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  • May. 5th, 2007 at 7:48 PM
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[info]brec points out the following fact:
>>> p_pickup_line_works = 0.01
>>> p_pickup_line_fails = 1 - p_pickup_line_works
>>> def get_laid(num_tries):
...   return 1 - p_pickup_line_fails**num_tries
... 
>>> get_laid(68)
0.49511411121293059
>>> get_laid(69)
0.50016297010080135
The magic number is 69!

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Mar. 28th, 2007

  • 12:36 PM
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Patri in Marie Claire (Russian edition) Patri in Marie Claire (Russian edition)
I made it into the Marie Claire (Russian edition) story on Google (as I blogged about earlier), but unfortunately my fashionable coworker did not. We're guessing she didn't fit the story they were trying to tell. Also, they kept digging to try to get her to talk about Larry & Sergey's personal lives, from which she wisely refrained. This theory is supported by the fact that they did include another female Russian Googler who was not so wise, along with her Sergey story.

Anyway, sad for her, but happy for me. I fit into their theme of lavish benefits and slobby engineers. The text reads: "This guy many weeks in a row goes to work in pajamas. At Google they feed people for free 24 hours a day, and that's why he doesn't fit into his jeans anymore, and he's too lazy to buy new ones"

Which is pretty much what I told them, so hey, cool :). Good think I hadn't lost the weight when they were here! Sometimes, unique is more newsworthy than cute...

p.s. This is one page of an 8 page story. If someone wants to host the whole thing (2MB PDF), I can email it to them.

Global warming is caused by Cthulhu

  • Dec. 30th, 2006 at 3:32 PM
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Who is really behind global warming? They claim that it’s carbon emissions or other man-made causes which are the problem. But whenever we want to get the heart of an issue, or find a cause for something, we always ask the question “Who has the most to gain?” In this case, man gains little and potentially loses a lot by causing global warming. Less land will be hospitable, tropical zones will spread bringing with them malaria and a bevy of diseases, less rain will fall, hurricanes will be more frequent and more violent, polar bears will drown, and more land will be underwater.

Think about that last point. Who gains from that? Surely not man, who cannot swim well and is afraid of sharks. Surely not the Grizzly Bear, who while adept in the water and capable of fishing, would need at least a small stone perch in order to defeat a Great White Shark in the wild. Surely not the Cheetah, who while swift on foot, is so inbred that there is not enough diversity in his genepool to adequately fend off disease. Surely not the Platypus, who is famously neutral in all inter-species issues. Who does this logically leave? The Cephalopods, the creatures who lurk in the depths of the ocean, who duel with whales and kill sharks. They will be the masters when the world is underwater and thus they are likely behind global warming.

Recommendation: This small giant squid was location scouting for his leaders, searching out the best landside seastates for future wealthy squids. While traditionally, seaside land in warm climates has been desirable real estate, when the squids take over, landside sea will be the real estate worth owning. We do not recommend flipping your seaside real estate for landside sea as of yet (our catalyst would be either a sea creature Bastille event at a major acquarium), but we do recommend hedging all your real estate with offsetting sea. This offers an important hedge against the growing likelihood of dominant species regime change. We continue to recommend a long position in the Cephalopod Index, as a hedge against the end of overwater civilization as we know it.
[Long or Short Capital]

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