NUMB3RS

Hey guys, sorry its been so late.
I was revamping my computer, and installed windows about 6 times in order to get it right.

This post is about a new show I saw recently on TV.
It's called Numbers, and it's about a mathematician who helps out his bro who's on the FBI. Some of the stuff he does is really cool, but those who know me will prbably think that it's one of my quirky idiosyncrasies to like such things.

I liked it (though the TV cut about 4 times in between), and thought i ought to recommend it to you guys.

For those in my vicinity and who have the resources, it comes on AXN at 7:00 PM every Saturday.

Civilization in Reverse

My friend recently asked me a question:

"Name one invention whose adverse effects have not eclipsed the good"

He went on to say that man should not civilize and invent new things, because he will surely suffer for it. He suggests that man could have continued to live indefinitely without rudimentary technological innovations such as the wheel, and farming, not to mention fire, by continuing to hunt and forage.

I strongly disagree. What do you think?

Carbon Monoxide is a cheap stupid Ligand

Quote. Unquote.

Remarking right along...

In a maths class, we were finding the point of contact between a sphere and a tangential plane. We had found the radius and were about to find the point of contact when...

Teacher : "Saaaar, you must find the point of contact saaar, You know, even before Archimedes could jump up and say Eureka Eureka, he said 'Find me a point of contact and I will move the world'"

This is not bad grammar, just a horrible analogy and a worse choice of words.

In a totally unrelated incident, a fellow poster on the gameFaqs forum remarked to me about the pokemon game as such...

"How can the practice of stuffing half-a-ton animals into hollow tennis balls and taking them out just to ram into someone be considered normal?"

More classy remarks

Here are some more excerpts of amazing grammar :

Student : Can we solve this problem by another method?
Teacher : Of course. I know only one method, and I will follow only that method which I know. This is not to say that I do not know any other method.
(So finally..what?)

Teacher : Find the equation of the bisector planes which bisect the angle between the planes into to equal parts.
(That got me nowhere reeeal fast)

Teacher : The direction of the normal to the plane is directed along the direction normal to the plane.
(As if I couldn't figure that out)

While this is all very entertaining and all that, I do wish that my teachers (sans my English teacher) would learn some english - the right way.

Spherical Aberration

My physics teacher today defined a spherical surface (with respect to refraction) as:
"A Spherical surface is a surface portion of a sphere of which the given surface forms a part.

I count : 2 references to the word sphere, 3 references to surface and 2 to part or portion.

She has basically defined the phrase by repeating the phrase twice over

To cap it all off, she makes her final remark...

"This is what the board will accept. If you do not write this, the examiners will look at their key and see that it is not there and will strike it off and give you zero."

I feel sorry for the examiners.