I was beginning to think I had gone mad, or perhaps there was committee that changed the spelling of "lose" without telling me. I honestly haven't seen anyone spell it correctly in months.
This has been driving me crazy, too. When I've complained about it to people who don't primarily read text generated by techie-types, however, my rants have been met with vacant stares. So maybe it's a nerd thing.
I had an office-mate in graduate school - he's a mathematician now - who complained that he could never remember which "oo" sounds required only one "o" and which required two. He was constantly prooving theorems involving smoth functions.
This requires neither air resistance nor a push off the ground; it requires only two internal degrees of freedom. Sit in a well-lubricated office chair and stick your arms straight out to the left. Swing your arms, fully extended, to the right, and your body (and the chair) will counter-rotate to the left to conserve your total angular momentum. Now pull your arms in and swing them back to the left; the chair will rotate to the right, but not all the way back to where it started. Your body's back in its original configuration, but you've achieved a net rotation while conserving angular momentum all the while.
Note that the speed at which you execute this maneuver has no bearing - barring the effects of friction - on the net angle through which you rotate. The rotation is an example of "geometric phase," or "holonomy."
This list doesn't agree with my experience. Within the last couple of months, I've found stable wireless coverage in O'Hare (number four), for example, to be limited to the umbrae of Admirals Clubs, while the entire Northwest terminal in Detroit (not on the list) seems to be covered.
One month, out of the blue, my long distance carrier began spelling my name "3cott" instead of "Scott." I phoned customer service to correct the change. Before I'd identified myself by name or explained my problem, the woman who'd answered the phone asked me for my account number. I told her, she tapped audibly on her computer keyboard, and after a pause she asked, "And am I speaking with Three-cott?" as if it were the most common name in the world.
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This has been driving me crazy, too. When I've complained about it to people who don't primarily read text generated by techie-types, however, my rants have been met with vacant stares. So maybe it's a nerd thing.
I had an office-mate in graduate school - he's a mathematician now - who complained that he could never remember which "oo" sounds required only one "o" and which required two. He was constantly prooving theorems involving smoth functions.
Professional divers reorient themselves by doing this sort of thing, as do astronauts in space. A good - though mathematical - discussion appears in http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0821 892002/.
Note that the speed at which you execute this maneuver has no bearing - barring the effects of friction - on the net angle through which you rotate. The rotation is an example of "geometric phase," or "holonomy."
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This list doesn't agree with my experience. Within the last couple of months, I've found stable wireless coverage in O'Hare (number four), for example, to be limited to the umbrae of Admirals Clubs, while the entire Northwest terminal in Detroit (not on the list) seems to be covered.
> > Back in college my housing director's name was,
> > no lie, "Sus3an".
> And in the mid-90s, I had a friend whose name
> was Sus5an.
And I know a woman named "Susan Arseven" - you can Google her and see for yourself. Must be something about Susans and prime numbers.
One month, out of the blue, my long distance carrier began spelling my name "3cott" instead of "Scott." I phoned customer service to correct the change. Before I'd identified myself by name or explained my problem, the woman who'd answered the phone asked me for my account number. I told her, she tapped audibly on her computer keyboard, and after a pause she asked, "And am I speaking with Three-cott?" as if it were the most common name in the world.