Happy Y2K to all. I celebrated by running outside at midnight and ringing
bells
with a friend, and then running back inside after about thirty seconds
because 
it was cold and damp outside and anyway there's only so much bell-ringing a 
person can perform at one stretch.

True fact: A couple hours after the year turned over (by Greenwich Standard
Time), a new species of insect was discovered in New Zealand and named the
Y2K
Bug.


Bradster:

> I'm back.  More or less. 

YAY!!! YOU'RE BACK!!! *glomp*

Hey, maybe now things will pick up around here. I didn't even check my ML
mail 
for three days because messages were coming through on the order of maybe
one or 
two a day, and they were all pretty much about nothing.

> who thinks Escaflowne would be a much better anime if the catgirl 'got the

> sausage' at least once every 3 episodes 

*blinks* Were you always like this, or did your leave of absence change you?

Ah, Escaflowne, the anime that has something for everyone. I love the music
(of 
course). Some of it reminds me of John Williams.


Ron Spillman:

> And polls generally mean little, especially if the question is skewed
juuuust 
> a bit in the pollster's favor; 

[etc.]

One of the main skewing factors in polls is that only people who are
interested 
in the subject at hand will respond to the poll to begin with. It's like the
old 
joke about a questionnaire survey indicating that 100% of the populace likes

filling out questionnaires.


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