Math Is Hard

I was just reminiscing about an old PF haiku thread:
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=82223

I submitted a creepy haiku:

and Zooby came back with such a great response:

Had me in stitches....

If you're reading this, it is probably because you know me. And since you know me, you know how much I love animals. So you know how much cruelty to animals breaks my heart. I read about a particularly vicious case of a kitten being tortured and killed recently. The young woman who did this was 17, and could get off with a slap on the wrist because of her age. A petition is gathering signatures asking for her to be tried as an adult. I signed it. I hope it will help.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/332/p...tried-as-adult...

I always wanted to collect something. Like stamps or porcelain hippos. I never found quite the right item, though, until recently. I've started collecting peculiar sentences that I overhear from strangers. The more ambiguous and weird, the better. Here's two eavesdrops that I snared this week (on different days).

Girl to guy: "You look 58% sexier than you did yesterday."

Guy to girl: "Can you help me with 'cheese'?"

Maybe I will collect...

Last weekend I was sitting at my computer working away, when I heard a noise on my patio..
"Flap, flap, flap"... then... "tap, tap, tap"... someone was tapping on my screen door. I turned to see who was there, and heard "caw, caw".

I was delighted to see that it was not someone selling candy, or religion, but two small darkly-clad visitors of the corvid persuasion. They have an interesting language, these feathered folk, in which simple syllables...

One of the funniest songs I've ever heard:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsJHqstPuNo

The Sunday morning Chik-fil-A jonez can be pretty intense, as some of you know.