Cross products?

Um. Vector multiplication. Like torque? Or spin? You can describe, for example, which way a cat is curled by curling your right hand in the same way, heel of hand by the tail and fingers at the nose. If your thumb points up, the cat is spin up, the other way is spin down. Our cats tend to obey an exlusion principal in that if they are in the same room they will have opposite spins. The dog's spin may match or not, there doesn't seem to be a rule.

That's not better, is it? I'm sorry.

That's not better, is it? I'm sorry.

As explanations go, that one had to set a MEGO record. Perhaps the mathy weren't rendered unconscious in less than three syllables, but I about fell out of my chair due to feeling stupidness.

ETA: It isn't you, it's me. English major, yadda yadda.

Okay, good thing I didn't pursue that teaching career.

I just got an email-- atually my company's filtering software did-- from "allah@rr.com." We are truly living in a golden age.

Perhaps the mathy weren't rendered unconscious in less than three syllables, but I about fell out of my chair due to feeling stupidness.

I think I think like -t thinks. Or perhaps it was the cat example. Either way, that's the first time I understood anything involving vectors.

righty-tighty, lefty-loosey

I figured out at an early age that tightening a screw was the same motion as throwing a right-handed curve ball.

t backs away from the mnemonic natter

Ginger, Terra?

Yep.

I still remember the cranial nerves from "Old Olsen Ought To Take A Fling At Greta's Vagina Some Homecoming."

I'm pretty sure I have never used or heard most of these.

today has been good and productive, also BK for lunch.

msbelle is me, except I have been a semi-slacker, and I had jack in the box for lunch.