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I’m kind of annoyed by all the so-called intelligence tests that keep popping up on Facebook. Most of these tests cover topics like celebrities, TV shows and movies, music, etc. – essentially topics involving entertainment and popular media in US culture. There are several things about these ‘tests’ that annoy me:
Entertainment is a stupid metric for an intelligence [...]
Well, that went well. I took my GREs again this past Saturday, since my previous set of scores had exceeded their shelf-life by about a year. It took me about three hours to complete the exam, which is actually about an hour longer than I expected it to take (of course, I hadn’t expected to [...]
My previous set of GRE General Test scores exceeded their five-year limit this past April, so in order to go back to grad school and start work on a Ph.D. in Statistics, I need to retake the exam and generate a fresh set of scores. This actually isn’t as bad a thing as it might [...]
I’ve got to say that my site’s stats from yesterday alone make my numbers from the rest of the month look paltry by comparison – nearly 1000 hits yesterday, mostly directed at my BlueSands WordPress theme. The next closest day this month is around 140 hits. Quite the margin of difference. Of course, it helps that I [...]
“The real test of Halo’s power will be this fall when we see how well Halo 3 moves Xbox 360 consoles.”
No, the real test of halo’s power will be figuring out how many Xbox 360s have already been moved because of Halo 3, in addition to how many are moved when it releases this fall. [...]
I’ve just quite a bit of material to write about, all of it stacking up in the queue. Most of it right now has to do with theology and philosophy and the like, some of it has to do with writing, and some to do with gaming. All of it requires a clear head to [...]
No offense to those of you that do these, but Quizilla quizzes are hardly reliable or valid. I suppose that they can be fun, but the statistician in me absolutely rebels at these things, thus ruining all the fun. I’ve tried running through a few over the last few months, and inevitably I end up [...]
Men Pay the Ultimate Price to Attract Women – Yahoo! News
Personally, I like this part:
“Women live longer in almost every country, and the sex difference in lifespan has been recognized since at least the mid-18th century,” said Daniel Kruger at the University of Michigan. “It isn’t a recent trend; it originates from our deep evolutionary history.”
So, what, an observation of [...]
I was asked yesterday about joining the office lottery pool. From what I understand, everyone pitches in a couple of bucks a week, and then our secretary goes and buys everyone a lottery ticket. The winner (should anyone happen to do so) then acquires a little extra cash and a few bragging rights.
I decline the opportunity [...]