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Placebo parachutes
Apr. 25th, 2004 09:51 pmAre parachutes safer than the alternative? The writers of this article think that it's about time someone did a placebo-controlled study... Now I'm just trying to imagine exactly what a placebo parachute would be. Presumably just one that wouldn't open on the way down?
The best section of the article is the Contributors section: "GCSS had the original idea. JPP tried to talk him out of it. JPP did the first literature search but GCSS lost it. GCSS drafted the manuscript but JPP deleted all the best jokes. GCSS is the guarantor, and JPP says it serves him right."
Anyway, apart from this, I have been recently reading a semantics article that looks like it was written by people who'd escaped from a maths department (I started Linguistics to get away from mathematics, not to run into it again...), and practising my Japanese by, er, playing a dating simulator for the Playstation 2.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
theblunderbuss's PS2, to be exact, as I don't own one. Yet. When Disgaea makes it to Europe, I'm getting one - well, when Disgaea's got here and my finals are over. By that time, of course, most of the people I know with PS2s will be playing other fun Atlus games like La Pucelle and so on, but I care not.
Oh, and finally, I won these Chrono Cross keychains a few days ago. Kid and Leena in particular are very cute in chibi form.
The best section of the article is the Contributors section: "GCSS had the original idea. JPP tried to talk him out of it. JPP did the first literature search but GCSS lost it. GCSS drafted the manuscript but JPP deleted all the best jokes. GCSS is the guarantor, and JPP says it serves him right."
Anyway, apart from this, I have been recently reading a semantics article that looks like it was written by people who'd escaped from a maths department (I started Linguistics to get away from mathematics, not to run into it again...), and practising my Japanese by, er, playing a dating simulator for the Playstation 2.
theblunderbuss's PS2, to be exact, as I don't own one. Yet. When Disgaea makes it to Europe, I'm getting one - well, when Disgaea's got here and my finals are over. By that time, of course, most of the people I know with PS2s will be playing other fun Atlus games like La Pucelle and so on, but I care not.Oh, and finally, I won these Chrono Cross keychains a few days ago. Kid and Leena in particular are very cute in chibi form.
