January 26, 2005


Oh, man. I thought Republicans were supposed to be the fiscal conservatives. Uh oh.
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Roland describes an amazingly comprehensive study of the coupling (and copulating) dynamics within a largely white, midwestern high school. Excellent network diagrams and analysis abound.

In describing the events of the past year, many students report that there is absolutely nothing to do in Jefferson. For fun, students like to drive to the outskirts of town and get drunk. For uor purposes, the relative isolation of th ecommunity is an important factor, significant for the patterns of romantic partnership and sexual partnership choices we observe. The context provides a good setting in which to look for the networks suggested by preferred-mixing models, for if redundand structures...exist, they are most likely to appear in island populations not permeated by the currents of larger, more cosmopolitan settings.

It could be anywhere.
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Dro sends us the following slightly old financial advice:

NortelEnronWorldcomBeer
1 year ago$1,000.00$1,000.00$1,000.00$1,000.00
Today$49.00$16.50$5.00$214.00

The nickel deposits made a thousand dollars worth of beer the best investment here. Plus you would have had beer for each of the year's several hundred days. Nice.
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