So all you really need is x (where x matches the length of the assignment) occurrences of the word buffalo, with the first one capitalized and the last followed by a period. A grammatically perfect sentence, with the maximum possible length results.

Just think, if you are right 99.9% of the time, then you spend 8,640 seconds per day being wrong - or 2.4 hours.
If, however, you are right 99.9% of the time, then that reduces to 864 seconds, or 0.24 hours.

So based on that, I can only conclude that my wife is the 99.99% one and I am the 0.1% one.

Fair enough. As long as I can have the same cops troll every restaurant you frequent to prevent your two year old children from making noise that might disturb my meal. I am supposed to be eating, and I hate being robbed of a peaceful meal. And we all know, since you just specified that your two year olds are prone to crying hysterically, that there is a very real possibility there that MUST be addressed.

Nothing is a crime until it has happened, and we are all innocent until proven guilty.

Now don't go picking on my hobbies. I quite enjoy identifying all of the stamps I will not collect. Did you know that there are stamps out there for just about anything? I have managed thus far to not collect almost the entire US series. The international ones are harder, as I don't see a lot of international mail.

I also have a wonderful hobby of not knowing everything. Finding all of the things which I do not know yet keeps me very busy, and each time it gets more complex to find the things I do not know.

Sure. So it's like you bought a computer from Apple.

That was easy. Next?

I have an idea - which will never happen, but still - let's take the names of every person in politics on the federal payroll, put them all in a hat and shuffle them, then draw them out one at a time. Fire every tenth one. That should pretty much cover the required reduction in the planned increase, based on the disparity between DC payroll and the rest of the country.

Approximate length of a movie: 90-120 minutes (1.5-2 hours)
Length of a Series Episode: 40-45 minutes (0.67-0.75 hours)

Two movies and three to four episodes a week is sufficient as an average to hit that number.

Thank you, you made me stop and have to read the last line three times to figure out which letters were swapped. It gave me a good laugh at myself - and I needed that.

Slysdexics Untie!

So his kid has to reinstall each and every addon to the games he uses every time he wants to play? And he loses all of his profile data (WoW does save some locally)? And now he has to also know how to safely update the image with the weekly WoW updates and patches?

I think that kind of misses the point of a gaming machine. It's supposed to operate as an appliance: boot, play the games, shut down, done.

Unlikely when applied to billions of chances means very, very likely to be more than a few.

Or phrase the question differently -

Would you like unmonitored strangers sitting in an office in {foreign_country} to know that you enjoy {product} so that they can aggregate you with other users of {product} and attempt to sell you related products?

How about this novel idea: ALL advertising should be opt-in by default.

I know, without advertising the advertising industry would die. Meh.

I keep a D10 handy for just such mundane decisions - those where the outcome really doesn't matter - and it makes life interesting. It's actually fun not knowing what you are going to do all the time.

It is also a bit relaxing to know that I don't have to waste any time on those thoughts; just roll the die and get on with life. I can't say I apply it to getting dressed, but choosing what to have for breakfast falls into that category. We don't keep anything I won't eat around, so a quick roll, count, and eat and I'm off to the parts of my day requiring thought. It's fun.

The same applies here in NC - cyclists have all of the rights AND responsibilities as motor vehicles. Passing is supposed to be done by giving a full lane's clearance, just as if passing a car, in a legal passing zone.

And I regularly see cyclists who know the rules and obey them, and cyclists who don't seem to know left from right; I also see drivers who know the rules, and drivers who don't seem to know right from left.

We have a licensing process that in theory filters out those who don't know how to drive, but the criteria are so low that pretty much anyone who can breath can pass. So I don't think that the government intervention is helping at all either.

I don't know what the solution is, but the presence or absence of helmets does not appear to be the problem - unskilled drivers of all types of vehicles seems to be a much bigger issue.

what you gotta do.

No stick out your hand so I can insert your career chip.