'll never know which one I am but I'll bet you my last dine

99 percent think with 3 percent 100 percent of the time.

STATISTICIAN'S BLUES, Todd Snider (2002)
http://www.toddsnider.net/lyrics/stats.pdf

Posted by: JamesPh. at October 13, 2005 10:34 PM

//Why "System Of A Down" has sold a single CD.//

ay frigging men.

Posted by: beth at October 21, 2005 09:58 PM
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