A Day in Paradise

Stats: R-squared
Dear Professor Mean, On my TI-83, when calculating quadratic regression, there is a number that is found called R-squared (R^2). I understand that this is the coefficient of determination. But….I thought that R^2 had to do with linear models. What is R^2 finding for this quadratic regression? what does this number mean? is there […]

This guy is trying to get a billion page views. I say it can’t be done, but here’s a link anyway

A couple days ago I blogged about the Loose Change documentary on the events surrounding September 11th. I finally got around to watching it last night.
Now, even though I’m a bit of a conspiracist I do understand a couple basic points about these kinds of events.

You are not an expert! Even though something may sound […]

YouTube - Crazy Multi-Input Touch Screen
very, very cool!

Are you an Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobiac?
It says it in wikipedia… it must be true!

911 Loose Change 2nd Edition with extra footage - Google Video
Watch when I have time.

MySQL date and time commands annoy me almost as much as the MySQL online manual. I’m moving my office so my MySQL reference manual was in some box… and I had to resort to digging through the manual.
I don’t know why I always have a hard time remembering
SELECT DATE_SUB( NOW( ) , INTERVAL 7 […]

‘Brokeback’ Breaks No Ground
Hollywood has no major gay actors — none out of the closet, that is. “Brokeback” needed some star power, otherwise it would have been a minor gay art film. So the producers got two straights to impersonate gay men — and then reassured everyone in sight that they were not gay at […]

Oh boy, this is going to be good!
I can put your site at the top of a search engines listings. This is no joke and I can show proven results
from all our past clients. If this is something you might be interested in, send me a reply with the web
addresses you want to promote and […]

eBay: FARSCAPE: CRICHTON SIGNATURE LEATHER PANTS ORIG COSTUME (item 6611945222 end time Mar-15-06 08:18:28 PST)
Totally must-have add-it-to-my-wishlist!!! I’ve never been a fan of leather clothing, but $1,200 is a small price to pay to wear John Crichton’s pants!
I wonder how much I can get winona for?

13 Convicted Insurgents Are Executed in Iraq - Los Angeles Times
Iraqi authorities Thursday hanged 13 prisoners, including a woman, convicted of being insurgents, said an official who was present.
The executions, which were authorized by the Iraqi government, were the first to involve insurgents. It was the second time since Saddam Hussein’s ouster in 2003 that […]

For a company that’s all about marketing Project Origami was a very lame attempt of the Applesque  “don’t say anything and surprise everyone” guerilla marketing technique. The little hype that was generated when it broke on scoble’s blog an other places, was totally killed when it seems that MS couldn’t stand the pressure and just […]

Selectutorial: CSS selectors
Looks like an interesting read…
Selectors are one of the most important aspects of CSS as they are used to “select” elements on an HTML page so that they can be styled.
Find out more about selectors including the structure of rules, the document tree, types of selectors and their uses. There is also […]

For some reason, I had a hard time connecting to an external server through my command line client. I’ve done it before, but I had to dig up the manual to find the answer…
mysql -uusername -ppassword -hhostname
I’m sure that’s what I was doing but it wasn’t working… funny thing. Anyway, I’m posting this so […]

My knowledge of middle eastern politics is limited “they’re all crazy”.
Some drunk guy
… later on …
Mila Jovovich is the best actress ever… as long as she’s wearing band-aids.