I'm sorry I didn't return your call, I am just SO OVERWHELMED with crap right now I'm rationing out every minute of my day, and by the time evening rolls around I don't think I'd be coherent enough to maintain an intelligible conversation. I will call you after the date OF DOOM aka November 23rd, I really will...I haven't talked to you for so long!
My internet was out the past few days, so I also wanted to thank all of the people who wished me a happy birthday on facebook :)
LONG SHOT--
IS ANYONE HERE FAMILIAR WITH MATLAB??
Or just really good at linear algebra??
MAGGIE YOU ARE A MATH WHIZ RIGHT?
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lastedallday I am calling on you and your superpowers!! OKAY:
Let's say you have a 3x3 matrix called 'A'. Then you generate a random 3-D vector of unit length, call that x. Then you multiply A by x, and divide that by the length of A times x. You do this a bunch of times, each time replacing your old x with new values of x you get. Then, you calculate the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of A. What do the x-values you have and the eigenvectors of A have in common? How are they related? I have a feeling this is an easy question I just SUCK at linear algebra...I've programmed MATLAB to do this, and I'm getting answers but I don't see how they're related...I know that A*eigenvector of A = eigenvalue lambda * A and I think that must be the key but I'm still lost...haaaaaaaaaaaaaallllp
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To be perfectly honest, I don't recall ever having been in this situation...it probably means that I am just horridly insensitive to these things, because as much as love my family and friends, I know they've probably had to have said something offensive in front of me at least once, I would think. I just can't think of an example off the top of my head. Well...only once and I don't think it counts in this context because it wasn't about sexual orientation or race...it was my uncle talking about this "fat ugly chick" at his work and basically how she could never get laid and why is she even bothering to live because, you know, she is fat and therefore not attractive and no use to men (which is what teh womenz are for, right)??
In general, I strongly believe in freedom of speech, but people don't really seem to understand what that means...I take it to mean that you should be able to say offensive things without being arrested for them. This does NOT mean you have the right to everyone else's silence when you go off spouting garbage. If you're being offensive, everyone else is also able to exercise their own freedom of speech in telling you that you are being an asshole, and you're not going to have many friends.
So, to recap
you saying "that's so gay" and getting hauled off by cops for it == freedom of speech violation
you saying "that's so gay" and catching hell from your friends/family/coworkers for it =/= freedom of speech violation
I have a shirt. It is an awesome shirt, and it is 100% cotton and never been washed.
It is also a unisex Medium, meaning it is about 1-2 sizes too big for me. Big enough to be embarrassing if I wore it in public. But...it is an awesome shirt. Also, I cannot return it/get one in a smaller size.
MY QUESTION IS: Is there any way I can safely shrink this shirt to fit me? I don't want to wash it in hot water and then find out it is now tiny enough to fit a small dog. Any tips??
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Get to it, folks!
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Although, just for the sake of bitching and moaning--it's what I do best!--what is with these ambiguous questions? Choose how? Is this Trolley-Problem choice or who gets my extra game ticket choice? If I pick friends, does that mean I would stand up my significant other to go to a movie with the girls, or if they were both about to be eaten by sharks I'd save my friends and leave the boyfriend with Jaws? Writer's block, oh writer's block...
Well, people who think the length of my shower is somehow their business, for one.
The whole cigarette out the window thing is obnoxious, though. Every year this place pretty much burns down, throwing anything remotely likely to start a fire anywhere except the proper receptacle really is an act of utmost assholery.
ALSO, please stop watering your cement patch (I'm looking at you, Rock Bottom Brewery!).
Oh, and to address the question at hand:
Cheese, albeit only the proper types of cheese--nothing too smelly-- should go on EVERYTHING.
This question always comes up in these types of things, and my answer will never vary: freak out. Seriously, all these people who say "Well, if I was going to die tomorrow I'd go skydiving and swim with dolphins!!111" are just full of it. The knowledge of impending death and good times just don't mesh. Unless I guess you were religious to the point you were POSITIVE there was a (good) life afterward, and I really don't think there are a lot of those people out there...
If I tell someone something weird about myself, and they counter with something even stranger, then I might go ahead and consider them a friend. If all I get is strange looks, the relationship is destined to go no further.
Unfortunately for the people on my friends' list, usually by logging on to LJ and bitching about it.
