Oh, if anyone geeky or crafty (ideally both) is at loose ends in NY this afternoon/evening, there's a lecture on Crocheting the Hyperbolic Plane at CUNY.
Man. So jealous.
Yes. Lucky for you, people may be in danger.
Buffy ,'Him'
Natter .38 Special
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.
Emily - Sep 22, 2005 7:05:25 am PDT #9919 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
§ ita § - Sep 22, 2005 7:06:03 am PDT #9920 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah, he didn't junket for O12 because of it -- and he had trouble getting a diagnosis.
eta: Good god, I'm a Clooney dork.
Jesse - Sep 22, 2005 7:06:08 am PDT #9921 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Huh. Turns out the whole thing started a year ago, came out last month, but I'm only just hearing about it. [link]
sarameg - Sep 22, 2005 7:08:19 am PDT #9922 of 10002
He has a pig. OK.
You know, I think piglets are adorable, but I don't think I would ever want a pig for a pet. Just doesn't appeal.
le nubian - Sep 22, 2005 7:08:44 am PDT #9923 of 10002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
§ ita § - Sep 22, 2005 7:12:07 am PDT #9924 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Woobie!
Despite pain so intense he could barely walk, the 44-year-old actor-director still appeared on the red carpet at the 'Ocean's Twelve' premiere last December, although he was too weak to climb three stairs up to "The Insider"'s own platform.
Or, you know, he just wanted to go home to his pig.
le nubian - Sep 22, 2005 7:13:01 am PDT #9925 of 10002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
If spinal fluid is leaking through your fucking nose, I guess you would be in pain.
Damn.
Nilly - Sep 22, 2005 7:13:19 am PDT #9926 of 10002
Swouncing
Greek style
Emily, your proof looks completely OK to the entirely-not-a-mathematician me, who has no idea what is that Greek style and what other styles exist or anything of that sort.
What are the Hebrew initials and what are the words they stand for?
M.Sh.L. (we have the one letter that stands for the "sh" sound). It's pronounced usually "mashal", which is also a word in Hebrew, meaning a proverb, a fable, or an allegory. They are the initials of "ma shehaya lehokhiakh". "ma" = what, "shehaya" - that was and "lehokhiakh" - to be proven.
which I already knew and used to use as a sort of meditation to get to sleep oh god am I geeky enough yet?
My brother used to calculate all sorts of roots and powers in order to pass the time when he had to stang guard on his army service.
juliana - Sep 22, 2005 7:14:31 am PDT #9927 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Poor Clooney! I hereby volunteer to comfort and cosset him, because I'm a giver like that.
Emily - Sep 22, 2005 7:17:10 am PDT #9928 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
who has no idea what is that Greek style and what other styles exist or anything of that sort.
Oh, it's just that the Greeks didn't have the notation to do the proof this way, so their proof has to do with comparing two lines of different length, subtracting one from the other and the remainder of that one from the first one, and the remainder of that from the remainder above, and so on in order to prove that there was, basically, no common divisor. Only they said it much more complicatedly.