There's a mathematician, a different kind of mathematician, and a statistician

Greetings all!

Yes Dave, it turns out there was a bit of confusion with Sorkin's name. I must've miss-typed it, then hit "replace all" instead of "replace" thus compounding my simple typing error.

Anyway, thanks for the link. That's cool to hear about Elliott's work, and I got to download a live Ben Folds show to boot. Good time...

Breaking News! Jon Gooblar Shatters Fragile Ecosystem! Slides at 11!
Well Dave, he's finally done it. Your brother is one lanky eco-disaster. My mom has a wreath up on our front door and a few weeks ago a bird made a nest in it, (which my mom discovered when it attacked her one night) so that door is now off limits. The nest even has eggs in it now. So earlier this morning your brother calls me to borrow one of my cd's, and when he came over he came to the front door and rang the bell, forcing me to open the door. So if that mother bird abandons her eggs guess who's lap I'm dumping them in.

Ok music dorks, since you're all talking about cool riffs, I have a question for you. What's the difference between a riff and a hook? If I had to guess I would say that a riff is a guitar lick (I'm sure there's a more accurately descriptive word, but I don't know it) that a song is built around, while a hook is a type of riff commonly used in the chorus. Am I anywhere close to the right ballpark?

And lastly, from the Yes, We Really Are This Retarded Department: For those who don't know, a couple weeks ago Blecker actually got a girl's phone number, (I know you're all as shocked and amazed as I was) but he never called. When Willy, Sam, and I pressed him about it, we found out that she wasn't his type (Type? I don't think someone who hasn't gotten any action since Wham! broke up should be worrying about type, but that's neither here nor there). After spending an hour or so trying to figure out exactly what his type was, we came up with a system to find out once and for all. And we even incorporated drinking! Yeah for us! The 4 of us came up with a huge list of female celebrities, singers, models, amatuer porn stars, whatever. We're gonna track down pictures of them all and make a big NCAA-like bracket out of them and make Blecker choose, slowly widdling down his choices till we have his ideal mate. And just to spice things up a little the rest of us are gonna bet on which girl he's gonna choose and if you're wrong, you have to drink. After scouring the websites of Maxim, Stuff, and FHM, plus a few minutes on Googles image search, I have just over 100 photos. God damn, the things we do for kicks...

Ok, I gotta go do some work now. With a little luck this part time job is going to turn full time next week! Keep your digital fingers crossed.