watertiger!!!

hey folks — watertiger is unable to be with us tonight. ya’ll will have to put up with me i’m afraid.

Filthy Labradors!

Paging Rick Santorum!

U go SC.

Yay! Hi Suzanne!

hi teddy — last i heard she was still being searched by tsa while switching planes

WT! This will probably be every bit as effective in stopping terrorism as the 1937 Marihuana Tax act was at curbing drug use. Of course I have to ask if the required registrants will also include Xtianists, militia types, White Supremacists, and radical anti-abortionists. Seems to me that a certain Mr.Rudolph is believed to have hid out in parts of the state.

Can we now agree that California is no longer the craziest state? These people in SC are loons.

i forking love the graphic up top

Wonder if that had anything to do with threatening douchemooks with grievous bodily harm in the security line?

Until they one up Prop 13, you’re still it.

she *is* from new york city

Oh, darn. :)

It is getting to be a very tight race, however. Have to say that my native state of Oklahoma is quietly moving up on the inside, along with Texas.

Arizona is giving them a run for the money. Our governor doubts that global warming is real. She is stupid.

Jenny Sanford is beneath contempt.
I’d have spent lotsa time hiking too.

Howdy, pups.

chain gang

OK sent Tom Coburn and James Inhoffe to the Senate.

Hey, BCT!

Where I would like to send the entire Republican Party as a ongoing criminal enterprise.

Your current government was the compelling reason for President Obama to leave Napolitano in place. We here in NM said, “That’s a big mistake,” when BHO named her to head Homeland Security.

And can we pretty, pretty please change the name of that Department to something less Fascistic than DHS?

Aww, Do we have to…? ;-)

You beat me to it.

How loathsome to miss the “inmate” help, so unapologetically. But Mr. Sanford will probably feel the same way once deposed from the mansion.

What a pair. Blergh.

TDS tonight has a really great take on clueless Republicans in the Central Pacific.

It makes one wonder exactly what sort of help she was gettin’ from the inmates, y’know?

What’s sauce for the goose…?

I’m still fighting with Blackboard and with my undergrads. We haven’t reached the end of the first period yet, but Blackboard’s ahead on riding time…

Heh – you’re thinking with your trombone, you lout!*g*

Paging Linda Lingle…!

Y’think mebbe she was gettin’ a differnt gander’s sauce?

LL is a GOoPer herself, isn’t she?

How the hell did that happen?

After Ben Cayetano and a series of bad Dem Guvs… We thought it would be refreshing to see a new look…! I’ll take the bad now…!

Oh dear. I haven’t had any problems lately, but we are using an earlier version, I think. Students have generally been behaving themselves as well. Have to see after Friday, which is the first test in my intro class.

Could Tommy Lee please come to DeeCee and kick McConnell’s arse?

Oh, and Dawg, come to DeCee and kick Rethug arse until we all get Hawaiian Health Care.

Problem is that the modern Republicans don’t do governance. Bad governance is better than no governance.

My students aren’t reading the textbook.

I’m thinking about requiring them to do a Balkboard [sic] posting on, “Three things I learned from the textbook that Dr. BCT didn’t discuss in lecture.”

I’ve been thinking…

Instead of raising money for candidates, we should raise it for technology. MIND READING technology.

So we would know exactly what sort of candidate we were supporting and how they’d act after they were in office.

But talk and tarot cards remain cheap so here we are!

Heh, we were fervently hoping McCain would’ve picked her as his Veep…! I’ll tell ya tho, she’s a lot smarter than Caribou Barbie, just not as telegenic…! ;-)

I deal with it in intro by telling them the first day that half the questions on the test come from the book and half from the lecture. In my upper division classes I have them do a weekly reading journal over that week’s assigned readings that is posted on Blackboard. Has been working pretty well so far.

Doubly disqualified then.

When my son was in his early teens, we had a problem with him and self-fulfilling prophecies. We got him past it by telling him that the fact that he thought he couldn’t do it didn’t matter, he had to do it anyway.

