perturbation theory

by coupling angular momentum and spin, degeneracy can be avoided as the perturbation energies can be found to be slightly "off". i.e. while we both had the same marks for quantum, i failed the perturbation portion, while you failed the spin-spin coupling, thus our marks are not degenerate and the professor cannot accuse us of cheating. the other argument is that 36% is our usual mark in quantum anyway.

while at Costco...

friday, i was watching their token display movie (spiderman 2 this week. harry potter 3 last week. emma watson > tobey maguire) in surround sound - i stand in front of a smaller crappy tv and face the better LCD screens.
in the first NYU scene, where Peter bumps into someone and gets his textbooks knocked over, i spied a very familiar textbook. it was the exact same quantum mechanics text that i used! however, griffiths' is much better (and cheaper).
i also noticed that Rosie Octavius was played by the same woman that played that detective from Jersey that guested on the latest CSI. i only recognized her by her nose.

Underpass Stain Pilgrimage

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A wall stain that some believe depicts the Virgin Mary drew scores of faithful on Thursday to a gritty highway underpass that has become a shrine with flowers, candles and prayers.

The image, which highway engineers said was probably formed by leaking water and winter road salt from the highway above, first began drawing visitors last week. Their numbers grew daily, causing traffic tie-ups in the vicinity and police later blocked-off part of the area.

Some visitors said the yellow, white and gray mark resembles Mexico's Virgin of Guadalupe, a figure popular in the neighborhood northwest of downtown Chicago where the Kennedy Expressway crosses Fullerton Avenue.

"It's a miracle," said one woman, claiming she could see the face of the woman many Christians revere as the mother of Jesus Christ. Some knelt in prayer, others touched the image on the wall and many took pictures using cellular phones.

The Virgin of Guadalupe has been venerated by successive generations of devout Mexicans since she is said to have first appeared to a shepherd in 1531. She is generally depicted in a gown fringed by rays of light.

Highway officials said they planned to leave the wall as it is.

i know there's a Celtic symbolgist out there who's going to say that the stain looks more like a phallic symbol representing the fertility goddess/sacred feminine and that the true king of Britain will climb out from that womb brandishing the sword and crest of Avalon. he will enlist the help of an attractive, French cryptographer and they will go on a wild, dangerous adventure that leads them to Stonehenge, the Vatican and Kanata, Ontario.

meanwhile, the recently appointed pope Benedict XVI, formerly Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (who zinged rats with the authority of Hitler), will visit this underpass, clog up traffic with his entourage, proclaim it as a Christian relic, a sign from God's mother to "do your homework and clean your room", excavate said stain chunk and set it up in the St. Peter's Square. there it will be visited by a closet Mariologist professor of Mideastern Mythology from the University of Cornedbeefwellington, dragging his students on a field trip, who then expounds the significance of Mary's immaculacy.

one of his students, stoned sky high on Sunchips, will gather up the courage and pluck to lick the stain, causing a huge security ruckus. when questioned later by the press upon his release on bail for possession of banned substances as to why he licked the stain, his reply would echo that of the renowned Celtic symbologist except in more PG-13 terms. he would also add that it tasted salty. and the highway officials of Chicago will say, "told you it was just road-salt run-off, basic Horton overland flow." back in Chicago, the compromised bridge will collapse, cause innumerable rush hour traffic deaths and the apocolypse will be upon Chicago and it's suburban regions.

hearing of this, Bruce Willis will blast off into space with Ben Affleck and ruin the wedding that Jennifer Lopez had planned for Ben and Jennifer Garner, complete with Daredevil and Elektra outfits.

Oshawwwwwa

An Oshawa Transit bus made an unscheduled stop in Toronto yesterday to deliver a most unusual message to 23-year-old Ingrid Valle. Valle was supposed to be meeting her boyfriend, Delisle Murray, 25, at noon for lunch outside her office at Yonge St. and Lawrence Ave.

"Oh, my God, it's an Oshawa bus," Valle exclaimed, as she emerged from the building at 3080 Yonge St. to find Murray and the bus waiting at the curb. He then pointed to the scrolling digital signs at the front and side of the bus that indicated a destination not found on any transit schedule: "Will you marry me?"

Then Murray, holding a ring box, was down on one knee and the sign soon changed to read: "She said yes."

Through tears of joy and surprise, Valle proclaimed, "I'm so happy, I feel sick."
But she quickly recovered and the couple, joined by friends and co-workers, headed for the back of the bus — where their love first bloomed five years ago when both were students at Oshawa's Durham College.

"We would see each other often as we took the bus to school," Valle said in an interview, "then we moved towards the back of the bus and started talking and things just blossomed."

"This pretty well takes us back to where we started," Murray said. "It took a lot of preparation to do it, but I didn't have to say much."

The couple graduated — he in electronics and she in business — and got jobs — he in Ajax and she in Toronto. They still live in Oshawa.

"I know you," Valle said, pointing to bus driver Anne Marie Meester, who had been behind the wheel at various times earlier in their courtship. Meester said she has fond memories of the "very nice couple" who often were passengers on her Durham College run.

"I wish them all the best in the future," she said.

Oshawa Transit general manager Philip Meagher said he readily offered a bus to Murray after he heard the story of "bliss on the bus."

"We even gave him a discount rate on the charter," he said.

Meagher said he let TTC officials know that a foreign bus would be on one of their routes yesterday.

Elizabeth Matthews, a friend and co-worker of Valle, said she was impressed with Murray's creative proposal.

"I give him full props for the effort," she said. "I think they will be very happy together."

Waiting for the Brick

"God will speak to me in one of two ways. God will whisper in my ear, or hit me on the head with a brick... More often than not, the brick comes because I haven't been listening for the whisper... God is still speaking. God is speaking volumes to us. Sometime we have to shut up long enough to hear what we're being told. The choice is ours; we can listen for the whisper, or we can wait for the brick. Trust me. The brick hurts. Listen for the whisper."

perhaps i should feather my bangs...

or you know, not sleep with wettish hair.

delxhair=curl(hair)=g*(integral(rho)dV-dw/dt)
where hair(r,t,p)=(r*cos(p)*sin(t),r*sin(p)*sin(t),r*cos(t)), p:[0,2pi], t:[-pi/4,3pi/4],
rho(r)=n(hairs)/(surface area of scalp) is the hair density
and w(T)=volume(h2o)-0.482exp((T^2)/humidity) is the wetness of the hair at time T.

smile

n.

1. A facial expression characterized by an upward curving of the corners of the mouth and indicating pleasure, amusement, or derision.
2. A pleasant or favorable disposition or aspect.

v. smiled, smil·ing, smiles
v. intr.

1. To have or form a smile.
2. 1. To look with favor or approval: Fortune smiled on our efforts.
   2. To express cheerful acceptance or equanimity: We smiled at the bad weather and kept going.

v. tr.

1. To express with a smile: Grandmother smiled her consent.
2. To effect or accomplish with or as if with a smile.

[From Middle English smilen, to smile, probably of Scandinavian origin. See smei- in Indo-European Roots.]

yoink

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braegen armure

the helmet is for my narcolepsy.
the retainer is because i'm arachibutyrophobic.

one must first empty a cracked jar before fixing it.

i need glasses

"better or worse?"
"better."
"how about this one?"
"the previous one."
"hmm, i see. how about #4?"
"it's only clear at the edges."
"okay, let's go with #2 and get you fitted for a new pair."
"how much will these cost?"
"all you have to do is carry this."

EDIT: 2:37pm goodnight, karol wojtyla.