Random Thursday Lite
Category: Random Thursday...
Posted Thursday, May 24, 2007 at 10:01 AM [GMT-6]

According to Wikipedia, the shortest commercial runway in the world is situated on the tiny island of Saba, and is only 400 meters in length.*

  • After years of studying the phenomenon, I feel comfortable in asserting that the likelihood of your newspaper being thrown onto the fraction of the portion of your driveway that's covered with runoff from your sprinkler system is directly proportional to the likelihood that the sun will rise in the east.

*I didn't know it was the shortest, but I did know it was pretty dang short, having landed there once in 1989.

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If a dataset has only one element, can it truly be called random?

Just askin'

Posted by: Jim at May 24, 2007 12:25 PM

Oh, yeah – it can truly be called random. Now, whether it can be called truly random is a whole other, and randomly generated, question.

Do you really want to get into this? ;-)

Posted by: Eric at May 24, 2007 02:09 PM

The funny/sad thing is, I spent time on an internal debate with myself over the placement of those words.

Posted by: Jim at May 24, 2007 03:01 PM

I can't believe I'm sitting here reading this conversation and trying to decide whether I should throw in a truly unruly randomly generated random comment, or not. In the end, I decided not to bother with the randomly generated part. ;-)

Posted by: gwynne at May 24, 2007 04:37 PM

There's short, and then there's, "The runway is WHERE?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV1hbsnlFJw&NR=1

Posted by: Bret at May 24, 2007 06:39 PM

Yeah, we've landed on St. Maarten as well.

Posted by: Eric at May 24, 2007 10:16 PM
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