Carnival of the Vanities

The new edition of Carnival of the Vanities is up, which is something I usually wouldn't bother mentioning but it's hosted this week by Ace Pryhill and Ace rocks.

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Last quarter I taught discrete math. One component of the class was to cover some basic probability theory. On one of the homeworks we asked the following two questions about random five card poker hands:
If I summarized Glenn Reynold's response to my post on his hyping of a small correction to GISS data, you would not believe me, so I'm quoting the who

Awww, how sweet. I worked my ass off on that so it's nice to be recognized. As much as I am not a regular blog whore, it's nice to get attention, even if it means running up and down the blogsphere aisles topless to get bloggy love.