Innuendo Blog

From the textbook for RDDA: "The most widely used way of describing the spread of a group of scores is the standard deviation, the positive square root of the variance. There are two steps to figure the standard deviation: 1) figure the variance. 2) take the square root.
If the variance of a distribution is 400, the standard deviation is 20. If the variance is 9, the standard deviation is 3.
The variance is about squared deviations from the mean. Therefore, its square root, the standard deviation, is about direct, ordinary, nonsquared deviations from the mean."

My life now has 1 fewer RDDA and 1 more PsychOLangAcq. I am immeasurably happy.

My moment of "OMG help me I must change my schedule immediately or suffer horrible currently-scheduled DOOM" has arrived.
We are all surprised.
(except not)

We (Miriam and I) are in LaTeX class right now. There is nothing here that is not on the CIS webpage. Drat. On the bright side, I now know about the CIS webpage on LaTeX. Go find it, for it is fun.

Mollie- give me your flight information.
Others - is anybody home? Nobody answers the phone.
I am excited about Paideia, and yet missed yesterday due to car-fetching and today there is nothing that I particularly want to go to. Sux0r. But tomorrow will be better. People should tell me what classes they plan to go to tomorrow so I can decide whether to tag along. All I know for sure is Origami workshop and Firefly marathon. What think you(plural)?

Off we go to fetch the car (hooray!).

Today I saw a sign that said Transmissions Accomplished.
GET IT?
OMG GET IT?!?!?!

In the interest of better communication (by means of the shiny new "No Fester, Mo' Smileys" Policy) -

This is me and my dad playing Scrabble:


This is what I think of meringues:


This is Aragorn and Legolas:


This is the face I wish we could make to make to our landlord:


This is Chris in her band:


This is how I feel about Eliah not coming home when he should have been here last week:


This is Fureigh in contacts vs. glasses:


And finally, an important message for all of you:


There. Don't you feel better now?

Excerpt from Hundreds Stranded As Storm Closes I-5
Monday December 29, 2003 7:01 PM


YREKA, Calif. (AP) - A fierce snowstorm closed nearly 150 miles of Interstate 5 in California and Oregon on Monday and stranded hundreds of travelers, police said. Some people had been stuck since Sunday evening.

There was no estimate when crews would be able to get to the people stalled between Redding and Medford, Ore., said Jennifer Bryan, a dispatcher for the California Highway Patrol.

``We can't move them, we can't get to them,'' said Bryan. ``Don't try to come up here.''

Visibility was down to 25 feet in the steady, blowing snow, and crews trying to clear the highway were stymied by drifting.

``Once the plow gets it, it gets blocked again,'' said Bryan. In some areas snowdrifts were as high as five feet.

The Oregon State Police said so many vehicles had spun out of control that it was difficult to calculate how many accidents had occurred.



We are intact though currently stuck in Redding (in a hotel) with my parents waiting for the ice/snow to go away. Also I have one (1) fewer unwrecked cars than I did yesterday. It slipped on ice and followed the tracks of another car that had slipped on the same ice and hit a rock. My car hit the other car (which was empty). It got towed to Redding and is staying in a shop where it will get diagnosed and (if it doesn't cost too much) repaired. If it does come back, it will probably be many more colors and I will rename it Shmuel. If not, there is a lot of walkingorpossiblybiking in my future.

p.s. Do not be misled by the unfortunate ending. The rest of the roadtrip was fantastic. Mexico, the painted desert, San Franciso, Santa Cruz, redwoods, my cousin's wedding, the loneliest road, and lots of Wal-Mart parking lots. F a n t a s t i c.

// posted by Kara Fischer @ 3:28 PM