It's More Than Just a Free Minor

So now that May is almost over, I suppose that it is time for another blog post. Again, apologies to all that actually check this.

So here is something that I have been thinking about recently: Math. But you might be saying, "Brian, you just graduated. Why in the world would you be thinking about math?" and the answer to your question is simple: Math is everything.

Music is math: When you convert the frequency of equivalent notes between octaves, they are an exact double of the lower octive. For example, if you were to take the A note just above middle C to be 440 Hz, then the A below it would be 220 Hz and the one above it would be 880 Hz. Each note is thusly proportionally spaced (A to A# to B to B# and so on) to be 2^(1/12)x the note preceding it. All of this is simply boiled down to the rate at which waves propagate through matter, but then there have been numerous papers written on the rhythmic patterns of Chopin, Motzart, and Beethoven, one of which takes Beethoven's fifth and pulls the raw equations out of it using Fourier transforms and demonstrates the mathematical soundness of the entire thing. If I could find the link on it right now, I would link it, but I'm not in the mood to go digging. On a less classy note, there's auto-tuning of today's horrible pop stars that makes their voices more tolerable: also math, but just less classy.

Weight loss is math: when you're trying to lose weight, it is going to come down to one thing: calories. A calorie is defined as the amount of energy it takes to heat one gram (which is also conveniently one milliliter and one cubic centimeter) of water, one degree C. This is stored energy and equal to about 4.184 joules. When you are actively using up this energy, you can express the rate of energy consumption in watts, or joules per second. So if the average person takes in 2000 dietetic calories (or 8.368 MJ) per day, they would have consumed enough energy to power a single 100 watt lightbulb for almost an entire day. Now, this really isn't all that much, but bear in mind that there are people that are consistently getting fatter, which means that they aren't using all the energy that they take in, and there body has to store it somewhere. Basic universal laws state that you can't create or destroy energy, only convert it between forms. So they are taking it in, nit using it, and then converting it to fat. Yup. So if you want to lose it, you have to use more energy in a day than you consume. E_out > E_in. Simple as that.

Motion is math: say that your standing on top of a building and drop a baseball off the top. The representation of the acceleration of the ball will just be a = g. Then to find the velocity at any given time, this is simply v = g*t, and then to find the position of the ball, you can integrate once more to find that x = .5 g*t^2. this is neglecting any drag forces that the air exerts on the ball and also just a simple drop. If you were to throw the ball with an initial velocity of 65 mph at an angle of 35 degrees from the horizontal with a cross wind of 30 mph off a 75 foot tall building, you could effectively calculate almost exactly where it would land. This same principle relates to anything that moves. You can use math to explain the lack of friction on old shoes coupled with a diagram showing the unequal forces causing one to slip while walking, or to show the devastation between a head-on collision between an F-150 and a smart car. In that scenario, you can guess who the victor is going to be, but can you explain why? Well, math can.

There are plenty more examples, but these are just a few that I could think of off the top of my head. So every time somebody says to me, "math is hard" I like to interpret this into "understanding everything is hard." Granted, you don't have to understand the math behind everything to do it, it just makes it a lot better.

(And this is what happens when I don't use my brain for a month after being out of school.)

Guess Mine...

I am studying for a math test that I have tomorrow. I have pretty much lost all sanity. There is almost no use in studying anyway, seeing as how this will be a sheer test of IQ. It will just be a quantization of how well you can wrap your brain around an obscure question and answer it. I'm pretty screwed. So here is a list of my friends and which superheroes they would be and why

• Dave- Gambit (because he gambles too much)
• Derek- Ghost Rider (because of just how bitchin' he rides that scooter)
• Stennett- Silver Surfer (because he's from a far off place with a whole surfing-thing going on)
• Hillier- The Hulk (because of how he explodes with rage while playing basketball)
• Forbes- Captain America (because he's dead)
• Gabi- Green Lantern (because I don't know what the hell he actually does)
• Harward- The Tick (because he's big, friendly, and when he's there, you KNOW he's there)
• Andrew- Spider-man (no real explanation needed)
• TJ- Human Torch (because he believes himself to be awesome)

Okay, back to math.

