Collegiate Hacker

Moving programming forward one drop-out at a time.

A Math Romance

They integrated from the very point of origin. Her curves were continuous, and even though he was odd, he was a real number. The day their lines first intersected, they became an ordered pair. From then on it was a continuous function. They were both in their prime, so in next to no time they were horizontal and parallel. She was awed by the magnitude of his perpendicular line, and he was amazed by her conical projections. “Bisect my angle!” she postulated each time she reached her local maximum. He taught her the chain rule as she implicitly defined the amplitude of his simple harmonic motion. They underwent multiple rotations of their axes, until at last they reached the vertex, the critical point, their finite limit. After that they slept like logs. Later she found him taking a right-handed limit, that was a problem, because it was an improper form. He meanwhile had realized that she was irrational, not to mention square. She approached her ex, so they diverged.

I thought this post was really cool.

It’s about coming back to the United States after living for a few months in Germany.

19 hours ago

I propose a toast

This often used phrase comes from an 18th century punch bowl drink made with cider, cinnamon, cloves, and other spices and garnished with pieces of toast that would float on top. I’m unsure of the purpose of the toast and can’t imagine a burnt piece of bread being “decorative,” but next New Years Eve, don’t forget to include the toast!

Sounds about right to me.

Sounds about right to me.

Want to be a better photographer? Here's how.

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Watch the world's population grow in real time.

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Awesome collection of satellite imagery that looks like letters.

Awesome collection of satellite imagery that looks like letters.

Never pay for a CD case

Just fold a piece of paper into one.  Here’s how.

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A Bush era throwback, but the concept still holds.

A Bush era throwback, but the concept still holds.

Upper and lower case letters

I’ve heard that the term started when letters were hand carved out of wood and were then laid out to be type set. The letters were kept on a two shelves in the work space…the big letters, or the upper case ones were kept on the top or “upper” shelf and the small or lower case letters were kept on the “lower” shelf to make it easy for the printer to keep things organized.