{"id":2966,"date":"2013-01-30T04:32:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T09:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/?p=2966"},"modified":"2013-01-30T04:33:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T09:33:53","slug":"what-statisticians-do-after-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/what-statisticians-do-after-work\/","title":{"rendered":"What Statisticians Do After Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/afterwork.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2967\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/afterwork-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Me with St. Madness\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/afterwork-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/afterwork-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It is the International Year of Statistics so all statisticians are obligated to tell you why statistics are so rocking awesome. Here is my two cents worth\u00a0 &#8211; I&#8217;m not a morning person. No, you have NO idea. I feel bad about it sometimes when I am having my lunch break at 10:30 pm, but that&#8217;s just the way I am. As soon as I could work it out\u00a0 &#8211; which was about two years into my career &#8211; I never worked an 8-5 job again. I&#8217;ve been up before 8 a.m. exactly once in the past six months &#8211; to go to a workshop on using games to teach statistics. I normally roll out of bed somewhere around the crack of noon and then work for the next 14 hours straight because that is how I like my life.<\/p>\n<p>So, today, since <a href=\"http:\/\/americanhorrors.com\/\">Hart Fisher, host of American Horrors,<\/a> invited me to their Christmas party in North Hollywood, it was perfect timing. I knocked off work a little early, knocked off a couple of beers around midnight and then armbarred a zombie while the devil took my picture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/devil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2968\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/devil-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"Devil's business card\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/devil-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/devil.jpg 542w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See, you thought I was kidding about the devil but I got his business card as proof.<\/p>\n<p>There you have it then, young people, yet another reason to become a statistician &#8211; you can arrange your hours to accommodate your biological clock, which, in my case, seems to be set on Vampire Time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_detailpage&amp;v=Pmkld3qreRE\">You can listen to the band, St. Madness, here.<\/a> I thought they were quite good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the International Year of Statistics so all statisticians are obligated to tell you why statistics are so rocking awesome. 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