*Edit: Stennett complained, so now he's Batman.

Pioneer Children Sang as They Walked

I am about two hours away from an 4.5 day weekend. It's pioneer day (aka Mormon Christmas), and BYU is generous enough to give Friday off so that we might celebrate. In all honesty, I'm about one hour away from this glorious break from all things scholastic. I'm sitting in linear algebra (been here for 3 minutes) and I've already plotted an escape. I turned in my test (it was a take home) and listened to some kids complain a bit about how hard it was. I laughed. It was easy. I hate this class, but it is easy. Hooray for (previously taken) technical electives.

I just gave a presentation in my English class. The professor gave me a 50+/50. I'm going to be honest: I don't really know what that means. I am hoping for imaginary extra credit. I have never had extra credit in college before. I'm excited.
On the first day of this class, one thing was really clear: if the teacher likes you, you'll do well. The molester and I made sure that she knows who we are, and that she likes us. Don't get me wrong: the presentation rocked. I'm not demeaning its quality. I just think that the teacher liked the fact I spoke about Christian Bale.

If you go back to an older post, you'll see how I feel about eigenvalues. That is what we are talking about in lin alg today. Awesome...

In the spirit of my math homework taking me 15 minutes to complete, I have had a bit of free time on my hands as of late. Unfortunately, this free time usually comes while all my friends are at work. Here is what I do with it:

• Burn Notice*
• Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles**
• Lost***

I am thinking of starting up the final season of Prison Break due to the (**) reasoning at the bottom.

I've also spent an ample amount of time taking apart old phones and seeing what I can make from their innards.

Derek took me to go get shave ice two days ago. It was... poor. Well, the ice itself was great. I just somehow picked the nastiest cocktail of horrendous flavors. I have come up with a plan of how I can avoid that situation next time I go. Here are the steps of the plan:

1. Let Derek order first
2. Order the exact same thing
3. Eat it

For all you avid readers, I might be moving over to wordpress soon.

*We finished season 2 of Burn Notice in about 3 days
**Dave is a butt
***Recently started up again after hiatus

log(xB)

If you get it, then you win 50 extra points which can be applied to a variety of flavored beverages.

The purpose of this post is the same as it was this time last semester: to get my notes for my math test tomorrow down somewhere, just to help me remember it. This will be the format for the notes

Section number- what knowledge can be acquired by learning the section

How to do it, in Brian terms.

Here is the breakdown by sections:

7.1 Transforming a second order differential into a system of first order differential equations

Set x₁ to u, aşa că u'= x'₁

Then set x₂ also to u', and then u''=x'₂

Get the original equation in terms of x₁ equal to x'₂

7.2 Verify that a given vector satisfies a given equation

Learn basic linear algebra

7.3 Determining linear relationships between vectors

Give all vectors a constant in an equation similar to

C₁x₁+C₂x₂+C₃x₃=0

Write as an augmented matrix

Solve and pray they are all different constants

Part II Finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors

...Find the eigenvalues.

...Find the eigenvectors

7.4 Finding the Wronskian of a given vector, finding the interval of linear independence, find a system of equations that verify linear independence

You're given x₁ and x₂ vectors

Find W, and where it is zero, those values don't exist. That means that the interval of linear independence is everywhere that those values aren't.

The system of equations that verify linear independence is found by simply finding a vector that satisfies x'=Px

7.5 Find the general solution of a given system with different, real eigenvalues

Find the eigenvalues(these will be known as r₁ and r₂), then the eigenvectors (represented by ξ₁ and ξ₂)

Your solution is of the form x=c₁ξ₁e^r₁t + c₂ξ₂e^r₂t

...Yeah, it is taking too long to do the html code on this, and I won't do it otherwise... so I won't do it any more.

Bombachus

• Bill Gates' Facebook
  

The person who realized you can pop corn deserves a Nobel Prize.

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I finished my math today in 13% of my battery. How did I do this: Eigenvalues.

Bombachus

• This really bothered me. I hope it bothers you too.
  
• I laughed, I cried.
• Owls. And were you aware that he was the king of the beavers? Me neither.
  

9.81 m/s2

Record time today for a math test. 1.76 hours. Now, if you can't sleep very well at night, you should know that 76% of an hour is 45 minutes and 36 seconds. This was exceptionally quick considering that most of them took upwards 3 hours last semester.

I have another test on Thursday. It is in my manufacturing class. It will be either A) unreasonably easy, or B) viciously hard. I'll keep you all posted so that you know. I am going to study for it today so that tomorrow I can spend the majority of the day in the CAD lab. Fun stuff.

Last Friday we went out to a huge hole in the middle of nowhere. We proceeded to hurl flaming pieces of garbage down the shaft. The sad part of the whole thing was the fact that I was generally more interested in timing the fall and calculating the depth of the shaft than just tossing stuff down.

Saturday consisted of going to Hillier's sister's wedding. I drank some sort of green drink in aspiration of being a billionaire super-hero one day.

Fact: Billionaire super-heroes drink green beverages.
Proof:
I'm going to get back to homework now.

2.6 Exact Differential Equations

I am sitting in math right now, and I am not really paying any attention. Hence the post.

I just spent about 2 hours in the CAD lab working on, get this, sketches. No, not by hand, but getting the computer to do the sketches for me based off the models that I designed. So, we are taking a 3D model, and degrading it to 2D. Way fun. The most important reason for using the 2D model is because Cylon technology can't hack a 2D model and shut it down so they can destroy you.. like they can with the 3D model.

Today is the Presidential Inauguration of Obama. Yesterday was Martin Luther King Jr. day. In about a week and a half we will be in Black History Month. Stennett and I will continue to eat pancakes to celebrate.

I just realized that I accidentally did the assignment already for what the professor is teaching today. What a waste of a weekend.

Oh, and I quit my job yesterday. Tonight is my last night there. Now I will be poor again.

∫∫∫ 1 dzdrdθ of NaCl

I am currently sitting in the library (booktorium) and should by all means, be finishing my math. I am, however, not doing as such. I was up pretty late last night, and got up early this morning. I fell asleep in my first class of the day (Manufacturing Science) and we will see how the rest of the day goes. I am betting that unless I pull out my laptop in every class, I fall asleep in each one. I made some pretty cool stuff in the CAD lab though. Not that any of you really care.

I downloaded a program called "LyX" last night while I was at work. If any body does a lot of math on their computer, I highly recommend it.

Okay, well, I am planning on going to the devotional in about 30 minutes, and it will be pretty blatant if I am hacking out my differential equations while Elder Holland counsels us to remember Lot's wife.

Ciao.

Mittens ≥ Gloves

This just happened. It was really funny as it was happening, then subsequently less funny as time goes on. Dave knows how to graph the level of funniness as a function of time (Hint: it has a negative slope)

"Do you guys sell, like, mittens?" -Dumb Girl

"Yeah, they're right there, you were just standing next to them." -Me

"Oh, no, these are like gloves"

"Except for those mittens right there on the end... those are like mittens"

"No, I mean like mittens"

"By definition, those are mittens"

"No, I mean like, wool ones"

"Oh, then no, we don't sell mittens"

I then laughed after she left, and told Dave about it.

The Lion King: To Be Successful, Sometimes People Got to Die

This entry is dedicated to the ever diligent D-Mac. He has been bugging me to update my blog for eons, and now I finally am. Hooray to all of my diligent readers. All two of you.
So, nothing really too eventful has happened over the past weeks. I got a B- out of my math class. I initially thought that I was going to have to retake it, but no; I get to move on. What more, I can still minor in math. I have one more beastly math class, then I have two which shouldn’t be too bad. They might even be kinda fun.

