Friday night techno plan

It's been a while since I put up a techno alert up here, but I believe I have a good one this time: Konrad Black, Nordic Soul, and Riz tomorrow night, Friday, the 18th at LoFi Gallery. $10 in advance at Brown Paper Tickets.

Just how many queers are in my group?

I'm the only queer that I know of in my group. One night last week I finally succumbed to curiosity and wrote a Powershell script to compute the binomial distribution. (Yeah, it took a little stats refresher on Wikipedia to remind me that was the right distribution.) What probability was I trying to compute? The probability that there are other GLBT people in my 150-person group at work.

Even if you use 2.5% for the probability of being queer, which is at the low end of credible estimates, the probability of another queer is over 89%. If you use 4%, you get 98%.

I now have it on good authority that I'm in fact not alone.