#math test thursday

[fairytalegf]

pray i make it through Hell week

[iammeltingofyou]

Point Three One Two Five

Mathematical Proofs

Part I (stoplights): 

Though I heard this was generally not the case, the pedestrian push buttons in Bloomington actually result in those white walk signals emerging opposite you. It is comforting and a little scary when this small action (that I’ve considered meaningless for a long time now) gets a result here. It feels like I could be missing some thing else where symbolically.

CP = [t + 1.47v / 2 (a+32.2g)] + [W + Lv / 1.47v] 

Speaking of symbolically, there is the formula for change period (yellow change plus red clearance intervals), s for a stoplight as calculated by Kell and Fullerton and it really gives you an idea of how fucking complicated this world can get, or at least can be described, and am I the only one who finds that really cute and nice?

One of my friends said, “You wish at eleven-eleven not five-sixteen.”

Part II (hearts): 

I’ve been collecting the leaves of plants that look like hearts and keeping them as bookmarks. My wetland lab manual defines them mostly with the botanical Latin term cordata, which is a good word for heart-shaped, but so is &#x2665.

(x^2 + 9y^2 / 4 + z^2 - 1)^3 – x^2z^3 – 9y^2z^3 / 200 = 0

Up there is the surface area for a heart-shape that I found on Wikipedia. 

Part III (gala):

… something of an anniversary so I got dressed up in all black and drank a bunch of Halloween spiced wine with a friend and threw popcorn and knocked guitars off all the walls and fell asleep pretty happy and warm despite on a couch no less. 

http://www.ncsu.edu/crsc/events/imsm10/peach_kinetics.pdf

That’s a paper on the kinetics of popcorn, and it proves how nothing is too random.

Epilogue: 

Who did the first blooper reel ever is what I think about when I’m tired and I think fuck you who cares so I ran seventeen point five miles today, saw the shanty towns of the homeless assembled around freight trains and the butts of horses jutting out just beyond chipped stables and a pretty redhaired jogger who smiled at me twice (!) and Im getting excited for Halloween this year because maybe I’ll make a love potion and not drink it. But maybe I'll say frick it and do it anyway!