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"Why, in my world...
Cats and rabbits, would reside in fancy little houses,
and be dressed in shoes and hats and trousers.
In a world of my own.
All the flowers would have very extra special powers,
they would sit and talk to me for hours,
when I'm lonely in a world of my own.
There'd be new birds, lots of nice and friendly how-de-do birds,
everyone would have a dozen bluebirds,
within that world of my own.
I could listen to a babbling brook and hear a song,
that I could understand.
I keep wishing it could be that way,
because my world would be a wonderland.

Dinah: Meow! Meow! Meow!

Alice: Oh Dinah! Its just a rabbit with a waistcoat... and a watch!

White Rabbit: Oh my fur and whiskers! I'm late, I'm late I'm late!

Alice: Now this is curious! What could a rabbit possibly be late for? Please, sir!

White Rabbit: I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date! No time to say hello, goodbye! I'm late, I'm late, I'm late!

Alice: It must be awfully important, like a party or something! Mister Rabbit! Wait!

White Rabbit: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, I'm overdue. I'm really in a stew. No time to say goodbye, hello! I'm late, I'm late, I'm late! "

zhandae

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Hi all, I've just stumbled apon this little gem of a community and joined, so I'm just giving a quick shout out to everyone.

I'm a female chem major, and possibly a latin and history/classics major (if I decide to do a BA as well), but I'm pretty much open to discussion about anything.

Friend me if you want, the act always gets returned.

~Z

reedmylips

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Star Wars Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith Soundtrack: $13.88 + tax
The Phantom of the Opera Widescreen DVD: $16.87 + tax
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events 2-Disc Collector's Edition DVD: $27.84 + tax
Owning all three and being in an INCREDIBLY GOOD MOOD in the middle of finals week: PRICELESS.

There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's Wal-Mart.

WOO!

hitchhiker42

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I was working in the Dish Room today (at my local dining hall where I work) and toward the end when it wasn't so busy, I built a pyramid out of the little bowls. As I was doing this, I would count to see how many there were and how many I needed for the next level.. and as I was doing this I noticed that the number of bowls in a pyramid with an odd number of levels was always a multiple of that number.

So I made some more observations and came up with the formula (just for the odd levels)

If n is an odd integer, the number of objects in a pyramid of n levels is: n((n+1)/2)

Then I went back to the even levels because there must be a formula for them as well. After a few seconds I realized that the formula I had come up with did indeed work for even values of n.

I don't think this is meaningful or progressive, and I'm sure it's well documented somewhere, but I thought it was interesting and a good way to kill time at my boring job.

hitchhiker42

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There is this farmer who is having problems with his chickens. All of the sudden, they are all getting very sick and he doesn't know what is wrong with them. After trying all conventional means, he calls a biologist, a chemist, and a physicist to see if they can figure out what is wrong. So the biologist looks at the chickens, examines them a bit, and says he has no clue what could be wrong with them. Then the chemist takes some tests and makes some measurements, but he can't come to any conclusions either. So the physicist tries. He stands there and looks at the chickens for a long time without touching them or anything. Then all of the sudden he starts scribbling away in a notebook. Finally, after several gruesome calculations, he exclaims, 'I've got it! But it only works for spherical chickens in a vacuum.'

My physics class the other day reminded me of this joke.

We were talking about Feynman, because at one point he said that if two humans each contained one percent more electrons than protons, when standing at arm's lenght their force of repulsion would be enough to lift the earth.

Well of course we had to calculate this to see if it was right.

To make a long story short, we figured out a good approximation.. if all humans were 100kg spheres of H20.