Oh, Forbes got married yesterday. Congrats buddy. I got to go to the ceremony and the luncheon. It was actually really fun. The night before we went, Hillier, Stennett and I all played pass the pigs and watched Pastor Melissa Scott. It was great. We have also set up a Super Nintendo and played Super Mario World. Again, great.

I bought another Nixon. David is a bad influence. So is Whiskey Militia. Speaking of which, I need to find my Δ because there is a fancy little place here in the mall that offers unlimited batteries for 5 years. This is beneficial for the following reasons: 1. The Δ batteries are about $20 a pop, and 2. They need to be Δed about once a year.

Bombachus

• This is the worlds largest Liger. This is the world's most famous Liger.
• 7 Classic Disney Movies That Taught Us Terrible (Awesome) Lessons

∫0(this is retarded) 1 dx

It is currently 17:42, and I am in the basement of the library. I have a test that I was going to take Friday.. er... Saturday... uh.. today... I guess tomorrow. I am sincerely dead. Let me tell you about the grand lewdities that are encompassed in my math test here.

1. Line Integrals.

• W=∫F·dr= ∫F(r(t))·r'(t)
• If F is a force field, this integral represents work performed in traversing the curve.
• Parametrization for r when broken up amongst multiple curves is given through (1-t)r₀+(t)r₁

2. Other coordinate systems

• Cylindrical Coordinates: x=r·cosθ y=r·sinθ x²+y²=r² and dV=drdθdz
  
• Spherical Coordinates: x=(ρ)cos(θ)sin(φ) y=(ρ)sin(θ)sin(φ) z=(ρ)cos(φ) and dV=dρdφdθ

3. Divergence, Gradient, Curl

• Divergence div(F)=∂M/∂x + ∂N/∂y +∂R/∂z = ∇·F
• Curl curl(F)=(∂R/∂y-∂N/∂z)i-(∂R/∂x-∂M/∂z)j+(∂N/∂x-∂M/∂y)k = ∇ x F

4. Green's Theorem

• ∫F·dr=∫∫_R(∂N/∂x-∂M/∂y)dA
• Area of R=1/2 ∫(-y)dx+x dy

5. Surface Integrals

• ∫∫_R(1+(f_x)²+(f_y)²)^1/2 dA=surface area of.. well... a surface
• ∫∫_R(φ(x,y,f(x,y))(1+(f_x)²+(f_y)²)^1/2 dA=integration of a function over a given surface

6. Stokes's Theorem

• ∫F·dr=∫∫_Scurl(F)·n dS
• I sincerely have no idea what this is used for...

7. The Divergence Theorem

• ∫∫_SF·n dS=∫∫∫_Udiv(F)dV
• Again, not a clue.

Let it be noted that there were supposed to be a few"C" subscripts after various integral signs, and also that some of the integral signs are supposed to have little circles in them, but 1. I was too lazy to go back and insert the subscripts after I figured out how to make them and 2. I didn't know how to make the fancier integral sign.

I am going to try to study some more now.

a+bt+c(t^2)/2

I have only been at work for an hour, and I am already bored to tears. I've already finished a math assignment that isn't due for another week, so, there you have it. I am kinda abhorring school this week because it seems like it is fake, by which I mean half of my classes are canceled and the other half make it seem like they just aren't trying. There was a disclaimer on my physics class for tomorrow of "YOU DON'T HAVE TO KNOW THIS!!!!" So that really, really makes me want to go.

I promised Nina that I would make a few dedications to her on here. The first one come by way of Gabi. The only reason that she gets this is because (like the cheese) she is Austrian. Here is another one that comes, well, by way of Nina. You are going to have to click on this link for the movie. It is pretty funny... especially if you understand German... like me. Hast du eine ente?

