Attack of the Giant Spider: zorac

Attack of the Giant Spider

Strange day today: spent a chunk of the afternoon discussing abtruse mathematics. This started from a programming practical one of my colleagues in support was doing which appeared to be calculating triangular numbers, which lead to the scrawling on the board of the mathematical representation - Σ ( x = 0 .. n ) x - the quick'n'easy formula - n ( n + 1 ) / 2 - a dot-pattern illustration of what a triangular number is, how the triangular numbers appears as the third diagonal of Pascal's triangle and my nifty geometrical proof of the aforementioned formula (although not the inductive one). This lead to nifty equations, including (of course) e^iπ = -1. Finally, how to construct an infinite number of Pythagorean triples, one for each positive integer n: ( 2n + 1 , 2n² + 2n , 2n² + 2n + 1 ). Proof is left as an exercise for the reader.

And then this evening, whilst chatting with

hermorrine, I noticed out of the corner of my eye, something moving. It was Aragog. After recovering from the initial shock, I deftly captured it with the old glass-and-paper routine. I then proceeded to take pictures (with a 2p piece for size reference):

That done, I returned Aragog to the wild via the medium of the kitchen window.

oldmystic

March 24 2003, 17:36:32 UTC 18 years ago

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Aaaargh!

elena

March 24 2003, 17:37:03 UTC 18 years ago

*has a seizure*

HATE SPIDERS AAAGGHHH

hermorrine

March 24 2003, 19:12:21 UTC 18 years ago

Why did you have to put the math behind the cut with the spider???? Why, for the love of Pete, WHY?!?!

*considers withholding sex as punishment* Yeah, who am I kidding with that...

zorac

March 25 2003, 00:21:14 UTC 18 years ago

Well I figured that some people would find the math scarier than the spider...

Oh, and Waaaah!

jiggery_pokery

March 25 2003, 06:31:12 UTC 18 years ago

Oddly enough, one of the first thoughts that your pics put into my mind last night was "mmmm, spider sex". Doesn't actually seem that chartered a territory, which is unusual. Hugely impractical, but an interesting concept all the same.

No, not with you.

March 25 2003, 06:41:51 UTC 18 years ago

Harry/Aragog. You know you want it.

Oh, and Ewwwww!

March 25 2003, 07:05:28 UTC 18 years ago

Spider fursuit sex - with working prosthetic limbs - topping an arachnophobe who cares to have their mind messed around with. Mmm. What a concept. Can't get my head around the full implications (not least ones of mass) though I rather like the ones I've contemplated so far.

I shall place this on my "to do" list for 2058, I think.

chrisvenus

March 24 2003, 21:05:48 UTC 18 years ago

Corrr... I seen bigger spiders than that. Assuming that is a pint glass in the picture then you've only got a low end class 4. You want to see the ones we get round these parts (or used to *touch wood*). For the spider class guide that I am trying to get widely accepted go see http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=chrisvenus&itemid=42068 (where you can also find some of my amusing anecdotes). No pictures though due to lack of digital camera.

March 25 2003, 00:29:31 UTC 18 years ago

Hmmm. The problem I see with your class system is that it doesn't take into account relative leg and pody sizes - a decent size daddy-long-legs would easily be a class 5 despite its tiny body, wheras last night's beastie had a quite unnecessarily large body :-( On the other hand, my parents place in France suffered an invasion of high-end class sixes a couple of years back - we're talking over six-inch leg span here...

marysiak

March 25 2003, 05:23:26 UTC 18 years ago

my parents place in France suffered an invasion of high-end class sixes a couple of years back - we're talking over six-inch leg span here...

You know I'm not really scared of spiders anymore but I gotta say ARGH!

And further more EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

March 25 2003, 05:40:11 UTC 18 years ago

I have to admit that I'm rather disappointed that I didn't get to see them. At the very least, Dad could have taken photos of them or something...

cygnusfap

March 25 2003, 06:58:56 UTC 18 years ago

On the other hand, my parents place in France suffered an invasion of high-end class sixes a couple of years back - we're talking over six-inch leg span here...

I am never going to France again. Wah.

huskyteer

March 25 2003, 01:06:01 UTC 18 years ago

I am never going to go to sleep again.

strangefrontier

March 25 2003, 05:01:27 UTC 18 years ago

Right, that's it. The world is obviously going to be taken over by giant mutant spiders. In the past couple of weeks I have actually woken up three times from spider fear during different dreams - the huge bastards just appeared next to me! My mum then confesses to having spider-dreams, and now you and your posting-spider-pics-without-warning-craziness.

Sometimes I wish I didn't live in an attic room... I know they're here, in the storage space under the eves, on the roof waiting for me to open a window, just waiting...

tobymalfoy

March 26 2003, 04:59:49 UTC 18 years ago

*shrieks*

*beats monitor to death with a shovel*

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