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You guys are never gonna believe what the name of this sculpture is

I love the fact that it’s commonly believed the writer (and mathematician!) Lewis Carroll could have done a math diss on quaternions, their unintuitive multiplication and their non-commutative nature in the Mad Hatter scene in “Alice in Wonderland”.

“Why, you might just as well say that I see what I eat is the same thing as I eat what I see !”

All credits to 3Blue1Brown on Youtube (Video: “Visualising quaternions (4d numbers) with stereographic projection”)

cavetown music is a soft blanket and warm tea in your favorite mug and a cat sleeping on your lap and a tight hug and someone telling you to take deep breaths in soothing tones and looking at your reflection in the mirror and finally feeling like maybe things will be alright

touching grass is not enough sometimes. sometimes what you actually need to touch is a math textbook

I was dicking around in polar coordinates last night and I found something... extensible.

r = sqrt(sec(2θ)), an ordinary hyperbola. One of the five conic sections. In Cartesian coordinates x^2 = y^2 + 1.

r = sqrt(sec(3θ)), a triperbola :)

And now here's r = sqrt(sec(aθ)) for some other values of a:

a = [1/2 2/7 6/1 5/2 3/5 5/9]

"Is maths really necessary?" Yes, yes it is

well?

Hickory WHAT-ory Dock??? Agatha, you lascivious concubine…

Good Omens 2 appreciation post for that moment after Nina has just rocked Crowley's world with the revelation that no, he isn't slick and yes, it is glaringly obvious to everyone just how head over heels in love with Aziraphale he is.

Crowley takes himself off to the french restaurant and is drowning his sorrows in a bottle of wine while having the realisation that he's been following the angel around like a lovesick puppy all day with no other possible agenda other than to be around him.

And then he sees Aziraphale and whistles him over but the angel is too busy to join him for a wine in the middle of the day and Crowley tries to divert questions by complaining that he's scared Gabriel/Jim is gonna smite him and he'll be well and truly smote, no, smoted? Smited? What's the word he's looking for?

And the angel gives him a knowing look and says:

"Smitten, I believe."

PERFECTION.

GRAMMATICAL CORRECTION AND DIAGNOSIS IN A SENTENCE.

AZIRAPHALE JUST READ HIM LIKE A HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE BOOK AND DOESN'T EVEN REALISE HE HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD.

This is my new favourite double entendre.

Smitten as the past tense of Smite. And the exact reason Crowley is drinking in the middle of the day.

He's realising he's smitten, your honour.

I hope Neil closed the laptop with a dramatic flourish after writing that line. Hell if I'd written a moment that perfect I'd take a victory lap of the kitchen and then call someone to tell them how clever I'd been before I pop.