October 02, 2006
Move over, Hasslehoff -- Cow Juice is the new Hot Shot City.
My grown children and I sat down to breakfast this morning looking forawrd to trying this new... milk we bought online. At 1st it seemed absurd to buy milk and have it shipped at almost 3 times the cost of the milk itself. But then we... tasted it. It didn't taste like milk at all. It tasted... better. This could not have come from a cow. Men of great knowledge must have... engineered this substance. I couldn't help myself, I had to have more. I finished my glass like a man just rescued from the desert. And I remember... I... I... I cried... I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead... and I thought: My God... the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we.
More:
daddy hits mommy sumtimes. tuscan mlk makes daddy not do it. it is yumy to.
Or finally, the words of an expert:
Describing this product accurately is complicated, July 21, 2006
Reviewer: Noam Chomsky (San Quentin) - See all my reviews
Comparing these examples with their parasitic gap counterparts in (96) and (97), we see that any associated supporting element suffices to account for the extended c-command discussed in connection with (34). To characterize a linguistic level L, a subset of English sentences interesting on quite independent grounds does not readily tolerate the traditional practice of grammarians. Analogously, the earlier discussion of deviance cannot be arbitrary in a descriptive fact. Presumably, this selectionally introduced contextual feature is not to be considered in determining the requirement that branching is not tolerated within the dominance scope of a complex symbol. I suggested that these results would follow from the assumption that this analysis of a formative as a pair of sets of features is, apparently, determined by a corpus of utterance tokens upon which conformity has been defined by the paired utterance test.
Enjoy A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates. Bruce Schneier's review:
The meat of the book is the "Table of Random Digits." It lists them in five-digit groups -- "10097 32533 76520 13586 ..." -- 50 on a line and 50 lines on a page. The table goes on for 400 pages and, except for a particularly racy section on page 283 which reads "69696," makes for a boring read.
Amazon user B. MCGROARTY's review:
The book is a promising reference concept, but the execution is somewhat sloppy. Whatever algorithm they used was not fully tested. The bulk of each page seems random enough. However at the lower left and lower right of alternate pages, the number is found to increment directly.
Many more rave reviews on amazon.
Nice of Amazon to let you search inside the book -- you really get a flavor for the author's style... One may also download directly from RAND both the download the data files and the original introduction [PDF], the latter of which is fascinating from several standpoints (no, really). For example, the authors illustrate the (somewhat dry) randomness-testing details by taking the numbers to be sets of poker hands and tallying how many busts, pairs, ..., full house, fours and fives occurred.
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Wait. Didn't we discuss this at lunch a while back. Where Natedogg and I had to work to convince you that you could rate food on Amazon...
Looks like Noam Chomsky has been retroencabulated.
posted by javelina at 04:28PM CST on October 02