I'm sure it means "old," but I like the idea of young people accidentally moving in to a retirement community in hopes of sexy fun times.
There is a place in town that sells "Adult" Milkshakes, but I never found any sex in mine.
Sounds like a good marketing pitch for Unfogged - "Active, Adult commenting."
I thought "Active Adult" was a term of art meaning "Retirement community, but not for anyone who needs serious services. Once you need nursing care, get out."
Is this a good time to mention my plan to put golf cart paths on the streets of Pittsburgh? We need to keep retirees from moving to Florida so the Medicare money stay here.
I'm pretty sure that means either sexually active, or old and not very active anymore
This sentence is ageist, and seriously out-of-touch with today's seniors. Wasn't there a study showing that single senior citizens today are more promiscuous than 20-somethings?
6: A study titled "Turning Geriatricks", I hope.
There is a place in town that sells "Adult" Milkshakes, but I never found any sex in mine.
As in, contains a shot?
6: I think it was just that STDs were increasing faster in senior citizens than in other groups.
7: D'oh.
9.1 Really? I thought I completely made it up.
My milkshake brings retirees to the bar,
And they're like
I get a senior discount,
Damn right I get a senior discount.
11 doesn't scan right in the third line.
12: Presumably it's covered under Medicare Part STD.
12: Thanks, Moby! Now that I know you have my back, I won't hesitate to make up facts!
How about, "Got my AARP card" instead of "I get a senior discount"? Of course, that only works if you say "arp" instead of "A.A.R.P."
I was singing "I get a" as a quick triplet in the same space as the original "it's", but I can see how that might escape a young honky like yourself.
Just the kind of cheap trick Hammerstein never used.
8: Probably more than just 1 shot. A lot of the flavor comes from the alcohol - the creme de menthe one was nice...
To be precise, I should have said the liquor, not the alcohol.
Shockingly they don't have a simple bourbon and vanilla ice cream shake...
I would guess it's "old people can't get pregnant so don't use condoms" rather than actually having more sex partners.
That's it. Let denial work its magic on your brain.
Presumably a lot more activity starting in 1998 as well.
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Moby (and anybody else) do you know of a decent web reference on nonlinear least squares? Particularly one that relaxes distribution assumptions?
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27: Sorry, but I don't. I've never done that type of work.
I'm trying to remember from my classes... would this be things like heteroskedastic distributions?
Using which keyword I get some lecture notes from someone unfamiliar.
29: yeah, and non-normal ones.
My understanding is that LB is basically right in 4. Basically the idea is that these complexes are age-restricted but don't provide any medical services. Municipalities in NJ love them, because they increase the tax base without increasing the number of children in the school system.
33: To veer slightly off topic, the municipalities love them but the schools hate them. We have one in my township that's about 10% of the voting population. They all vote, and they all vote no on the school budget and in favor of the most anti-shcool candidates, because their grandchildren don't live here and they don't want to spend any money on services they don't personally use. Greedy bastards.
34: Yeah, that's the usual unintended consequence of the municipalities trying to get all these things built. Once the old people are there, they vote, and their interests are generally pretty different from those of the original residents.
Has anybody tried letting them drive golf carts around a regular city instead of a Florida golf community?
I think NJ has at least one municipality that's basically just a golf course, so yes.
Do old retired people pay local taxes anyway? I thought pension income or capital gains income was just federally taxed.
Property taxes are still where most local governments get the money and old retired people pay that except if they live in California and bought a house in 1978.
39: I don't think you can really call Depends a tax.
38: I don't know if the age-restricted communities are usually rentals or condos, but either way someone owns them (whether that's the old people themselves or the landlords they rent from) and whoever that is pays property taxes.
36: If you're looking for examples of golf carts used as regular transportation, the best one I know of is New Harmony, Indiana.
Most of the urban mid-rise* housing in my area of Pittsburgh seem to be full of old people, but I don't think that is an official policy. It might not even be an accurate reflection of who lives there.
