A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates

I was doing one of my random searches, I know it's been a long time! I'm sorry!

But as I was saying, Random search, this time my search reference was the word “Random” fancy that!

Then instead of doing the image search, I felt to mark the occasion I would instead, do a regular search thinking it would be something different.

Now, as I work with numbers all day the book that popped out at me was called “A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates” This intrigued me. I mean, the words; book, random and digits in the one sentence! I know, I know, I need help, or if not help, then a padded room!

But bare with me, I swear it will be worth it!

So I looked up the book on Amazon to see what they had to say and what the reviews were like, what can I say I was off on a tangent!

So here is the book and what it looks like inside:

Now, I know a lot of you will find the book in and of itself funny, But personally the funniest part of the book was the reviews on Amazon.

Here are but a few and if you want to see more just click here: Reviews

"Such a terrific reference work! But with so many terrific random digits, it's a shame they didn't sort them, to make it easier to find the one you're looking for."

"If you like this book, I highly recommend that you read it in the original binary. As with most translations, conversion from binary to decimal frequently causes a loss of information and, unfortunately, it's the most significant digits that are lost in the conversion."

And always save the best for last:

"The book is a promising reference concept, but the execution is somewhat sloppy. Whatever generator they used was not fully tested. The bulk of each page seems random enough. However at the lower left and lower right of alternate pages, the number is found to increment directly."

KPW Book of the Week

Hi All,

Christmas is really on it's way now... Everyone got their presents sorted yet?

No... Me neither! Whopps.

I swear every year I promise myself that I will get all my presents done before December rolls around but it just never seems to happen does it??

Well I did say that I was probably going to be late with this post this week, and I was half right. The readon I am late with this post is purely because I have been laid up in bed with the flu since Friday and I still really don't feel great but I new I had to get this out. The next few days in work are going to be crazy with the audit going on so I figured I better get it done now while I still can.

So this weeks nominee's for the KPW's Book of the Week are:

1)

The Christmas Throwaway by RJ Scott

2)

Cat's Pride by Stormy Glenn

3)

Back Roads (Haven, #4) by Gabrielle Evans

4) Broken Memories (In The Shadow Of The Wolf, #2) by Diane Adams, RJ Scott 5) Nija's Temptation (Christian's Coven, #2) by Lynn Hagen 6) I'll be your Drill, Soldier by Crystal Rose 7) Splash and Elegance (Midnight Matings, #13) by Gabrielle Evans

So many good books this week, Gotta love the series....

So the winner is:

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Christmas is a time for giving - what do you do when no one gives a damn?

For Zachary Weston Christmas means sleeping on a churchyard bench in the freezing snow with nothing better in his future. Thrown out of his home for being gay, he is left without money or, it seems, anywhere to go.

Until a stranger shows him that some people do give a lot more than a damn.

Ben Hamilton is a rookie cop in his small home town. He finds a young throwaway, fresh from the city, sleeping on a bench in the churchyard on a snowy Christmas Eve. Can he be the one to give Zachary his own Christmas miracle?

Congratulations RJ.
Lovely Christmas Story just in time for the holidays...

Author of the Texas Series:

1. The Heart of Texas
2. Texas Winter

I have read Heart of Texas and have given it 5 Kisses, I have Texas Winter in my To-Read shelf and will let you all know how it goes once I have read it.

KPW Book of the Week

Hi All,

Sorry for the late post this week. Weekends are starting to get busy coming up to Christmas now. These few weeks are always busy in work for me, 6 day weeks for the next while. The things we put up with so we can have the time off over the holidays...

Because of this and with the Book of the Year Countdown I'm going to be a little short on time over the coming weeks but I will strive to make sure I post my book of the week every week and get it posted on time as well. If I don't then I'll apologise in advance now...

In saying that I will go ahead and give you this weeks list.

So this weeks nominee's for the KPW's Book of the Week are:

1)

Forgotten Sins (Haven, #3) by Gabrielle Evans

 

2)

Dance with Me by Heidi Cullinan

3)

Confessions (Cattle Valley, #25) by Carol Lynne

4) Take it EASY by AKM Miles 5) Trials of Tam (The Larson Legacy, #1) by Amber Kell 6) Russell's Reversal by Stephani Hecht 7) Hot Head by Damon Suede

I have to say that it was very close this week.

