We recently had lease negotiations with the landlord. I noticed that he was paying more heed to A.'s comments than to my own... even though we had agreed beforehand on what to say and were reading from the same set of notes. It was apparently subtle; A. did not notice. Nonetheless, in the interests of optimally negotiating, I let A. do most of the talking.
This turned out quite well.
For use of his testicle-granted Man Voice in negotiations with the landlord, A. is hereby awarded a Zinc Star of Honor.
This post's theme word: novation, "the replacing of an obligation, a contract, or a party to an agreement with a new one."
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
Happy e day!
Happy e day!
Remember pi day, back on March 14 (3.14)? Well, allowing for some creative calendrical interpretation, today is e day, the 71st day of February (2.71). I suppose that if you were to round instead of truncating, e day would properly be tomorrow, the 72nd day of February.
"But it's April!" you protest.
That is true. However, it snowed last week. It still feels like February psychically. Why should we discriminate in favor of the small elite of constants with fewer than 32 hundredths?* You constant bigot.
"What should be done to celebrate?" you query.
I don't know of any e-themed foods, games, or ceremonies. So please, just take a moment today (or tomorrow, if you are a rounder) and think of how lovely e is. For some light introductory reading, here's the Wikipedia article and many ways to represent e.
*For that matter, why do we limit ourselves to celebrating constants <13, based on our 12-month calendar?
This post's featured comic comes from Three Panel Soul:
Remember pi day, back on March 14 (3.14)? Well, allowing for some creative calendrical interpretation, today is e day, the 71st day of February (2.71). I suppose that if you were to round instead of truncating, e day would properly be tomorrow, the 72nd day of February.
"But it's April!" you protest.
That is true. However, it snowed last week. It still feels like February psychically. Why should we discriminate in favor of the small elite of constants with fewer than 32 hundredths?* You constant bigot.
"What should be done to celebrate?" you query.
I don't know of any e-themed foods, games, or ceremonies. So please, just take a moment today (or tomorrow, if you are a rounder) and think of how lovely e is. For some light introductory reading, here's the Wikipedia article and many ways to represent e.
*For that matter, why do we limit ourselves to celebrating constants <13, based on our 12-month calendar?
This post's featured comic comes from Three Panel Soul:
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