bang!

March 6, 2008: i find this typo incredibly amusing somehow: "in particular when the brokerage house they work for has investment baking relations with the firm they recommend." investment baking! yum _and_ profitable.
February 26, 2008: aha! "The reluctance to violate standard procedures and to act innovatively can also be an effective defense against subsequent regret because it is easy to imagine doing the conventional thing and more difficult to imagine doing the unconventional one." of course! makes perfect sense.
February 19, 2008: "The pass statement does nothing. It can be used when a statement is required syntactically but the pgraom requires no action." that's right, it's a language (python) containing a command whcih does... nothing.
January 22, 2008: something really ironic happened to me today. so california has this new cell phone law, no non-hands-free cell phone use while driving. today i was driving and this woman next to me was talking on her phone. i didn't like the cut of her jib, so i was going to call the CHP to report it, but then i realized the horrible insolubility of the situation.
January 11, 2008: i receive an inordinate thrill from typing times like "2:70" into my microwave.
January 10, 2008: i would just like to note that negative indexing notation (array[-1] referring to the last element of an array, etc.) makes me really, really happy on many levels.
December 5, 2007: not that they are telling us to do anything illegal here, by any means, but this snippet from a textbook i'm reading is kind of funny: "Differential taxation has occurred in the past, continues to occur today, and will likely persist into the future[9]." [9] -- A government's ability to enforce payment of taxes may be lower on foreign than domestic securities. Tax cheating could mitigate tax rate differentials.
August 28, 2007: in case you ever wonder what the output of a background check is...
July 31, 2007: in line for a burrito, the person ahead of me was slated to get 23 cents in change. he rummaged for two cents, gave them to the guy at the register, got a quarter back, and put the quarter in the tip jar. i'm not really following this train of thought. then, i was booked for 14.79 in change, and the guy asked me if i had a quarter. i gave it to him, he incorrectly gave me 24 cents in return, and of course i put the extra 20 cents along with the correct 4 back in the tip jar. what a world.
April 4, 2007: this is amazing: there are no chili's within 27 minutes of my house, but there are 22 within 58 minutes! TWENTY-TWO!