Oh the year was 1778...

(22:02:31) Sniffnoy: oh wow
(22:02:35) Toreun: what?
(22:03:04) Sniffnoy: well, a few hours ago, I decided to IM the entire lyrics of "Barrett's Privateers" to Ingrid, and see how long it would take her to interrupt me
(22:03:10) Toreun: hahaha
(22:03:21) Toreun: it took you a few hours to finish? must be extended version
(22:03:31) Sniffnoy: no, it didn't
(22:03:38) Sniffnoy: see, I got through the whole song
(22:04:00) Sniffnoy: she didn't respond to anything else, though... I figured she was just ignoring IMs from that name
(22:04:05) Sniffnoy: so I tried a different one
(22:04:08) Sniffnoy: she just wasn't there :P
(22:04:23) Sniffnoy: she was sleeping, in fact, as she told me when she woke up
(22:04:41) Sniffnoy: so I tell this to Chris, and he says, "Barrett's Privateers? What's that?"
(22:04:46) Sniffnoy: So I start doing the same thing :D
(22:04:50) Toreun: haha
(22:05:00) Sniffnoy: after a few verses, he finally goes "Wow... you're insane."
(22:05:10) Sniffnoy: And I say, "I'm amazed I even got that far."
(22:05:14) Toreun: hahaha
(22:05:16) Sniffnoy: And he tells me he was doing vocab. :P
(22:05:54) Toreun: What's Barret's Privateers?
(22:05:55) Toreun: :-D
(22:06:37) Sniffnoy: *smack*
(22:06:38) Sniffnoy: ...you know, I was just about to ask what this extended version you spoke of was, but then I realized what the result would be having just told you this story. :P
(22:07:01) Toreun: there's none, ttbomk
(22:07:06) Sniffnoy: oh
(22:07:35) Sniffnoy: I expected you were about to start going "Oh the year was 1778..." anyway :P
(22:07:48) Toreun: haha

The points are not lost

While all *rules* had every instance of "point" changed to "pear", other pages didn't. Remember those? So as points are still referred to in the rules, we haven't all lost our points. Another alteration will go up to give us our proper pears, and then we can eliminate points altogether.

Having points called "pears" makes negative points seem that much stranger. For instance, when all is accounted for, deltanine will have -4 pears.

The flux phi of a fluid flow F

The baby was supposed to shut off around 23:00 last night, but somehow it still ended up going off at 6:00 today. Well, it's returned now, so yay.

Avi told me a rather bizarre story today. He had his Harvard interview at a Korean restaurant - why he didn't just tell the guy he kept kosher, I don't know, but so it was, and of course he didn't really know what was in the food, and he sees on the menu cornbread. "How bad could it be?" he figures. So, he gets some cornbread, eats it, and, after he's done, finally gets a look at the ingredients. The first one was flour. The rest of the ingredients included, among many other things, fudge, white bean paste, black bean paste, almonds, peanut butter, ketchup, tuna, sausage, and the last ingredient, ham. Actual corn was the second-to-last ingredient.

Today Dr. Nevard referred to 2x2 Jacobians as "baby Jacobians", in contrast to larger Jacobians. Later I was thinking, what other Jacobians could produce baby Jacobians? Well, obviously, as Jacobians are square matrices[0], obviously it must be 2 other 2x2 Jacobians... which means that baby Jacobians come from other baby Jacobians! :-/

-Sniffnoy

[0]Well, he was talking about determinants, not the actual matrices, but still...

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