What I Had For Breakfast #2

Four whole fried chickens, and a Coke.

My bike's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before lycra was invented, so it'll run good on regular jeans and t-shirt - or the outfit described in the comments to What I Had For Breakfast #1.


I said I was going to reveal something about myself here, and I will continue to do so.  All you need do to extract meaningful data is to study psychoanalysis - or criminal psychology, whichever is least  likely to harm your street cred.


I am often accused of never finishing what I star

What I Had For Breakfast - Not Really

A short history of blogging

In the early days of blogging, a lot of people seemed to feel the need to share boring stuff about what they did all day.  A typical blogger would write stuff about what they'd eaten, where they had been, what their cat dragged in, etc.  And then came the bloggers who wrote some real cool stuff:

Do I know good science?
Not really, but I have watched a lot of Mr. Wizard and Quantum Leap, and I also worked at Sea World of Ohio (when it existed) for a summer. Hey, cleaning duck poop off the pavement taught me a lot about science!
Yvette Beaudoin
innergeek

Japan Quake - Media Up To Mischief

Edit - this blog entry is now out of date.  The complaint about 100 versus 1000 is now withdrawn.
Please see Japan's Nuclear Emergency - The Straight Goods - including comments - for updated information.

Original post below:

The media loves to abuse the deliciously ambiguous term up to.

Why do some reporters like to get hold of a range of values from a scientist or engineer and then quote the number at the scariest end of the range?