Ah! And, oh. That's sad. Thanks, Dana!
I might actually watch it for a few more episodes. I like spooky stuff. And they're both very pretty.
I'm sorry. You were going to ask me to choose, right? Did you want to finish?
Zoe ,'War Stories'
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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.
Amy - Sep 15, 2005 5:01:05 pm PDT #7987 of 10002
Because books.
Sean K - Sep 15, 2005 5:01:39 pm PDT #7988 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Can anyone fill me in?
AmyLiz, that's a callback to the opening sequence. What happened to his girlfriend is exactly what happened to his mother, when he and his brother were very young boys.
Emily - Sep 15, 2005 5:02:07 pm PDT #7989 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
This is like Charlie Brown's teacher talking to me.
Oh, I know. Where the hell are we supposed to learn about complex numbers, anyway? It wasn't in the Trig for Dummies book I read. Is it a precalculus thing? Because those are the two (general track) math courses I didn't take, and I keep running into "Of course, we all remember how to do the blah blah..."
Trudy Booth - Sep 15, 2005 5:02:35 pm PDT #7990 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Behold... 3. Become mesmerised in its intricacies! You are powerless to resist its seductive fascination as it saps your will and makes you its willing slave!
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Dana - Sep 15, 2005 5:02:46 pm PDT #7991 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Yeah, I thought it wasn't bad fluff. And I've always liked Dean from Gilmore Girls. Who is not Dean on this show.
billytea - Sep 15, 2005 5:03:16 pm PDT #7992 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
No! This is about polar forms, or how to express 3-4i as |z|(cos theta + i sin theta). I'm okay with the z (it's 5), but I'm a little unsure about theta. From my notes, apparently it's inverse tangent(-4/3), but then I should check to make sure the angle measurement I come up with is in the right quadrant, and that's where I get a little uncertain.
All true, and the quadrant you wind up in will be the lower right quadrant. The real part of your number (i.e. the 3) appears on your x axis, so you'll be right rather than left. The imaginary part (the -4, i.e. the coefficient of i) appears on the y axis, so you're lower rather than upper.
billytea - Sep 15, 2005 5:04:17 pm PDT #7993 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
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And what did you think constitutes my target audience?
Amy - Sep 15, 2005 5:05:27 pm PDT #7994 of 10002
Because books.
Thanks, Sean!
I keep running into "Of course, we all remember how to do the blah blah..."
See, that's so not me. I barely scraped through high school math and never even took calculus, and in college I managed to take some History of Math course with an insane old guy who wore a beret and made us read Flatland and the annotated Alice in Wonderland. And I still use my fingers when doing basic sums half the time. I applaud all you mathy types because your brains are so sexy. I have a mad crush on Charlie from Numb3rs.
Amy - Sep 15, 2005 5:06:32 pm PDT #7995 of 10002
Because books.
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And I've always liked Dean from Gilmore Girls. Who is not Dean on this show.
That made me blink a few times, too.
billytea - Sep 15, 2005 5:06:45 pm PDT #7996 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I applaud all you mathy types because your brains are so sexy.
It's true, my sex organ weighs 8 pounds and you can't fit your hand around it.