The Happy Moron

…tastes better than any other kind of porridge.
But if it *does* boil over in the microwave, you have to clean it up.

It’s time to learn why you can’t trust anything on the internet.
Today we’re going to dive into the world of statistics and have a look at Selection Bias. And because we’re talking about the internet, we’re going to demonstrate the principle of selection bias by looking at Blaxploitation films on IMDB.
I’ve listed below the ratings [...]

Thanks, Oracle.
“Deploying coherent packages of software functionality as loosely coupled, coarse-grained services delivers dramatically improved application flexibility, allowing enterprises to continuously adapt constellations of services to keep IT capabilities aligned with business goals.”
If I ever want to “continuously adapt constellations of services”, I’ll let you know.

I even dug some out of my couch the other day!

My chances of being invited to parties have just tanked.
I’ve discovered Legistics.
When you think about the fight for clarity and the disambiguation of language, the legal folks are truly champions of the cause.
I’m off to fight the good fight of avoiding the usage of “comprise” (use “composed of” or “consists of”) and “notwithstanding” (use the [...]

While I was not as far behind as I am now behind.

Good stuff.

From the Word of the Day that I keep on my whiteboard:
WOTD: affect(process)/effect(state)
The best way to have an effect is to affect someone. (We all need a little affection)
If you verb the ‘e’ word, you are evil. Verbing words is evil.
“Do you wish to effect change?” (this means “bring about an effect“ – correct but [...]

“Joke or not, I now recognize that what I did was a mistake and was wrong,” Arenas said. “I should not have brought the guns to D.C. in the first place, and I now realize that there’s no such thing as joking around when it comes to guns — even if unloaded.”
You can use that [...]

At Save on Foods, the clerks carry knives. They carry them on their belts, hung in little pouches, nestled in among the pens and little notepads.
Knives.
I saw one clerk there who had a dark green apron fastened beneath a broad black belt. The cloth hung like a tunic; he looked like a retail Robin Hood, [...]