On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:26:25 -0400 Neal Bouffard 
writes:
> Barb Jernigan wrote:
> 
> >>Of course, I suppose that not everyone's as... musically 
> >>sensitive... as I am. ;)
> > 
> > Hey, at least the Chicken Dance didn't figure into that....
> 
> Oh aye, now I'll have that stuck in my head for hours.  Thanks, 
> tygress.

misery loves company and all that .... [besides, after the send-up in
Jimmy Neutron.... it's not QUITE the 'orrible fate that once it was]

(Or would you like Hey Good Lookin' in exchange? That's my tune du jour)

> 
> >>  Neal Bouffard, Head Systems Analyst, Dynacan Project
> > 
> > Whats a Dynacan? Or can you say?
> 
> It's a dynamic longditudinal microsimulation.  [Aren't you glad you 
> asked?]

=scratching head=
you've got virtual dancing maps -- itty bitty virtual dancing maps
[how many longitudes can dance on the head of a pin, huh?]

> Specifically, it's a big complex computer program that takes the 
> public access 
> 1971 Canadian Census data and using historical rates, advances the 
> population 
> to the current day, and then using the "official" projected rates 
> from the 
> Chief Actuaries, projects the population out into the future, 
> simulating 
> things like birth, death, migration, labour force participation, 
> retirement, 
> marriage (and divorce), etc, etc, etc.
> 
> And, also, my day job. :)

ah
and a great deal rides on this, so you hope that there's no 2+2 = 3.95
error in there.....

> >>  "Program: (n) A tool for converting useful data into error 
> >>messages."
> > 
> > LOL!  Though apparently I'd already lifted that from somewhere 
> (probably
> > you -- the line count is about right), tygress
> 
> So good you want to steal them a second time, I see? :)

hey, quality is quality.... maybe I just long for a matched set.

=grins=

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If it's not one thing it's your mother. --anon
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We must make peace with our karma... and apparently that does not involve
hitting it with heavy objects. --Barb Jernigan

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