Why is my text getting underlined? There it goes; it's fixed. Sometimes a person gets irritated to the point where they just have to go into HTML and see what the crap is going on...

Bombachus

• 
• Again, the math (by me) was done on this to verify the accuracy of the math (done by them who made it). I am guessing that all air resistance was neglected, and if so, it would have actually made the initial contact with the ground at 1114 feet, 6 inches, and 12/25ths of an inch if you take gravity to be -32.2 ft/s^2. And for the record, I think Newton would have calculated it in the metric system.
  
• Here is something else that made me laugh.
• And for the record Newton>Einstein.
• Also, da Vinci>Einstein
• Newton+da Vinici>>Einstein
• The three previous bullets may have something to do with the fact that we are working relativity in physics right now. It isn't the most fun.
  

Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop

Today's title is courtesy of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, which is one messed-up book.

Here is the epic tale of my day:
I was up last night until about 2:30ish (to be entirely honest, I have no idea what time it actually was when I went to sleep) studying for a math test that I had today. [Note: Math 302 is the most poorly designed class at BYU] I got up at 6:30 (I know that is sleeping-in to some of you) and went to class. I fell asleep in my first class... and my second class. I then decided that it was time for a little "pick-me-up" and managed to scrounge up 400 mg of caffeine to wake up. It sure did the trick. I thought about taking another 600 (for two reasons; One: so that I would be super, super alert for the test, and Two: just so that I could use the word "Centigram" properly in a sentence) but I never did. That was probably for the best because I got really wired after 400mg and thought of the following jokes. Okay, I only thought of one of them. The other I thought of a while ago and it got revamped for the situation.
1: Yo mamma's so fat I feel like every time I see her I should introduce myself as a Jedi Knight and a friend to Captain Solo.
2: Yo mamma's so fat that when the guys from CERN saw her belt, they asked for the Large Hadron Collider back.
If you are fuzzy on why either of those are humorous, you are much less of a nerd than I. Also, when Derek read the second one, he greatly, greatly misread it.
Anywho, I took the test. It lasted a record breaking 3.5 hours. No, this is a record for speed. It is the shortest that a Math 302 test has ever taken. It still sucked.
Now I am home and I am blessed witht the chance to study for a Physics test that I have on Thursday. I know, it is pretty gay.

Bombachus

• This made me laugh really, really hard. (Click the link, not the picture below)
  
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• And then I had to do the actual math on this to make sure that they did it right. They did... but they rounded. I would have kept more decimal places.
• For Derek:

Anyone can see my every flaw. It isn't hard

Today's title comes from Jimmy Eat World. If you want to know about flaws, just keep reading and find out about my religion class...

It feels like it has been eons since I have updated anything on here. Sorry to all few of you who actually check this. There really hasn't been anything interesting going on lately. Just school, and that isn't anything new. Lots of tests. Speaking of tests, here is something that just kills me. I have two civil engineering classes, a 300 level math course, physics for engineers, and Book of Mormon. Guess which class I get the worst scores in? Well, if you said physics, you would be right, but my religion class is right behind it. You would think that the fact that I have spent more time reading the Book of Mormon than all of my other textbooks combined would facilitate a higher score in the class. In my civil engineering classes, I have gotten 94's, 98, and 99 (I labeled the x-axis as the x-direction [I know, its dumb to not get 100 for something like that, but it is actually understandable]) on all of the tests that I have had so far. You don't really want to know how religion is turning out.

Right now in mutlivariable calc, we have the glorious opportunity to be working on "Legrange Mulipliers." My favorite part was the fact that there was an asterisk at the beginning of the section. You know, when you see one of those, you have to look down at the bottom of the page to find out what is unique about it. Here, I will let you experience what I thoroughly enjoyed.
13.9 Legrange Multipliers*


I saw this at FYE and I think that a few people might enjoy it. I will give you captions of my thought process.
"Huh... Thats a big gap... I wonder what is supposed to go there... Whats up there before the gap?"
"Duckman? The crap?... Okay, well... whats at the end?"
"Okay, Dukes of Hazard..."

Conclusion: People have been buying a crapload of Ducktales on DVD recently.

Oh yeah, Brain Candy: The Count of Monte Cristo. I've never seen the movie, but the book is pretty good. Kinda slow at points, but I am only a tenth of the way through it. Meaning I am around 210 of 2100 digital pages. I should be on this one for a while. Not like the previous books which have taken me no longer than a week or so.

Okay, well, I have another test in my Mechanics of Materials (Ce En 203) on Friday, and I think I am going to go study for that a bit. Yes, I do actually try to study before I reach the evening preceeding the test.

Oh, and Obama won tonight. Just like the Phillies. I am always going use baseball to predict elections from now on.
_________________
*Knowledge of this section is not required for subsequent sections.
(Brian's translation: You don't actually have to know this.)

Do-de-do-do-do-do-do Vote for me.

Ok, so it has been a day. That is about all I can say for what has happened. Everybody in my mechanics class was complaining about how hard the test was and about how they were crushed under the time limit (2 hours and 15 minutes) and so I am more worried about having done it wrong now. If everybody else is crapping chickens over it, I think I have reason to be worried.

In my dynamics class, my teacher just told us stories all day about how he made 8 satellites and accidentally blew them all up on the launch pad. It was awesome. Math was just a dumb presentation about rocks. I used the time that was presented to me to try to study a bit for the math test. It is useless. I am dead.

Here is the final revised analogy for mathematical proofs. It is like reading the Lord of the Rings books (all of them) after having watched the movies. You know what is going to happen in the end, but for some forsaken reason, you have to go through the arduous process of finding out all of the lewd details about how it happened anyway. Then you are often required to site all of those details, and sometimes explain how to get back as well. Poor....

I just bought 20 liters of soda.

Bombachus

• I saw this at BYU. It made me laugh. It is the only place in the world where you would have to make sure that everybody knows it isn't a spiritual plant.
• This also made me laugh quite a bit. I don't have an 360, but I can laugh all the same. I am saying that it is getting posted in honor of Iron Man coming out on Tuesday.
  

Dodge This...

Its Sunday afternoon, and I am procrastinating doing my homework due to an asinine assignment that I had yesterday. It was one math assignment, and it took me around 5 hours to complete. The most useful thing that anybody can take away from what I was working on is that the plural of "matrix" is not "matrixes." That is pretty much the most applicable thing to real life. Let me tell you some thoughts which have coursed through my head somewhat frequently in the last year or so...

"Hey, this is kinda interesting... maybe I should become a math major..."
"That's stupid, why would you do that?"
"I don't know. It is interesting and I am kinda good at it."
"But what about application?"
"Well, yeah, there's always that."
"I mean, math is great when you couple it with physics, but what is math alone? It's theory."
"Yeah..."
"So, what do you say?"
"... I guess I'm gonna stay in engineering..."
"That's right. Now go get me a taco."
"Wait, you're just my brain talking back to me. Why would I get you a taco?
"Just do it."
"Yes sir."

And that is how it goes.

Bombachus

• I saw this shirt and it made me laugh. Oh, don't get me wrong, I would never wear it in a million years, but that isn't to say it wasn't humorous.
  
• This is in honor of the math dissertation that just took place.

Hey, no math for today! Instead, Dynamics! (Which includes a great deal of math)

Poopsmith

I was blessed with the opportunity to run into Amy today on campus. This is the same Amy who Dear John-ed me a month before I came home. This is the first time I have seen her face to face, and to be quite honest, it wasn't all that bad. It was surprisingly not awkward. Now, the glory of this event pales in comparison to the math test I had today. I got an 80% on it, and I will admit that it was only by the Hand of God that I even achieved that. I guess I get to stay in the class. I hope that none of my other classes have any gay pretests like that.

