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I am loving the new bird bath setup! There has been a constant flow of visitors, and some really funny scenes happened. This Cardi lady finally decided to go for a bath after a long inspection of the whole place. But then all of a sudden, a cheeky Blue Jay appeared and spoiled the fun for her. She was not happy. This went on for quite some time, but unfortunately an internet outtage cut the recording short.

thinking about when i was around the ages of 8-11 and would legitimately write letters to fairies, vampires, and zombies because i had no friends

all the writings are unfortunately gone as i used to throw them under a tree in my old backyard for them to biodegrade (and be 'absorbed by the cryptids') or be picked up and thrown away by my bastard mother (how dare she interfere with my communications with the cryptids, i thought)

BREAKING NEWS

I just learned about a bird species called Golden Plover. Their chicks have an amazing camouflage: their baby fluff resembles MOSS!

LOOK AT THEM! JUST LOOK AT THEM!

…Oh to be a tiny golden plover lying in the moss safe and sound waiting for your mom to bring you some worms…

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Illustration by Thanh Nhàn

happy Thursday the 20th

I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?

next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th

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my leopard gecko hasn’t eaten for over a week so i took him to the vet. vet said he’s extremely healthy and the reason he’s not eating is likely due to him entering breeding season early

i paid $97 to learn that my gecko won’t eat because he’s too fucking horny do anything

can you imagine someone handing you a burger and you being like “i can’t eat this i’m too fucking horny"

*slams reblog*

Klezmer dolphins.

I don’t know that I’ve reblogged anything faster in my entire tumblr life.  

I want to know the story behind this?

Like. Look at the movement of the water. The color. They’re not in a tank. That’s the motherfucking ocean. Or at least, a large closed off area in the ocean. The man in the video is on some sort of raft.

But those dolphins know the dude well enough to beach right next to him, and while I’m no expert in dolphin-ese, I know enough to make a pretty solid guess that those dolphins are trying to communicate with that clarinet (dolphins have their own languages! And I think the fast, lilting notes of the song combined with the clarinet’s natural sound mimics a dolphin’s clicks and chirps pretty well, all things considered)

So what in the Sam Heck is going on here???

I just imagined a jeopardy category of solely vine references

“I’ll take vines for $200 alex”

“hurricane Katrina… more like ____”

“What is hurricane tortilla?”

“vines for $600″

“back at it again at ______”

“what is krispy kreme”

“vines for 300”

“this young man has remained illiterate his whole life”

“who is jared”

This was the crossword puzzle in the New York Times yesterday. 

This is … really cool.

Yo so my little brother snapchatted me this morning. He’s in precalc right now and he has the same teacher I had 3 years back.

Like, I’d almost forgotten but I’d discovered some convenient property for figuring out the intersection of weird-ass graphs. Something much easier than the way it was being textbook-taught. I showed my teacher and she was like “damn ur right” and showed the class how to do it that way.

Apparently she teaches her class my method now?? Like the course has been modified and kids learn to do it the “Chrissy Long Theorem” way instead of the way it’d been taught all the years before. My legacy lives on in some nerd-ass math. What a thing

My poor lil bro though. Now he’s gotta try to come up with some theorem to stack up. Pray for him he hates math.

It’s been 3 years, so I’m a liiiittle fuzzy, but I think I remember how it went down. Never mind I actually remember it perfectly lol

So if you’re graphing a function which is a quotient of polynomials (like a “cubed” function divided by a “squared” function, like you can see in the snap) there are usually asymptotes associated with the graph. Can be lines, can be parabolas. You find it by performing long division on the two polynomials–it’ll be their quotient. From the snap, it looks like they’re graphing 2x^3/(x^2-x-6), and the found asymptote is 2x+2.

The follow-up question that needs to be answered is “Does the graph ever intersect the asymptote at any point?” Sometimes it does, and you need to be able to represent it on the graph. The old textbook way involved taking your solved-for asymptote (the 2x+2 here) and setting it equal to the graphed equation ( 2x^3/(x^2-x-6)), solving out for x, and seeing if it equals a value. This probably requires some quadratic formula tinkering in most scenarios.

I noticed something though. You could answer the “does it cross?” question far, far more simply by looking at the remainder from the original long division. See that “14x+12″ which is left over on the board? If that can be set equal to 0 and solved out for x, then a) yes it crosses, and b) it crosses at the value of your solved-for x. You just need to take that x and plug it into your line to find y.

So in short, instead of kids have to solve 2x+2 =  2x^3/(x^2-x-6) for x, I realized you only have to solve 14x+12 = 0. In which x= -12/14, which simplifies to -6/7. And then the y comes from plugging in that x to the solved-for line y=2x+2.

Glancing at it now, I also know what the proof is for this, and why it works infallibly:

My method hones in on the x-value which will make the remainder 0. If the remainder is zero, that means the division between the numerator and denominator polynomial is exactly equal to the value of the asymptote line for this x. It’s almost as simple as saying “Because 6/3 = 2 with no remainder, that means 6/3 REALLY DOES equal 2. As opposed to, for example, 7/3 = 2 R1, where 7/3 doesn’t really equal 2.)

So by virtue of these two Y VALUES being exactly equal to each other at a specified X VALUE, it follows that my method has identified a coordinate (X, Y) which denotes a point of intersection between the graphed function and its asymptote.

Quod Erat Demonstrandum bitches

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“don’t tag as [ship name]!”

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