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Totally off topic...but I read the header to this thread as Portable bad ideas and my first thought was Justin Bieber on a '70s-style boom box. Outsider, there are inflatable beds that have these inflation/deflation control dials built in which you can use to harden or soften the mattress...

November, in my view the trick is to get the shape and form of the math, the way it plays out in successive iterations (in the case of hyperbolic math). What is often called math that puts people off is the symbolic representations of those shapes and forms. This is why I often point people...

Lem, I do know the anguish of that space where you have feelings arise for someone, you sense them in the other party...and you're nowhere near intimate enough yet to talk about all the questions and concerns that come up in your own heart and mind. I surely know that profound sweetness in...

Frank, thanks for asking. I finally got around to jotting up a reply. It's headered "Lobachevsky redux" and is over lurking near the fireplace, probably mapping the branching patterns in the flames or something like that.

FrankLee asked for another layer of the onion when I introduced myself (intro thread) and headered it "Lobachevsky love." Lobachevsky was a 19th century mathematician who created and published a geometry in which Euclid's Fifth Postulate did not hold. In doing so he laid out the basis of...

The judgment that someone is a "jerk" for reacting emotionally to a boundary setting that thwarts their (perhaps unrealistic, but there you have it) hopes is an interesting reaction in itself. Online it can be a short step from shopping to rejection (isn't consumerism all about the illusion of...

OK, apologies for the delay. Stoic, in the classical sense, coupled with Enlightenment, in the Science Blogs sense. Thanks for asking.

Er, speak for YOUR "inherited European culture." Compersion is and always was very strong in Celtic and Scandinavian cultures, and in indigenous Finno-Ugrian ones. Sounds like your mileage has varied...or you're out of touch with your culture...but kindly refrain from laying such globalized...

Where was Bee regarding Jay's decision to start seeing another person while she was pregnant, I presume with their child? Was this mutually agreed upon, or did Jay make the decision for her? Did he make it with her active input, or did he make it knowing "she's a hermit"? If he uses that label...

Thank you for the welcomes. Frank, I didn't mean to puzzle, and thank you for asking. I'll poke about in other areas of the forum to see where a reply might belong more appropriately. Fireplace I'm thinking, unless someone has a better suggestion. Then I'll note it here. The short version...

An axolotl with a laser death ray evolved to emit from my head. Of already evolved animals, a chimera of bear, albatross, trilobite, and rough-skinned newt.

No. But birds and sea-things are.

Vixtoria, this is very perceptive, I'd say. IME sometimes when people have been together for a very long time, and particularly have been radically honest and battled through issues and events together, they tend to become, or think of themselves, as a sort of meta-human. No we, no I...just...

You've hit on two gripes of my own, Vixtoria. First, the issue of being "too queer for the queers." And second, the idea that a polyrelationship is something you order from a catalog. This is why I stopped thinking of myself as poly; my experience in the Aughts was that there was more of that...

Writing from the temperate rainforest and the sea, Nudibranch here, composed of hyperbolic geometry and sea vegetables. I am a bi rationalist woman, 53, married to a bi rationalist man, 51. We have been friends for 23 years, lovers for 18, cohabiting for 13, married for 10. We are child free...