Help?

[xp_wallflower]

Sooo. Who here has the ability to drive and doesn't mind carting me back and forth between here and Salem Center High this weekend?

Mom would do it but she's working and I'm meant to be doing my finals, and I suppose I could walk if no one's available...

This would be so much easier if I could just take the damn things with the rest of my class but I guess 'uncontrolled mutant power' makes my former fellow student's parental types a little twitchy. Which, yeah, understandable but still sucks.

So, lift? I'll even make you lunch when we get back. (Although, it'll have to be sandwiches of some sort, or maybe soup. Soup I can do. Got a receipe for this really great vegetable soup around somewhere.)

Comments

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm easy to bake for. No artifical flavors or colors, and no chocolate.

And Lorna has the conversion thingy that is for the making carob taste less like fake chocolate and more like real chocolate thing. But eh, I can live without. Strawberry cake or cranberry cookies for me.

[x-traction.livejournal.com]

Lucky for you, I'm a morning person. And my schedule is cleared now, so I can take you both days. That bites that you have exams right after prom though.

[x-traction.livejournal.com]

Hmm...hope I'm not about to regret this. As my summer is looking unreasonably empty of things to do, I'd be more than happy to accompany you on errands and the like, or if you just want to drive for a bit. However, if the car ever does anything remotely two wheeled, I will rescind that offer.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

I am not Forge. I do not drive crazy. I am not very good at, uh, you know, following the speed limit because it's too damn SLOW, but I do not drive crazy.

Besides, I don't believe him that the Volvo can DO That.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

I do not drive crazy. I have never once been in any kind of vehicle accident, or been pulled over or cited for speeding, reckless driving, or any other violation of the vehicle code.

I merely utilize a vehicle to the fullest extent of its potential.

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

So it's like schrodinger's car then.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

I thought it was Forge's car.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Schrodinger was a physicist who did a thought experiment about locking a cat in a box with a radioactive isotope that might or might not kill the cat after one hour. The question was: without opening the box, is the cat alive or dead? Shrodinger's Principle of Quantum Uncertainty states that until it is observed, both states are potentially true, so: Cat = alive is true, and Cat = dead is true, until it is observed, and then only one can be true.

Yeah, it doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense, but trust me, the math adds up when you're dealing with teleporting. Which has nothing to do with the car.

The car is technically in a state of death with potential for life. More like the Frankenstein Principle than Schrodinger.

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

It's a quantum physics thing. This guy schrodinger, came up with the theory that if you stick a cat in a box with a device that has a 50/50 chance of killing the cat that you have no control over it, then the cat will simultaneously be both alive and dead before you open the box, since you don't know.

So the car technically is existing between both the states.

Or something.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

What if it was a mutant cat and it could teleport?

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

It... but...

That's not the point, Kyle! It's a hypothetical normal non-teleporting cat.

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

There's a frightening thought. Mutant animals. Cats that could teleport. Dogs that breathe fire. Telepathic goldfish.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Why would you want to hurt a cat like that?

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Can it walk through walls like Kitty?

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

I want a fire-breathing goldfish!!!!!!

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

Yes, but you'd end up with goldfish soup. Unless it was also invulnerable....

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Oh. Good point.

I still want a mutant goldfish!

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

It's not even a real cat! It's a gedankenexperiment, an imaginary situation you use to illustrate a theoretical point or postulate!

Here, I'll illustrate. Right now you exist both in a state of Thwapped and Unthwapped, and until I walk back into the room, you might as well be in both states since you won't know which is true until I either smack you in the head or don't.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Well why can't it be like Shrondinger's banana slug? I like cats!

Uh, no, I'm totally in a state of unthwapped. Like you could lay a hand on me unless I wanted you to.

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

German scientists are mean.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

But that's only because you're observing me. Unobserved, all things remain in a state of quantum uncertainty.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

I'm observing you being pwned in a second if you .. hey! NO FAIR WITH A BROOM!

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

Forge, no.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

You should sign up for one of the Cooking courses. We do fun stuff like 'cooking for alternative diets'.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

I'm still seriously jealous that you got the car and I didn't. I asked for it first.