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PETE what do you think of the new solution for the divide-by-zero problem, developed by a britishes schoolteacher

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Thursday, 7 December 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Canada is fucked up.

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Thursday, 7 December 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

tell/link me more tom

― 69 (pete), Thursday, 7 December 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

http://science.slashdot.org/science/06/12/07/0416223.shtml

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Thursday, 7 December 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I DONT WANT TO WATCH HIM EXPLAIN THIS - I WANT TO READ IT

― 69 (pete), Thursday, 7 December 2006 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

yes, that is where I stopped, I have no desire to install real player on my work computer.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 7 December 2006 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link

man oh man those comments are k-classic

― 50,000,000 blelvis fans can't be wrong (teenagequiet), Thursday, 7 December 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

The projective line is neat and all but what he is doing is just stupid and fucking up his kids.
He reasons thusly 1/0=+inf -1/0=-inf (already see the problem that +inf=-inf) and 0/0=nullity (hence nullity = +inf)
He then reasons that 0^0=0^(-1)*0^(1)=1/0*0 = 0/0 = nullity.
Now let's try that another way.
nullity*0=0/0*0=0/0=nullity.
But also if 0^0 is a number then 0^0*0^1 = 0^1 = 0 Thus nullity*0=0 hence nullity*0=nullity=0. This is a pretty clear contradiction.

In other words it's just dumb. Mathematicians are not idiots. We haven't missed something like this for thousands of years.

this is from the slashdot comments. I can't watch it either.

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Start a thread on it, see if some of our esteemed mathematical minds can cast some light on it (and see how fast we can get some of our great wits, wags and wascals to post humorous comment on the subject).

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

CH already emailed me--he can't go, has to work.

Also, we are GOING to that meeting on MONDAY, KLG. About the shopping center/New Giant? On the flyer at the bus stop announcing the meeting some jerkoff wrote "NO to yuppies, traffic and noise!" I responded by writing/telling them to move to the suburbs.

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

seems like a fairly meaningless definition to me

― 69 (pete), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

wow dudes HOW DO I SHOT NEW JOB/LIFE/PERSONALITY?

― 50,000,000 blelvis fans can't be wrong (teenagequiet), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link

[/emo]

― 50,000,000 blelvis fans can't be wrong (teenagequiet), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Start an emo band, everything else will fall into place.

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

be like my coworker nando and just up and move to Argentina

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

"nando"

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

YUPPIES put the "U" in "Urban" so suburbs is definitely where that fuckwad should go. And yeah I had totally planned to go to that meeting to DEMAND a NON-GHETTO grocery store and some RETAIL for the EMPTY STOREFRONTS.

Because EMPTY STOREFRONTS positively SUCK. I don't know what ASSHAT is thinking.

― quincie (quincie), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

depends on what they mean by "retail"

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

what is bad about that giant? ive never been inside. the giant at the tivoli is pretty sweet - why cant they just revamp slightly?

― 69 (pete), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

The Giant constantly is out of staple type items like half and half and their produce really sucks and they don't have stuff like mushrooms on a consistent basis and (okay this is pretty yuppie I guess) cilantro. They'll run out of milk a lot too.

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Not that I mind walking up or down to either Whole Foods. Or getting in the car to go to SuperFresh over by AU. It just seems like, if you're going to have a grocery store, have a grocery store. There is plenty of space to expand in the abandoned storefront right next door, seems like a no brainer.

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Any neighborhood in which Half-and-half was considered a "staple item" is probably not one I could afford to live in...?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

roffle

― a_p (a_p), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

http://ypulse.com/images/rebelwith401k.jpg

― a_p (a_p), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah I used to flavor my coffee with dirt and bird shit too but that got pretty old after awhile.

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

We don't actually have a grocery in my neighborhood. There is a "Safeway" which is approximately 25ft x 35ft, but most of my exploring of that has been "emergency egg purchase" and "cigarettes" (which are in a completely wide open case way at the front of the store and the dudes are always like, "Oh yeah, just get your own, I'm pretty busy here" despite the fact that they CLEARLY AREN'T and are encouraging me to STEAL MOAR).