*I don't really know how many floors it takes to become high-rise or whatever, but these are mostly five to ten floor buildings.
Moby: have you considered altering your golf-cart scheme to include Gators? That would likely cement the support of the Ted Nugent-type demographic.
Most of the urban mid-rise* housing in my area of Pittsburgh seem to be full of old people
Is there a part of Pittsburgh for which this is not true?
They think they're not using local educations until they go to the store, or a local mechanic, or whatever.
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46: Downtown seems to draw a younger set to its tallish buildings.
Moby: dunno, was curious about how non-normal you could get.
43: Somebody should put that on the wiki page for the town.
50: Yeah, it's weird that there's no mention of it either there or (as far as I could tell) on the town website.
49: Non-normal and relaxing distributional assumptions are different things. For example, logistic or poisson regression have different distributional assumptions the linear regression but are very different from each other.
Anyway, here are some pictures of golf carts in New Harmony:
You really did take your time on your trip.
52: Soryr, that sailed by me. I think I know too little to even ask a good question of you. Thanks though.
It's hard not to, when your going by golf cart.
55: The Harmonists founded the Indiana town in between Western PA gigs at Harmony and Economy, respectively.
56: I wasn't trying to do that. If you've got enough cases, you can abuse the normality assumption a fair bit without doing too much damage.
That's good to know. I'll circle back when I've rectified some of my deficiencies--thank you.
58: I was aware of that, but I didn't make any efforts to seek out the PA towns. In fact, I wasn't actually intending even to stop in New Harmony (although I had considered it), but as it happened I was low on gas right as I got to it so I decided to stop to fill up and look around. Definitely worth it.
60: Your first question threw me off as I thought you were asking for an advanced modeling technique. What you need for a starting guide is probably here.
Since this thread has come to include some discussion of me and my travels, I suppose it's the best place to mention that I got a job in Alaska and will be heading up there in mid-September.
Good luck and don't get eaten by a bear.
You didn't get a bear-related job did you?
You didn't get a bear-related job did you?
Not really. It's with the National Park Service, but in a non-bear-related capacity. There will of course be bears around, however.
Moby and Annelid are actually talking about sex. They just have some elaborate code for it we don't understand.
68: Is it in a hat-wearing capacity? Because the hat suits you.
70: No, it's actually an internship through the Student Conservation Association (like what I did when I first started at Chaco), so since I won't be an official employee of the NPS I won't get to wear the uniform. I'm unsure if they have a different uniform for me to wear or if I don't need one. It's at the Regional Office in Anchorage rather than at a park, and I don't know if the people there have to wear uniforms.
Congrats, teo. Be sure to check in once The Last Frontier gets the interwebz.
Congrats Teo! Avoid the Palins, and the bears.
Are you going to be near some city?
Are you going to be near some city?
Yeah, I'll mainly be in Anchorage.
76: An ugly human habitation in a magnificent setting with more magnificence in every direction. I'm jealous It should be great.
The standard line is that Anchorage is great, because it is only about a half hour away from Alaska.
77, 78: Yeah, that's pretty much the impression I get of Anchorage (not having actually been there yet). Works for me.
Catalina Island has motorized transportation based almost exclusively on golf carts. Also, it's southern California, so everybody has their own golf cart, and drives it everywhere, solo. And all the houses are tiny. It's basically mini-LA.
Are you going via the inner passage? Because that would be a great trip.
Yeah, I feel like I should have a car up there, and the ferry seems like the most reasonable way to go. I will actually be driving through a small portion of Canada, since the ferries that go almost all the way to Anchorage are all booked up for vehicles.
Speaking of moving, I made my old man speed goal (3.4 miles in under 34 minutes) for the first time tonight. I credit clean living and cool weather.
71: Just wear a red shirt and khaki pants and people will ask you plenty of questions.
86: No, see, I don't want them to ask me questions. The uniform has other uses.
"What time do you get off work?" is a question.