Why in the world we would ever elect someone whose core beliefs say, “Government is incapable of doing anything useful,” to high office is beyond me. It’s not like we-the-sovereign-sheepul have the sort of levers that my wife and I had over our son.

Sadly, the American people by and large do not do logic and the Republicans use government as an ATM for their wealthy donors and friends.

Anthro texts tend to be more readable than statistics texts, I’m sad to say. The text I’m using was picked by last year’s students, and it’s actually pretty readable in absolute terms. As statistics texts goes, it’s the second best I’ve ever seen. (The very best I’ve seen doesn’t cover all the topics I need to hit.)

Well, I see the usual suspects are in fine form tonight … *g*

If they ever convict Gov. Sanford of misusing state funds to visit his mistress will he get assigned dog washing duty?

I fear you are right there, though not by much. I actually liked stats 30 some years ago.

Aloha, Dood…! How’s the Great White North…? ;-)

WTF is your problem with “the usual suspects”?

Hey CT … how’s life in paradise ?

We got a bit of snow … not as much as DC, though. Vancouver is freaking cuz it’s warm enough for Shorts, and the Winter Olympics start tomorrow.

*aargh* I hated statistics…! Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics…!

Oops, guess I’ve been spending too much time in the Seminal comments.

My bad.

How’s life?

*sitting up quickly* hello mr boss man — how ya doing tonight sir?

Ay, ah you talkin’ to me ? Ah you talkin’ to me ?

ROFL … RBG !!!

Yeah, a bit of choppy seas there.

You have a bit of a job, neh? Slack = cut.

Afraid I have to side with Muammar al-Gaddafi, I will boycott the Olympics until they ban bull fighting.

Which diary were ya reaming some fool on…? ;-)

Time for me to toddle off. Have to inflict some pain on the youngin’s in the morning with a test. Take care all.

We have two problems with textbooks. The first is a NAS report on Statistics Education that dates to the 1950s. It recommended a syllabus that was codified in Dixon and Massey’s textbook.

The approach amounted to a mathematical statistics course without the math and not much in the way of statistics, either. The focus was on computation, less on cognitive understanding. Every textbook from that time up to about 1994 (with one notable exception) followed that syllabus. I didn’t realize how bad things were until a colleague came in to my office with a new examination copy of a textbook, and said, “Betcha can’t name the chapters in order…” I did, without seeing the text.

The second problem is the publisher’s insistence on killing the used book market. They come out with new editions every 3 years or so, but nothing really changes except the problem sets.

I had an epiphany a couple of years ago when I realized that while I wasn’t literally reading the textbook to my students, I was covering precisely the same topics in the same order with the same notation. Now I’m picking the key things to lecture on, having them read the rest of the stuff in the text, and having them operationalize what they’ve learned with data analysis projects.

Pretty dang well and thanks for asking

I’m thinking it’s time to take off the swamp boots though.

The problem isn’t that statistics lie, it’s that liars can use statistics.

DADT

G’nite Sir !

g’nite dr (pause) dick

And who are the usual suspects?

g’nite really big guy — enjoy

Okay Buddy, that comment was laden with sexual innuendos … either that or Kelly has ruined my mind ! *g*

Oof, just as potent as I/P…! ;-)

I don’t see an Eyetalian suppository anywhere in that thing.

Left to me, I’d prefer if I had ruined your mind. *g*

Aloha, Dr.D…!

LOL … didja get much snow ?

Being a Poly Sci Statistics course, I’d fully concur with that thesis…! ;-)

How is this any different from states that require a tax stamp for pot?
Anyone who can be charged with a terrorist act will automatically be looking at 10 years. Not really stupid, Just a big club for the DA to force people (even innocent people) to plead guilty or risk a long prison stay.

Not even a big club, Surtt.

A leetle beety club that the DAs and AG are going to ignore entirely.

Rule Number Zero of Discipline Names:

Anything that has to call itself a science, isn’t.

