Poor Clooney! I hereby volunteer to comfort and cosset him, because I'm a giver like that.
We have to see the chimp playing hockey! That's hilarious! The ice is so slippery, and, and monkeys are all irrational. We have to see this!
Anya ,'Bring On The Night'
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.
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…
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.
Nilly - Sep 22, 2005 7:20:15 am PDT #9929 of 10002
Swouncing
so their proof has to do with comparing two lines of different length
So they did their algebra through some sort of a geometric language, you mean?
msbelle - Sep 22, 2005 7:38:31 am PDT #9930 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
mmmm Clooney.
back to work.
tommyrot - Sep 22, 2005 7:53:06 am PDT #9931 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK, appointment had been made for this afternoon at a really good optometrist. So I get to avoid Jilli-pokeage.
Emily - Sep 22, 2005 7:56:22 am PDT #9932 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Well, they didn't really have algebra, is the thing. They had "number" -- which meant positive integers -- and "magnitude" -- which was lines and shapes and things you could measure by hand -- and the two probably overlapped but were certainly not the same thing. So the square root of two wasn't actually a number, but it was a magnitude, and it was proved incommensurable (irrational) by performing operations with other lines.
I think. I'm still trying to wrap my brain around it all, while also trying to keep up with "If a straight line is cut into equal and unequal segments, the rectangle contained by the unequal segments of the whole together with the square on the straight line between the points of seccion is equal to the square on the half."
Frankenbuddha - Sep 22, 2005 7:56:29 am PDT #9933 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
So I get to avoid Jilli-pokeage.
contemplates unfortunate phraseology
pauses
clears throat
considers
begins whistling tunelessly
§ ita § - Sep 22, 2005 7:57:30 am PDT #9934 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Huh. I think I threw out my mascara. I need mascara. Do I go to the drugstore during lunch, or do I sprint to Sephora at the mall on my way home and eat up precious getting-ready minutes?
Jesse - Sep 22, 2005 8:04:28 am PDT #9935 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Is Great Lash still the go-to mascara? I'd guess it's at least good enough, for sure.
§ ita § - Sep 22, 2005 8:06:44 am PDT #9936 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That's drugstore mascara? I swear, I've never finished a tube of mascara. Lip gloss is about the only makeup I finish before I decide I should toss them for health or diminished quality reasons.
I keep meaning to femme it up.
And then I get distracted.