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Name: Ned
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User ID: 18
User since: March 31, 2004
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Ned has posted 51 links and 63 comments on Alkaline Earth since March 31, 2004.
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2009 May 04 12:20 (#4146): So cute.
2008 Nov 26 02:58 (#4057): What the heck is a mortgaged-backed security anyway?
2008 Nov 22 09:57 (#4054):
2008 Aug 13 12:05 (#3963): Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog is on Hulu.
2008 Jun 22 04:47 (#3897): The World's Greatest Athlete?
2008 Apr 18 04:36 (#3819): Who's Your City?
2008 Jan 22 12:24 (#3702):
2007 Oct 04 11:06 (#3557): Fans who are more interesting than the game.
2007 Sep 27 11:37 (#3543): Halo3 + MIT = way nerdy hack.
2007 May 04 11:34 (#3345):
2007 Apr 09 12:25 (#3300): "You must be the Dutch guy."
2007 Jan 23 09:52 (#3181):
2007 Jan 10 05:17 (#3159):
2006 Dec 10 12:08 (#3108): Verizon fails unit conversions.
2006 Nov 28 02:48 (#3090):
2006 Nov 15 05:52 (#3076): Physics promises wireless power.
2006 Oct 14 09:14 (#3004):
2006 Oct 13 02:46 (#3002):
2006 Sep 22 05:40 (#2954): Want to make sG crap himself? Show him this!
2006 Jun 22 02:06 (#2788): What pit bulls can teach us about profiling.
2006 May 22 09:33 (#2727): Quick contact high.
2006 May 08 04:37 (#2691):
2006 Apr 28 02:07 (#2668): Oedipizzy fo' shizzy!
2006 Apr 10 04:12 (#2613):
2006 Feb 16 01:17 (#2451): I'm speechless...
2006 Jan 17 01:13 (#2362): This
2006 Jan 17 09:33 (#2361): If she REALLY wanted you to get better fast...
2006 Jan 02 10:21 (#2316):
2005 Sep 03 06:18 (#1973): My brother is on TV!!1!one!!uno
2005 Aug 01 12:43 (#1868):
2005 Jul 06 02:02 (#1795): "The Backstroke of the West"
2005 Jun 03 04:10 (#1720): Come to prom on Lake Austin
2005 May 12 01:34 (#1670): MIT students jumping out of a building.
2005 Apr 30 10:18 (#1636): THIS is when you throw Fire!
2005 Apr 20 12:50 (#1608): The Taliban reduced world supplies of heroin by 65%
2005 Mar 08 12:56 (#1432): What You'll Wish You'd Known.
2004 Dec 27 11:43 (#1119):
2004 Dec 07 01:00 (#1060): When Ivy's go at it.
2004 Nov 02 10:15 (#916):
2004 Sep 10 03:41 (#654): Puppy power!
2004 Sep 08 11:40 (#647): www.JustVote.org
2004 Aug 27 11:34 (#606): Bose (of wave-radio fame) makes active vehiclesuspension
2004 Aug 27 11:28 (#605): Doctors grow new jaw in man's back
2004 Aug 20 03:52 (#576):
2004 Aug 09 10:56 (#532): Google Local Search
2004 Jul 13 01:08 (#455): MoveOn.org
2004 Jun 02 02:44 (#317): My fraternity brother's blog
2004 May 06 08:29 (#248): BMW drivers have more sex
2004 May 03 07:42 (#243):
2004 Apr 29 08:18 (#236): Operation Take One for the Country
2004 Mar 31 09:17 (#196): Seinfeld and Superman,
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2009 Sep 20 07:10 (#4185.12668):I love the ending: A man weighing 250 pounds and moving at the rate of twenty miles an hour would be about as dangerous as a locomotive, and unless roads are reserved exclusively for fast fat men, not a day will pass without its fatal and horrible collisions.
They also take a shot at fat postal workers in there.
2009 Mar 24 12:03 (#4130.12469):I'm part of that 1%, mrflip.
2008 Dec 18 12:41 (#4075.12266):This picture shows the least scary police officers in history, with their little tiny guns and goofy, knockkneed stance. My message to them: the Segway, not as scary as you think.
2008 Sep 03 06:33 (#3984.11854):'Average cut' would be a perfectly descriptive measure of the reality of each plan IF it was weighted by the number of people in each tax bracket. The same would have to be said for 'median cut':
The median tax bracket cut would be from the 5th bracket: McCain -2.5%; Obama -1.9%. The median tax cut for a family would come from one of the bottom three brackets since 60% of families are in those. That means: McCain: -0.7%; Obama -2.4%.I can't figure out what method they used to get that 'average cut' they note.
Lies, damn lies, and statistics...
2008 Jul 01 10:16 (#3905.11505):ISTJ (33/1/75/78). I'm surprised no one has commented on some of the asinine questions, like "You willingly involve yourself in matters
which engage your sympathies." What the hell does that even mean? "Do you like to help little lost puppies?"
2007 Oct 19 11:20 (#3582.10418):Looks like a Nobel prize doesn't make you impervious to the consequences of dickheadery.
2007 Oct 02 01:28 (#3554.10325):1: b) He bats about .333, his major league best.
2: d) Ordinary Joe kills Josh.
3: b) The ordinary guy wins the first race by a nose; when they race again, Greene smokes him.
4: a) Pete destroys Ordinary Joe, game after game.
5: b) They'd score 4-5 runs a game, similar to average scores in baseball.
6: a) Mediate kills Joe.
7: b) He kept coming this close but no cigar.
8: a) Paez smokes Joe, 5-0.
2007 Aug 22 12:35 (#3487.10142):I think Beckto's aversion to guesstimate is more accurately described by "word rage" (as evidenced by her post above). It's described in the Language Log post as:
"Where people get angry at jargon or slang associated with a despised group, or upset because a word or phrase is felt to be incorrectly used, or annoyed at language that they perceive as redundant, or overly complicated, or pretentious, or a cliché, or trendy, or politically incorrect."
She does, however, have a visercal reaction to the word "knoll" (but not so much to "gnoll" or "noel" when pronounced similarly).
2007 Aug 08 08:44 (#3474.10115):Whoever made that webpage got the amount wrong. It's clearly e^(i*pi) not e^(2pi). And since e^(i*pi)= -1 and the sum equals +1, the amount of the check is $0.002 or 0.2 cents. Which is much funnier than $536.49.
Does anyone know if this is related to the verizon customer who was misquoted the price for sending data via cell phone?
2007 May 19 04:19 (#3375.9830):Hey TWitB, whom do you mean with that last comment? Beckto and I also do Wing Chun so I'd like to hear the story if you don't mind. My own experience defending a stranger didn't work out quite so well 'cause I didn't want anyone to get hurt, not even the attackers... Bad plan.