"Four years after the frightening experience of Sept. 11, Americans have every right to expect a more effective response in a time of emergency," the president said. When the government fails to meet such an obligation, Bush said, "I as president am responsible for the problem, and for the solution."

Translation: "Shit! Backpedal, backpedal!"

You've already confessed you're powerless before the complexities of numbers. I was going to say their ins and outs, but I wouldn't want to be misconstrued. Nope. Not me.

Noooooo. Never you.

Translation: "Shit! Backpedal, backpedal!"

Hee. For a moment I thought I was in the thread where I was discussing pedal-powered mechanical dildoes, and Bush's address became so much more interesting.

Will Trudy make it a threesome?

Apparently not. Her slumbernutting reign of terror and, let's face it, awed fascination, is at an end.

Anyone want to guess what ita's doing right now? It'd be fun later to see if we're right.

Hmm... it must be early morning over there. I say boiling water for morning tea.

Or, what I should have said instead of giving advice that you already know, is I'm sorry you're missing back to school night, Hec.

Thanks, lib. I wish I could say we zoomed home insead, but it was a freakin' nightmare o' traffic going home as well which made me cranky enough to try and throttle my steering wheel. I'll catch up with the teacher later.

Mel, there are six episodes of Slings and Arrows.

x-post with Bitches. Whoever wrote that speech earned his money. Feh.

I should have watched Antiques Roadshow instead.

No, no, the axes are... not quite arbitrary, but it feels that way when learning which way around they go.

I didn't actually transpose them. What I did was, I took 4/-3 and made it -4/3, which is entirely okay, and then I forgot that it was originally the 3 that was negative when deciding the quadrant. (ETA: Actually, it was the 4 that was negative in the first place, so I have no excuse at all -- I forgot which was x, I suppose.)

So, then, if the inverse tangent of 4/3 is 53.13, and I want it to be in the fourth quadrant (because it was the duck, and not the man, that spoke), I do 360-53.13, which gives me 306.87, and thus the cosine is positive and the sine negative (important, because the reverse was true when I did 180-53.13). Yes?

I know it's a cliche by now (or "clich" as they say in fanfiction archives), but thank goodness for chef billytea.

My brain is a festering stew of popculture references.

ETA: If anyone's following the saga, this means I got 3-4i = 5(0.6-0.8i) or 5e^(306.87i).

ETA2: Oh. My. God. Am I really that much of an idiot, that 3-4i = 5(-0.6+0.8i) didn't seem a little odd just on the face of it? Yes. Yes, I am. ARGH!

I shall be quite disappointed if ita's African trip doesn't include running down and killing a cheetah barehanded. I mean, they're lying around on the ground in the open there, it's the perfect opportunity.

(Hmmm, you wouldn't know that I just recently came home from a rigourous yet spiritual yoga class, would you?)

Am I really that much of an idiot, that it didn't ring any bells earlier that 3-4i = 5(-0.6+0.8i) didn't seem a little odd just on the face of it? Yes. Yes, I am. ARGH!

Math geeks are hot. Even I don't understand a word they say.