Comic for Friday, April 3, 2009

Posted: 6:35 am, Friday, April 3rd

Whenever you finally see Lissa's entire torso, this is what she's wearing. I want to link to it because I'll probably restart the computer over the weekend, at some point, and forget the link.

We all know that I hated the book Twilight. I'd like to mention that I at least finished it - unlike certain readers who are named after various prime numbers depending on the current Cardinals roster. Still - well, hell, I don't know if this deserves a still. It's basically setting up that Twilight sucked, and, somehow, it gave Cedric Diggory international fame, and lead to this article, which features several of my favorite paragraphs ever.

“Acting was a passion of mine from an early age,” he said, “but as I have grown older I have found other ways of expressing myself that appeal to me on a more personal level. I certainly hope this doesn’t upset my fanbase as they have made me who I am, but who I am goes a bit deeper than simply being an actor.”

Pattinson revealed his first goal was to get an album recorded after singing “Never Think” for the Twilight soundtrack.

“I never knew how much singing that one song would affect me,” he said. “I was never sure if it should even be used, but it sort of became my jumping off point. I also sang three songs on the soundtrack for How to Be, which was a lot of fun and I think I just have so much more to share with the world through my music that I feel I would be a fool not to jump on it right away.”

I also never knew how much singing that one song would affect this guy. The ability to sing completely escapes me - anyone who knows me is painfully aware of this fact - and so I cannot even guess how truly affecting the power of song is. I may also stop acting if my songs could affect people so deeply. Ignore everything I've typed here and distract yourself with the cuteness that is Lily Allen (I'm happy a dumb web-celebrity-gossip site has decided that Lily is cute instead of piggish - I find her very adorable). (It should be noted - again - that 2.0 thinks that I think that I'm British.)

Whooo, Katamari!

Curmudgeon's commentary on Luann makes me feel better about the recent happenings in this strip.

Letterman vs. O'Reilly, fight!

I haven't seen Star Trek III in probably 13 years, but I remember it more fondly than this article suggests I should. This is probably a failing on my part. The Wrath of Khan continues, of course, to rule.

Scroll down for one of the coolest movie posters I've ever seen.

So! A dude was stabbed to death in our apartment building last week, or two weeks ago. We actually found this out at a tenants' association meeting, which had nothing to do with the murder. The whole thing was about leaks in the roof and the parking garage. I didn't even know we *had* a parking garage. The murder was kind of PS to the whole thing - a coda, if you will - that came after I went upstairs to put some recently purchased ice cream in the freezer.

Teaching is an utter grind right now, as our spring break is coming up beginning on Wednesday and I'm feeling ass-beatings from all side. I find my solace where I can, though, and currently it's by providing the few indie kids in the school with music. I introduced one of our shining stars to Billy Bragg yesterday, and hopefully she dug it, or I've failed in basically ever possible avenue of teaching this week.

The weekend! These things are fun, right?

bullfrog

51 -- Friday, April 3 2009, 09:27 am

Hey math whiz, 15 (my prior handle) isn't a prime number. Is it like a badge of honor to have finished Twilight? I consider a badge of honor NOT to have finished it actually.

51 isn't a prime number, either, math whiz. 1 and 5 are, though - I guess I should've said "combination of prime numbers." Honestly, I can't believe I remember what a prime number is.

It's totally a badge of honor to have read that book. It's a good indicator of how much punishment your body and mind can absorb.

3 x 17, in case your head asplode.

You've run more than one marathon, Frogo. The body and mind are very punishment-absorbant.

I have a lot more to share with the world as well. Maybe Robert Pattinson and I are just kindred spirits.....

I have to point out that that Pattinson article was posted on April 1, and if you follow the link to his CD cover, you get this: http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/newsdesk/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/lovesong.jpg

On the other hand, I believed it absolutely, which says something about dear pretentious RPatz. He was so much cuter when he wasn't undead.

Actually, not to be a stickler about these kind of things, but technically 1 is not a prime number.

Oh, drat, now I need to apologize to Pattinson *and* go to remedial math.

Sorry frog. As the resident engineer I feel obligated to point out that one is not a prime number. It fails to meet Eulers totied function and the sum of divisors function.

Im going to drink myself into a stupor for remembering this arcane piece of math.

Excuse me, Euler's TOTIENT function. I apologize to the math buffs on the page

Shit, KT also it pointed out. Man I am out of it today.

Sorry, I suck.

Is Euler - is that the small "e" in math? 'Cause that's the exact moment that math stopped making sense to me and I lost all interest in it.

Im not sure if this question is rhetorical so I am answering it anyway.

Yes, e is Eulers number (or Napiers constant). I also agree that after e math does start to get a little absurd. Everyone says that natural logs are great but I think they are ghey. And not gay in the trendy I make decent music way, gay in the fellatiating men for heroin way... ya know, bad gay.

My bad memory also remembers Euler being friends with one of the Bernouli's.