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[collinsmark]

Ink may end up drying up unless it includes some special ingredient. I would call my ink company Ink Inc, ( Wink!).

That sort of reminds me of Valve Corporation, but for the opposite reason.

For those who don't know, Valve Corporation is the software company that created/owns Steam (a place where many/most PC users get their games these days). They also created Half Life series, Portal series, Counter-Strike, Left-4-Dead, and other games.

Anyway, the official name of the company is "Valve Corporation." But it's not a corporation. "Corporation" is just part of the company's name. The company is actually a privately owned L.L.C.

 

[WWGD]

That sort of reminds me of Valve Corporation, but for the opposite reason.

For those who don't know, Valve Corporation is the software company that created/owns Steam (a place where many/most PC users get their games these days). They also created Half Life series, Portal series, Counter-Strike, Left-4-Dead, and other games.

Anyway, the official name of the company is "Valve Corporation." But it's not a corporation. "Corporation" is just part of the company's name. The company is actually a privately owned L.L.C.

I heard of this company that named itself ' Going out of Business' and so they have 'Going out of Business ' sales. Seriously.

 

[WWGD]

I always found this one puzzling:

"Where are you?"
"Waiting for the bus".
"Ik, hurry up then".

 

[WWGD]

Never trust a lawyer that accepts coupons or talks about half-a-davids ( Affidavits).

 

[hypatia]

YAY! I went to the grocery store yesterday (don't tell my daughter). I found toilet paper, paper towels, flour, rubbing alcohol, BUT that had been relabeled as HAND SANITIZER and a 98 cent bottle was selling for $8! It was just plain rubbing alcohol, nothing else, just a different label! That PISSED ME OFF. But I bought it, it was all they had. :( I may go after them for price gouging. Nice to see the shelves stocked again.

My oh my, shopping has been spotty at best. Metro Detroit has been hit hard and people still have a hoarding mentality. I just wanted to pop in and say hi. Hi

 

[Evo]

My oh my, shopping has been spotty at best. Metro Detroit has been hit hard and people still have a hoarding mentality. I just wanted to pop in and say hi. Hi

Welcome back! You are sorely missed!

 

[WWGD]

A certain politician decided to " Cut all homeless people in half by 2025". Let's hope he doesn't.

 

[etotheipi]

This has got to be the worst mnemonic I've ever seen

This is known as triple product expansion... Its right hand side can be remembered by using the mnemonic "ACB − ABC", provided one keeps in mind which vectors are dotted together

Well thanks for that, Wikipedia.

 

[fresh_42]

I have two chain and three cochain complexes, I even calculated the first three homology modules of each. Is there a mathematical journal for this?

 

[Ibix]

I have two chain and three cochain complexes, I even calculated the first three homology modules of each. Is there a mathematical journal for this?

Do papers on abstract nonsense have nonsensical abstracts?

 

[WWGD]

I have two chain and three cochain complexes, I even calculated the first three homology modules of each. Is there a mathematical journal for this?

The journal for Mathematicians with clean ( meaning chalk-free) pants. What it takes a Classical Mathematician two chalkboards takes a modern one a quarter of one with a bunch of arrows and diagrams.

 

[fresh_42]

The journal for Mathematicians with clean ( meaning chalk-free) pants. What it takes a Classical Mathematician two chalkboards takes a modern one a quarter of one with a bunch of arrows and diagrams.

I had a professor who started to write at the most left edge of the big boards at university with his left hand until he came to the center where he changed hands and continued writing to the most right edge with his right ...

It was almost impossible to script the lectures.

 

[WWGD]

I had a professor who started to write at the most left edge of the big boards at university with his left hand until he came to the center where he changed hands and continued writing to the most right edge with his right ...

It was almost impossible to script the lectures.

I had one that was scary. Once, after writing a full blackboard and erasing it, a student told him she had missed something. The prof wrote the notes again identically on the blackboard.

 

[fresh_42]

I had one that was scary. Once, after writing a full blackboard and erasing it, a student told him she had missed something. The prof wrote the notes again identically on the blackboard.

Students of von Neumann coined the term: "proof by von Neumann" because he was so fast, that he had to start wiping before the students had a chance to write it down.

 

[Keith_McClary]

mnemonic

Good place for a ^{[citation needed]}.

 

[skyshrimp]

Today, I'm making 2lbs of Chinese pork dumplings.

I'll eat a load and freeze the rest nom nom.

 

[WWGD]

Today, I'm making 2lbs of Chinese pork dumplings.

I'll eat a load and freeze the rest nom nom.

I never developed my skills beyond the very basic: eggs, rice, sauteeing. Too much good stuff out there that is reasonably-priced and tastier than I can reasonably can cook for myself.

 

[fresh_42]

I never developed my skills beyond the very basic: eggs, rice, sauteeing. Too much good stuff out there that is reasonably-priced and tastier than I can reasonably can cook for myself.

There is always the 2-step-emergency-plan;
1.) If in doubt, add bacon.
2.) If still in doubt, cover it with cheese and bake it.

 

[WWGD]

There is always the 2-step-emergency-plan;
1.) If in doubt, add bacon.
2.) If still in doubt, cover it with cheese and bake it.

Bacon makes everything better. Now they even have it with chocolate. Notice no bacon-eating competitions. People would never stop eating.

 

[etotheipi]

Now they even have it with chocolate.

 

[WWGD]

I didn't think it was that bad. Still, a waste of sacred bacon.

 

[WWGD]

Still waiting to see whether NK's Kim Jong Un is dead or alive.

 

[WWGD]

Idiot sitting right ne t to me in park when there are plenty of empty benches within short distance.

 

[gmax137]

I want to grow my own food but I can’t find bacon seeds.

 

[fresh_42]

I want to grow my own food but I can’t find bacon seeds.

They are easier to find in Germany. They are hidden in our walls:

 

[fresh_42]

Too bad we don't have a playground forum. I have found a machine which eats the simplest of all non trivial Lie algebras and spits out the gauge groups of the standard model.

 

[WWGD]

Ended up exhausted on a duscussion on whether 1=0.999... in the Surreals , Hyperreals and other models. I'm pretty far from having a full understanding of the topic.

 

[fresh_42]

Ended up exhausted on a discussion on whether 1=0.999... in the Surreals , Hyperreals and other models. I'm pretty far from having a full understanding of the topic.

It is a crackpot discussion. There is no ambiguity as soon as notation has been properly defined. It's a debate for hobby calculators.

I just found this - looks a bit like the Scottish west coast:

 

[WWGD]

It is a crackpot discussion. There is no ambiguity as soon as notation has been properly defined. It's a debate for hobby calculators.

I just found this - looks a bit like the Scottish west coast:

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No, there are actual issues if you work with Hyperreals or Surreals without the Archimedean property. True that it is settled within the standard Reals.

 

[WWGD]

Seems kind of strange these people who describe themselves as _passionate_ something: Chess players, Mathematicians, etc. Is this a separate sexual thing or do they have " feelings" towards these activities, etc?