Th cheap gas station is now up to $3.85 a gallon. I remember when gas first got ready to he a buck. They had to figure out how to charge you, ‘cuz the pumps didn’t have a way to go over 99.9¢. I hope they’re ready for when it hits $10 a gallon.
Posted by pjsauter on May 16, 2008
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Th cheap gas station is now up to $3.85 a gallon. I remember when gas first got ready to he a buck. They had to figure out how to charge you, ‘cuz the pumps didn’t have a way to go over 99.9¢. I hope they’re ready for when it hits $10 a gallon.
:banana: 10$ a gallon!!!!!
Bishop Robert W. Jones (father of Grace) has passed away.
Oh my god, ohmygod, OH MY GOD!!. New Kids on the Block are reuniting LIVE on the Today Show today! :yippee:
And I have to go to work. ๐
Oh, and 50,000 dead in China and 130,000 in Myanmar.
Whatever. But the NEW KIDS are together!!
So I need a little trig help. This may be a simple simplification expression but I’m not really understanding it right now: cos (arcsin X) boils down to? Is that arctan X?
I should really know this shit by now. :smack:
Can they still leagally call themselves Kids? They have to be older than all of us by now. (Pop stars age faster than normal people. Especially boy bands. Look at Joey Fatone. If you dare.)
OBAMA IS COMING AND I HAVE TICKETS!!!
OK, I have ticket. But I’m working on getting more. They moved it from the USF SunDome (10,000 seats) to the St Pete Times Forum in downtown Tampa (19,500 seats plus a large overflow area outside).
Wednesday, May 21. Be there or be somewhere else.
Ladies and gentlemen, the next president of the United States.
:banana: :banana: :banana:
Yeah, the Backstreet Boys aren’t really boys either…I guess.
McCain is now asking all his staff is they have ever been lobbyists or agents of a foreign country. NOW, he’s asking
Jesse Ventura wants to jump into the race between Coleman and Franken. According to Cspan, Coleman lost to Ventura for governor.
I’m off to Connecticutt by way of the ferry from Long Island to New London, a very nice trip.
Have a good day. Remember, talking to the enemy is appeasement, so just pass the boss by in silence.
New Kids on the Block are right up Matt Lauer’s alley.
Lauer more so than Russert and Mathews sits in the stinking cesspool of mass media. Pure crap that he pedals. And he can’t even talk.
Pedals or peddles, I always have biking on my mind
Oh, man, Travis. It’s been a long time. Let me think.
IIRC, cos(Arcsin x) = cos of the angle whose sine is x.
OK, now I have to draw a right triangle. Using SOHCAHTOA (I can’t remember the important shit, but that I remember; go figure), if we call the angle ‘α’ (as I seem to recall we usually do), then sin(α) – which is x – equals opposite/hypotenuse. So, since that’s x, that’s the same as x/1, so the side opposite the angle is x, and the hypotenuse is 1.
Now, we know that the sum of the square of the sides is equal to the square of the hypotenuse (a2 + b2 = c2 and shit), so (if we call the other side y), y2 = 1- x2, so y = sqrt(1 รขหโ x2). Now you need cos α, which is the adjacent side (y) over the hypotenuse, which is sqrt(1 รขหโ x2)/1. So, cos(Arcsin x) = sqrt(1รขหโ x2)
Wait, that’s not what you wanted to know though, was it? :smack:
Well, now I’ve gone and given myself a headache.
Ah, thanks Pj.
I have a big test coming up on Monday so I may have to hit-up the blog a couple more times with some simple problems that I’m not understanding.
Tweety done good, even Mark Green looks good! :rant1: :omg:
Illustrator and Prankster Will Elder Dies at 86 ๐ :gate:
Journalista: The Comics Journal Weblog is reporting that Will Elder, the famed illustrator and one of the founders of Mad Magazine, has died at 86. (This comes via boing boing.) Elder was considered a major influence on artists like Robert Crumb and Daniel Clowes.
Might want to double check that with somebody who knows what they’re talking about, Travis. I’ve kind of got the whole brain atrophy thing going on.
Chopper just buzzed by my window. That never gets old.
