Temporary or not, the point is it fell and hit something.
If something has enough weight|heft to it it can hit something and cause damage as it falls, it should be secured.
NASA admitted after the fact, that until the foam hit the fan, they never perceived it to be a danger to the shuttle. Considering how many decimal points these guys use in their calculations (not to mention the quality of their software - mind you, this is eight 1/2 years old: They Write the Right Stuff: The right stuff kicks in at T-minus 31 seconds.), you'd think they were a bit more careful than to have oops! moments.
If something should happen, people will remember that cover falling, no matter who tries to explain it away or what they say in the process.
One of the things tucked away in Gator's legal past is the fact they won a case when challenged over the right to strategically pop "their" ads over already visible ads. I don't remember all of they whys and wherefores.
One of the contentions raised on many blogs has been how people can claim it's patently obvious Microsoft will be charging for Microsoft Windows AV, which is what I think they will be calling it. In all honesty, it can be said they haven't announced it will be commercial although if it will be a free product, I don't think they would have any qualms about making such an announcement. There is, however, a suicide gene: death on December 31.
My prediction is there will be three flavors: Home, Professional, and Corporate|Enterprise. The Home, likely to be $29.99, $39.99, or $49.99, will be a plug-in for Outhouse^wOutlook and Outlook Express, although the demise of OE is waaaaaaay overdue, so it wouldn't be a surprise to see OE on the clash list. I'd say $39.99 is possible and $49.99 is the likely candidate.
Professional would likely cover Home + SMTP-based software, POP, and browser-based email such as HotMail, Gmail, Yahoo! mail. Perhaps NNTP? Or is that even an issue? It would make one tempted to say less because it's be kind to Microsoft week because they haven't declared it'll be commercial but I'll go out on a limb and say and say $79.99-$99.99.
Corporate|Enterprise is obvious - residing on exposed gateway servers. Price proportional to the number of protected seats.
And when you can't avoid typing, use better "typing posture". For those who didn't take a proper typing class (my mom forced me to take a course when I was a sophomore[1] in high school so I would be self-sufficient for college term papers. Little did I know I'd be taking Summer courses in LISP and FORTRAN the following year.
Biggest tip: do not rest your elbows or wrists.
I'm willing to wager 99%[2] of the people at a keyboard do not do this and most of the people who have RPI have acquired it because they do rest either joint of their arms.
All that changing a keyboards (different contour, key layout, or both) is doing is changing the posture of your fingers | hands | wrists | elbows | arms. Save yourself the time and just discipline yourself a bit.
The other thing which has been cited in RPI articles is when people spent time moving back & forth between keyboard & mouse repeatedly; i.e. you're better off to use keystrokes as much as possible or mouse as much as possible, but constant switching is not a good thing.
As far as sale prices go, it's always amusing to watch everyone flock to Amazon and B&N. My general advice is to go to AddAll Book Shopping Bot. Now, if Amazon happens to float to the top, so be it, but I'm a comparison shopper.
If you want to see sad, go to the first site listed for the Potter #6 book. (Overstock) and look at the "reviews". Yes, there are "reviews" (believe it or not). Here's one of them <snicker>: Reviewer: lara from connecticut -- Harry potter is back again..on his 6th year...this book is bound to be... AMAZING!!!! Harry is coming closer and closer to his last year in Hogwarts, now we all await what surprises JK Rowling has waiting for us. This book is going to be the best!!!!</snicker>
WRT the marketing angle, if you aren't going to the book store to pick up a copy, turn on the local news - and you'll see what everyone else sees when they're picking up a copy: A Harry Potter FreeForAll Party.
I always thought the tv coverage of Star Trek conventions showed a lot of sad geeks, generally adults. With the Potter Parties, you've got entire families (sometimes nuclear and extended). All that's left is a Rocky Horror-like script to act out, props to throw around, and a dance ala The Time Warp. By the time they get this put together, the 7th, and final novel will be out and it will be for naught.
Several weeks ago, someone in the media was [supposedly] offered a printed, bound copy of Potter #6 for $90k/US but they didn't take them up on it. I was rather disappointed. I figured they'd do it to expose a security leak. I wonder if they'd bought it for $90k, then put it on eBay, would they cover their original expense?
Make sure you know what you're talking about before you try to show off.
First, you have two types of errors which would likely introduce cascading errors; i.e. one typo and the comiler doesn't recover - it continues to toss out crap like a freshman pledge who was forced to binge prune juice during hell week.
Your mistakes not related to logic:
1) Your code needs to be all uppercase.
2) Your "sentence" didn't terminate with a period.
ADD NUM1, NUM1 GIVING RESULT.
Now for the logic error:
These two statements aren't the same thing:
C: a++;
COBOL: ADD NUM1, NUM1 GIVING RESULT.
This, however, is the same as the C statement:
COBOL: ADD 1 TO NUM1.
What your code does is this (algebraically):
RESULT = NUM1 + NUM1.
Now, if you want to pick on COBOL, try doing this: use a long WRITE statement, compile the source to assembler, then track down the location of that WRITE statement (use a literal string as part of the contents to be output to serve as a beacon). Depending upon the OS, compiler, version, and actual source, you may find a WRITE statement can easily exceed two (and frequently three) pages of assembler.
In terms of a source::instruction ratio, this is a perfect example of COBOL's "genetic" inefficiency but doesn't mean it's a bad boy. COBOL isn't a bits-n-bytes language and attempting to compare it to a language which is, is probably the sign of someone who really doesn't understand what they're talking about.
Someone on-air (as in local official) in London said (real-time) they were considering flipping the switch and killing all civilian cell activity.
Don't shoot the messenger - I can't attest to the veracity of that.
What I've found interesting is all of the information they've discussed which has been captured on all of the public cameras. From what they said today during the various press conferences, any repairs they make will include "that many more" cameras to watch for anyone trying to do this again.
No guns, invasion of privacy with cameras, what's wrong with these Britons?
oh. I almost forgot:;)
I've got some serious English heritage (can you say "Let's behead the King?") so I can't be too mean.
No frickin' kidding. Read the other messages, d(.)(.)d. As I mentioned in several other messages, we've already discussed that. The issue was his solution of arithmetic.
I'm guessing all of the people who are posting this over & over are the same ones who respond to every message posted to email lists in their inbox instead of reading everything, then responding to those left unanswered. Man, I miss the days before AOL was connected to the 'net.
I'd be willing to gamble Anders didn't have to take the test. And if so, as nothing more than a formality.
Then, via email, they sent me an ACTUAL test to take, which had only 3 questions on it, the first 2 I got right I am fairly sure:
1.) How to swap two variables (numeric) w/out using the (what I call it) "Father, Son, & Holy Ghost" technique of 3 variable placeholders...
(This was the easiest, & involved math, & easiest)
Generally, engine/algorithm I used was/is:
A=1
B=2
(Goal being A=2, & B=1, w/out using C as temp var)
B=A+B (3)
A=B-A (3-1 = 2, first swap complete)
B=B-A (3-2=1, second swap complete)
You get partial credit for this (in the real world), although most experienced people won't use that technique.
The reason?
What happens in step #1:
B=A+B
Suppose you have two sixteen-bit variables and you have to swap the variables which have the values 26'459 and 12'371?
hint: The sum is 38'830. Think about that compared to 32'767.
It's not just sixteen bits - that's just one example - it'll happen anytime you force an overflow error for the bounds of the variables.
You must be new here...online...in general (not necessarily Slashdot).
That's likely the oldest and easiest question|answer example which circulates whenever this topic pops up on practically every email list, newsgroup, or any other resource which has more than one programmer as a participant. Online or in "regular media". Particularly "regular media" because it's something non-technical people can deal with. Asking someone how many gas stations there are in the US would normally appear as the closer: and if you want a real toughie, try this one: "How many gas stations are there in the US? (and how did you arrive at your answer?)
No one said the answer wasn't real. Or perhaps you thought you were the only one here who knew it was true?
Stop by eBay and buy a clue.
(I'll pay for half of it.)
As I said elsewhere, why don't they ask questions to which they don't know the answers?
Q: When programming in C, how do you prevent buffer overruns?
(if they actually knew the answer to that they wouldn't have anywhere near the security issues they have.
Microsoft sure as hell didn't invent that one. It was old when it popped up on an assembler test I took in college, long before there was a Microsoft. "What does the following code sequence do?" (you'd be surprised at the answers people supplied)
No "What is Duff's Device?" "Name a practical use for it."
They'd be smarter to find people who know how to do things they don't know how to do - at least, their code & security indicates they don't know how to do this:
Q: "When programming in C, how do you prevent buffer overruns?"
This is one of the dumbest topics which pops up on a cyclic basis (not specically/.). And mainstream media doesn't help as they need to find filler material and either don't realize it's been published before or figure it's been long enough to do it again (like remakes of movies, although those are almost always crap: be forewarned - here's one scheduled for 2006, a schlocked version of the original: ???, Animal House is also on the assembly line. I've got a Schlock List of about fifty movies which I made about four or five years ago, waiting for them to be ruined for "this cycle".
These types of stories reporters must use are probably like some headhunters: set a timer in whatever office software they use to remind them when it's time to do it again.
People start tossing out the questions they've heard, what the "correct" solutions are, why they were asked. "Why are manhole covers round?", "How many gas stations are there in the US?", "How do you count the number of set bits in a particular register or variable?". "Why did Microsoft used to rate projects in terms of IQ points?" (Oh, we'll need 3000 IQ points for that project. 3000/150IQ - supposedly the standard IQ of Microsoft personnel = 20 people. Thank God they quit doing that.)
(I wonder how many questions involve Lateral Thinking and neither the 'softies nor the candidates realize it?)
Doesn't anyone find anything new about this subject?
"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
-William Henry Gates, III
#1: He was selling his modded Xboxs, instead of modding it for personal use,
#2: but what precedent does this set for casual homebrew gamers and importers?
Probably no more than the logic between #s 1 & 2 above. "He was selling" but "what does this mean for casual people".
I think he needed to think a bit before he submitted his story. I think a lot of people who submit poorly written copy to accompany stories are: 1) at their keyboards, sweaty palms with the anticipation their story will be posted; and|or 2) afraid someone else will find their link and they will get beat to the punch. Either way, it's time to type a few hasty sentences and click [submit].
So that means people who consider themselves smarter than the rest of the population can't remember a small number of exceptions, perhaps one? Now thatis sad.
The reason "why" is because it gives everyone else a bad name.
This: $25M estate is for sale. The guy who owned it was receiving $100M+ in compensation from the company he founded. ($ + stock) (he sold encyclopedia door-to-door as his last job before he founded the insurance company). He and another dozen+ suits were taking huge loans out of the company to load up on shares of stock. They bought a company which insured trailers (as in mobile home trailers - tornado magnets) and the company financially bounced pretty hard and most of them were tossed. They are now being pursued for repayment but are claiming they have no way to pay and will not declare bankruptcy.
The funny thing is, they would have kept the money had the stock paid off but they don't believe they owe anything because the stock didn't pay off. The best part is Hilbert (said estate above) claims he's spent all of his money and has nothing more than a handful of millions left - as an aside: a substantial number of donations were made before the financial issues - hospital wings, orchestra, athletic facilities, etc. Mysteriously, his wife seems to have two substantial estates across the street from each other in Florida, etc. The Hilbert family attorney claims she's permitted to have her own financial status and it's no one else's business. read that: they've stashed the money in her name.
Who is she? The second Mrs. Hilbert. She was the stripper at Mr. Hilbert's son's bachelor party. I'm not kidding. The only thing she shouldn't have taken off during her routine is the bag she had on her head. Have you heard the phrase, "Uglier than a mud fence?"
Oh, they've had two auctions to unload everything they left behind because it wouldn't fit when they moved into the biggest house they could afford around here - 9'000 ft^2 - $5M. Auction #2 The real estate sign advertises "55'000 ft^2 under roof!" The basketball court mentioned in the cited story is a to-scale replica of Indiana University's, down to the championship banners, scoreboards,...everything.
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Temporary or not, the point is it fell and hit something.
If something has enough weight|heft to it it can hit something and cause damage as it falls, it should be secured.
NASA admitted after the fact, that until the foam hit the fan, they never perceived it to be a danger to the shuttle. Considering how many decimal points these guys use in their calculations (not to mention the quality of their software - mind you, this is eight 1/2 years old: They Write the Right Stuff: The right stuff kicks in at T-minus 31 seconds.), you'd think they were a bit more careful than to have oops! moments.
If something should happen, people will remember that cover falling, no matter who tries to explain it away or what they say in the process.
One of the things tucked away in Gator's legal past is the fact they won a case when challenged over the right to strategically pop "their" ads over already visible ads. I don't remember all of they whys and wherefores.
One of the contentions raised on many blogs has been how people can claim it's patently obvious Microsoft will be charging for Microsoft Windows AV, which is what I think they will be calling it. In all honesty, it can be said they haven't announced it will be commercial although if it will be a free product, I don't think they would have any qualms about making such an announcement. There is, however, a suicide gene: death on December 31.
My prediction is there will be three flavors: Home, Professional, and Corporate|Enterprise. The Home, likely to be $29.99, $39.99, or $49.99, will be a plug-in for Outhouse^wOutlook and Outlook Express, although the demise of OE is waaaaaaay overdue, so it wouldn't be a surprise to see OE on the clash list. I'd say $39.99 is possible and $49.99 is the likely candidate.
Professional would likely cover Home + SMTP-based software, POP, and browser-based email such as HotMail, Gmail, Yahoo! mail. Perhaps NNTP? Or is that even an issue? It would make one tempted to say less because it's be kind to Microsoft week because they haven't declared it'll be commercial but I'll go out on a limb and say and say $79.99-$99.99.
Corporate|Enterprise is obvious - residing on exposed gateway servers. Price proportional to the number of protected seats.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
And when you can't avoid typing, use better "typing posture". For those who didn't take a proper typing class (my mom forced me to take a course when I was a sophomore[1] in high school so I would be self-sufficient for college term papers. Little did I know I'd be taking Summer courses in LISP and FORTRAN the following year.
Biggest tip: do not rest your elbows or wrists.
I'm willing to wager 99%[2] of the people at a keyboard do not do this and most of the people who have RPI have acquired it because they do rest either joint of their arms.
All that changing a keyboards (different contour, key layout, or both) is doing is changing the posture of your fingers | hands | wrists | elbows | arms. Save yourself the time and just discipline yourself a bit.
The other thing which has been cited in RPI articles is when people spent time moving back & forth between keyboard & mouse repeatedly; i.e. you're better off to use keystrokes as much as possible or mouse as much as possible, but constant switching is not a good thing.
__________________
[1] Yes, that's the correct spelling (for the spelling-challenged)
[2] Those five people who respond with claims they are the exceptions aren't going to disprove it.
As far as sale prices go, it's always amusing to watch everyone flock to Amazon and B&N. My general advice is to go to AddAll Book Shopping Bot . Now, if Amazon happens to float to the top, so be it, but I'm a comparison shopper.
If you want to see sad, go to the first site listed for the Potter #6 book. (Overstock) and look at the "reviews". Yes, there are "reviews" (believe it or not). Here's one of them <snicker>: Reviewer: lara from connecticut -- Harry potter is back again..on his 6th year...this book is bound to be... AMAZING!!!! Harry is coming closer and closer to his last year in Hogwarts, now we all await what surprises JK Rowling has waiting for us. This book is going to be the best!!!!</snicker>
WRT the marketing angle, if you aren't going to the book store to pick up a copy, turn on the local news - and you'll see what everyone else sees when they're picking up a copy: A Harry Potter FreeForAll Party.
I always thought the tv coverage of Star Trek conventions showed a lot of sad geeks, generally adults. With the Potter Parties, you've got entire families (sometimes nuclear and extended). All that's left is a Rocky Horror-like script to act out, props to throw around, and a dance ala The Time Warp. By the time they get this put together, the 7th, and final novel will be out and it will be for naught.
Several weeks ago, someone in the media was [supposedly] offered a printed, bound copy of Potter #6 for $90k/US but they didn't take them up on it. I was rather disappointed. I figured they'd do it to expose a security leak. I wonder if they'd bought it for $90k, then put it on eBay, would they cover their original expense?
Those aren't the same code.
Make sure you know what you're talking about before you try to show off.
First, you have two types of errors which would likely introduce cascading errors; i.e. one typo and the comiler doesn't recover - it continues to toss out crap like a freshman pledge who was forced to binge prune juice during hell week.
Your mistakes not related to logic:
1) Your code needs to be all uppercase.
2) Your "sentence" didn't terminate with a period.
ADD NUM1, NUM1 GIVING RESULT.
Now for the logic error:
These two statements aren't the same thing:
C: a++;
COBOL: ADD NUM1, NUM1 GIVING RESULT.
This, however, is the same as the C statement:
COBOL: ADD 1 TO NUM1.
What your code does is this (algebraically):
RESULT = NUM1 + NUM1.
Now, if you want to pick on COBOL, try doing this: use a long WRITE statement, compile the source to assembler, then track down the location of that WRITE statement (use a literal string as part of the contents to be output to serve as a beacon). Depending upon the OS, compiler, version, and actual source, you may find a WRITE statement can easily exceed two (and frequently three) pages of assembler.
In terms of a source::instruction ratio, this is a perfect example of COBOL's "genetic" inefficiency but doesn't mean it's a bad boy. COBOL isn't a bits-n-bytes language and attempting to compare it to a language which is, is probably the sign of someone who really doesn't understand what they're talking about.
you better verify the URI your tinyurl is pointing to...
Someone on-air (as in local official) in London said (real-time) they were considering flipping the switch and killing all civilian cell activity.
;)
Don't shoot the messenger - I can't attest to the veracity of that.
What I've found interesting is all of the information they've discussed which has been captured on all of the public cameras. From what they said today during the various press conferences, any repairs they make will include "that many more" cameras to watch for anyone trying to do this again.
No guns, invasion of privacy with cameras, what's wrong with these Britons?
oh. I almost forgot:
I've got some serious English heritage (can you say "Let's behead the King?") so I can't be too mean.
No frickin' kidding. Read the other messages, d(.)(.)d. As I mentioned in several other messages, we've already discussed that. The issue was his solution of arithmetic.
I'm guessing all of the people who are posting this over & over are the same ones who respond to every message posted to email lists in their inbox instead of reading everything, then responding to those left unanswered. Man, I miss the days before AOL was connected to the 'net.
That's already presented in other messages - no points for novelty. The point dealt with his claim of using addition and subtraction.
As I cited in another post, XOR was old when I saw it on a test in college a long, long time ago.
People weren't challeged with "swap two variables without using any other resources", they were shown the three steps and asked what the code did.
Yes, it means you get to work at Microsoft. Be there at 8am sharp on Monday. Get the mop & bucket out of the third door on the right.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory opens next Friday (15th)
What about every married Slashdotter?
To be picky, it's Mensa (not MENSA). It's not an acronym.
It's Latin for "table".
And no, I'm not defending Mensa - I was a Latin student a long time ago.
I'd be willing to gamble Anders didn't have to take the test. And if so, as nothing more than a formality.
Then, via email, they sent me an ACTUAL test to take, which had only 3 questions on it, the first 2 I got right I am fairly sure:
1.) How to swap two variables (numeric) w/out using the (what I call it) "Father, Son, & Holy Ghost" technique of 3 variable placeholders...
(This was the easiest, & involved math, & easiest)
Generally, engine/algorithm I used was/is:
A=1
B=2
(Goal being A=2, & B=1, w/out using C as temp var)
B=A+B (3)
A=B-A (3-1 = 2, first swap complete)
B=B-A (3-2=1, second swap complete)
You get partial credit for this (in the real world), although most experienced people won't use that technique.
The reason?
What happens in step #1:
B=A+B
Suppose you have two sixteen-bit variables and you have to swap the variables which have the values 26'459 and 12'371?
hint: The sum is 38'830. Think about that compared to 32'767.
It's not just sixteen bits - that's just one example - it'll happen anytime you force an overflow error for the bounds of the variables.
Just out of curiosity, how old are you?
As Dr. Phil would say, "Well Duh!".
You must be new here...online...in general (not necessarily Slashdot).
That's likely the oldest and easiest question|answer example which circulates whenever this topic pops up on practically every email list, newsgroup, or any other resource which has more than one programmer as a participant. Online or in "regular media". Particularly "regular media" because it's something non-technical people can deal with. Asking someone how many gas stations there are in the US would normally appear as the closer: and if you want a real toughie, try this one: "How many gas stations are there in the US? (and how did you arrive at your answer?)
No one said the answer wasn't real. Or perhaps you thought you were the only one here who knew it was true?
Stop by eBay and buy a clue.
(I'll pay for half of it.)
As I said elsewhere, why don't they ask questions to which they don't know the answers?
Q: When programming in C, how do you prevent buffer overruns?
(if they actually knew the answer to that they wouldn't have anywhere near the security issues they have.
"...but oh my god this is one of the oldies..."
Microsoft sure as hell didn't invent that one. It was old when it popped up on an assembler test I took in college, long before there was a Microsoft. "What does the following code sequence do?" (you'd be surprised at the answers people supplied)
No "What is Duff's Device?" "Name a practical use for it."
