Should we buy a Wii?
After reading about such Wii titles as Endless Ocean and Brain Age, I’ve decided to soften my anti-gaming system stance, at least to the point where I’ll consider bringing one into my home. Three of my four children have birthdays at the end of August so I can justify a high-end [...]

I found this in a Sunday (London) Times story on Nassim Nicholas Taleb* and have paraphrased it here for your consideration:
You toss a coin 40 times and it comes up heads every time. What is the chance of it coming up heads the 41st time?
State you answer and I’ll tell you if you think like [...]

’cause basketball courts in the summer got girls there.
 
Any thoughts?

I’m more popular than you
My SJ-R column this week is on why I’m more popular than all of you, relatively speaking and not really.
People are more talented than me
We took in a Gus Gordon production yesterday at the Hoogland with the Rewinds. It was quite enjoyable and was made even more so by the appearance [...]

I don’t know who Ouijas-ups the weather forecasts that appear in the SJ-R (I think it’s Nick Rogers; it stands to reason), but after making their determination of what the day’s high temperature will be, for the sake of accuracy and truth in reporting, they should immediately subtract 10 degrees. The past two weeks have [...]