@jchen1: The pyramids were not built by Jewish slaves. The Jews were in Egypt well after the pyramid building era.

@jchen1: I think the latest theory is that Egyptian farmers built the pyramids. No slaves at all. It was a way to keep them employed (well, busy and out of trouble) during the downtimes, when the Nile was flooding and there was simply no farmwork to do because the arable land was underwater.

@smcallah: Memory is tricky. I should know...I'm a cognitive psychologist. I thought I was remembering myself bringing up Superman III in context with that scene in Office Space when it turns out I was actually calling up a memory of the movie's dialogue that I don't consciously recall. This kind of false memory…

This guy can suck it!

@Cats: Apparently I invented French toast in Albany, NY in 1724.

@smcallah: I haven't seen Office Space since 1999 or 2000. So no, I didn't remember that.

@Fossa: Didn't recognize the quote from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I guess...

@cortizluis1: The Coriolis effect is negligible on that small a scale. It affects large systems, like weather patterns. For example, it is incorrect to attribute drainage direction with the Coriolis effect.

@charlesfro: I wonder how the meme twisted the real quote around.

@Fossa: I disagree. I say they are a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes.

@BoscoH: No kidding...when I saw Office Space, I was like, "Superman III did it first about 15 years ago."

@token_liberal: I love that scene, where Webster wants to know who has been siphoning off the money and proclaims whoever did it must be a criminal genius and will hide in plain sight to avoid getting caught.

@KamWrex: Your statement about .05 being the standard is true. But it is not necessarily the point where we determine significance. Some people actually go as high as a .1 result. But if power is low and there are design flaws, even a .05 alpha is considered a dubious result, especially if it's the result of a post…

@KamWrex: That may be so, but we're still taught to aim for .01 or lower. If you get .001 on SPSS, you're riding high.

@KamWrex: Basically internal validity and statistical conclusion validity requirements are barely met, but external validity and construct validity are low. Power would also seem to be low, with such a small effect, which means a Type I error is unacceptably likely. Additionally, the design is exploratory—maybe good…

@OMG! Ponies!: I like using comic sans as my font for sending IMs. I think my old MySpace profile is also done in comic sans, because it's frivolous and meaningless. I would never use it for a professional document (like a resume). All the comic sans hate kind of perplexes me.

@Lanbeast: Sure, I used to bump up to the 8 disc plan when I wanted to watch a movie every day, plus watch a TV show or two on disc, with no days missed. My schedule doesn't really allow for that now, plus I currently can't afford the plan, so I'm back to 3 discs.

@Steeb2er: Paper money is also thousands of years old. Fiat paper money is a relatively new type of currency. It always used to be pegged to something of value, usually gold.

It varies with me...I have churned through Netflix movies at a brisk pace, one movie a day for weeks or months on end, using the 8 discs plan, and I have been on the 3 discs plan and let movies sit unwatched for months on end. Right now I am on the 3 discs plan and use two of them for TV shows, watching an episode a…

@my_pen_is_nice: Had you said, "How could there be sympathy if it's never happened to any of us?" then you would have gotten the concept right.