Marshall's backstory?
Uh, he lived with his mom back when he was SD-6's tech guy. Then when the CIA busted SDD-6 he came to work for them, met Carrie, got married, had the baby.
Also, you can tell it's not gonna have a happy ending when the main guy's all bumpy.
Tara ,'First Date'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sumi - Mar 30, 2005 5:45:40 pm PST #1720 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Frankenbuddha - Mar 30, 2005 5:51:04 pm PST #1721 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Marshall's backstory?
Damn, that's a little more than I wanted to know, but not what I was hoping, so it's OK.
I'd hoped he'd been a geek friend of Sydney's from college who ended up working with her (a la Willow, Xander, et al.). Oh well - he ROCKED tonight.
Kristen - Mar 30, 2005 5:57:45 pm PST #1722 of 10001
I'd hoped he'd been a geek friend of Sydney's from college who ended up working with her
Nah. Then he'd be dead. Or in Wisconsin.
Kat - Mar 30, 2005 6:16:14 pm PST #1723 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
The Adirondack chairs at Cost Plus were expenisve.
Dead or in Wisoncsin.... Must mean we are referring to Will Tippen.
Emily - Mar 30, 2005 6:41:03 pm PST #1724 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Any of the Buffista actuaries around? (Or other financial professionals?)
Pix - Mar 30, 2005 6:42:48 pm PST #1725 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Any of the Buffista actuaries around? (Or other financial professionals?)
I don't suppose a girl who likes the cha-ching sound Quicken makes when you enter a transaction counts, does it?
tommyrot - Mar 30, 2005 6:44:47 pm PST #1726 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm an almost-actuary, quasi-financial professional. So I'll give you an answer, until someone else produces a better one.
tommyrot - Mar 30, 2005 6:46:39 pm PST #1727 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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Emily - Mar 30, 2005 6:51:35 pm PST #1728 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Well, not for the purposes I was thinking, I'm afraid. (ETA that I was actually replying to Kristin's question.)
Basically, I need to design an Exhibition assignment for a high school math class, and I was looking for ideas. I've been kicking around a couple of ideas -- pick two social issues you can quantify (women entering medical school and incidences of gun violence, for a wild example) and check to see if there's a statistical correlation, discuss your answer and its implications and the margin of error, etc; pick from a list of mathematical treatises I provide, and, doing as much research and asking for help as you need, translate it into understandable language and talk about what was going on in mathematics at the time it was written (and, if relevant -- and it probably is -- larger cultural issues). But I was wondering if there'd be something the people who do math for a living could suggest. I was looking to see if there'd be any way to have kids try to do a radically simplified bit of forensic accounting, but I know too little about it to even find out.
Anyway, I'm looking for suggestions, is what I'm saying, and actually anyone's welcome to try.
tommyrot - Mar 30, 2005 6:56:33 pm PST #1729 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
That sounds interesting - and challenging, for a high school class.