jmcgready’s misc universe

• On the 20 - headed in #

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• Left work #
• On 84 - headed home #
• Grateful that payday’s tomorrow #
• updating my blog #
• Having a piece of dark chocolate #
• (null) #
• listening to BBC world service #
• (null) #
• Technorati Profile #
• going to bed now #
• At lunch #
• Off R7 - Torresdale #

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• just about to leave work - a real EFI day #
• Just got home #
• surfing when I should be sleeping #
• (null) #
• On 20 bus - headed in #
• At lunch #

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work has again aggravated me by contrast -

my sister is in a hospital room, she was surrounded by family,

except for me - who gets yet another day of short staffing,

and attitude from the customers over things that pale in comparison

to my sister’s experience….

I may have to bring out the 10 Jerk Rule again just for composure’s sake.

It has to get better….

“Dealing with Difficult People: How to Deal with Nasty Customers, Demanding Bosses and Annoying Co-workers” (Roberta Cava)

[posted with ecto]

{observations, life}

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and what’s worse was going through the day

putting up with what seems, comparatively, to be fscking trivial nonsense at work.

simply put - a flurry of make work assignments

for the part-timers which keep them from covering the counter

so I can get stuff done… aaaargh….

anyway, on to the really important thing….

my sister is in Holy Redeemer hospital in Abington -

she has a hernia - maybe inguinal -

she goes into surgery tomorrow @ 8AM

can all those inclined to prayer please do so…

Thanks.

{observations, life}

{observations, life}

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• Left store #
• upgrading mereBreath.com #
• Away from keyboard #
• I’m running IM in the background #
• (null) #
• Adding tour dates at http://www.merebreath.com #
• On 20 bus - ran into Caleb #
• got into work late - at 12:15 #
• At lunch #
• at work - working on an inventory transfer #

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• testing IM #
• trying to get Twitter to work… #
• test from Twitterrific #
• surfing when I should be sleeping #
• (null) #
• On my way in to work #
• enjoying a momentary lull in the workday #
• mini-break - slim fast #
• another pre-lunch slowdown.. #
• @ lunch #
• at 17:00 - man in robot suit enters store, sings “let my robots go”, mourns fallen laptop comrades #

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found an article from Dr. Randy Ingermanson

that shed more light than heat on the subject of the “Jesus Family Tomb”

Jesus Family Tomb: A New Statistical Analysis of the “Jesus Equation”:

Publication of the book The Jesus Family Tomb in late February, 2007, sparked a media firestorm.

Could it be that the actual tomb of Jesus of Nazareth had been found in a suburb of Jerusalem?

The book’s authors, Simcha Jacobovici and Charles Pellegrino, believe it has.

The book was followed up by the showing of a related documentary on the Discovery Channel on March 4, 2007.

I read the book as soon as I could get a copy and thought hard about Dr. Feuerverger’s calculations.

Because I have extensive experience in computing probabilities of such “remarkable events,”

I did my own set of calculations and posted them on this web site in an article titled “Statistics and the Jesus Family Tomb.

Shortly after my article appeared, I received an email from Jay Cost, a graduate student in political science at the University of Chicago.

Jay had written an influential article on the Real Clear Politics web site noting the importance of Bayes’ Theorem to the issue.

In his email to me, Jay reiterated his comments on Bayes’ theorem and also asked some pointed questions about my calculations.

That email prompted a long and intense discussion between me and Jay on the statistics of the Jesus family tomb.

At first, I was skeptical of his comments, but after doing some analysis, I quickly decided that he was correct –

there was more to say about the Jesus family tomb. After many hours of talking, we have fused his ideas with mine.

I can now report our conclusions.

{life, strange stuff}

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Found this Sex Offender Registry/Google Maps Mashup

whilst surfing the web -

so I thought, how many could possibly live near me?

Answer: 12 registered offenders live less than 1 mile from my house.

Check it out.

via Waiting for Sunday

From Family Watchdog.com:

Our service allows you to view known registered offenders and predators in your area.

Knowing who these people are and what they’ve done provides you with your best defense to protect your family - awareness.

We invite you to use our free service to locate registered sex offenders in your area.

Just enter an address and we’ll show a map.

You can click on the squares that appear and see photos (where available) addresses, convictions

and other information about the offender.

Our notification service is very simple.

You specify up to three addresses that you want to watch and the distance around those addresses.

We do the rest.

We update our data daily from multiple state sex offender registries.

As soon as a convicted sex offender registers an address in your area, we will alert you.

It’s that easy.

via Waiting for Sunday

{life, strange stuff}

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“Calphalon Contemporary Nonstick 10-Inch Omelet Pan” (Calphalon)

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