if you divide f(x) by (x-a), why is the remainder always f(a)?

Intuitively, I have words to try and explain this with, but I don't know to put this into "mathematical" words. Oof, I wish I could talk to you on the phone or something to show you what I mean.

I'll try to write something down. It's so clear to me, and yet I find it difficult to phrase. Grr.

Thank you ita for your linking ethics and restraint!

but they are doing it themselves, just one initial set-up time. Really, I would not be mad.

Nrrrgh. Client has written snippy e-mail asking if there's some kind of hold-up, and when she can expect it to be resolved.

I have successfully resisted writing back, "Yes, there's a hold-up. The hold-up is that you are a freaking moron, as I sent that to you last Tuesday. Allow me to forward you that e-mail again, and copy it to all the people you just copied."

The One That Got Away, otherwise known as, The One I Let Go Because I Had a "Jackhole Only" Dating Policy got back in touch with me. He's still got great arms nicely accentuated with great tattoos. Still charming. Still funny. Still should have been a comic book artist, for he has the mad skillz.

Had a crush on me in high school, when I started my Jackhole Only policy. He'd sometimes say, "Allyson, are you sad today?" And I'd say, "I'm sad everyday, I'm in HIGH SCHOOL."

And then give me a cupcake and Mountain Dew.

And so before I came here, we had a short-lived thing, because I was moving and my heart was unbreakable.

Now he's in some sort of long-term relationship with a cutie girl and I'm still a hollow shell, heartless, out of shape moron.

I'm not a bright girl.

(((Allyson)))

Sam Seder (from Air America) was on CNN the other day:

Sam Seder: Listen, as far as the war on Christmas goes, I feel like we should be waging a war on Christmas. I mean, I believe that Christmas, it's almost proven that Christmas has nuclear weapons, can be an imminent threat to this country, that they have operative ties with terrorists and I believe that we should sacrifice thousands of American lives in pursuit of this war on Christmas. And hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money.

Phillips: Is it a war on Christmas, a war on Christians, a war on over-political correctness or just a lot of people with way too much time on their hands?

Seder: I would say probably, if I was to be serious about it, too much time on their hands, but I'd like to get back to the operational ties between Santa Claus and al-Qaida ... We have intelligence, we have intelligence.

Phillips: You have intel. Where exactly does your intel come from?

Seder: Well, we have tortured an elf and it's actually how we got the same information from al-Libi. It's exactly the same way the Bush administration got this info about the operational ties between al-Qaida and Saddam.

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Oh, and I think almost everyone has made mistakes re: dating in HS.

Oh, and I think almost everyone has made mistakes re: dating in HS.

Don't just limited to High School. My one that got away was in university.

My mistake was asking girls out. I could have spared myself a lot of rejection if I just waited until college to try the dating thing.