They'd be smarter to find people who know how to do things they don't know how to do - at least, their code & security indicates they don't know how to do this:
Q: "When programming in C, how do you prevent buffer overruns?"
Hear! Hear!
This is one of the dumbest topics which pops up on a cyclic basis (not specically
These types of stories reporters must use are probably like some headhunters: set a timer in whatever office software they use to remind them when it's time to do it again.
People start tossing out the questions they've heard, what the "correct" solutions are, why they were asked. "Why are manhole covers round?", "How many gas stations are there in the US?", "How do you count the number of set bits in a particular register or variable?". "Why did Microsoft used to rate projects in terms of IQ points?" (Oh, we'll need 3000 IQ points for that project. 3000/150IQ - supposedly the standard IQ of Microsoft personnel = 20 people. Thank God they quit doing that.) (I wonder how many questions involve Lateral Thinking and neither the 'softies nor the candidates realize it?)
Doesn't anyone find anything new about this subject?
"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
-William Henry Gates, III
You are preaching to the choir.
I love this snippet from the
#1: He was selling his modded Xboxs, instead of modding it for personal use,
#2: but what precedent does this set for casual homebrew gamers and importers?
Probably no more than the logic between #s 1 & 2 above. "He was selling" but "what does this mean for casual people".
I think he needed to think a bit before he submitted his story. I think a lot of people who submit poorly written copy to accompany stories are: 1) at their keyboards, sweaty palms with the anticipation their story will be posted; and|or 2) afraid someone else will find their link and they will get beat to the punch. Either way, it's time to type a few hasty sentences and click [submit].
Free David Hicks [fairgofordavid.org]
Betcha Mr. Hicks is receiving far better treatment than Schapelle Corby!
(Why is the rest of the world intent upon imprisoning Aussie citizenry?)
For the price involved - and if it was her toy - one would expect it to not only come with batteries, but spares to boot.
She had breasts?
(reviewing video)
I think those are mosquito bites.
So that means people who consider themselves smarter than the rest of the population can't remember a small number of exceptions, perhaps one? Now that is sad.
The reason "why" is because it gives everyone else a bad name.
punta.
And that gets filed under the bookmark "toy$" - for obvious reasons.
Q: What's the difference between:
a) the whole bowl
b) the entire bowl
c) the whole entire bowl?
Is this anything like:
a) the exact same thing
b) the same exact thing
c) exactly the same thing
????????
And whilst we're at it, why do computer people seem to think it's means belongs to it?
Sister or not, I've got a joke for her. It's so funny she'll laugh her t%ts off.
(looking back at the video...)
Wait...it looks like she's already heard it.
This: $25M estate is for sale. The guy who owned it was receiving $100M+ in compensation from the company he founded. ($ + stock) (he sold encyclopedia door-to-door as his last job before he founded the insurance company). He and another dozen+ suits were taking huge loans out of the company to load up on shares of stock. They bought a company which insured trailers (as in mobile home trailers - tornado magnets) and the company financially bounced pretty hard and most of them were tossed. They are now being pursued for repayment but are claiming they have no way to pay and will not declare bankruptcy.
...everything.
The funny thing is, they would have kept the money had the stock paid off but they don't believe they owe anything because the stock didn't pay off. The best part is Hilbert (said estate above) claims he's spent all of his money and has nothing more than a handful of millions left - as an aside: a substantial number of donations were made before the financial issues - hospital wings, orchestra, athletic facilities, etc. Mysteriously, his wife seems to have two substantial estates across the street from each other in Florida, etc. The Hilbert family attorney claims she's permitted to have her own financial status and it's no one else's business. read that: they've stashed the money in her name.
Who is she? The second Mrs. Hilbert. She was the stripper at Mr. Hilbert's son's bachelor party. I'm not kidding. The only thing she shouldn't have taken off during her routine is the bag she had on her head. Have you heard the phrase, "Uglier than a mud fence?"
Oh, they've had two auctions to unload everything they left behind because it wouldn't fit when they moved into the biggest house they could afford around here - 9'000 ft^2 - $5M. Auction #2 The real estate sign advertises "55'000 ft^2 under roof!" The basketball court mentioned in the cited story is a to-scale replica of Indiana University's, down to the championship banners, scoreboards,