Hey, so my friend just told me he saw Marc on an episode of 2 and a half men. Anyone else see that or is my friend mistaking Marc for someone else?
He said it was the episode called I can’t Afford Hyenas
Can’t find it on youtube
Mistaking Richard Lewis
I did hear that Janeane did an episode of 2.5 Men, though. Not sure when it was/will be on.
She did last year
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1099789/
Oh, yeah. I think I saw that one.
I figured he was mistaken. How would we not know about something like that, we’re his cult followers whether he likes it or not. :banana: Marc!
Famed Napa Valley vintner Robert Mondavi dead at age 94
:alc: ๐ :gate:
It’s alright
LOWDM
PJ, that sqrt(1รขหโ x^2) seems to pan out. I found a math site with a section called Trig without Tears Part 9: Inverse Functions.
Just off the House floor today, the Crypt overheard House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers tell two other people: “We’re closing in on Rove. Someone’s got to kick his ass.”
Asked a few minutes later for a more official explanation, Conyers told us that Rove has a week to appear before his committee. If he doesn’t, said Conyers, “We’ll do what any self-respecting committee would do. We’d hold him in contempt. Either that or go and have him arrested.”
http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0508/Conyers_Were_closing_in_on_Rove.html
I know you probably read this yesterday but, it still sends a shiver down my back. In the last two days the Dems have been sounding as if their backbones were actually stiffening: passing the vets bill, NOT passing war funding, and now providing me with the picture, in my head, of Rove being led to the dungeon in cuffs and, hopefully, leg irons.
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…and now providing me with the picture, in my head, of Rove being led to the dungeon in cuffs and, hopefully, leg irons.
Comment by Sue P รขโฌโ May 16, 2008 @ 5:55 pm
They were considering waterboarding Turd Blossom, but no one could find a board that would hold him.
:rofl2:
Trig without tears! I wish I would have known about that. I cried A LOT! :knit2:
I like this link of the idiot on Hardball than the one I put at #13.
Longer, better context, more Mark Green.
One more problem. If x=3 tan of theta and theta is in quadrant IV, simplify quantity sqrt (9+X^2)
:doh: :fustrate: :smack: fuggit! :bong:
Nice to see Matthews and Green looking smart, a sight to which we are not often treated.
I’m begining to think the Childer’s win in Mississippi has done something to Democrats. Maybe convinced them that the Rethugs aren’t in charge, and that the entire American population is not made up of wingnuts and their corporate buddies.
The Senate voted to rescind the new rules which would have allowed further media consolidation.
Maybe I’m too optimistic.
Dear Warshington Pist,
I see the GOP presidential campaign will follow the same gutter level tactics used since 1980 – no taste, more fear mongering, less filling.
Where people like our current President, the next GOP presidential candidate and such stalwart GOP-ers as Huckabee and Rove still afflicting society, the GOP level of campaigning tastelessness will probably plunge to new depths, beneath even those seen in 2004 if you can fathom that. Time after time, day after day, speech after speech these people prove there is no boundary they will not cross.
I think the best term to describe our society after 37 years of GOP campaigning, GOP leadership and GOP mismanagement is SNAFU – a time-honored military descriptive.
NC Blue
Dear Washington Post, again,
I see the President is playing politics with oil. He asks the Saudis to increase petroleum output. He and the media are ignoring the fact the Saudis and other middle-east nations have flatly stated the price of petroleum – traded in US dollars – cost so much because of the incompetent mismanagement of the US economy and therefore the value of the US dollar. Oil costs so much because of the Bush-Cheney regime, not the Saudi’s inability to significantly increase supply.
Its about time at least one Republican somewhere start taking credit for 37 years of fiscal mismanagement and incompetent governmental and political leadership.
NC Blue, again
so where are these nudie pictures of stephanie miller or was i misunderstanding what she said?
Steph12 is in Hustler magazine for the second time. She said they had pictures but only pics from her web site. I think she’s wearing jeans.
Tha smartcar has arrived!!
Unfortunately I won’t be able to get it until Monday because their finance person is off this weekend.
I think she said it was the picture of her on the microphone where she’s sitting cross legged which is as much of a crotch shot you’re going to get from her. :cat: