Archive for 'Amusement'
OT: Charting to Achieve Fitness Goals
by Jon Peltier
Peltier Technical Services, Inc., Copyright © 2008. All rights reserved.
From xkcd.com, “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.”
Stove Ownership
I feel a Homer moment coming on… Mmmmm, bacon.
Posted: Friday, May 2nd, 2008 under Amusement.
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OT: Dangers
by Jon Peltier
Peltier Technical Services, Inc., Copyright © 2008. All rights reserved.
One of my favorite comics is xkcd, “a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” It has an off-center, geeky feel. My daughter likes it too, and showed me this and a dozen other comics today.
Attentive readers might recognize this as a horizontally aligned Pareto Chart.
from http://xkcd.com/369/
Posted: Saturday, April 19th, 2008 under Amusement.
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Bill James Interview on Freakonomics
by Jon Peltier
Peltier Technical Services, Inc., Copyright © 2008. All rights reserved.
The Freakonomics blog interviewed Sabermetrics founder Bill James, in Bill James Answers All Your Baseball Questions. Bill James has been educating and entertaining us with his statistics-based observations about baseball for three decades. Baseball has always been surrounded by statistical analysis, but Mr James has been driven by a need to understand the game [...]
Posted: Friday, April 4th, 2008 under Amusement, Statistics.
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Off Topic Friday
by Jon Peltier
Peltier Technical Services, Inc., Copyright © 2008. All rights reserved.
I laughed, I cried, I nearly wet my pants reading this old post on the codeulate blog:
F*cking programming
Posted: Friday, March 21st, 2008 under Amusement.
Comments: 1