It's sloooooooooow as molasses, but I actually logged in and replied to someone's LJ.

Wooo.

I'm sure they'll be swamped.

Curse them, hoarding the preciousss.

Oh thank god LJ is back!

Cindy -- there are meds for panic attacks that are taken only as needed. When my panic attacks were really bad several years ago I was taking Klonopin as needed. It's starts working right away and I don't think it stays in your system very long. I'd take anywhere from a 1/4 of a pill to a whole pill depending on what I felt I needed.

Also, can anyone direct me to a decent torrent site, I've been trying to get Lost for 2 days now and I'm getting pissed (it's 35% finished and that's from last night).

I have trouble with math, I wish I understood it better, but I pretty much missed my chance at that.

Today I went shopping, the mall was having a sidewalk sale. Lane Bryant was pretty much cleaned out, I'm going to try the one at th eother mall. What they did have was mostly spring clothes. SPRING.

Granted I live in Florida and it's been annoyingly hot but it's still January. There are still some cold months left and I need some sweaters. Of course almost all LB's sweaters this year (at least the ones here) were turtlenecks, which are incredibly unflattering. I wish there was another good choice for plus size clothes here.

Also, went to Eddie Bauer, they are closing their store here (I think maybe they are closing several stores) and everything was 50% the marked price, which was already marked down. I finally finished getting my brother stuff -- an fantastic jacket for $40 (orignially $105). Plus another little fleecey jacket thing. He totally loved them.

Tomorrow I have to run to work becuase I forgot to call someone and I don't have their number.

Also tomorrow my brother goes back to NZ. I've really loved having him around, but we didn't get to spend a lot of time together -- not as much as I wanted--but we got along the best we have in decades.

And now I've posted in mine.

Only took 15 minutes and one refresh of post data, but by god...

Also, can anyone direct me to a decent torrent site

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Thank you P-C!!

engineering

OK, this is the field in which I have a problem with the idea of imaginary numbers. No one better be making a real bridge--that I have to drive my real self over in my real car with real death awaiting if the bridge gets all fubar'd--using math involving imaginary numbers.

If engineers have to plug in numbers that don't exist--basically grabbing a random figure out of thin air and saying 'hey, this'll do'[1]--to solve the calculus involved in figuring out the area under the curve of a bridge, how can you ever be sure the bridge is actually going to work?

My brain, she does not grasp it.

[1] If it doesn't exist in the first place, what's stopping i from being any possible number? What's stopping it from being zero and cancelling everything out? Who gets to decide what value a non-existent number takes?

How do use that site? Do ihave have to download something to make it work?

You can email me at eringriggs at hotmail dot com

If it doesn't exist in the first place, what's stopping i from being any possible number? What's stopping it from being zero and cancelling everything out? Who gets to decide what value a non-existent number takes?

i isn't just any imaginary number, it's a particular one, with particular properties within the number system. It can't be zero, because i squared is -1, while 0 squared is 0. (And non-existant isn't the same as imaginary. Imaginary numbers "exist" as much as any other number does.)

basically grabbing a random figure out of thin air

1) It's not a random number, it's the same as any symbol used to represent something. We use letters to represent the sounds we make. Just because Arabic doesn't look like English, doesn't mean it's not language.

2) It follows specific rules. It works one way and one way only. Just like 2 will always be 2.

So, your bridge is not going to fall down because of the math. It will fall down because the contractor is a cheap shit who used materials that did not meet the engineers carefully laid plans.