This is for Dave, then I am back to homework.
Homework is a lot like shoveling crap: it never seems to end.

You m-m-m-mmm-m-make me happy.

It has been an exceptionally long day. I only had one class, but there was more than enough work to go around. My math assignment took me 2 hours 18 minutes and 51 seconds. Yes, I took my time, but then I had to study for this frakking test that I don't know when I am going to take. It has inevitably been narrowed down to Saturday or Monday. I'm not ready for it, and I don't want to pay for a retake.

There was something particularly enjoyable about my day though. I got to see a kid wearing overalls. No, it wasn't some youngster being led around by his college-age mommy. It was a student in my math class. Here are some rules about wearing overalls:

• One may wear overalls only if he/she meets the following criteria:

1. Said individual is under the age of 5
2. Said individual is a farmer of some kind
3. Said individual uses them for utility purposes
4. Said individual has gone "full retard" like unto...

Now, I don't know if you read what it says under the title, but the tagline is "Once upon a time... there was a retard." There may be other reasons a person might wear overalls. None of them are good though...

It is only 9:30, and I think I am off to bed. Lame, I know.

The Soviet Union will be pleased to offer amnesty to your wayward vessel.

It was the first day of class for BYU. For me, it wasn't really all that bad. I only have one class on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so I got eased into it. I was trying to keep all of my classes on only Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, but unfortunately my math is taught every day, so there was no way around that. I guess that math must be important or something.

Today we put primer on the walls of the room. We also painted. I am getting progressively more excited for it to get done as the end gets nearer. x^2 excited. The more it looks like a room, the more excited to get out from underneath the stairs. That's right, I live under the stairs. Stennett likened it to Harry Potter, except I have a window. Kinda. It is covered by a gigantic whiteboard. So its more like a shelf.

Bombachus

• Luke Skywalker's lightsaber in space. This actually happened.... boo...
• This picture makes me really want to go into space...
• Okay, the previous comment wasn't about the hot dog, but the picture you will get if you click on the link.
  
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• It would be stupid if it weren't for the asterisk in the lower right hand part of the banner. It makes you wonder... were they trying to be funny, or avoid a lawsuit like these...

I'm going back to the demoness of integrals.

If f is continuous on [a,b] and f' exists on (a,b), then there exists a point c on (a,b) such that f'(c) (b-a)= (f(b)-f(a))

Oh, you haven't heard? They've removed all numbers from math...

It seems like no matter how many times I tell blogger to remember me, it can't. This is particularly frustrating because I have an eleven character password with all of the bells and whistles which make it a pain to input each time.

Last night I saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It actually wasn't all that good. Everybody had a part that pissed them off the most. Derek's was when they went off successive waterfalls without any casualties. Mine was when Shea... Shia... LeBoo... that kid from Holes took advice from monkeys and uses vines for transportation. And then I hated magnetic gold. It seems as though Georgey-boy Lucas feels that he is entitled to poo on the childhood dreams and fantasies of multiple generations when he takes heinous liberties with the new generation of bastardic movies he has created. I wanted to graph the quality of Lucas's success, but I realized two things: 1, its too hard for no real pay off and 2, Giving Attack of the Clones any rating for quality is like trying to divide by zero. Just imagine a graph that is reasonably high until after 1989, then does an abrupt nose dive.

I'm still trying to burn through a crash-course in calculus (who is a she-devil) so that I can pass this retarded test next week. With each passing day, I am less and less excited for school to start.

Bombachus

• In honor of my bagging on George Lucas, here is a comic which I particularly enjoyed. If you don't get it, I apologize now. Greedo didn't shoot first.
• I particularly enjoy how they captured the neck fat.
• I want one of these. Click the link and you will want one too.

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