24-12-2007 AH.FM End of Year Countdown

[t4e]

True, name means nothing. But what if you feel that your collection of genetic material is pretty evolved, and that you have a moral responsibility to provide it back to mankind's gene pool?

DINKWAC, more precisely:
Dual-Income, No Kids, With A Cat.


Edit: I got it, fertility clinic.

haha....but there are no guarantees that all the good genes will be transferred, research suggests that at time of conception the "weaker" one of the partners will pass on more of their genes, consistent with the survival instinct....so the only solution is to find a partner with the same level of evolved genetic material...than, chances are they are such nerds, consumed with their own intelligence, that they are not into the whole mating scene...so...where does that leave us? LOL

 

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haha....but there are no guarantees that all the good genes will be transferred, research suggests that at time of conception the "weaker" one of the partners will pass on more of their genes, consistent with the survival instinct....so the only solution is to find a partner with the same level of evolved genetic material...than, chances are they are such nerds, consumed with their own intelligence, that they are not into the whole mating scene...so...where does that leave us? LOL

Leaves us sitting in front of the computer debating genetic transfers until the point is moot.

Hey, were you picking on me just there?

 

[t4e]

Cause I'm sadistic and stubborn? That I've always felt inadequate because my math skills are less than what I believe I'm capable of?

Personality flaws or self-improvement, take your pick.

without prying....where/when you feel inadequate about your math skills?

i'm pretty happy with mine, when i get to the checkout i know within +/- $5 what i'm supposed to pay, even at the grocery store, so they can't rip me off....how's that for math skills? LOL

seriously now, if its such a pain...why don't you do something less time consuming, we've kind of decided on raising kids , so why not count rice, go for a walk? LOL

 

[t4e]

Leaves us sitting in front of the computer debating genetic transfers until the point is moot.

Hey, were picking on me just there?

me thinks this would be a good discussion for siting on a beach at night, under the stars, waves crashing in the distance and with some cocktail that shall not be named :tongue:


i wouldn't think of it until i have some solid proof from the LAB that you poses some evolved genetic material LOL

 

[in·iq·ui·trance]

without prying....where/when you feel inadequate about your math skills?

i'm pretty happy with mine, when i get to the checkout i know within +/- $5 what i'm supposed to pay, even at the grocery store, so they can't rip me off....how's that for math skills? LOL

seriously now, if its such a pain...why don't you do something less time consuming, we've kind of decided on raising kids , so why not count rice, go for a walk? LOL

Hehe, funny. Love it when people whack me with my own words.

I can do the day-to-day stuff as well... but I know that if I'd just applied myself a little more in math class, I could also have strong math skills, able to do logariths, quadratics and stuff like that without busting a brain vessel.

There's a list of things that I want to learn/prove I can do, and more advanced math is one of them. Now is as good a time as any to stroke something off the list.

 

[t4e]

and we got some Honey Ham

 

[in·iq·ui·trance]

me thinks this would be a good discussion for siting on a beach at night, under the stars, waves crashing in the distance and with some cocktail that shall not be named :tongue:


i wouldn't think of it until i have some solid proof from the LAB that you poses some evolved genetic material LOL

Agreed. Location could be variable, but a great conversation none-the-less.

I was speaking purely hypothetically of course. The species doesn't need more people who can't do math. People with so much empathy that they can take on the traits of animals, they should breed for sure.

 

[t4e]

Hehe, funny. Love it when people whack me with my own words.

I can do the day-to-day stuff as well... but I know that if I'd just applied myself a little more in math class, I could also have strong math skills, able to do logariths, quadratics and stuff like that without busting a brain vessel.

There's a list of things that I want to learn/prove I can do, and more advanced math is one of them. Now is as good a time as any to stroke something off the list.

hehe...i've have a good long term memory too(sometimes useful, most times a curse), so you might get whacked with something you said even few months back


if its an ambition, than i understand, i'm a pretty stubborn person myself and the more people tell me that i'm not capable of doing something the more determined i become

 

[t4e]

Agreed. Location could be variable, but a great conversation none-the-less.

I was speaking purely hypothetically of course. The species doesn't need more people who can't do math. People with so much empathy that they can take on the traits of animals, they should breed for sure.

but.....do you think your friend Euclid's parents were math geniuses?

 

[t4e]

in half hour we're going to be in the right thread again LOL

 

[in·iq·ui·trance]

hehe...i've have a good long term memory too(sometimes useful, most times a curse), so you might get whacked with something you said even few months back


if its an ambition, than i understand, i'm a pretty stubborn person myself and the more people tell me that i'm not capable of doing something the more determined i become

My memory blows, I don't even remembet what I said 5 minutes ago. Try not to jump out at me too suddenly, ok?

I'm not really reactionary like that. You can't really push me into something by telling me I can't do it. I'd need to internalize it first.

