Davidson currently employs a Robert Lee. He is my friend. Two decades ago, Davidson enrolled a Robbie E. Lee. She is also my friend. I doubt either would like to be associated with the general right now, and would be happy to not be the butt of jokes about their names (although knowing them both, th...

seamac77 wrote:Arthur blanked out on this one...

http://www.totalprosports.com/2017/08/1 ... on-sunday/

That's funny right there.

71cat wrote:I would be interested to know how many people in the arena last night know where Steph went to college versus how many know where Durant went to college.

I vaguely think he was at Texas for a year. But I wasn't at Oracle last night.

stan wrote:
If scientists actually cared about quality, they would be an uproar over stupid crap like this. Instead, we got 'em lined up at the trough to feed.

I'm a scientist. I care about quality. Your generalizations are stupid. And summer is just too damn long around here.

Read the climategate emails to get a real good sense of just how pathetic science has become. Read Tetlock's work. Or Future Babble written about it by a NY Times science reporter. Read John Ioannidis stuff. Most papers are flawed. The stats are bungled. p values are crap. And no one can predict th...

MLC67 wrote:What's really odd is not that Slowcat really is Slowcat (I'm told the Judge who legally changed her name from Speedy was quite perplexed); instead, it is the very strange name she gave her paper: "XXXX" Was it porn

Like they say, it is "attention-grabbing"

cat44 wrote:
Sounds like the princes who try to send me money, that always get deposited in Spam.

Yeah...except people routinely fall for these. Especially the ones that are written by native English speakers. Publish or perish, even if it's in a predatory journal.

I got this in my work email today. I usually get one or two solicitations like this a week. This one, however, is particularly amusing. The scary ones are the ones that don't read like they were written by yahoo translate. "Dear slowcat, Greetings from Journal of Remote Sensing & GIS We have read y...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3mnSnkgM4s 38:18 through 39:18. True? Idk. The idea that someone can peruse a paper for an hour or two and serve some useful purpose seems extreme. Especially since no one ever checks the statistical work and computer code that is so critical to the results. As Stev...

Not the first time this sort of thing has been done, and we might not all agree on exactly where the stupidity is, but I got a kick out of it. https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/32724/ Wait, I was told peer review meant the findings became proven fact. I'm confused. :? You can find a journal that w...

Not the first time this sort of thing has been done, and we might not all agree on exactly where the stupidity is, but I got a kick out of it. https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/32724/ Wait, I was told peer review meant the findings became proven fact. I'm confused. :? You can find a journal that w...

I wish I could say my Dad chased him off with a shotgun, but it really didn't take much more than a stern look to scare him away.

I earned my redneck stripes. How 'bout you, Airball? Lower middle class upbringing, alcoholic father who was orphaned as a child during the Depression, loaded trucks on night shift for United Parcel, first in family to go to college. Do I pass your redneck admission test? Davidson alums trying to o...

Seems like this belongs here. Honestly though, I can't tell if it's stupid or brilliant.

https://greensboro.craigslist.org/roo/6063883496.html

Airball50 wrote:Read "White Trash"

This White Trash?

http://www.themillions.com/2016/07/whit ... trash.html