First of all, what you’re about to read has almost nothing to do with statistics, but it really made my day.  Go ahead and check out these next two pictures from facebook.  Make sure to pay attention to the captions!

Now look at that “jerk who thinks he’s writing the next Pulitzer”.  What a jerk right? It’s me!

So someone took a picture in Starbucks that I happened to be in the background of and posted it to facebook.  Someone who was friends with the person who took the picture and recognized me and showed me the pictures.  I got a little bit of a kick out of this. But then the comments. Pure gold:
Several things here:

1) It took me 6 months to grow this “beard”.

2) He’s dead on with the year of the shorts, but even if my shorts were “ill-fitting”, how could that be concluded from these pictures.

3.) I literally didn’t say a word to the person in the picture.

4.) I was writing R code.  (Which I guess is pretentious?  I’m not really good with words, which I guess is gonna make it hard to “win the next Pulitzer”.)

5.) If you know western Mass, it probably wouldn’t surprise you that this was in Longmeadow.

Cheers!