Jeebus … 10 years in South Carolina ?

The terrists might prefer Gitmo …

That makes me want to track down the book we used in my class, and see if it’s one of them. (With luck, I don’t still have it.)

Just a little bit Monday. It’s actually been quite nice the last 2 days – upper 40s.

Dumb for Feb here in CO. Should be cold, but there’s no global warming and stuff, yanno?

where getting to wash the gov’s dirty labradors is considered ‘good’ or ‘easy’ time

Note to Self: First thing tomorrow, return “The Science of Love” to Chapters.

When did you take the course?

Only 40 minutes left until Larue arrives to claim the last 25 comments. :-)

LOL!

The fact that it isn’t a science doesn’t mean it’s useless. Just means it’s tryin’ to put on airs.

Or is that, give me gas?

Damn. If there’s going to be a usual suspects list, I gottta be on it,,,

‘evenin’, all.

Suz ! Jon was so tempted, when Jenny said that.

Anything that has to call itself a science, isn’t.

Ding! If it’s a science, it doesn’t need the nametag.

LMAO ! Ratfood is swingin’ for the fences …

Dammit man, you’re our the ring leader !

Thanks, that was just the perfect comment I needed to end yet another loverly day at the Lake. :)

I’ve never seen the movie “The Usual Suspects” but I was just reading a review and it sounds worth checking out, however Stephen (fucking born-again) Baldwin is in it, so I don’t know if I can force myself to watch.

The fact that it isn’t a science doesn’t mean it’s useless. Just means it’s tryin’ to put on airs.

Remember that comment! Someday we’ll argue about music, which is not a science, but certainly needs it’s technical side explored; and that side of the musical house certainly has no ‘airs’ upon which to put!

Happy to be of service. :-)

Me either. I had forgotten about that one. I always think of Casablanca: “Round up the usual suspects!”

You betcha! (wink)

The few acoustics engineers I’ve met don’t call what they do a science. One of them said that the math gives them a starting point that has to be refined in real time.

If my old teacher’s response to the new-ish Disney Center in LA is any indication, that’s still true. The brass players seem to uniformly hate the place.

The title is attributed to that line. Loves me some Claude Raines.

Heh, as he starts answering each one from the beginning…!

*looking around* i think the bossman has left

grabbing coffee cup, lowering the seatback on the modchair, exhaling.. whew

I don’t know, man. If my biggest success as an actor was playing second banana to Pauly Shore in Bio-dome, I might give my life to Jesus too.

Or at least spend a significant chunk of the remainder begging forgiveness.

Whatcha got on tap for LLN…? ;-)

Btw, Gnome de Plume is in your neck of the woods, Suz, visiting her Sis…!

i got a rare treat tonight ct — a duo most have not seen in decades. i did not know that ct

Did you see the interview with Alec Baldwin when he said something to the effect of, “I love my brother Stephen but sometimes when we go to a restaurant for lunch he’ll look up from his soup and say something like, ‘You know everybody in here is going to Hell, don’t you?’”

He evidently likes to bat cleanup…

G’nite RBG … I’m out as well. G’nite all !

Pop by the Beach house…! ;-)

Aloha, Petro…!

G’nite Petro. I’ll be keeping an eye out for you in the curling competition.

g’nite petro

Nah, missed that. I have crazy siblings, but not religiotic, at least.
Relief.

kinda busy at the moment and then lln will post — won’t be until much later

‘night. Petro.
(((Petrocelli)))

G’night Petro.

I just left her a message…! I’ll let ya know what she says…! ;-)

Just wait, one of these days one of them will epiphany all over you! “g”

Oh Suz, you are so funny!

