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Overwhelmed with the Ordinary


November 7th, 2008

Journalists are bad at math. @ 10:37 pm

Current Mood: amused

Roy just caught yet another bad math example in the Oregonian. Seven figures, all miscalculated.

For example: Greenbriar companies Inc. - "down 57.7%, declined 8.25 to close at 19.51 on 10/31/08."

Umm, that's actually a decline from $27.76 to 19.51, which is a 29.7% decline.

He did this wrong math on all seven companies he referenced.

However, the story was about the Oregon index, which includes all public companies in the state of Oregon - which declined 20%, and THAT one, he did correctly.

Yeahhhh....yanno, I bet if he poked around the big ol' Oregonian offices, he'd find an accountant or two that could push the pretty buttons on that calculator thingy...




Zack and Miri Make a Porno!!! First, I had to laugh - the poster just inside the theater doors had teh "make a porno" part blocked out with a folded piece of paper taped on to it. The older gentleman - he was so nice - laughed and said "they made us do that." Heh.

MOVIE WAS HYSTERICALLY FUNNY. OMG JUSTIN LOOOOONG!! And BRANDON ROUCH!!! Holy cow.

TRACI LORDS. ROFL

AND if you go see this, be SURE SURE SURE you stay through the credits to see more of JUSTIN AND BRANDON.

And with all the Star Wars references that Kevin Smith films are famous for - the freaking SOUND was done at SKYWALKER STUDIOS. OMG. :dies:

and that was quite the shot of Jason Mewes.
 
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True Reflections

Overwhelmed with the Ordinary