What "Finals" you have
won't be there until the end,
if you look forward.

(I wonder if Jetee will ever read this?)

If he reads it and doesn't post, we won't know.

Go Phillies! ...I also veg'd out today at Maoz, just about like this one...underneath all that is falafel, roasted eggplant, and hummus:

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2.../maozmagic.jpg

Finals? dunnowhatyouistalkingabout,willis...

(24-8)/4=4

Interpretation's tricky,
but it needs to be done & trusted
before progress can be made.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...Rorschach1.jpg

(LOVE IT!!)

Imagine, BadNick,
as we know not in real life,
it's just, what it is.

24846

It's not even noon.
I think it's way too late, though,
to wonder what was.

(24/8)+4=7

just did 6 hours at the workshop...
All caught up, now...

A couple days ago was the longest day of the year.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...07/thisone.gif

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...od-Figure1.jpg

Not too long ago,
I encouraged anyone,
"Shoot if I say "we.""

nobody's done it yet.

Is today the 27th yet?

I believe I can help you there.

Listen: 03-03-08 Seg 05 - The Doomsday Vault and Nukes.mp3 - 4shared.com

+ topical redirect: Svalbard Global Seed Vault - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thanks, Jet, but I'm too much of an optimist to be interested in The Doomsday Vault and Nukes. But the efforts to save seeds for the future is a great idea.

There are some beautiful libraries in the world, some of which we've posted here or in the "where in the world" thread, but not many of them have plants and flowers integrated with the library setting. These are not really mixing books and bulbs in the same space, but I like the idea of gardens on library roofs:

You can read where this one is:
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ary-Solar2.jpg

I really like the look of this one, the University of Warsaw library roof:

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...mon-kubiak.jpg

I believe I actually might have posted one of those before, in the Visual Architectonics topic.
(I think it looked more like an undulating golf course on top of a building, maybe somewhere in Southeast Asia?)


There's something wrong with me. I never have anything to say.

Many of us have the same problem. I see this Longest thread as sort of a remedy since we can freely post away with no regard for sense or content and the more we do it the better we get :thumbsup:

I try to remedy the stallwarts with reminders that conversations flow best, but the contradiction still remains: I still have little idea of how to start one.

Here's a futile shot: would anyone care to do some algebra with me, until whenever the next topic emerges from its mole-hole?


additional:
I found THIS when I entered the query of sample algebra problems into the big G.

((2x4)/8)+5=6

You expect conversation?
It's mostly free-floating give & take,
if you're willing to have it.

I'm pretty damn good with algebra...now. Back when I was first learning it, it was a struggle. But then it must have fermented in my brain and suddenly I realized it was flowing like second nature...or first nature, if you prefer. I almost always help my two high school aged boys with their math homework. When I was much younger, I enjoyed tutoring cute girls who needed help with math.

I just looked at Jet's link above and found this word problem:

How many quarts of pure antifreeze should Mr. Alberts add to 10 quarts of a 20% antifreeze solution to make a 50% antifreeze solution?

My algebraic tutoring stories is limited to just the one, and it was quite long ago, embarassing, & had to be capped off with my earnest yet idotic statement of "we just got paid". youth. i want you back.
at least 10 more quarts..?

10 20 50 quarts ... my answer shall be 15 quarts. I probably used math to figure this out, but my deductive reasoning skills in life are likely more advanced than any mathematical ones I still have left.

Ethylene glycol,
since it's poison, killed my cat;
I guess maybe six.

Deductive, I'm not.
Redactive, I try to be.
Sue me for nothing.

2+4+(8-5)=9

Problem #16 - Synthethic Division


Divide:
-8x2 - 7x + 2
x - 6

Answer: ____


-- to note: the original problem had multiple choice answers, but again, that invoves some form of deductive reasoning, in which the least likely answers are elimated in favor for the answer that looks more likely. I'll see if I remember how to solve the above (hint that may throw all of us off: do I use the quadratic formula?)

TFP person formerly known as: 'Augi,' used to play here once in a while.


http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/tilted-...ath-limit.html

See, now it's going to kill me - what was his "formerly" username? Hain? Oh, that's his new one.
I believe I'm recalling this right - the virtual persona known as Dilbert1234567(?) also liked to dabble in numbers, if I'm not totally making this up.
Last bit of nostalgia: do you also recall who was the original girldetective? (I have a feeling she's written me off.)

- - -

Plus: ring, how am I supposed to share all that I am if I never have any time?

Here's gift, seeing as I recall you mentioning how much you adored that one topic devoted to paraguas (I am just now noticing that the Spanish word for 'umbrella' can literally be translated as for {use in} water... refreshing)

Oh, my very dears!
You keep your colors hidden,
& talk of others.

What becomes of US,
if such a thing existed,
before some stretching time?

2x(4+8)=6x4

Counted wrongly more,
does the belltower have pigeons,
happy to poop there?

I'm supposin' you got tired of waiting...
I still haven't started my sample problem yet.
Do I start by doing an 'x + 6'? Isolate the x?

Always isolate the x.
You can't figure it out, without that.
Deduction comes with answers.

For the first time in a long time, I'm finally going to get around to clicking these youtube boxes.
Going to start with the most logical occurrence, that being the one directly in front of me (above me; I didn't start watching it until 2:01).


"Stay Strange."

After looking at that I realize "Poisson Distribution" to me means how I arrange the fish on my plate.

24/8+6=9

I'm content with strange:
I see no alternative,
& I'm not alone.

I surely would not want to be the poster-child for "normal".

On the other hand, you may have noticed me previously posting that I no matter how weird I think I am, I eventually conclude it is within the realm of normal.

The "realm of normal"
trains its broad shoulders as toys
& not all that well.

I went to St. Paul,
last night, for "Above the Line...";
met artists' mothers.

What the artists said
was unclear in both cases,
& one was ugly.

I'll be editing,
not for personal reasons,
nor professional.

Was this an art crawl
in St. Paul?
I hope you didn't fall.


It took me the longest time...I suspect it's a world record...to find a place to hide in my current "where in the world am I?" turn.

It was in St. Paul,
& even up the four flights,
I didn't trip once.

Since you found a "place",
I'll go & make the next guess,
trying to find you.

catch me if you can


which brings back very fond memories of me chasing Maria around the library...I mean laps around the outside. Inside we sat next to each other and felt childhood orgasmic sensations as we touched hands and legs. I wonder where she is now? Where in the world are you, Maria.

When girls tickled me,
my reactions embarrassed,
'til they said, "Yes, please."

Not knowing reasons,
not caring any longer,
but able to try.

All I could find for the above was that which is known as the Deadstring Brothers (2004)

Why search for such things?
Respond to who calls your name,
or something random.

((2x4)/8)x7=7

To find something through your own means is fulfilling. And it leads to other things, some good (familiar), some bad (dead-ends).
It's my prerogative to look, discover and decide what's worth any effort at all.

I think I found that here:

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...nescrashed.jpg

2x4=8=8+0

One's prerogatives
begin & end where they want
or they can't be them.