Let me play devil’s advocate here and pick apart those particular quotes.

As I said, I’m open to counterexamples. Yes, I read The Art of War, but long ago. I didn’t find it exceptional back then. The Prince is a much more interesting and insightful work about the application of power if one gets past it’s cynical nature.

What is often being missed here is that, for once, a professional athlete is acting out in a way that demonstrates a positive ethic, a desire to reduce violence and increase justice.

I kept reading that the debate was such a complete low point because of both candidates, but if you just watched Hillary, it was a civil discourse resembling any prior presidential level debate. The only thing I noticed she did which lowered the bar was she called him ‘Donald’ instead of Mr. Trump. Sarah Palin at…

Sun Tzu is overrated. Seriously, is anything he said not a koan or super-duper-obvious? Stuff like, “To win, one must make sure all ways of losing are impossible.” That’s like sports commentators who say, “To win, they need to score more touchdowns.”

Since the early 90's, Asians, collectively, have moved from reliably, if slightly, Republican to reliably and strongly Democratic. Yet another cultural group the Republicans have managed to utterly alienate with their 1950's (except for taxes, of course) mentality.

Without defending the jerk-face tone-deaf production, I think there are two main technical problems with this being successful ‘satire.’

You know, sorry. I got on automatic mode and forgot the final mathematically confirmed odds are not 50:50. I wrote based on that bad number in my head without thinking.   So, it;s my bad and you are 100% correct. As always, I thank anyone who corrects me.

At the time of the second choice, the first choice only matters in the respect of obfuscation. Your N-doors approaches infinity extrapolation is not necessary to examine the issue. It can be resolved by simply looking at the final choice itself in the original three door scenario.

Phrase the Monte Hall problem differently and it is much easier to understand.

In a game, how is murdering totally cool but inappropriate contact just sick-wrong?

While I really wanted the Xaomi bluetooth scale, which are super cute and crazy cheap at around $25, no one sells them in the U.S. and I’ve not found a vendor that doesn’t charge less than another $25 for shipping.

While I really wanted the Xaomi bluetooth scale, which are super cute and crazy cheap at around $25, no one sells…

But the chicken’s thighs are getting thinner.

You beat me to mentioning the pressure fryer. It makes a huge difference in the meat tenderness as well as the penetration of the flavor. Todd Wilbur, of Top Secret Recipe fame, was said to have ‘gotten close’, but he was allowed to use one of their pressure fryers for his attempt.

Well, since I use 2x 24" HDTV as monitors, I like the speakers that occupy 0% of my desktop, the ones built in.

Well, since I use 2x 24" HDTV as monitors, I like the speakers that occupy 0% of my desktop, the ones built in.

Please use gloves when banging on mechanical keyboards. And it sometimes helps to imagine Mavis Beacon if things are going too fast.

Please use gloves when banging on mechanical keyboards. And it sometimes helps to imagine Mavis Beacon if things are…

I’m an IT consultant, so buy lots of plug strips, adapters, and wall-warts. I’ve bought several of these in the past but stopped several years back.

I’m an IT consultant, so buy lots of plug strips, adapters, and wall-warts. I’ve bought several of these in the past…

Four paragraphs was too long, so I went to ExplainToMe to find an explanation of their service. They explained it using the quote above. Much better.

IMHO, Freshman 15 is mostly about two things, the lack of previous meal structure and the presence of unsupervised choices. Freshmen are away from home, making their own choices, and of course are a) not going to want to prepare food and b) eat lots of salty/sweet prepackaged junk. Self-awareness is the first step…

Grogg smash lizard skull with club. One grogg of energy. Smash two lizard skulls, two grogg of energy.