Hot and muggy here too. Today there was an air quality warning issued in the state of Connecticut. Hartford is covered in smog.
Inara: We thought we lost you. Mal: Well, I've been right here.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
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.
Kate P. - Jul 19, 2005 9:33:56 am PDT #1137 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
-t - Jul 19, 2005 9:33:59 am PDT #1138 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I've never been to a Ruby Tuesdays, all I know about them is their ads, which feature hamburgers with shrimp on them. That's not appetizing.
I have completed the task that kept me from calling in sick this morning, yet I feel compelled to stay at work until 4. Stupid compulsion.
Jessica - Jul 19, 2005 9:34:24 am PDT #1139 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Wasn't there an article about people paying more than face value (when shipping is included) for this sort of thing?
Yep, that's why I suggested it.
P.M. Marc - Jul 19, 2005 9:35:44 am PDT #1140 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
msbelle, got it.
I like veggie Buffalo wings.
-t - Jul 19, 2005 9:37:54 am PDT #1141 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Vegetables don't have wings.
Then again, chicken don't have fingers.
lori - Jul 19, 2005 9:38:05 am PDT #1142 of 10002
I like veggie Buffalo wings.
I like the Morningstar Farm ones. Weird, yet yum.
Jessica - Jul 19, 2005 9:39:46 am PDT #1143 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Ms. McKellar, now a semiregular on "The West Wing" playing a White House speechwriter, Elsie Snuffin, is probably the only person on prime-time television who moonlights as a cyberspace math tutor.
Her mathematics knowledge extends well beyond calculus. As a math major at the University of California, Los Angeles, she also took more esoteric classes, the ones with names like "complex analysis" and "real analysis," and she pondered making a career move to professional mathematician.
"I love that stuff," Ms. McKellar said last month during a visit to Manhattan after a play-reading in the Hamptons. Her conversation was peppered with terminology like "epsilons" and "limsups" (pronounced "lim soups").
"I love continuous functions and proving if functions are continuous or not," she said.
She may also be the only actress, now or ever, to prove a new mathematical theorem, one that bears her name. Certainly, she is the only theorem prover who appears wearing black lingerie in the July issue of Stuff magazine. Even in that interview, she mentioned math.
§ ita § - Jul 19, 2005 9:40:51 am PDT #1144 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Real Analysis is not that esoteric! Dear, lord. However, the rest of the stuff is cool.
DavidS - Jul 19, 2005 9:45:08 am PDT #1145 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Heh. I love unexpected math nerds almost as much as closet rock and roll fans. (Though I already knew Danica had studied it in college.)
Unexpected Math Nerd: Phil Alvin, lead singer of The Blasters. He went back to grad school when the band ended.
Unexpected Rock Fan: June Lockhart, the mom on Lost In Space who had a huge Bowie poster over her bed in 1972.
Kathy A - Jul 19, 2005 9:47:26 am PDT #1146 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Didn't Heddey Lamarr (no, not Hedley!) help to invent sonar or some such WWII submarine thingy?