Vegetables don't have wings.
Then again, chicken don't have fingers.
You know, I've saved lives. Dozens. Maybe hundreds. I reattached a girl's leg. Her whole leg. She named her hamster after me. I got a hamster. He drops a box of money, he gets a town.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
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.
-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
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?
Connie Neil - Jul 19, 2005 9:51:41 am PDT #1147 of 10002
brillig
Lyra Jane - Jul 19, 2005 9:51:42 am PDT #1148 of 10002
Up with the sun
I am in receipt of a $50 certificate for TGI Friday's ... I'm still not sure what to do with it.
Booze, in the form of froofy drinks, is the only answer, I think.
bon bon - Jul 19, 2005 9:53:20 am PDT #1149 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
"I love continuous functions and proving if functions are continuous or not," she said.
I don't remember math very well, but it feels like I learned this.
ETA: this is a snippet of a longer post where I complained about overblown claims for famous people's intelligence, so I meant to say, is that really that hard?
Jesse - Jul 19, 2005 9:54:06 am PDT #1150 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Friday's isn't so cheap that $50 would last long. Unless that's just the Special Manhattan Pricing. I went in one a couple of years ago, and was SHOCKED. We left and went to a pub.