Assorted Thoughts 41: I Have Neglected This For Two Whole Weeks And I Feel Terrible About It Edition

• The yard and bathrooms of a house rented by three graduate students both serve as intriguing examples of a tragedy of the commons.
• The only way to describe my state of mind upon seeing someone with steampunk goggles upon their person is "barely contained homicidal rage."
• The best possible measurements are those of undulation rates (in hertz).
• I would probably kill my firstborn for a p value of less than 0.001.
• My oceanography professor said that for modeling purposes, you can think of the ocean as a "series of cubes."  It was hard not to cackle uncontrollably.
• Great name for an indie band: Beatnik Stats Club.
• My proposal for a World Peace Day: turn off the ability to comment on every website.  That single act would be the greatest contribution to civility in discourse since we realized that you didn't have to punctuate your speech using sharp rocks.
• If you're going to cross the street wearing big headphones, you deserve anything that happens to you.
• How to finance your time machine research: 
1. Go back in time
2. Invest in Microsoft
3. Use proceeds to fund research into how to go back in time and invest in Microsoft