I get it! Yay!
Phew.
Oh, and when my dad gave the Tao of Physics, I rolled my eyes and paraphrased the encyclopedia entry, like I was supposed to.
Signed,
Been Working To Expectation Since 1979
I've got two words that are going to make all the pain go away. Miniature Golf.
Mayor ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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.
Jesse - Apr 18, 2005 5:31:30 pm PDT #6732 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
amych - Apr 18, 2005 5:31:41 pm PDT #6733 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
This SO makes my head hurt.
Translations:
"natural numbers": apples and oranges. Actual, physical things that you can count on your fingers, even if you never lost parts of your digits to frostbite*. Not decimals, or fractions, or negative numbers -- just the actual pieces of fruit. So if you try to take away more widgets than you have, you've got none left, end of story.
"closed set" is a little trickier: you say that a set is closed under a particular operation** if you can do that thing between any two members of the set without things going kablooey. You can add any two quantities of fruit and get more fruit, without slicing or dicing or buying anything on credit. You can slash any two male AtS characters.
* Now that I think of it, it was negative temperatures that led to my "numbers below zero don't exist" fight with Mrs. Wossname. Huh.
** Ugly, UGLY English. I know this. I cannot excuse it.
(doubtless x-posty.)
Betsy HP - Apr 18, 2005 5:58:11 pm PDT #6734 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Huh. Never heard of Madeleine Smith. Sounds a lot like Strong Poison, though, doesn't it?
When Bunter walks in on Wimsey, who has just solved the mystery, one of the books Wimsey was reading was the Madeleine Smith trial. A classic, if you like arsenic and middle-class mayhem.
Jessica - Apr 18, 2005 6:01:21 pm PDT #6735 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Ooh. I know what that means! My mathematical education hasn't completely disappeared.
Me too! Hooray for residual math-brain!
[And...it would have been a lot smoother had I posted this before the explanations went up. Oh well.]
Lee - Apr 18, 2005 6:05:25 pm PDT #6736 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Yay, I'm still in time to say b Happy Birthday Beth and Beej.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 18, 2005 6:09:33 pm PDT #6737 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Did you all know that Mary Queen of Scots had porphyria? Wicked!
Sure, that's what they say now. Note that Elizabeth had her decapitated...
Emily - Apr 18, 2005 6:17:42 pm PDT #6738 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
[And...it would have been a lot smoother had I posted this before the explanations went up. Oh well.]
'sokay. I believe you.
quester - Apr 18, 2005 6:24:29 pm PDT #6739 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Did we know that Robert Reich (sp?) former Secretary of Labor, currently on TDS, is a little person?
Strix - Apr 18, 2005 6:25:55 pm PDT #6740 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
And also -- dude, I knew about King George III and the madness, but I didn't know he had porphyria! Did you all know that Mary Queen of Scots had porphyria? Wicked!
I knew this.
Knew, because I've killed a few brain cells tonight, and I may not know in the morning.
Emily - Apr 18, 2005 6:26:27 pm PDT #6741 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
And a lovely good liberal, too.
But yes, very short.