are 'leptokurtic' and 'platykurtic'.
It's like there's butterflies and beaked beaver things in the numerical algorithms book!
I am finding these far too amusing.

Being done is nice. Granted, I'm writing this while in lab on a Saturday. But at least I'm surfing the net and writing LJ entries while my cells incubate in the antibodies instead of dealing with finals or homework or other worky-bits. I did my craptastic "look at all the data I failed to get!" labmeeting presentation on Friday. It all went over ( Read more... )

Tonight's memeness brought to you courtesy of robynjade13


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Alright, 9 hours after leaving this morning we have succeeded in making it... back to our apartment. Rebkos, I blame this one entirely on you. Apparently you coughed some of that bad aviation karma onto us.

There were thunderstorms and tornados around Dallas today. We were supposed to fly into Dallas this morning.
( Hilarity ensued... )

We just watched Idiocracy. Made by one of the guys who made Office Space. It was a funny movie - we laughed our heads off, and it would have made an awesome Ditch Day stack too. But also it made me want to cry. Because it's just too damn close for comfort. There's this drink in it called Brawndo, the Thirst Mutilator. It's got electrolytes - what ( Read more... )

There. After 1.5 hours of freezing my rear off in line I've finally voted in my first election ever. Yay. Now I'm gonna go eat leftover cake - cake makes the democratic process all better.

36 pages of handwritten algebra, waaay to many hours of hunting for stupid arithmetic mistakes, and 1800 lines of numerical-checking code, and I have finally finished the ugly-a** integral of doom which was my vacation homework from my previous rotation ( Read more... )

I'm not old and crotchetty enough yet to go ranting about how 'them kids have no respect these days', but I do feel the need to vent about how them toy companies have no respect for kids' intelligence these days.

What the heck has happened to all the cool toys from our childhood and our parents' childhood and even before that?!

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This
is just so frigging brilliant.

Seriously, if you hanging around eastern Europe for the holidays feeling bored, would you be able to come up with a way to make thousands of dollars on Ebay by sending out a few postcards for other people? Now that's some marketing skills; also, the power of ebay never ceases to amaze me.

Who says Chia-pets aren't real?