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....
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.
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.)
(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.
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.
Newton's unwieldy notation with the dots over the variables
Not many people know this, but this is because Newton was into heavy metal.
stupid insurance company. they just called trying to get me to say bad things about the hospital.
and in answer to my question of what can I do should we have an emergency again, that will make this LESS of a FIGHT. Basically he said that unless the danger zone hits WHILE we are with a mental care professional that we have been in the care of, there will probably always be a fight. ME, THE PARENT, THE INSURED - me saying it is an emergency HOLDS NO GROUND! What I can do to make it smoother is to go to their ONE approved hospital. A hospital we have no connection with at all. A hospital that is not taking any children into their outpatient services at the moment, so I cannot even start trying to get know. JACKASS still tried to play it off like they were helping me. HATE!
If I didn't know better, I'd assume this had been written by our own billytea under an alias: [link]
Oh, msbelle, that's terrible. I am so angry on your behalf!
"The Sugar Bears" Cardboard Flexi-Disc (from Sugar Crisp cereal)
I'm guessing this is from the early '70s?
Huh. One member of the Sugar Bears is named Doobee Bear. He looks sorta' stoned.
