More random stuff: Amusing Ironic Newstuff

Watching a news story about Myspace and younger teens putting up profiles that identify their names, town, and school, and how one school sent home warning letters about the students using Myspace.

So what do they do? They profile one of the 14 year old students, giving her full name, showing her face, and showing a picture of her boston middle school.

"Unlike some of her friends, she only posted sketches and non-identifiable information"... And then went on a national newscast to identify herself to anyone with cable.

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Also, note to store owners mannequins do not belong on the sidewalks. In the store, fine (preferably on some kind of pedestal). In window displays? Fine. But not just standing right out in front of the store, even if there are clothes and other stuff there.

And here's some information for anyone planning Mutant Ape Man Armies: http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005580679,00.html

Bah, Rogers + Stupid Gameshows

And bah dropped keyboards, too. Had a whole (well, half or quarter) post typed but dropped the keyboard and it deleted on me. Anyway...

So today I learned that Rogers discontinued its USENET services a few days ago. Normally I do USENET through my university account, but I also received an e-mail today saying that my last university account was expiring in early January. Bah on that, too. Anyway, I went to go check on my backup, only to find out it didn't work, and from looking around discovered the reason. Bah. Bah indeed. That just sucks. Okay, it's not a tremendous inconvenience - there are free news hosts out there (don't typically offer binaries groups, but then I very rarely use them anyway, mostly do the text groups) and I've already setup one. But it's the principle of the thing - offering less services and no less cost. And then there's the way they went about it and some other stuff I've heard they're doing. Bah. Sadly there's no real alternative for us, so it's not like we can switch over it, but it's a pain and annoying.

Anyway, on to other stuff. Since nothing else's been on TV last couple nights I've been watching this Deal or No Deal show. Interesting for a couple days, but I can't imagine watching it if it extended into a full series like Who Wants to Be a Millionaire did. I'm not entirely sure, but I think it almost always pays to take a Deal at some point - I think it's a simple variation of the Monty Haul problem (where if you choose a door, and there are two doors left, and the host reveals one of the doors has a goat behind it and you can choose whether to switch to the other door or not, although it _seems_ like the chance is equal either way, you actually have twice as much chance if you switch... it was featured on Numb3rs once). Where once you get down to 2 cases, the chance is much higher than you have the lowest value, so you're better off taking the deal. Maybe not though, there are odd cul-de-sacs in my logic that I'm not entirely sure about. Anyone more knowledgable than me in maths/logic want to chime in?

Also, I have pie. Mmmm, lemon mereinguieasiguhe

coyotepuck, was this you?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051220/ap_on_re_eu/toga_the_penguin

Baby penguin stolen from a zoo. :(