Comments on: Tagged with the 123 meme: hoping for the best http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2008/02/29/123-meme/ Of sex and science. Elizabeth Pisani's blog about HIV and other sundry things. Mon, 26 Dec 2011 02:54:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: More 123: Henry Jenkins’ turn. « The Inverse Square Blog http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2008/02/29/123-meme/comment-page-1/#comment-338 More 123: Henry Jenkins’ turn. « The Inverse Square Blog Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:04:08 +0000 http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2008/02/29/123-meme/#comment-338 [...] so given the very cool responses (much less tricksy than mine) to my prior tag here, here, here and here, let me extend the digitized finger of blogospheric chain lettering to the Aca-Fan’s [...] [...] so given the very cool responses (much less tricksy than mine) to my prior tag here, here, here and here, let me extend the digitized finger of blogospheric chain lettering to the Aca-Fan’s [...]

]]> By: Tagged with 123 meme « Unspun http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2008/02/29/123-meme/comment-page-1/#comment-319 Tagged with 123 meme « Unspun Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:22:23 +0000 http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2008/02/29/123-meme/#comment-319 [...] 2, 2008 by unspun Queen of Sex and Science Elizabeth Pisani tagged Unspun with  the 123 meme. Prior to this she had been tagged byTom Levenson of the [...] [...] 2, 2008 by unspun Queen of Sex and Science Elizabeth Pisani tagged Unspun with  the 123 meme. Prior to this she had been tagged byTom Levenson of the [...]

]]> By: MarinaM http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2008/02/29/123-meme/comment-page-1/#comment-316 MarinaM Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:35:45 +0000 http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2008/02/29/123-meme/#comment-316 Ala Elisabeth, when I got this I was in my office and there was nothing but papers and letters on my desk. I read books at home usually before I go to sleep so I couldn't do this til I got home and even then, have been so busy talking to people re the elections that I haven't had a chance yet. I re-read your post and it says you have to look at a book 'right this minute' so I am wayyyy overdue. Sorrylah, am not good with memes or chain letters. Ala Elisabeth, when I got this I was in my office and there was nothing but papers and letters on my desk. I read books at home usually before I go to sleep so I couldn’t do this til I got home and even then, have been so busy talking to people re the elections that I haven’t had a chance yet. I re-read your post and it says you have to look at a book ‘right this minute’ so I am wayyyy overdue. Sorrylah, am not good with memes or chain letters.

]]> By: Amanda Brooks http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2008/02/29/123-meme/comment-page-1/#comment-308 Amanda Brooks Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:01:58 +0000 http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2008/02/29/123-meme/#comment-308 <a href="http://www.texasgoldengirl.com/afterhours/123-meme/" rel="nofollow">I did the meme</a> and it turns out to have been quite a passage. Excellent meme! Thank you again for tagging me. XX I did the meme and it turns out to have been quite a passage. Excellent meme! Thank you again for tagging me.

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]]> By: the gideonse bible » Blog Archive » I tagged myself with the au courant book meme http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2008/02/29/123-meme/comment-page-1/#comment-307 the gideonse bible » Blog Archive » I tagged myself with the au courant book meme Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:47:25 +0000 http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2008/02/29/123-meme/#comment-307 [...] seen this meme on Vagabond Scholar, The Wisdom of Whores, and Todd’s Hammer, and none of them tagged me. Not that they would. Anyway, I’ve [...] [...] seen this meme on Vagabond Scholar, The Wisdom of Whores, and Todd’s Hammer, and none of them tagged me. Not that they would. Anyway, I’ve [...]

]]> By: Lee Rudolph http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2008/02/29/123-meme/comment-page-1/#comment-305 Lee Rudolph Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:15:07 +0000 http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2008/02/29/123-meme/#comment-305 I looked to my left and found _The Joy of TeX: A Gourmet Guide to Typesetting with the AMS-TeX macro package_. The results of the exercise were really quite appalling, and I dare not impose them on anyone else. Luckily, I then looked to my right and found (at least as close) a copy of _The Holy Bible_ which has been serving as an optical-mouse pad (being just the right height above the somewhat too low surface of the table, and just the right color, a pleasing brown leather that upon further inspection I see to be Genuine East Indian Calf Leather), more specifically the _Oxford Self-Pronouncing Bible_, which yielded the following. "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with they estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering: and he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him. And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though that he wist it not, yet he is guilty, and shall bear his iniquity. And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and wist it not, and it shall be forgiven him." I *think* the Bible is making a riposte about successful civil servants and ignorance, but I can't be sure; that's always the thing about bibliomancy, innit, even with a lower-case b? ...As to "qualitative data": that's something I've recently been thinking about, a lot, though chiefly in the context of "qualitative" vs. "quantitative" psychology. Often "quantitative data" is (or seems to me to be) used as more or less synonymous with "degraded quantitative data". Certainly basing policies, actions, etc., on degraded data (of any sort) is not likely to be a good plan (particularly if one has no notion of the nature and degree of the degradation, or if one is unaware of it). But (at least in psychology; quite possibly less so in public health policy) "qualitative" is not *necessarily* "degraded quantitative", and is not *necessarily* unsusceptible to reasoned, formalized, even mathematical (though non-numerical) analysis. However this is probably a rant for another time and place. I looked to my left and found _The Joy of TeX: A Gourmet Guide to Typesetting with the AMS-TeX macro package_. The results of the exercise were really quite appalling, and I dare not impose them on anyone else. Luckily, I then looked to my right and found (at least as close) a copy of _The Holy Bible_ which has been serving as an optical-mouse pad (being just the right height above the somewhat too low surface of the table, and just the right color, a pleasing brown leather that upon further inspection I see to be Genuine East Indian Calf Leather), more specifically the _Oxford Self-Pronouncing Bible_, which yielded the following. “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with they estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering: and he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him. And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though that he wist it not, yet he is guilty, and shall bear his iniquity. And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and wist it not, and it shall be forgiven him.”

I *think* the Bible is making a riposte about successful civil servants and ignorance, but I can’t be sure; that’s always the thing about bibliomancy, innit, even with a lower-case b?

…As to “qualitative data”: that’s something I’ve recently been thinking about, a lot, though chiefly in the context of “qualitative” vs. “quantitative” psychology. Often “quantitative data” is (or seems to me to be) used as more or less synonymous with “degraded quantitative data”. Certainly basing policies, actions, etc., on degraded data (of any sort) is not likely to be a good plan (particularly if one has no notion of the nature and degree of the degradation, or if one is unaware of it). But (at least in psychology; quite possibly less so in public health policy) “qualitative” is not *necessarily* “degraded quantitative”, and is not *necessarily* unsusceptible to reasoned, formalized, even mathematical (though non-numerical) analysis.

However this is probably a rant for another time and place.

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