Yay, silliness

[oceantheorem]

taken from in_a_space:

[ ] I'm afraid of the quiet.
[x] I am really ticklish.
[x] I'm afraid of the dark
[x] I'm afraid of facing my back to open doors at night.
[ ] I am homosexual.
[x] I believe in true love.
[ ] I listen to political music.
[ ] I collect comic books.
[ ] I shut others out when I'm sad.
[x] I open up to others easily
[ ] I am keeping a secret from the world.
[ ] I watch the news.
[ ] I own over 5 rap CDs.
[ ] own something from Hot Topic.
[x] I love Disney movies.
[x] I am a sucker for green eyes.
[ ] I don't kill bugs.
[ ] I curse regularly
[ ] I have (had) "x"s in my screen name
[ ] I've slipped out a "lol" in a real conversation
[ ] I love Spam.
[x] I bake well.
[x] I have worn pajamas to class.
[ ] I have owned something from Abercrombie.
[x] I have a job.
[ ] I love Dr. Phil
[x] I love someone.
[ ] I am guilty of tYpInG lIkE tHiS.
[ ] I am self-conscious.
[x] I love to laugh.
[x] I have tried alcohol
[ ] I drink alcohol on a regular basis.
[ ] I have tried a cigarette.
[ ] I have smoked a pack in one day.
[ ] I loved Lord of the Flies
[ ] I have cough drops when I'm not sick
[ ] I can't swallow pills.
[x] I have many scars.
[x] I've been out of this country.
[x] I can't sleep if there is a spider in the room.
[x] I love chocolate.
[ ] I bite my nails. I don't bite my nails, but I rub at my cuticles until they come off, which I guess is a similarly Bad Thing
[x] I am comfortable with being me.
[x] I play computer games when I'm bored.
[ ] Gotten lost in the city.
[x] Seen a shooting star
[x] Had a serious surgery. Okay, laparascopy totally counts here.
[x] Gone out in public in my pajamas.
[x] Have kissed a stranger.
[x] Hugged a stranger.
[ ] Been in a bloody fist fight with someone of the same sex.
[ ] Been in a fist fight.
[ ] Been arrested.
[ ] Laughed and had some type of beverage come out of your nose.
[x] Pushed all the buttons on an elevator.
[ ] Made out in an elevator.
[ ] Swore at your parents.
[x] Kicked a guy where it hurts. It was sixth grade. Sorry.
[x] Been skydiving. can't wait to go again!!
[ ] Been bungee jumping.
[x] Gotten stitches.
[ ] Drank a whole gallon of milk in one hour.
[ ] Bitten someone
[ ] Been to Niagara Falls.
[x] Gotten the chicken pox
[ ] Crashed into a car.
[ ] Been to Japan.
[ ] Ridden in a taxi.
[ ] Shoplifted.
[ ] Been fired.
[x] Had feelings for someone who didn't have them back.
[ ] Stole something from your job.
[ ] Gone on a blind date.
[x] Had a crush on a teacher/coach.
[ ] Celebrated Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
[x] Been to Europe.
[ ] Slept with a co-worker.
[ ] Been married.
[ ] Gotten divorced.
[ ] Saw someone/something dying.
[ ] Driven over 400 miles in one day.
[x] Been to Canada.
[x] Been on a plane.
[ ] Seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
[ ] Thrown up in a bar.
[x] Eaten Sushi.
[ ] Been snowboarding.
[x] Been skiing.
[x]Been ice skating.
[x] Cried in public.
[ ] Walked purposely into traffic with your eyes closed.
[x] Liked someone even though you knew you shouldn't have


In other news, today I spent ten hours doing PChem. It rocked. I love PChem, despite the way it is eating my soul. I enjoy finding eigenvalues. Evaluating commutators is fun. The Schrodinger equation is awesome. And superposition is just plain cool. I'm still having issues understanding what orthogonal really means, but I think I understand it well enough now to do fine on the test....

Okay, time to go NOT think about PChem.

Oh, and it tried to rain today and was beautiful. I love this season.

Comments

[bananasofdeath.livejournal.com]

Orthogonal's generally used equivalently with perpendicular. Like orthogonal eigenvectors. Even better if they're orthonormal and you don't have to deal with messy dot products at all...

Wait, you love fall?

[oceantheorem.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, I know what orthogonal MEANS, but what does it mean? I know that it means your functions are... orthogonal to each other, the whole 90 degree thing, and that if you do

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Well, yeah, I know what orthogonal MEANS, but what does it mean? I know that it means your functions are... orthogonal to each other, the whole 90 degree thing, and that if you do <psi1/psi2> you get 0 if they're orthonormal. I know all the mathy stuff, and I have the definition memorized and I can do the problems with no issues. But I still don't understand what orthogonal MEANS. How can an oscillating function be orthogonal to another oscillating function? What does it mean if you multiply two functions and their integral goes to zero?

No, I love the Santa Cruz rainy season. Although I think fall is starting to grow on me. I actually thought to myself the other day, "Oooh, pretty yellow leaves," which is a thought I don't recall ever having had before. But I was referring to the beginning of the rainy season here in SC.

[bananasofdeath.livejournal.com]

You just said you understand the math, but you don't understand the math. Anyway, imprecise language aside, just think of the functions as vector functions. Then you've just got a bunch of orthogonal vectors. But multiplying two functions... just gives you something else entirely.

Hmm. I like fall.