That's because math is SO COOL! And the serial comma is an element of dogma.
Buffy: How bored were you last year? Giles: I watched 'Passions' with Spike. Let us never speak of it.
'Beneath You'
Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains
Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.
Emily - Jul 21, 2005 9:11:33 pm PDT #3688 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
KernelM - Jul 21, 2005 11:29:16 pm PDT #3689 of 10001
Ankh-Morpork Watchman, Dreamer, Scooby, Minister of Grace, Still Flyin' in a Zoo2 World
Math geek sense... tingling.
Mmm... math.
Shall we talk about the analytic and algebraic topology of locally Euclidean parameterizations of infinitely differentiable Riemannian manifolds?
dcp - Jul 22, 2005 2:02:07 am PDT #3690 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Bozhe moi!
This...I know...from nothing. What...I'm going...to do?
I think of great Lobachevsky and get idea--Aha!
DXMachina - Jul 22, 2005 3:41:10 am PDT #3691 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I have a friend in Minsk,
Who has a friend in Pinsk...
tianxiaode - Jul 22, 2005 4:23:29 am PDT #3692 of 10001
Adrian Pasdar: bringing hot (and ambiguously gay) to a new level since Top Gun.
You know what's sad?
Tom Leher is as deep as I get into math.
- happily plays in sandbox for fine arts degrees*
DXMachina - Jul 22, 2005 4:28:56 am PDT #3693 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Base 8 is just like base 10, really...
...if you're missing two fingers.
Gandalfe - Jul 22, 2005 5:15:43 am PDT #3694 of 10001
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Holy Jebus. People randomly quoting Tom Lehrer. I feel truly and completely home.
KernelM - Jul 22, 2005 5:29:55 am PDT #3695 of 10001
Ankh-Morpork Watchman, Dreamer, Scooby, Minister of Grace, Still Flyin' in a Zoo2 World
Well, I was just going to post random mathematical jargon of my own devising ("whether the cardinal number aleph-one is equal to c, the cardinality of the reals, is undecidable in Zermelo-Frankel set theory"), but then I realized, why not Tom Lehrer?
Which, I think, is a query posed far too infrequently.
JZ - Jul 22, 2005 5:32:28 am PDT #3696 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
This is either further proof that DX's and my sooper seekrit internet love was MEANT TO BE, or possibly that I'm even dorkier than anyone ever imagined, but when I was 10 I became obsessed with patter songs and memorized the entirety of "New Math" just to see if I could do it. And I just now quizzed myself on it in the kitchen while steaming milk for the coffee, and it's all still there.
shrift - Jul 22, 2005 6:26:21 am PDT #3697 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Did we know the Serenity novelization is being written by Keith DeCandido?
Huh. Well, it could be worse, but it would've been better if it had been written by, say, Joss or Tim or Jane. But then, most things are.