Comments for Joel Grus

Comment on Hyphen Class Post-Mortem by Gustavo Lacerda

Gustavo Lacerda — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:36:53 +0000

You should probably look at Bishop’s “Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning”.

Comment on What Part of Your Oath Do You Not Understand? by Coinneach Fitzpatrick

Coinneach Fitzpatrick — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:30:49 +0000

JSYK, Wil has been wielding the cluebat for years. It’s not like this was a camel-back-breaking straw, it’s just the first time you noticed him.

He’s also a hell of a lot less annoying than his character on ST:TNG.

Comment on What Part of Your Oath Do You Not Understand? by Jezebel

Jezebel — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:42:03 +0000

Bravo, Joel!

Comment on What Part of Your Oath Do You Not Understand? by Joel

Joel — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:43:27 +0000

“Bartender” is the American way of saying “son of the Chief Medical Officer”. Also, if you are interested in spaceships, you should be paying more attention to politics. Cheers!

Comment on What Part of Your Oath Do You Not Understand? by Jet

Jet — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:02:38 +0000

This politics stuff is a little bit beyond me. (Girl, Brit, more interested in spaceships and shoes.) But I just wanted to point out that Wil Wheaton played Wesley Crusher (son of the Enterprise’s Chief Medical Officer) and not a bar tender. Where did you get bar tender?

Happy blogging.

Comment on Doubling the Compost Box by Pasquin

Pasquin — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:24:54 +0000

Question 3:

Bob the teacher can’t pass his teacher’s proficiency test. What according to the union should be done about it?

Q. Exempt him. Because, really, what does test taking have to do with what he does all day?
U. Warn him. Warn him again if necessary.
V. Does it involve kiddie porn? Then shut up about it.
W. Promote him to school committee.

I love posts that blow the doors off government schools.

Comment on Doubling the Compost Box by John Perich

John Perich — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 05:23:51 +0000

These are all excellent points. As someone who posted that same link, I must stress that my issues are with mandatory education in general, not standardized testing in particular.

Comment on I Am Tired of 9/11 by Pasquin

Pasquin — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:10:41 +0000

The TSA gave me a new nickname for my penis.

I now tell the girls they can run their hands up my thigh until they meet ‘resistance.’

Comment on I Am Tired of 9/11 by Joel

Joel — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:11:15 +0000

Everyone already knows all about the incident with the dog. In fact, at this point, most of them probably remember it better than I do.

Comment on I Am Tired of 9/11 by Michael Barnett

Michael Barnett — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:46:01 +0000

I am outraged by this. How could you not detail the incident with the dog?