A little logic puzzle to start your weekend

This is called the "Monty Hall problem":

Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?

My assault on Evite

After receiving an email from evite.com today, I came to the realization that Evite actually really annoys me. Let me outline how I see the good (there IS some) and the bad.

The Good:

• Effective way to tell everyone you're having a social function and that they are invited. Of course, a mass email accomplishes the same function.

The Bad:

• I have to navigate away from the email to the actual content of the invite. Boo. Some of the communications at work are like this now and it's a major piss off.
  
• If I reply Yes or No, then everyone else who's been invited knows whether I'm going or not. I don't like that. The host is the only one who needs to know.
  
• Even if I tell the host through other methods (direct converation, chat, email) that I'm coming, there's still the expectation that you're going to go to the damn site and click 'Yes'. People will hound you until you do.
• Even after you've selected, Evite will continute to mail you about the event. (Yes! I remember about the party and I remember if I said I was going! Go away!)

Of course, this diatribe is coming from the guy who sent a mass email as his wedding invitation so it shouldn't come as much of a surprise, right? So go ahead and continue to send me Evites if that's what you like.. just expect me to contact you directly instead of filling out the silly form.

I just don't get it...

I usually keep an open mind about stuff and almost always respect the opinions of others. But this past week, I've been made aware of an issue that I just can't relate to at all. And in vey not typical Scott behaviour, I really think something is wrong with these people. What am I referring to, you ask?

Guys that *prefer* short hair on women.

For definition's sake, let's say short implies above the chin.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying all women with short hair look BAD, I know many with short hair that look great. It's simply that I feel it would look better long, that's all.

I've had two female friends this week tell me that their partners (to keep things as generic and anonymous as possible) have either asked them to cut it short or implied that they prefer it cut short. These women have gorgeous long hair and they like it long. For the life of me I can't figure out why their guys want to ruin it. My only guess is that they're thinking "Now that she's mine, I'll try to make her look like as much like a boy as possible so no other man wants her.. bwahahahaha" but that just seems silly.

I know 80% or more of my readership is female, so it'll be a challenge to get a guy's opinion on the matter.. but could someone try to explain to me why a guy would like such short hair (remember, above the chin) on a woman?



By the way, your hair looks great, Leslie. :P