Subj : Re: Hey Nick To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Mon Sep 05 2005 10:44:30 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Jim Larson wrote in news:Xns96C7DDDCD78E23v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: > weirdwolf wrote: > >> Jim Larson wrote in >> news:Xns96C7D1AFD4DF83v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: >> >>> weirdwolf wrote: >>> >>>> You know you were saying about how you would trust a big U.S. news >>>> corporation to give the facts correctly: >>>> >>>> http://makeashorterlink.com/?K2F412CBB >>>> >>> >>> (All the cool kids use tinyurl.com) >>> >> >> Well there's the problem, I'm all hot and sweaty. >> I did however show some adults today the thing about the internal >> angles >> in a triangle don't add up to 180 degrees and pi isn't 3 an a bit >> that I > > (Sphere? Poincare plane? What?) Balloon. You draw a triangle on a ballon and then inflate it. You then put it ontop of something circular like a mug and push the centre part down. I've found that it's the best way to get people thniking about it, cheap and simple to do as well. >> was talking to Nick about a while ago. Apparently it was cool and >> therefore I am frosty by association. > > Woohoo! Which I suppose as we are talking makes you a bit nippy. Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .