Re: Surprising statistics

On 03-05-2008 5:29, JSH wrote:

>> One last surprising example from the search logs.  Last month, someone
>> came to my site after searching for "lessons to do with the book dairy
>> of a wimpy kid".  I don't mention "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" anywhere on
>> my site or discuss how to teach children's books.  Nonetheless, one of
>> my pages came up in the top 20 for that search, just because of some
>> coincidental word choices.
>>
> 
> So you think "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" is equivalent to "definition of
> mathematical proof".
> 
> This story is moving fast enough though that there isn't much more for
> me to brainstorm anyway.  For those who don't know, one of the ways I
> use newsgroups is to brainstorm problems as I think better talking
> them out very publicly.
> 
> Math society has ****fted as I've tried out various solutions, from RSA
> yanking the money for their challenges, to the killing of that math
> journal and the hosting university deleting all reference of it from
> their pages.
> 
> But that pails in comparison to the ****fts that far more powerful
> people in the shadow governments have done, even as various political
> regimes have toppled with the latest just occurring in Britain.

I have to admit that I missed that one. What are you talking about?

> But
> the shadows haven't moved against me directly.  They've just nibbled
> around at the edges...  Why am I still alive?

We decided to let you live because you are so damn funny.

> The last battles are playing out in the US where I've at one time or
> another sup****ted all of the current candidates for president, and the
> only question is, who are the ones who have been turned?  Or were any
> of them ever not lost from the beginning?

No. Not one.

> Reality never got simpler.  The battles between certain big players
> never ended.
> 
> It just got more complicated and a lot messier for the people at the
> bottom who unfortunately tend to be the pawns that die very easily, or
> worse, get miserable lives until they die.
> 
> All the prophecies are being fulfilled, it's just they are puzzles to
> be figured out, and I'm unraveling the final ones, as I try to figure
> out the final answers before it's too late.

Bad news: it *is* too late.

> Most of the prophecies indicate some huge die-off, but it seems to me
> that has got to be a ruse or, what's the point?  But then again, the
> door is closing so fast...

Suggestion: get out of the way.

> And why us?  Why is planet earth suddenly such a big deal that so many
> players are wreaking havoc in so many places and sometimes almost
> completely in plain sight?  Like it matters though.  The human fail-
> safes remain as potent as ever.  At least most human beings have that
> wonderful ignorance to get them through the night.
> 
> The rest of us have to fight, even if it looks more and more like
> we're going to lose, because it's still not quite clear what the damn
> war is even over.

Don't worry. It will become clear quite soon.

Best regards,

Jose Carlos Santos