We're long due for one.
Concerning my last commit, Git tells me "1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)". C'mon, guys. It's not that hard to make your programs use good grammar.
There are at least two Mega Man-themed bands, and neither of them is named "The Rockmen". I don't understand it.
I'm enjoying The Last Unicorn.
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"And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee…"
Today, the bottom of a spam email asked me, "How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn't live in it?" I was struck by what an interesting question that was for a spam email.
Today is also my parents' 30th anniversary. That is a long time.
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There's a small chance I may have inadvertently met Thy a couple nights ago at a friend's house. Not that he's been around here in awhile, but I thought it was interesting enough to share.
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Small chance? Care to explain?
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"To truly live, one must first be born." ~ Evan [aX]
Paper Mario Social: The Safe Haven of GameFAQs. (Board 2000083)
It would be shallower, because sponges displace water.
From: Jacehan | #004
Small chance? Care to explain?
I remember going through the PMSian e-mail addresses I had on Facebook a couple years ago and learned that Thy was also located near Seattle and what his real name is. At a party on Friday evening I think I met someone with the same name as him. It's all very coincidental, and his name is relatively common, thus, a small chance.
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If he had a guitar the likelihood goes up.
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In APA citation style, you don't include the issue number of a journal, unless the journal paginates every issue starting from 1. I can't help but think that this rule was implemented purely to make it harder to generate citations programmatically.
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"And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee…"
From: HeyDude | #005
It would be shallower, because sponges displace water.
But what would be greater- the amount of water they displace or the amount of water they absorb? I'm actually curious about this.
But then again, I'm also the kind of person who drives across the 520 floating bridge that leads out of and into Seattle, looks around at the water that the bridge crosses, and thinks, "My god, that is a lot of water."
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Well let's say you have a sponge that's one cubic centimeter (one milliliter of water is one cubic centimeter of water). So that sponge's limit of how much water it can hold is 1 mL... it wouldn't make sense for it to hold 1 mL exactly, because then that one cubic centimeter would be 100% taken up by water. And the sponge can't magically disappear. So let's say we have 1 mL of water and we apply this 1 cm³ sponge to it. It soaks up 99% of the water. So you have a sponge now that's saturated and takes up 1 cm³ and you still have .01 milliliters of water. So now you're using up 1.01 cm³ of space.
Edit: Does that make sense?
Obviously the greater the absorbancy of the sponge, the less water it displaces relative to its length/width/height measurements (because the reason sponges are absorbant is that they're mostly air pockets... so one with more air pockets can trap more water within it... but you always have at least SOME of that space devoted to the sponge material itself).
But if you think of the volume of the sponge purely as the volume of the actual sponge-material, you'd just measure it by placing it in water, saturating it, and seeing how much water remains displaced.
I think I got a handle on the sponge thing. Actually, it was easier to imagine it as a brick with a holes inside that is less efficient at 'soaking' up water than a sponge is. No matter how much water the brick is able to absorb, when the brick is removed, all of the water that the brick mass absorbed plus the water that the brick mass displaced would resettle, resulting in it being shallower.
Winner.
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Anyway, I started learning hip hop choreography today with the help of my friends. I suck really badly but they're all incredibly encouraging about it. Literally a dream come true.
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I feel like I may have posted this already, but yoga is like, the hardest thing ever.
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Ocarinakid
Bonferroni, the statistician's treat! (Ding, ding.)
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"And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee…"
Folgers Remix 4/14
The best part of waking up
is finding that the dog peed and pooped in the apartment
and the floor apparently slants downwards just go
and it's just ... everywhere.
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Ocarinakid
The Dune series has an evil ecologist. The Saga of the Exiles has an evil gynecologist. I guess Count Rugen counts as an evil psychologist. But are there any evil mathematicians?
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"And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee…"
This is the first Tuesday in three weeks I'm not at dance practice. I'm having withdrawls.
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There are some words that are just too difficult for me to pronounce correctly. I tend to stress the second syllable in "asset" and say "patent" like "pay".
Edit: The OED says that my pronunciation of "patent" is actually in use in Britain. I guess that's good?
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"And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee…"
I enjoy vandalizing fliers in the name of Science. In the psychology building here, there's an advertisement for a graduate program that says "Psychoanalysis works!" I wrote on it "No, it doesn't." In the student union, there's a flier about organic foods that claims they're healthier than conventional foods. I wrote on it "[citation needed]". In fact, I'm tempted to get some of these:
http://www.cafepress.com/+citation_needed_sticker,159703855
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"Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
Oh s***. Well I'd better stop microwaving this peanut butter then.
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Willis, it seems like every other time you post, I need to look up a word that's in the OED or Urban Dictionary but not both.
-Mimir
Apparently, I still don't know how to sing without having a goofy expression on my face:
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or looking like I'm in pain:
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Yeah, I have to work on that.
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Well, I've been having a fun Doomsday so far. I went to the Mid-Manhattan Library, but it opens late on weekends, so I walked around for half an hour till it opened. When I got in, it was absolutely stifling, until they finally opened the windows. The book I was looking for, which was listed in the catalog as available, was in fact missing. So I went six blocks downtown to the Science, Industry, and Business Library, where it turns out that you can't just get your book yourself, you have to submit a request and wait for somebody to get it from the stacks. Well, I did that, but that copy was missing, too (I learned, after waiting for ten minutes). So I got a referral to NYU's Bobst Library. I went to the 33rd Street Station to take the 6 train to the NYU area, but, oops, no trains were running there because the tracks were under repairs. At that point I decided that God didn't want me to find that book today, so I'll go to Bobst on Monday or something, and hope that even though the referral card is only a one-day pass, I can use it on a day other than the one on which I was referred.
And don't get me started about the problems I've had with ILLiad lately. And while I was in SIBL, I heard an employee talk about how the pneumatic tubes were acting up. And the bathrooms have no paper towels. Poor bankrupt NYPL.
I wish I had direct access to one of the university libraries in Manhattan. My college's interlibrary loan was so nice. I could get endocrinology textbooks, The Princess Bride, anything.
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"Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
And now for a Quote in Context:
http://elonka.com/mirrors/STL/sights.html
"She knew binary - the language of computers - by heart."
Wat.
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"Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
Some people characterize depression as a chemical imbalance in the brain. I never found stoichiometry very moving, but what do I know?
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"…the USA is like Microsoft—whatever they decide to use, no matter how brain-dead it is, everyone else copies it from them, willingly or otherwise."
Whoa, wait, Google is case-sensitive now?
"ain't i a saint" (with the quotes) - 6 results
"ain't I a saint" (also with the quotes) - 496,000 results
Yes, Google is still to my knowledge the best search engine around, but I wish it were a bit more predictable. That is to say, I wish it were documented.
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"…the USA is like Microsoft—whatever they decide to use, no matter how brain-dead it is, everyone else copies it from them, willingly or otherwise."