I had a feeling that numb3rs would dumb it down. But the wiz kid from that was the one from Adams Family Values and Harold and Kumar.
That's kinda like how Swordfish dumbed down hacking by just spewing out buzzwords like worms and trojans. Watching Hugh Jackman do jazz hands while he worked was just lame.
Yeah.... my roommate and I watched Numb3rs, and it was like "eh." Speaking of math related shows, you should watch 24 instead. That has a number in the name too, and it's much more exciting. I have seasons 1 and 2 and I'm collecting season 4 as it comes (it's on now, mondays at 9).
See, that's the thing... I think it's also teaching styles. The physics department here teaches concepts and general problem solving skills. We just apply that skill to different sets of conditions. The engineers here are taught on specific examples, with specific formulae. The GRE is catering to the latter group. And, unfortunately, you're in the former group.
Ok, here's one for you: What's the diagonalized form of the rotation matrix in 2-D? That's been one of my favorite things evar
I sometimes think about how great it would be to be good at maths. unfortunately i just dont get it, but it always appears impressive.
In response to your problem Hotpockets, i would have to say: ..............yyyyessssss........... riiiiight..............
i think IUD's actually aren't that cool. apparently you bleed like a stuck pig every month. i hate the hormonal birth control too, so i feel your pain, except a lot more because i'm also allergic to latex. while it's kinda awesome to use polyurethane condoms, because it sounds all fancy, the damn things cost 2 bucks EACH. for real.
I love how despite your wishlist spiel, you added a bunch of stuff that people can buy you, heh heh. damnit, i need to get some naked pictures of myself on the internet. no one ever buys me stuff from my wishlist. And all the books I want are expensive as hell. The Sublime Ideology is $20! Damnit!
OH MY GOD. I talk to Cat all the time about Numb3rs. I'm friends with the woman who plays the FBI brother's partner. She always asks me re the show and I have to lie.
I love you Al. Marry me? seriously.. I'll make a trip to rainy Portland sometime. Am I really using caps this drunk? sweeet.
anyway, that's all for now.. gonna go pass out. I had a drink for Al tonight, well sorta but you get the point.
tchuss!
Glad you're having a good time... as for the #'s show... don't have tv... and only saw a few commercials/soundclips... looked kinda neat.. but then again, I know nothing on mathematics that you would. /shrugs/
see, i can understand someone blowing lots of money to buy you something cool like that. i mean, whoever maybe did it because they're like OMG UR SO HOT!1! and have a lot of money, but I'd rather think that it was some rad person who was like, wow, you seem pretty neato, and that's an awesome book that you'd totally enjoy, so I'll buy it for you. I look at people's wishlists because I find them interesting, and there are actually times when I'm tempted to buy a complete random stranger something from their list because it's something awesome that everyone ought to have. I'm always hoping that some random person will look at my wishlist and think that and buy me stuff. Well, actually I just want people to buy me stuff, for whatever reason, but that's a better reason than others, I guess.
I realized that I have some kind of mental block about buying things for myself. I'll drop tons of money to buy someone a gift just to make them happy, and it doesn't bug me at all, but I can't bring myself to spend even 10 bucks to treat myself.
Dude, I would by far prefer condoms to cramping and heavy periods. Plus, if shit is awful you basically just have to deal with it for however many years.
Hormonal birth control sucks ass, I agree. I haven't encountered the frigid problem, but yeah, all sorts of other wierdness. Plus, it's all kinds of bad for you, especially when you like cigarettes as much as I do.
It's weird how I always start out in all lower case and gradually start using capital letters in my comments.
I think the Times or the PI started having articles going into "medium" depth of concepts "presented" in the show. I'm not sure if its good or bad that coworkers have started asking me to explain things like why they haven't proved P=NP yet. "You know, that Polynomial and Not Polynomial problem?"
I said, "if you actually care, you'll look up what NP actually stands for and hand me a chicken sandwich."
My boyfriend forced two or three episodes of Numb3rs on me, and I agree. That show sucks. I'm not even a math genius, and I still know that it sucks.
But House. Now there's a show that's awesome and completely medically incomprehensible. With lots of seizures. Seriously, I think I'll start a drinking game around that show.
Everytime a patient seizes, take a shot. Everytime House misdiagnoses, take two. I guarantee you'll be on the floor by the end of the show.
Dude, i just noticed grunge lite on your wishlist, please for the love all that is good in music remove it! it is elevator music!!!! i had this cd once, once! trust me on this one!
unless you like elevators, dont ever ever ever get this cd.
Happy Soon Birthday, Btw
How much does a professional dye job cost these days?
Grunge lite is currently unavailable, or i would have bought it for you, have a Happy Bday anyways if there were other SG, you would be still be my favorite SG.
p.s. thanks for replying to my earlier comment/warning.
You Rule!
Just as a thought, in the case of being poor and needing birth control, there is a federal government program out there called Tile Ten. I would recommend inquiring at the local Planned Parenthood, they should know about it in your area, but if memory serves they do free birth control, including things like IUD's and other forms. Give it a thought.
If you think boys kissing boys is hot & you're into wasting your time with smutty novels then you should read Poppy Z. Bright. They're really corny but they do it for me.
I had a dream that a photographer wanted you and I to pose nude with Ron Jeremy. I said "I'd rather not. I think he's gross." And I looked over at you and you said "Yeah, I'm not so interested, either."
actually amazons got some fun adult stuff you can put on your wishlists now i was bored one night making mine and they have corsets (not to high quality but still) and other fun adult stuff they even have vibrators amazons all dirty dirty lol
Math with a time limit is just plain evil. I think I might never really have to do it again though. The last time was prelim exams - 3 totally brutal four hour exams.
God DAMN that sucked. What also sucked was taking the complex analysis prelim a second time since I failed it first time around.
Me and my roommate have been watching NUMB3RS for camp value. Did you see the one about the Riemann Hypothesis? Holy hell, almost makes me embarrassed to be a mathematician. I predict that show has a life expectancy of about 5 more episodes. Even Judd Hirsch won't be able to save it.
amazons all dirty dirty lol 
That's kinda like how Swordfish dumbed down hacking by just spewing out buzzwords like worms and trojans. Watching Hugh Jackman do jazz hands while he worked was just lame.