Odd headline o' the day:
Scientists Create Lesbian Worms
Up until the punching, it was a real nice party.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
tommyrot - Aug 21, 2009 7:17:23 am PDT #4881 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
DebetEsse - Aug 21, 2009 7:30:48 am PDT #4882 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
There was a House episode with a gender thing. She was a model.
Barb - Aug 21, 2009 7:40:40 am PDT #4883 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”
Those little buggy bastards hit everywhere, I swear: NYistas, anyone deal with the publishing companies?
-t - Aug 21, 2009 7:41:11 am PDT #4884 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
This xkcd is, IMHO, an example of a bad calculus joke
No, it's an awesome history of math joke because,Newton says "Derivative" in the comic and Newton didn't use that term, he used "fluxion!
t crickets
tommyrot - Aug 21, 2009 7:42:25 am PDT #4885 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Advice for Chicagoans: Run away!
Alligator Removed From the Chicago River
There’s ‘gator in these parts.
Not something you expect to hear in Chicago, but Chicago Animal Care and Control Department specialists removed a gator from the the north branch of the Chicago River, Thursday night CBS News reports.
Observers saw the reptile, believed to be between two and four feet long, chillin’ on the rocks at Fullerton and Damen, Police News Affairs Officer Kevin Kilmer said.
The cops sent a marine unit to investigate but the ‘gator had disappeared back into the river by the time they arrived.
Normally, gators get chased away by the Lake Michigan fresh-water sharks....
Gudanov - Aug 21, 2009 7:42:50 am PDT #4886 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
No, it's an awesome history of math joke because,Newton says "Derivative" in the comic and Newton didn't use that term, he used "fluxion!
It's awesome you know that. Fluxion, why didn't we adopt that term? It is so much cooler.
Hil R. - Aug 21, 2009 7:45:10 am PDT #4887 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Heh. I thought of the "fluxion" thing, too. (I usually go through a quick history of calculus lesson in my Calc I classes, to explain why we have both the f'(x) notation and the dy/dx notation, and what they actually mean.)
tommyrot - Aug 21, 2009 7:46:02 am PDT #4888 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
(I usually go through a quick history of calculus lesson in my Calc I classes, to explain why we have both the f'(x) notation and the dy/dx notation, and what they actually mean.)
Cool. I think I'd find this very interesting.
-t - Aug 21, 2009 7:48:11 am PDT #4889 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Fluxion, why didn't we adopt that term?
Depending on who you ask either (a) continental conspiracy or (b) because it goes with Newton's unwieldy notation with the dots over the variables that is so much more of a pain than Leibniz's dx/dt when you increase the order of the derivative.
I'm really glad to hear that, Hil. I didn't, in some fundamental ways, get Calculus until I learned the historical development, even though I learned how to do all the taking of derivatives and integrating functions and whatnot without historical context.
tommyrot - Aug 21, 2009 7:49:05 am PDT #4890 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Newton's unwieldy notation with the dots over the variables
Not many people know this, but this is because Newton was into heavy metal.