What's the latest in people's lives?

[kostmayer]

Hey, I like my big nose. Despite being picked on for it all my life, I've come to realise that a true friend is someone who know me so well, they no longer see the nose.

And whenever I look at my two brothers and wonder I'm a legitimate member of our family, the proof is right there on my fathers face.

[Granitehewer]

cyrano de bergerac, pinocchio were all far more profound, than their nasally-inhibited sidekicks, and we all have a larger than norm oddity,some of us just have it in a more strategic location lol
i have an abnormally large head like a roswell alien, but small children assume that i'm a scientist lol

[Tsukiyumi]

... i have an abnormally large head like a roswell alien, but small children assume that i'm a scientist lol

Just look at my pic in the Members Photos thread and you can see how massive my dome is.

[kostmayer]

Look on the bright side - maybe your heads are normal, and the rest of you is just freakishly small.

Weirdos.

[Granitehewer]

''heads?'' i'm not cereberus lol

[Granitehewer]

'least you look good tsuk,like a russell crowe klingon, my skull has leylines and timezones lol

[Tsukiyumi]

...a russell crowe klingon...

And, you're officially the fifth person that has told me I look like Russell Crowe.

[Granitehewer]

alas i'm not a lass though........although if you pay for the surgeries i'll do it ,lol

[Captain Picard's Hair]

...a russell crowe klingon...

And, you're officially the fifth person that has told me I look like Russell Crowe.

A few years ago, when A Beautiful Mind was coming out, my psychiatrist urged me to see it, and I did. It's a nice story about the success of a man with a far more severe case of schizophrenia than I have, but the image of this schizophrenic, reclusive math genius (John Nash) being played by this musclebound hunk that is Russel Crowe was a bit odd. He played the role well, but isn't exactly the image of mentally ill mathematicians.

[Tsukiyumi]

...isn't exactly the image of mentally ill mathematicians.

True. I'm just a mentally ill inventor/writer/musician/artist. He'd definitely fit that role.

[Mikey]

Too bad the movie conveniently left out the rather important bit about John Nash being an absolutely awful excuse of a human being, who publicly and vehemently expressed bigotry and vitriol that would have made Grand Wizards of the Ku Klux Klan get jealous.

Anyway, sorry for my recent absence. Saturday was a bit busy - last day of the month, and a couple of deliveries (closings on auto sales) scheduled to boot. Sunday was family/nephew-sitting day, and then we got 10" of snow overnight into Monday. Bad news - I still had to go in to work to clean off cars and move the lot around so the plow contractor could get his trucks through. Good news - even though we don't hide in our beds over a dusting of snow like you Brits seem to, we did close the shop after the lot was done, so I got to go home and take a nap before firing up Ol' Betsy - my 6.5-horsepower, four-stroke engine, 7-speed, 2-foot-wide auger aperture snowblower.

I have to talk about Ol' Betsy for a moment, because she is the finest piece of equipment I could imagine owning. I abuse her horribly - the last time I used her was in the winter of 2006, and I didn't put any Sta-Bil or Engine-Stor in; in fact, I didn't even drain it or change the oil. But yesterday, I pulled her out, plugged her in, and she started with three pumps on the primer and one crank. Not only that, but I did my five-car driveway (minus the area where the boat is sitting) plus the walk around my corner property and the neighbor's walk AND through the little rampart that the plows built in front of my driveway - in about 1 hr 45 minutes.

[Mark]

Well, actually from Alabama... but I figured most people would know where Florida is. (sadly, some students in my collage classes don't know that Alabama is a state.)

How do you think I feel? People I grew up with think everyone in Hawaii lives in little grass shacks

[Lt. Staplic]

k, for those of you who are not math challenged, I need help.

can anyone tell me a way to find the x-intercepts of the equation: (-x^3 +3x +1) without using a calculator.

[Mikey]

Is that supposed to read "y= -x^3 +3x +1" ?

If so, it's relatively simple. Set y=0, and solve for x. The x-intercept is always the the solution for x when y=0, and vice verse.

[Nickswitz]

I was gonna say that. I like the calculator better though, lol.