ROFL at the math geekery on display.
It's the mixture of math geekery and HTML perfectionism that makes me feel right at home here.
I don't know about you guys, but I've had it with super-strong little women who aren't me.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
amych - Oct 10, 2003 11:46:57 am PDT #5483 of 10005
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Nutty - Oct 10, 2003 11:52:46 am PDT #5484 of 10005
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Yeah, pi has an uppercase and a lowercase; luckily,they are like pi and pi junior. (Other Greek letters = much more confusing.)
Except the pi symbol looks like a staple to me.
It always looks like a staple. Okay, when I draw it. None of that fancypants Times font in my geometry class!
Jon B. - Oct 10, 2003 11:56:08 am PDT #5485 of 10005
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I'm just shocked that no one's yet pointed out that I used an emdash, rather than an endash. The endash looked the same as a minus sign; next to the other minus sign in the formula, it scanned weird. The emdash, although technically wrong, looked better.
HTML perfectionism
Tell me about it. When we were designing the board, I spent way too much time laying out the left column here (esp. the yellow bordered boxes). It's an illness.
billytea - Oct 10, 2003 11:56:52 am PDT #5486 of 10005
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Yeah, pi has an uppercase and a lowercase; luckily,they are like pi and pi junior. (Other Greek letters = much more confusing.)
My favourite's delta. (He's a perfect triangle. She's a tiny circle with Elvis' hair. They fight constantly!)
amych - Oct 10, 2003 11:57:30 am PDT #5487 of 10005
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
It's an illness.
But a good one, and one that I share.
So are you also responsible for the little red pluses?
Astarte - Oct 10, 2003 11:57:35 am PDT #5488 of 10005
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
But a very foamy one, Jon...
That didn't come out quite right...
Sean K - Oct 10, 2003 11:58:53 am PDT #5489 of 10005
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I'm just shocked that no one's yet pointed out that I used an emdash, rather than an endash.
I was just about to point that out, Jon, but I was too slow.
§ ita § - Oct 10, 2003 11:58:57 am PDT #5490 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Em dashes are the best dash there is, though.
tina f. - Oct 10, 2003 12:00:23 pm PDT #5491 of 10005
I'm just shocked that no one's yet pointed out that I used an emdash, rather than an endash.
I wrote the post saying that and then got called away. I am of the opinion as well that em dashes shouldn't have spaces around them when typsetting (I always put spaces around my dashes here though because I'm a lazy SOB who doesn't know how to make a proper em dash). I'm not gonna stare at it everyday and let it drive me mad or anything though.
DCJensen - Oct 10, 2003 12:00:50 pm PDT #5492 of 10005
All is well that ends in pizza.
Helping with the general entertaining nitpickery - maybe "Nilly, could this be mathier?" instead? Sounds more natural, you know?
Natter 18 should be
Natter 18: General Entertaining Nitpickery