 

So the winner is:

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Where there's smoke there's fire. . .

Since 9/11, Brooklyn firefighter Griff Muir has wrestled with impossible feelings for his best friend and partner at Ladder 181: Dante Anastagio. Unfortunately Dante is strictly a ladies' man and the FDNY isn’t exactly gay-friendly. For 10 years, Griff has hidden his heart in a half-life of public heroics and private anguish.

Griff’s caution and Dante’s cockiness make them an unbeatable team. To protect his buddy, there’s nothing Griff wouldn’t do… until Dante is nearly bankrupt and proposes the worst possible solution: HotHead.com, a gay-porn website where uniformed hunks get down-n-dirty… Now Dante wants them to appear there— together.

Griff may have to guard his heart and live out his darkest fantasies on camera. Can he rescue the man he loves without wrecking their careers, their families, or their friendship?

 

Congratulations Damon.
One of the best GFY M/M Romances I have read in a long time.
I hope there will be more in this series coming soon.

Author of the HardCell Series:

1. Seedy Business
2. Grown Men

I would also like to say a big Congratualtions to Damon on his nomination and becoming one of the finalists for this book in the Goodreads Choice Awards 2011. He has gone through 3 rounds of voting and is now in the Final Round of voting in the Best Romance Catagory. It was the only M/M book nominated in any of the fiction categories. So please everyone join me in congratulation Damon on this huge feat and wishing him all the luck for the Finals due to end on the 30th November.

Count Down To The KPW's Book of the Year

Ok so it's now we are nearly finished with November, all our US friends slowing down again for a little while after Thanksgiving and not too far away for Hanukkah and Christmas not to long after that for everyone which will lead us all into the New Year.

Therefore I'm going to start this festive season with a countdown to the KPW book of the year.

I will be posting a list of books everyday throughout the month of  December that I have read This Year and then on New Years Eve, I'll post the winner.

I'll be posting the Name of the book, the link for that book on GR, the author and the number of KPWKisses out of 5 that I gave it.

Good luck to all the authors and I hope everyone get's some good ideas for new books to read over the holidays.

KPW's Book of the Week

Hi All,
I hope everyone has had a good week this week, and a goof weekend planned.
Me, I'll be getting stuck into more books.

Ever had one of those weeks when you don't know if you want to scream, cry, curl up in a ball, or just laugh at the irony of it all? Yes??
Yea, me too! One of those weeks!
But what better way than to read a truck load of books to put it to the back of your mind.
That was my idea anyway as you will be able to tell from this weeks list, there are a few.

So this weeks nominee's for the KPW's Book of the Week are:

1)

I Spy Something Wicked, by Josh Lanyon

 

2)

Song of Oestend, by Marie Sexton

3)

Loving Tyler, by Winona Wilder

4) The Archer, by Abigail Roux 5) Sam's Reviews, by Jan Irving 6) Nothing to do With Pride, by Amber Kell 7) Tater's Bear, by Lynn Hagen 8)  Blood Contract, by Stormy Glenn

And the winner is:

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Rocked to the core by traitors and spies, the Organization made an unprecedented move in bringing together six highly trained men to track down one rogue wolf: The Archer.

There are three field agents: one at the top of his game, one hoping to retire, and another walking the line; a cold-blooded assassin who can use any weapon known to man; a demolitions expert who can't resist the allure of fire; and a computer hacker with more tricks in his mouse than Houdini. This team is made up of the best of the best, and if it can't succeed in this impossible mission, no one can. But no plan survives first contact with the enemy - especially when you can't even find out who he is!

Despite what a cluster the assignment is from the start, the six men try to get their act together to track down the rogue operative, and in the process they discover there's more to life than the next assignment. Now it's up to them to survive by working together and determining who the real traitor is: an unknown friend, a close-by enemy, or the Organization itself.

Congratulations Abigail. Excellent book, complex and intriguing characters. 

Author of the Cut and Run Series with Madeleine Urban:

1. Cut & Run
2. Sticks and Stones
3. Fish and Chips
4. Divide and Conquer

Unfortunetly it seems that Madeleine Urban will be giving up writing we all hope that Abigail will continue to to write such amazing stories like The Archer.

For Madeleine's Special Announcement please click here.