he labelled his horizontal axis y.

He was lying down?

So very very wacky.

I mean, you can label your horizontal axis y, it doesn't hurt anything, but I've just never seen it done. Unless you were plotting something on that axis which started with y. On the other hand, maybe when it comes to higher-level math or physics, they do it all the time, and I'm just working with a pretty lay understanding.

Hmm. Well, I can think of a few times when I'd label the horizontal axis with y, usually when it's something in the middle of a problem with several variables. Just starting out by picking y to represent the independent variable seems a bit weird, though I'd bet there are a few fields where that's the convention. (That last bit is mostly because, whenever I've complained about any sort of weird notation, someone in the department has been able to name a field where that's the conventional notation.)

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(That last bit is mostly because, whenever I've complained about any sort of weird notation, someone in the department has been able to name a field where that's the conventional notation.)

Yeah, that's what I'm hedging against. But no, he seemed to be graphing only two variables... well. Actually, god only knows what they mean for him to be doing. But he drew a two-axis graph and then they did a close-up on him writing a y next to the horizontal line. Eh, it doesn't matter. Just weird, was all.

Susan:

Yeah, 1987 was my sophomore year of h.s., and I was the slave of peach shirts from Ups N Downs, the most slammin' boutique in the mall.

I look GHASTLY in peach, and I think the year of peach is when I started to defy trends that make me look bad.

Of course, I still bought the black sweater with the giant multicolored parrot on the back and paisleys on the front, AND a Swatch tshirt AND jeans with giant caggage roses on them.

But my junior year I discovered black, and my senior year slutty colored bras. Much better.

Thankfully, I have always, ALWAYS eschewed neon.

The post office web site should tell you which is which.

It didn't say anything obvious. So I went to the largest one near me. Which has a really not obvious sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 listing the 13 SoCal post offices open past 7.

I thought about it for quite a while, and put my $32 in the mailbox anyway and came home.

We'll see.

Sadly, I was hardly the only one there, and not all of them noticed the sign.

If only I'd seen your post before I left, and maybe I'd be over hooking up your phone.

And you can't prove anything different.

I think you should be able to PayPal the IRS.

I think you should be able to PayPal the IRS.

You are very right.

You should also be able to gamble on the amount you owe at the IRS website. And you should be able to get your refund in porn.

ION, I just saw Sarah Vowell give a reading. I now have a new secret celebrity girlfriend.