Since I've been complaining about Stat a lot, I figured I would explain why its boring and annoying. (But not useless). So say you make lightbulbs. (Not a big stretch as one of the professors works at GE's lightbulb plant). You want to test them, but you can't test everyone. Instead you have to test some. But how do you know if the ones you tested are a good representation of the total you're busy shipping? How many do you test? How do you know something is wrong or is it just a once every few million type problem you've caught?

Ok, so you want to answer all of these questions. Now sit down with a book and a pile of insane little equations and plug and chug. yeah, thrilling. then you end up learning that with 95% confidence, said lightbulb needs to be tested at a rate of 200 per batch, and will somehow still have way too many defects. Get the idea why this is useful, but anyone who wants to work in production and control is beyond me. its boring as hell and just generally well futzy.

so i didn't buy anything. but i did make macaroni and cheese. which normally is just cheese dumped on macaroni. i was getting fancy. so i had the organic natural macaroni stuff from the co-op, which i combined with an actual sauce. because Alton Brown on good eats said to make it that way. well without actually having key ingredients like flour (i think i left my wondra in rochester...) or evaporated milk, it got hard to follow his directions. so to end a long story, i combined it with the cheese and amazingly cool tellecherry pepper i got at the market, which ended up with a sauce that was liquid with the normal lumpy pile of cheese in the middle. it did however have much more taste and such then it usually does, so i'll call it a middle success. same messed up texture, better flavor, but lots more work.

time for bed, i'm sure that was more macaroni and cheese then you cared about. but if you have complaints, post a message or tell me. otherwise maybe tomorrow i'll go on about pierogis for three hours as after i finish said mac leftovers, there's pierogis defrosted that are lonely. (hopefully i won't burn them this time... but at least i can scrape off the non-burnt part and still eat them, much more effective then toast)