You know, I have so many Miscelleny posts that I have given it its own category. From now on, posts like Varied Thoughts go into the Miscelleny category.

Anyways, these few days I have been having really strange conversations with people. Here are some:

Syeon: …why on earth did I talk about Tim Tams?? hahaha

——[on another conversation]——

me: ok go do your dydt

Elanor: eeek! dun dydt me.

…[a while later]…

Elanor: fiiish market
oysssters
daaarling harbour
i lurve my life

Of all things I talk, I talk Tim Tams with Syeon. WTF? I must have really run out of small chat topics. And Elanor is of course, my used-to-be wife-to-be Elanor Tan. She was so tired. The poor girl seemed so stressed out. Sigh.

Elanor Tan is a pretty genius, and I seem to have this nose for finding genius-y girls. Elanor being one of them, I found another good blog. It’s Cook (almost) Anything At Least Once, run by Haalo. I found out she is a mathematician, doing statistics and economics. Heh.

And speaking of mathematicians, do you know of those anti-spambots verification system where you’re supposed to do some basic math and enter the sum of some numbers before you get to post your comments? I’ve just seen something that will take it to a whole new level of humanity verification:

Actual algebra involved! Naturally that was in a math and physics blog, so… now, I can’t wait for some economist to use probability questions as an anti-spam verification system.

While it is improbable that anyone would use a probability question as an anti-spam verification system, it is not improbable to guess what book I bought:

Not much of a title, I know, but the book is actually Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable… of which, it was rather improbable that Borders didn’t have any price or records of it -

It says: Item not found. Please select and scan another item.

So naturally, that meant I got the book for $5. Not because of machine failure though. :D, though I wish Borders would give me that discount.
And on the topic of Borders, this is the reason why my parents banned me from bookstores when I was younger:

Total cost: $70.95, after a $30 discount. The other two books are porny adult books that ‘little kids like me’ shouldn’t be reading. Because, you know, it’d fill me with ‘knowledge’ which I will then use to wreck havoc unto the Christian worlds. Books that, you know, only very mature people like Lilian reads those kind of books. If she were as mature as Professor Flead (if you haven’t read Making Money, you won’t get the joke), she’d say it’s ’smutty’. But you know me being the wise arse, I buy them anyways.

Finally, back to the improbabilities. How (im)probable was it that Syeon actually talked to me? And I talked about Tim Tams for goodness sake! Anyways, in other news, she and Andrew are engaged! (Now, I wonder if it’s okay for me to actually say that to the world).

Your task today: find all the annotations of this blog article. I reference to something in almost every sentence. Some though, requires you to watch the Chaser’s War on Everything to get.

That’s all for Today Tonight. This is Anna Coren Chewxy, signing off, and wishing you a happy Kwaanzaa or something.

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