Anyone else remember when Dead Heads were encouraged to pay for everything with $2 bills when they were on tour? Apparently, it made the towns much more open to the influx of hippies when they realized just how much money they were bringing in.
Fes: get thee back to stats class, monkey! The probability of any particular card being selected by the applet is 1/5 (.20). But, assuming you're not psychic and you're making random predictions, the probability that you pick a particular card is also 1/5 (.20).
So the probability that the computer picks a certain card AND you pick that same card is (.20)*(.20)=.04, and by chance alone you'd pick the right one 4 times out of 100. (Not psychic, but a stats geek)
"The Final Countdown" by Europe makes me want to jab icepicks in my ears.
Any song at all that contains the phrase "rock and roll" in either title or lyrics goes stright into my Worst. Song. EVAR. list without further editorial input.
Goetter, I respectfully suggest you make an exception for "Rock and Roll" by the Velvet Underground.
Two of the best kids albums (i.e., actually enjoyable for adults) are "Not for Kids Only" by Garcia and Grisman, and "Peter, Paul, and Mommy" by Peter, Paul, and Mary.
I don't think there are any songs about food on either of those (unless you count Shel Silverstein's "I'm being swallowed by a boa constrictor" on the latter), but you'd surely find some pleasant background music for your video on one of them.
Anyone else remember when Dead Heads were encouraged to pay for everything with $2 bills when they were on tour? Apparently, it made the towns much more open to the influx of hippies when they realized just how much money they were bringing in.
posted by nixxon 19 years ago
In "Am I psychic?"
Fes: get thee back to stats class, monkey! The probability of any particular card being selected by the applet is 1/5 (.20). But, assuming you're not psychic and you're making random predictions, the probability that you pick a particular card is also 1/5 (.20). So the probability that the computer picks a certain card AND you pick that same card is (.20)*(.20)=.04, and by chance alone you'd pick the right one 4 times out of 100. (Not psychic, but a stats geek)
posted by nixxon 20 years ago
In "Worst. Song. Ever."
"The Final Countdown" by Europe makes me want to jab icepicks in my ears.
Any song at all that contains the phrase "rock and roll" in either title or lyrics goes stright into my Worst. Song. EVAR. list without further editorial input.
Goetter, I respectfully suggest you make an exception for "Rock and Roll" by the Velvet Underground.
posted by nixxon 20 years ago
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Two of the best kids albums (i.e., actually enjoyable for adults) are "Not for Kids Only" by Garcia and Grisman, and "Peter, Paul, and Mommy" by Peter, Paul, and Mary. I don't think there are any songs about food on either of those (unless you count Shel Silverstein's "I'm being swallowed by a boa constrictor" on the latter), but you'd surely find some pleasant background music for your video on one of them.
posted by nixxon 20 years ago
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