Buffy ,'Empty Places'
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.
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.
Didn't Heddey Lamarr (no, not Hedley!) help to invent sonar or some such WWII submarine thingy?
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.
"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?
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.
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I just lifted a box and caught the edge on my big toenail. There's a big chunk missing now, and I have no nail file.
Hedy Lamarr sketched out the concept behind cellular channels, during WWII. The Dept. of War politely declined her contribution, but yeah.
Didn't Heddey Lamarr (no, not Hedley!) help to invent sonar or some such WWII submarine thingy?
Frequency hopping guidance system for torpedoes, according to this site:
OK, people, it's time to start complaining.
Few Protests Over Theater Ads, Say Movie Chains
Despite numerous published commentaries of late about how movie theater ads are driving away patrons, exhibitors maintain that they have received few complaints from the public about them and that many moviegoers actually like them. Pam Blase, a spokeswoman for AMC Entertainment, which operates the country's second-largest movie chain, told the Houston Chronicle that the chain receives one complaint for every 600,000 guests. Terrell Falk of Cinemark USA, the nation's third-largest chain, added that recent research concluded that filmgoers regard ads as "just part of the experience." His remarks were echoed by Jim Kozak, editor-in-chief of In Focus, the magazine of the National Association of Theater Owners. "When [patrons] get there early to get a really good seat, they like to have something to keep them busy, something to do besides talk to the person they came with."