I would have been looking for an airlock. or a pointy stick.
I laffed and laffed... thinking, "oh, yes... this is the way to help your kids to independence."
Inara: So, explain to me again why Zoe wasn't in the dress? Mal: Tactics, woman. Needed her in the back. 'Sides, those soft cotton dresses feel kinda nice. It's the whole... air-flow.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Spike's Bitches 40: Buckle Up, Kids! Daddy's Puttin' the Hammer Down.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Sparky1 - Apr 21, 2008 4:49:58 am PDT #5679 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
Cashmere - Apr 21, 2008 4:53:05 am PDT #5680 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
(Please to know I was kidding about having someone take my exam for me. I get very very frustrated with math sometimes.)
Aims, I'm married to an actuary and I don't remember the quadratic equation. I know you're kidding. It's ok.
Come to think of it, I married an actuary so I'd NEVER have to do math again.
hippocampus - Apr 21, 2008 4:56:06 am PDT #5681 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
Come to think of it, I married an actuary so I'd NEVER have to do math again.
Cashmere is me, substituting chemist for actuary.
oh... that reminds me. ::heads for Press...::
eta: YAY - been meaning to do that for 12 hours now... WHEE.
Emily - Apr 21, 2008 5:13:18 am PDT #5682 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I don't remember the quadratic equation.
You know you can sing it to "Pop Goes the Weasel," right?
First you take the negative b
Plus or minus square root
B squared minus 4 a c
All over 2 a.
Hil R. - Apr 21, 2008 5:22:49 am PDT #5683 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Hee. I learned almost the same quadratic formula song as Emily, except we learned it as "x is equal to negative b, plus or minus the square root of," etc.
When I went Passover shopping this year, they were out of the brands of matzo I usually get, so I bought some British brand. They're thinner than I'm used to, and rectangular instead of square. Interesting.
tommyrot - Apr 21, 2008 5:27:44 am PDT #5684 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.
When I was in high school and I couldn't get to sleep, sometimes I'd derive the quadratic equation in my head....
I found it a little annoying in HS math where we spent several days solving quadratic equations before they showed us the formula, which suddenly made things much easier. But then I just figured "that's the way math is...."
Emily - Apr 21, 2008 5:30:56 am PDT #5685 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I only learned the song in grad school! But I learned it both ways, and of course if the teacher worries that the students might get confused when b is negative, you might want to make it "opposite b," as one teacher I worked with said it.
tommyrot - Apr 21, 2008 5:32:46 am PDT #5686 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.
Oh, and no one taught us any songs. We just had to know it (by memorizing it any way we could). Um, uphill, and in the snow.
Emily - Apr 21, 2008 5:37:42 am PDT #5687 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Oh, and no one taught us any songs.
Me neither! Brutally unfair. And none of the kids here seem to have heard it either, so I'm going to be spreading the gospel of math jingles.
Emily - Apr 21, 2008 5:41:03 am PDT #5688 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola