{"id":1656,"date":"2003-10-29T10:35:42","date_gmt":"2003-10-29T14:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/10\/29\/dowbrigade-for-dummies\/"},"modified":"2003-10-29T10:35:42","modified_gmt":"2003-10-29T14:35:42","slug":"dowbrigade-for-dummies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/29\/dowbrigade-for-dummies\/","title":{"rendered":"Dowbrigade for Dummies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1644'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"410\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/dummmies.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"248\" align=\"left\">True<br \/>\n        or false &#8212; From &#8221;Calculus for Dummies&#8221;: Regarding the infinite, if<br \/>\n        you consider the series 0.1 + 0.01 + 0.001, etc., and if you go out far<br \/>\n        enough, you&#8217;ll find a number with so many zeros to the right of the decimal<br \/>\n        point that even if each zero were as small as a proton, there wouldn&#8217;t<br \/>\n        be enough room in the entire universe to write it down. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/news\/983393.asp?0sl=-41\">from the Boston<br \/>\n          Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article got me thinking about other Dummies and Idiots books I<br \/>\n        would like to read. The Dowbrigade has MUCHOS areas that need work, and<br \/>\n        fits the description to a &quot;T&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>1) Complete Idiot&#8217;s Guide to programming your VCR &#8211; <em>Just in time<\/em><\/p>\n<p>2) How to find the G-Spot for Dummies &#8211; <em>With a road map for guys<br \/>\n        who hate to stop and ask for directions<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>3) Procrastination for Dummies &#8211;<em> I know I&#8217;d read it sometime<\/em><\/p>\n<p>4) Complete Idiots Guide to Getting into Harvard &#8211; <em>I have numerous candidates<br \/>\n        to author this one<\/em><\/p>\n<p>5) Ventriloquism for Dummies &#8211; <em>Turnaround is fair play<\/em><\/p>\n<p>6) Running for Office for Dummies &#8211;<em> A wealth of experience to draw on<\/em><\/p>\n<p>7) The Complete Idiots Guide to Divining the Future &#8211; <em>This one actually<br \/>\n        exists, but the title was so good I included it anyway.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>8) Complete Idiots Guide to Admitting You&#8217;re Wrong &#8211; <em>desperately needed<\/em><\/p>\n<p>9) Complete Idiot&#8217;s Guide to Hip Hop Lyrics &#8211; <em>Is Mack good or bad<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>10) Enlightenment for Dummies &#8211; <em>I&#8217;ve been trying to crack this nut for<br \/>\n        years<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True or false &#8212; From &#8221;Calculus for Dummies&#8221;: Regarding the infinite, if you consider the series 0.1 + 0.01 + 0.001, etc., and if you go out far enough, you&#8217;ll find a number with so many zeros to the right &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/29\/dowbrigade-for-dummies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}