Garcia.
I was actually thinking about spanish surnames the other day and how the ones I think of as common, aren't so much when the scale is larger.
River: You gave up everything you had. Simon: [Chinese] Everything I have is right here.
'Safe'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
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.
sarameg - Mar 14, 2006 7:59:42 am PST #3797 of 10001
tommyrot - Mar 14, 2006 8:02:23 am PST #3798 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
edit: I don't know what the above symbol is. Hope it's not a math flame of some sort.
Omega?
If it's capital omega, it's used for electronics. (That's all I know.)
Ω ω? Omegas.
Jesse - Mar 14, 2006 8:04:03 am PST #3799 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Usually I just take notes into a word doc and put the citation right there, but I'm thinking about a non-computer solution that would let me take my pile of books and papers on to my bed or someplace else, and end up with a much smaller stack of cards I could then carry around. We'll see if this ever actually happens. More likely: I write the draft at the last minute with the pile next to me and frantically sort through everything looking for that relevant bit.
Sean K - Mar 14, 2006 8:06:42 am PST #3800 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
And, of course, for the perfect Pi Day experience, everyone should try to eat pie at exactly one minute to 2:00pm this afternoon.
vw bug - Mar 14, 2006 8:07:22 am PST #3801 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
Jesse, we use RefWorks on campus and at work, and it is really wonderful. I love it. Definately see if your school has something like that available through the library.
§ ita § - Mar 14, 2006 8:07:30 am PST #3802 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Has anyone here used brainstorming software?
Sean K - Mar 14, 2006 8:09:47 am PST #3803 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I'd forgotten about it until just now, but my dad actually helped design one of the earliest GUI brainstorming programs. He and a friend of his wrote a program for the earliest Macs called "The Learning Tool," which was an early precursor to those brainstorming type of programs.
DavidS - Mar 14, 2006 8:10:19 am PST #3804 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Pi Day!
My friend Gary wrote a great song titled "Sweet as Pi." It's all about his favorite scientific numbers (he was a physics major).
Let's see how much I can remember off the top of my head.
I saw a number
written on a wall
It's not the kind of number
that you call
It seemed to me it was
sweeter than pi
In fact it was 3.14159
Then there's a whole thing about: "Now Newtons are Jules over meters / I like Hertz and Watts and radions more than liters"
My favorite section went: "Now Pascal / you rascal / you're as green as a lawn's tent / 'cuz you're not nearly as cool as / Maxwell Planck and his constant."
There's something about Avogadro and Moh's too.
Note: all errors in formulation mine.
vw bug - Mar 14, 2006 8:11:38 am PST #3805 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
ita, I have this, which I love: [link] but I'm not sure if it's what you're looking for.
Kathy A - Mar 14, 2006 8:12:47 am PST #3806 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
They had apple pie for sale in the cafeteria, but my department was handing out free cake for the company to celebrate the 70th birthday of the Federal Register (the federal government's daily updates of all proposed and final regulations, it's probably the most-used resource by the legal writers at my company).
Sorry, pi(e), you lose out to free cake.