Steph, no problem, happy to help out.
Spike: At least give me Wesley's office since he's gone. Angel: He's not gone. He's on a leave of absence. Spike: Yeah, right. Boo-hoo. Thought he killed his bloody father. Try staking your mother when she's coming on to you! Harmony: Well…that explains a lot.
'Destiny'
Natter 40: The Nice One
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.
msbelle - Nov 19, 2005 8:00:48 am PST #5497 of 10006
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Theodosia - Nov 19, 2005 8:11:00 am PST #5498 of 10006
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I'm bored. Somebody help me!
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 19, 2005 8:12:19 am PST #5499 of 10006
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Happy Birthday DX!
Not sure I see why the fabric of spacetime should "swirl" - the trampoline thing is just a metaphor, there's not actually anything material to have friction-bearing contact with particular parts of the earth's surface. I would think since it's a basically spherical object, it would have the same effect on spacetime no matter how it's rotating. (Well, as long as it's not rotating fast enough to fling significant masses away into space, anyway...)
Cashmere - Nov 19, 2005 8:35:12 am PST #5500 of 10006
Now tagless for your comfort.
Don't mean to depersonalize it, but sometimes I am struck by the wonder that is the internets
Me, too.
I'm also struck by the fact that Perkins has a cat that is NILLY-SIZED! Or is it that Nilly is cat-sized?
Perkins, which cat weighs as much as Owen does?
JenP - Nov 19, 2005 8:45:07 am PST #5501 of 10006
Happy Birthday, DX!!
Miracleman - Nov 19, 2005 8:57:46 am PST #5502 of 10006
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
I'm bored. Somebody help me!
How can you be bored? WE MAY BE IN A SPACE-TIME VORTEX!! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DO YOU HAVE NO CONCEPT OF FEAR?!
Or, you know...could be a perfectly natural phenomenon. Like...celery.
erikaj - Nov 19, 2005 9:10:55 am PST #5503 of 10006
Always Anti-fascist!
Is that anything like that place close to Tombstone that gets no cel service? Mom's BFF calls it the "Tombstone vortex" Happy DX Birthday!
Lee - Nov 19, 2005 9:29:57 am PST #5504 of 10006
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I have JZ and Maidengurl Yay me! They are even being nice about the state of my apartment, which did not get vacuumed due to the change of plans.
Nilly, that is actually Perkins the cat.
P.M. Marc - Nov 19, 2005 9:30:29 am PST #5505 of 10006
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Emily - Nov 19, 2005 9:54:21 am PST #5506 of 10006
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
CELERY?!?!
I think I sprained my brain. I've been trying to figure out these fairly simple probability questions for the last couple of days, and my brain keeps turning into Betsy's son (except it hadn't thought of Jello yet. Now it wants Jello).
Can somebody remind me how you derive the probability of r successes in n trials (if the probability of success is a)? I know what the formula is, I'm just having no luck getting there logically. In combination terms, why is it n choose n-r? It's got something to do with Pascal's Triangle, I know that, but... ooh, look, a shiny thing!