BATMAN!!

... was the callsign of our short platoon. Instead of writing/reading page after page for my major, I was out in Adair getting cold and bruising my knees. To avoid getting too livejournalish, I just want to point out how important it is to expose yourself to opinions dichotomous to your own.





Oh, and knee-pads are yay.

MILLION-DOLLAR MURRAY

A cut and paste job, I found it a fascinating read:

Culhane then put together a database—the first of its kind—to track who was coming in and out of the shelter system. What he discovered profoundly changed the way homelessness is understood. Homelessness doesn’t have a normal distribution, it turned out. It has a power-law distribution. “We found that eighty per cent of the homeless were in and out really quickly,” he said. “In Philadelphia, the most common length of time that someone is homeless is one day. And the second most common length is two days. And they never come back. Anyone who ever has to stay in a shelter involuntarily knows that all you think about is how to make sure you never come back.”