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ps. still have high expectations, just not suffering.
1. Benford's Law - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benfords_law
2. Two envelopes problem - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_envelopes_problem
Over half of people in the U.S. don't believe in evolution.
- E=mc2
- Genocide in Darfur http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Darfur and
- Wealth controlled by top 1 percent of population in US http://www.slate.com/id/2268872/
The one that I just read ten minutes ago, that my childhood hero Wade Boggs once drank 64 Miller Lites on a cross-country flight (without dying) has to be up there.
http://www.thefanatics.com/content.php?id=330
And, of course, ex-Prime Minister Bob Hawke made it into the Guinness Book of World Records for drinking 1.7 L of beer in 11 seconds in 1953:
We landed on the moon!
It was obviously wrong, because some planes can fly upside down, and that was when I realized that just because an adult speaks with authority about something they believe to be true doesn't mean it is true.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Along those lines: * I bumped into a girl that I went to South Eugene High School with at the train station here in Padova, Italy. We were even on the same train. I was quite literally speechless for a moment or two. * I worked with a person in San Francisco whose dad had known my dad and uncle in the same small town in Montana.
I accidentally alt tabbed to a tail of a kernel log where a packet hit the wire at the exact moment that I accidentally alt tabbed. The IP address looked weird to me for some reason so I reverse resolved it and traced it, it belonged to the first ISP I'd ever used, I ran an nmblookup on the machine name and it was my first girlfriend's computer name. Utterly freaked out I contacted her via IM, not having actually kno…