Super Karate Monkey Death Car
HEE! That's a shout out to our bar trivia night from one of my NYC trips! Way too cool!
Well, you'd better not be thinking what I think you're thinking, because my answer is the same as always — no threesomes unless it's boy-boy-girl. Or Charlize Theron.
Harmony ,'First Date'
F2F 4: Too Much Candy, Never Enough Mojitos.
Plan what to do, what to wear (you can never go wrong with a corset), and get ready for the next BuffistaCon: Madison, WI from June 20-22 2008! Official website.
NoiseDesign - Apr 12, 2007 7:52:22 pm PDT #5051 of 10002
Our wings are not tired
ChiKat - Apr 12, 2007 8:09:49 pm PDT #5052 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
I dropped our dear Mr. Scola at his hotel at about 10:30, so I suspect he's settling in.
I just sent out an email to the Midwest list about plans for tomorrow. Basically, we're going to hang at my place and order pizza and watch DVDs.
If you need the details and didn't get the email, let me know!
Pix - Apr 12, 2007 9:30:03 pm PDT #5053 of 10002
The status is NOT quo.
Huzzah! Enjoy the Scola. We miss him already.
Jon B. - Apr 13, 2007 6:05:30 am PDT #5054 of 10002
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
What is the square root of 12,345,678,987,654,321?
That is a great question!
tommyrot - Apr 13, 2007 6:14:12 am PDT #5055 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.
That is a great question!
The guy running the trivia thing was surprised that five groups got it right.
Jon B. - Apr 13, 2007 6:24:34 am PDT #5056 of 10002
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I wonder how common long multiplication is these days. They still teach it in schools, right? Although I suppose most kids pull out their calculators and promptly forget it.
tommyrot - Apr 13, 2007 6:28:21 am PDT #5057 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.
When I was in HS, somewhere I read about the pattern that 1² = 1, 11² = 121, 111² = 12321, etc. I can't remember where I read that - perhaps in a book of math stuff I read on my own....
Hil R. - Apr 13, 2007 6:37:52 am PDT #5058 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
They still teach it in schools. From what I've seen, most of the schools that know what they're doing will allow elementary-school kids to use calculators for certain activities, but will still also have them learn to do arthmetic without them. Middle school and high school will allow calculators a lot more. (And I usually end up with a whole bunch of undergrads who are terrified to do even basic calculations without a calculator. They know how to do it, but they just don't trust that a non-calculator answer will be right and they'll panic and say "I can't do this." I haven't noticed the same thing in elementary and middle school kids, though.)
Tom Scola - Apr 13, 2007 7:40:42 am PDT #5059 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I just sent out an email to the Midwest list about plans for tomorrow.
I'm not on the list, so you'll have to cc: me.
JZ - Apr 13, 2007 7:45:35 am PDT #5060 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Damn, that's a cool math problem.
When I was in HS, somewhere I read about the pattern that 1² = 1, 11² = 121, 111² = 12321, etc. I can't remember where I read that - perhaps in a book of math stuff I read on my own....
They still teach it in schools.
Well, shoo. Either they never taught it at mine, or (more likely) one of my higher-math teachers mentioned it during one of the classes when I was sitting in the back crying and feeling stupid and I never heard it, which just makes me sad because it's exactly the kind of absurd/logical frickin' coolness that would've gotten me all hopped up and excited about math again.
ION, San Francisco is bright and sunshiney -- but barren, barren, I say. For some reason, the lack of Scola is hitting especially hard this morning.