Math is not an ambition. It's merely a deficiency I'd like to correct. Math should not be hard, and I want to get to be point where it is not.

 

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but.....do you think your friend Euclid's parents were math geniuses?

That's a good question. I have no idea. Raises some really interesting questions to discuss on the beach/top of a mountain/while driving to Vegas.

I'd write some of them down, but I'm trying to solve log2[x/(x-2)] = 4 and my CPU is busy.

 

[in·iq·ui·trance]

in half hour we're going to be in the right thread again LOL

Like you said earlier, there's no TP around.

 

[t4e]

My memory blows, I don't even remembet what I said 5 minutes ago. Try not to jump out at me too suddenly, ok?

I'm not really reactionary like that. You can't really push me into something by telling me I can't do it. I'd need to internalize it first.

Math is not an ambition. It's merely a deficiency I'd like to correct. Math should not be hard, and I want to get to be point where it is not.

its also a matter of having the right mind frame and finding your own way of understanding, i find that if i get too engrossed in something i feel overloaded and totally incapable of rationalizing anything, so i take a break from it for a while, come back with a fresh mind and all of a sudden there is more clarity...one of my courses in the Accounting program was Stats...never did any in my whole life, at first was all greek to me, than i took the time and found my own ways of understanding and learning, sometimes i would go in a circle rather than the straight line, but at the end i was getting to the same solution, sure it took me more time that it should've have, but i believe in fully understanding the material i'm dealing with rather than memorizing.

 

[t4e]

That's a good question. I have no idea. Raises some really interesting questions to discuss on the beach/top of a mountain/while driving to Vegas.

I'd write some of them down, but I'm trying to solve log2[x/(x-2)] = 4 and my CPU is busy.

even more beautiful stars to enjoy from the top of the mountain

Las Vegas you say?....now i get why the obsession with math, you really want to beat the House don't you? :tongue:


j/k ...i always wanted to see the Canyons and the Glass Bridge

 

[in·iq·ui·trance]

its also a matter of having the right mind frame and finding your own way of understanding, i find that if i get too engrossed in something i feel overloaded and totally incapable of rationalizing anything, so i take a break from it for a while, come back with a fresh mind and all of a sudden there is more clarity...one of my courses in the Accounting program was Stats...never did any in my whole life, at first was all greek to me, than i took the time and found my own ways of understanding and learning, sometimes i would go in a circle rather than the straight line, but at the end i was getting to the same solution, sure it took me more time that it should've have, but i believe in fully understanding the material i'm dealing with rather than memorizing.

I agree with you. I should really find someone to help me through this, but I'm fiercely independent - I want to learn it on my own, and I'll spend days trying to figure it out before I ask for help. I know better, but I do it anyway.

Amen to understanding. I'm not a memorizer, it's maybe part of my problem. If I memorized more definitions and formulas, I might remember how to do stuff better.

I remember someone trying to explain slopes (rise over run) to me... I never could get it until we were skiing and they explained it in terms of the steepness of the skis runs. Sometimes it takes something off-base like that to make it work. That's why the best teachers have a bunch of ways to explain something.

 

[in·iq·ui·trance]

even more beautiful stars to enjoy from the top of the mountain

Las Vegas you say?....now i get why the obsession with math, you really want to beat the House don't you? :tongue:

j/k ...i always wanted to see the Canyons and the Glass Bridge

Hehe, that went the wrong way. We were talking about about deep thoughts, and it would be ironic to talk about that while going to sin city, the most shallow place I could think of.

I saw the dam when I was there, no canyon. Glass bridge?

 

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Nice track on now.

* checks current track *

Oh, Raneem. Good shows from him, maybe we should've jumped threads. Oh well, too late now.

 

[t4e]

I agree with you. I should really find someone to help me through this, but I'm fiercely independent - I want to learn it on my own, and I'll spend days trying to figure it out before I ask for help. I know better, but I do it anyway.

Amen to understanding. I'm not a memorizer, it's maybe part of my problem. If I memorized more definitions and formulas, I might remember how to do stuff better.

I remember someone trying to explain slopes (rise over run) to me... I never could get it until we were skiing and they explained it in terms of the steepness of the skis runs. Sometimes it takes something off-base like that to make it work. That's why the best teachers have a bunch of ways to explain something.

so true that is about the teachers, being able to associate/explain something in relation to things we do every day, more in laymen terms, is a great talent...my Economics teacher was like that.

we did Micro and Macro Economics in 10 weeks as opposed to a full term in University, and he did scare us at first when he mentioned that, plus the 2x400 page textbooks didn't help either....but when he got to explain everything, how markets and inflation, price and demand, etc...are all related to each other he often used examples from daily things that we encounter but never view them from an Economics perspective..there was a lot of lettuce, and carrots and other vegetables mentioned in that class, you would've thought its a cooking class LOL

 

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so when is suzy solar on!?!?