We get to pick our friends. We don’t get to pick our family.

thanks dood

hey ce

Why is Linda Lingle a Republican? She seems the only sane one of the bunch. Compare with Palin ~ Lingle received her bachelor’s degree in journalism cum laude from California State University, Northridge, in 1975.
She was public information officer for the Teamsters and Hotel Workers Union. She started the Molokai Free Press, a community newspaper. A Republican primary opponent launched a whisper campaign alleging that Lingle, who has no children and is thrice divorced, was a lesbian, and that because she was Jewish, she would abolish Christmas as a state holiday. Lingle is a member of The Wish List, the PAC for Pro-choice Republican Women and serves on The Republican Majority for Choice. Lingle’s has consistently won office by drawing contrasts to the previous conservative platforms which Hawaiʻin Republicans advocated. Lingle took the oath of office upon a Tanakh.

Ya gotta know statistics to know when the liars are using the wrong ones on ya’.

That’s a really excellent question.

She is definitely the epitome of a ‘moderate’ Republican…! Only way she could’ve been elected to Guv. in Hawai’i…! ;-)

The behavior of the Democratic Party for the last year can’t be much incentive for her to switch.

It certainly fine tuned my BS meter in reading polls…!

Not without a trip to the tool shed, anyway.

Heading out. Sweet dreams to all.

g’nite rat

Yes. This is the same argument for knowing history. I tell my tenth graders, “No one will ever stop you on the street and ask you to solve a quadratic equation. No one will ever stop you on the street and ask you to diagram a sentence, in spite of what my 7th-grade teacher said. But people will stop you on the street and lie to you about your history every day.”

Soft landings to you, ratfood.

So, is the real question, “When are the Republics going to kick her out”?

Kelly…You’ve never played Musical Airs??

J. S. Bach “Air with Variations”, BWV 988 a baroque clavier work
George Frideric Handel “Air from Water Music, in the Suite in F Major”HWV 348

Air (Fr. for “aria”; also ayr, ayre), are variants of that musical song form representing song-like vocal or instrumental compositions.The first recorded airs were played on lutes in Elizabethan England. John Dowland’s (1563-1626) First Booke of Songs or Ayres (1597) includes ‘Come again’, ‘Flow my tears’, ‘I saw my Lady weepe’ and ‘In darkness let me dwell’. Thomas Campion (1567-1620) “Books of Airs” (1601) contained the over one hundred lute songs.

Alex should have responded…”What did you put in the food?”

Love Jimmy Fallon!
Good evening everyone.

Well, I’m off to bed. Play nice, ‘pups.

g’nite bct

evening, sgoderif’s

Hell yes. I have played this so many times it’s on my “hate to play” list.

I’ll get into the whole science/art argument another time, but I will say this; people always praise scientists and engineers when they make or prove new things.

The same is not true for artists, especially musicians, when musicians make new things. And my point of view is “to be truly new in music, thought/philosophy or science requires a rigor equally applicable in and across those disciplines.”

http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/charleston-hosts-secession-convention/Content?oid=1754479

Note the timely date

Typical, rather than admit or fix thier mistakes our polticians decide to create black lists to supress criticism.

Would 911 have been prevented if the hijackers were told ahead of time that they needed to register? No of course not.

Will the political party that votes “NO” on all bills that would help save the nation be required to register?

How about Limbaugh, he openly states over the air waves that he wants our president to fail at saving the nation.

It’s an “Al Capone” law. Just think if it had been on the books before 9/11. Even if KSM walked in New York City, if he showed up in SC – Boom – they’d have him locked up on not registering.

Or if they had it in 1860, those hotheads would be in prison by the end of 1861 for not registering, and slavery would still exist.

It puts terrorism on the same legal basis as moonshining. And we know how well moonshine laws are enforced. If you are a neo-Confederate who has gone all black helicopter, you gotta pay off the sheriff if you don’t want to get busted. See. Just like moonshining.

As a native South Carolinian, I’m proud that those legislators found a way to keep us safe without causing us to stand in line for hours in airports and without sending troops overseas to conduct trillion-dollar wars. W and Darth should have thought of this before they went off half-cocked and blew up the gun barrel.

South Carolina could use some good newz!