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It was recorded for the Catching Fire soundtrack. I was wondering when it would start showing up in trailers.

I have all of these things! If you get an XLR mic go for the XLR to USB converter (I have a Blue Icicle and it works great). I also have an XLR to minijack cable but it's noisy as heck over my sound card. Possibly because my toddler enjoys stuffing things in the minijack port...

That said, if I didn't have the XLR mic to start with I would have just got a USB mic instead of the XLR to USB converter.

Trey, I'm going to call you on being part of the problem here. It's not just about spoiling plot points (of which you have revealed none), it's about spoiling the experience by building expectations the show has not. Let's keep our snickers in the other thread.

Faldor made me miss playing Faery Tale Adventure, Drip, and SimCity (the first one) on my dad's Amiga.

Also contains Tom Hiddleston

A return to the Storm of Swords level of action-packing would be welcome. The last two seasons on HBO have reminded me just how much was in that book.

Oh god, I just got to Teague's totally botched explanation of Benford's law. Please excuse me while I ramble, because Benford's law is my jam.

So it turns out that about a 30% of measured numbers have a first digit of one. It's true for populations, sizes of stars, country areas, physical constants, stock prices, and numbers on tax returns. The second most likely starting digit is two (18%), followed by three (13%) and so on down to nine (5%).

This totally blew my mind when I first learned of it. It makes no intuitive sense at all.

It's hard to explain why it's true, but it best applies to sets of data that cross multiple orders of magnitude and that grow and shrink exponentially. The way I think of it is by how much (relatively) you have to change a number to change the first digit. If you have a number starting with a one, say 15, and add or remove 20% (3) you'll have 18 or 12, still starting with a 1. If you start with a number starting with a nine, say 95, and add or remove 20% (19) you end up with 114 or 76, both having different starting digits. Starting with a one is more 'sticky' to adjustments than higher digits.

What Teague was trying to say is that you can potentially spot tax fraud by looking at the distribution of first digits on a tax return. People tend to think all digits are equally likely when they're making up numbers, so the first digit distribution on a made-up return would be uniform instead of the (correct) skewed one.

Teague gets part marks for at least knowing the distribution exists. Now we all know more about how to avoid audits.

They've been holding off showing the Ironborn kingsmoot because Daario is really Euron in disguise.

/tinfoil

Into The Woods is one of the few musicals I would happily see again despite having seen at least 3 different renditions already. It was the first musical I ever saw. It was either the Junior version, or I just got taken home half way through. I still have a framed copy of the poster. Blew my mind when I got the soundtrack later and it had twice as many songs.

Not sure I'm going to see the Disney version if they're making choices like cutting the narrator.

I've been watching quite a few more documentaries after succumbing to a Netflix subscription. I enjoy them for the in-depth exploration of subjects I've barely thought about. Good Hair was one that I liked precisely for that reason. Hit me with a recommendation

I had a fountain pen at one point. It had gorgeous green ink. I bet it's still at my parent's house somewhere...