Browncoat Bar & Grill - ZOMG It's A New Bar Thread!
POSTED BY: RoxyFreefall
UPDATED: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 01:08
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hey all,
so far today, lost glove and it's cold, button came of my trousers and horrible lurking cold turned into laryngitis again and that was before I made it to work. Needless to say, work was pants and stressful so major IBS this afternoon and evening.
PR, maths is an absolutely beautiful subject when you begin to see it. I can see in pure mathematics things that make my in awe as much as my favourite music, books and be as a nebulous concept to me at the same time. I have done a little tutoring of people in maths, nothing serious as not qualified but every time the problem has been more about the persons attitude to the subject than the maths itself. I'd say go for it if you feel the passion for it. Also, some stuff is hard and it's ok not to get it the first time. I know it sounds daft but seems to me, and I was guilty of it as a kid despite plenty of other things that I had to really work at, that a lot of people don't get the concept straight away and therefore think it's beyond them.
Anyway, I have fun planet stuff I should be reading...
*waves at Neko, HK, Nico and MsA*
*magics up more drinks for all*
work now
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MsA: Full-time teachers usually make a take-home of four digits before the decimal point (part-time, not so much). 
So are you impressed with your own works then? 
PR: Glad to hear you're in a mindset that's much more pro-math/logic. And like gee said, it's okay if you don't get it right the first time (or as I remind myself -- it's okay if you have to do it step-by-baby-step).
gee: Ewww...suxxors on teh clothing fails. Double suxxors on the laryngitis. Hope it gets better fast.
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I've never been anti math. Or logic. They're both obviously important to this world on which we live, which anyone who has a scientist or two in their family is aware of from birth. High school math, taught more as a religion than a science, was not my favorite thing ever, because the mode of teaching was itself a detriment to understanding. My personal enjoyment of math has been growing since I started college. My personal enjoyment of logic remains undiminished, as my recent interactions with management will attest. They don't like to be told when they're acting illogically. I worked that one out myself.
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I think I need to stay away from Wolfram Alpha for a while, I get too carried away with the silliness there (ie, finding out the number of molecules of oxygen in a cubic lightyear of caffeine - 6.46*10^75).
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but how many more are in a cupcake???
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.
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Who cares about oxygen when they've got a cupake?
I'm going to try for sleep now. It was a busy enough first day.
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Quote:Not lurking, sorry. Just posted a couple things in the BSR and came back because people were actually commenting. O.O!!!
Originally posted by Nicodemus:
*adds note to the list of things that can draw HK outta lurkdom*
So I thought I'd peek in here and Rose caught my attention... ^_^
((shrug))
Quote:((considers))... Hrm. Well. Do you want "encouraging" or "honest"?
Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
Yus, Kitten, I have given consideration to following in your noble footsteps, light and subtle as they are. If you have any advice on the subject, it would be most welcome.
I suck at figuring out which people want to hear, and I don't want to come across as a twat here...
((been practising this "polite" thing in the BSR))
((snerk))
Quote:((giggle)) ^___^
Originally posted by Dancingneko:
ninjakitty!!
*squee*
*distracts ninjakitty by plying her with ice cream sammiches, red vines, properly chilled and shined can-o-Dew, Eggos, (vanilla macadamia nut coffee maybe?)*
((eHug))
((flee!))
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As I'm trying to make an informed decision about what I want to be when I grown up, please be honest, especially as now I'm struck that honesty might not be encouraging. If a thing is utterly awful, I certainly don't want to sink a lot of time and money and then more time into it... [/sig]
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Well don't you also need to figure out which kind of engineer (electrical, mechanical, chemical, computer, etc. ) you'd want to be? My brother loves being a mechanical engineer , but he's a maths genius who loves fiddling, disassembling and improving stuff(always has) To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.
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Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
fiddling, disassembling and improving stuff
That could be fun. I used to disassemble all kinds of things when I was younger, and I always like improving things. I've often pondered ways so make something more usable. Mechanical, you say? I was thinking about computing, but yeah I really don't have that nailed down yet. Don't have a thing nailed down yet, aside from pretending to be a responsible adult. Er, sometimes
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