I did not notice an extensive half and half selection.

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

What are bodegas like in NYC? Mushrooms? Vegetables? Booze? Half and half?

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

HAHAHA I just re-read "I don't mind walking to EITHER Whole Foods" WHAT DO YOU WANT, HAND-DELIVERY OF YR CILANTRO AND HALF-AND-HALF??? we have that too! = www.peapod.com

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

the bodega across the street from my last apt consisted of weird beer selection (like a lot of 40s and Zima??? The 40s I understood, but the Zima not as much), bananas, Cuban staple items like ginormous bags of rice and dried beans, Medaglia del Oro, cigarettes, and lottery tickets.

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

they sold eggs and candies and milk too.

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

The one at my apt BEFORE that sold shit like fuckin le petit ecoulier cookies??? That was ridiculous.

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

the nearest store to me is the woodner grocery. this is why i tend to do most of my grocery shopping at mr chen's.

― 69 (pete), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess I could do Peapod. I just think it's totally okay and normal and not yuppie at all to expect better than a halfway decent grocery store which is what we have now.

xpost

Yes the Lame Giant has a whole AISLE of weird English cookies, jams, jellies, plantain chips and pineapple soda but sometimes runs out of, you know, any kind of milk besides Egg Nog.

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah - there's no reason for that giant to have bad produce or no half and half

― 69 (pete), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

How does one make nog?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, if people can WALK to a Whole Foods and are still complaining? No sympathy here. :D

I went to the corner bodega last Sunday cos I had forgotten to get corn and the local grocery was already closed (at six, I think). I started fishing through the freezer chest (spinach, okra, broc, pigeon peas wtf? but no corn) and noticed bug specimens being uncovered by my rummaging: one dead, frozen cockroach and one dead, frozen centipede. I closed the cover and skedaddled.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, New York is great!

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

whoa @ centipede

― 69 (pete), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

y'know laurel freezing will successfully eliminate the vast majority of bacterial foodborne pathogens

― 50,000,000 blelvis fans can't be wrong (teenagequiet), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

My problem with the grocery store is that it is there. It is a grocery store. In my neighborhood. If there was NOT a grocery store in my neighborhood, no problem. BUT since there IS a grocery store there in my neighborhood, I would like it to ACT like a grocery store.

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

No, I agree that shitty produce and running out of milk is uncalled for! You seriously should just do peapod though if you don't wanna have to go to Whole Foods for everything. THE MORE PEOPLE WHO BOYCOTT THE ACTUAL PHYSICAL STORES, THE MORE THEY WILL HAVE TO FIX IT OR CLOSE THEM OR SOMETHING. I think?? I totally agree with you, I think fixing up the grocery store to better serve the neighborhood is GOOD. The mysterious other "retail" portion of it was what I was questioning!!

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Does freezing eliminate pathogens, or just slow them down? Once foods are thawed they still spoil eventually...which suggests they still contain the seeds of their own destruction.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost to Ally--Gotcha. I realize I'm being sort of a whiny bitch about this stuff. The retail will be scary, I'm sure. You have to take the good with the bad though--if having good produce close by means dealing with a Chiptole/whatever evil shit they put in there, oh well.

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.garritpieper.com/deviantart/terror-cat.jpg

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.patandkat.com/pat/weblog/images/pirate-cat-thumb.jpg

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link

it kills off many non-spore forming pathogens (with the notable exception of the fucking godawful Listeria monocytogenes), but unfreezing will once again expose the food to all sorts of potentially problematic issues, some of which are internal and some of which are due to the inherently permeable nature of packaging that allows for gas exchange and rotting/spoiling reactions

― 50,000,000 blelvis fans can't be wrong (teenagequiet), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

they should put another 2 amy's in there

― 69 (pete), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

They should put a bomb in there, to blow your ASS off, what do you think of that

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link

And then a victim of gentrification should come up and hand your ASS to you on a SHINY DISH

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

umm no i want more 2 amy's

― 69 (pete), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

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