Fashion Board 1-08-04 through 02-03-04

[Not Me]

Originally posted by evenodds
Seriously, has someone swiped your login recently?

Damn. You caught me.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Take 1 teaspoon black peppercorns, 1 whole nutmeg, 4 average sticks of cinnamon, 1 teaspoon coriander. These should all be pulverised in a mortar. About a handful each of stoned dates, dried figs, shelled almonds and peanuts: chop these and mix them together. A bunch of Cannabis sativa can be pulverised. This along with the spices should be dusted over the mixed fruit and nuts, kneaded together. About a cup of sugar dissolved in a big pat of butter. Rolled into a cake and cut into pieces or made into balls about the size of a wallnut, it should be eaten with care. Two pieces are quite sufficient.


Note: if for some reason Cannabis sativa is not available, an alternative (or addition) is to work your favorite liquor into the butter, lessening the amount of sugar involved. Let it sit for a while so the dried fruit will soak up the liquor.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I like white chocolate and dark chocolate. I am not fond of milk chocolate.

(I post this because I know you were all wondering. Admit it)

Now I know who to send all the chocolates I don't eat to, and vice versa. Sharing is fun!

[leagleaze]

Ok, because I am like the coolest Admin in the whole wide world (you know I am) and because I know you want to see Janet (don't pretend you don't) I went and found a clip for you lovely people on Kazaa which I have now uploaded to here.

Obviously you will have to decide if this is work appropriate. It is about 7 seconds long, has sound, has breast, etc etc etc.

Don't say I never got you anything.

[tmdiva]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Obviously you will have to decide if this is work appropriate. It is about 7 seconds long, has sound, has breast, etc etc etc.

Don't say I never got you anything.

Now that we're back to the boobie, I have to say that it looked to me like the nipple cover sunburst thing was held on by a bar through the nipple. Just in case some of you are under the misimpression that Miss Janet's nipples are not pierced.

tm

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Obviously you will have to decide if this is work appropriate.

If they can show it on CBS, I don't see why it wouldn't be appropriate for work.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
A bunch of Cannabis sativa can be pulverised. This along with the spices should be dusted over the mixed fruit and nuts, kneaded together. About a cup of sugar dissolved in a big pat of butter. Rolled into a cake and cut into pieces or made into balls about the size of a wallnut, it should be eaten with care. Two pieces are quite sufficient.


Note: if for some reason Cannabis sativa is not available, an alternative (or addition) is to work your favorite liquor into the butter, lessening the amount of sugar involved. Let it sit for a while so the dried fruit will soak up the liquor.

I wish you people would stop talking about regional stuff that the rest of us do not know about (Friendly's indeed).

But your cannabis recipe reminds me that yesterday, while I was in Whole Foods, I saw some frozen waffles called "something-or-other Hemp Waffles." Label says no dairy, no wheat. But isn't hemp like illegal to put in waffles?

[Not Me]

Originally posted by tmdiva
Now that we're back to the boobie, I have to say that it looked to me like the nipple cover sunburst thing was held on by a bar through the nipple. Just in case some of you are under the misimpression that Miss Janet's nipples are not pierced.

tm

Agreed. There was a bar through the nip.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
But isn't hemp like illegal to put in waffles?

No. You have been able to legally buy hemp here for at least a year or so. There's no THC in it, so don't go stuffing your face with waffles hoping to get high.

[Hank Chinaski]

I didn't listen to the game because it was too noisy, so if the play by play guys covered this, just ignore please.

Isn't there a general rule that you should not start going for 2 unless you're fairly sure the other team is all done scoring?
Give Carolina the 2 extra points, and NE probably just takes 1 instead of 2 on its last TD.
Then when Car. scores its last TD it is up 1 before any extra point, so going for 2 then would mean the last FG was to tie.
If NE had still gone for 2 before, Car. would still be up 1 after the last Extra point, and would not have simply been hoping for OT. I know the final FG ended that anyway, but still.
I'm not saying this as Monday Quarterbacking, I think it is a general rule not to do 2 point, and this game showed why.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
...so don't go stuffing your face with waffles hoping to get high.

Too late.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Too late.

On the plus side, if you stay up late stuffing your face you will look like a red-eyed fat pothead. All of the pluses and none of that pesky "high" feeling.

Was that feminine?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I didn't listen to the game because it was too noisy, so if the play by play guys covered this, just ignore please.

Isn't there a general rule that you should not start going for 2 unless you're fairly sure the other team is all done scoring?
Give Carolina the 2 extra points, and NE probably just takes 1 instead of 2 on its last TD.
Then when Car. scores its last TD it is up 1 before any extra point, so going for 2 then would mean the last FG was to tie.
If NE had still gone for 2 before, Car. would still be up 1 after the last Extra point, and would not have simply been hoping for OT. I know the final FG ended that anyway, but still.
I'm not saying this as Monday Quarterbacking, I think it is a general rule not to do 2 point, and this game showed why.

Yes, but coaches don't think that much. They just have a sheet that says 'go for two if you're down by" 2, 5, 9, etc. or ahead by 1, 4, 5, 8 and so on. They deploy it without thought.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
No. You have been able to legally buy hemp here for at least a year or so. There's no THC in it, so don't go stuffing your face with waffles hoping to get high.

Wouldn't they taste like rope then? And who would eat non-dairy, no wheat, no sugar, tasting like rope waffles unless they were high?

[pretermitted_child]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
On the Super Bowl contest:

Future contests like this (closest to final score) should have used lowest sum of squares method. It sounds complicated, but it really isn't.

(New England's actual points-Entry's guessed points for N.E) squared, + (Carolina's actual points-Entry's guessed points for Carolina) squared = Entry's score. Lowest sum of squares score wins.

It looks like your algorithm does not distinguish the following case:

Actual Score: NE: 32; CAR: 29

Entry#1: NE: 30; CAR: 24
Entry#2: NE: 34; CAR: 24

The calculation for Entry #1, according to your algorithm, would be: (32-30)^2 + (29-24)^2 = 2^2 + 5^5 = 29

And the calculation for Entry #2 would be: (32-34)^2 + (29-24)^2 = (-2)^2 + 5^5 = 29

This is why, as I had mentioned in my post on the superbowl contest thread, that you need an additional metric for accuracy -- I chose the absolute value of the difference between your guess for the point difference and the actual point difference. In this case, the point difference in the actual game is 3 (=32-29) (which, in some ways, indicates that the teams were evenly matched; a higher point difference would, presumably, indicate the opposite). The point difference for Entry #1 would be 6 (=30-24), while that of Entry #2 would be 10 (=34-24). Thus, under my algorithm, Entry #1 would win, which, I think, is a fairer result.

As for the sum of squares method in general, it penalizes guessing in a non-linear manner. This is why I suggested using absolute values.

Edited for spelling and a missing comma.