<p>The day after Christmas when prices for things go down in stores and everyone goes shopping. Everyone except me. I can’t deal with all that excitement.</p>
<p>Yeah, JB, seeing SI prefixes applied to liters is always weird. Silly attoliters and femtoliters.
In Canada, we’re required to know what all the prefixes mean.</p>
<p>We are too. For science. Well, we learn them, and then we never use them again. I never saw the word “exometer” after the matching quiz. I’m not really sure what the point of that style of teaching is.</p>
<p>boxing day is when you’re supposed to give gifts and other stuff you don’t want and donate it to charity.</p>
<p>King Henry Did (a) Major/Gigantic/Leap Down Colorado Mountain (space) (space) (space) Micro (space) (space) (space) Nano</p>
<p>Or something like that.</p>
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Don’t think I’ll forget.</p>
<p>Gilmore Girls can be quite ridiculous.</p>
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<p>In physics classes when we do calculations, if the answer is in scientific notation, we’re required to give it using the prefixes as well. I don’t know, it’s one of the few things I’ve ever had to memorize in my science classes, and it is kind useful. For my mentorship program, the scientists always use the prefixes. They don’t use all of them, obviously.</p>
<p>Prefixes just complicate things. If you don’t stick to meters and kilograms in physics, a lot of the other units can get messed up. I hate when problems have Imperial System units though, that’s the worst.</p>
<p>Conversions hurt me so.</p>
<p>I really have no knowledge of the Imperial System. They don’t teach it to us here at all.</p>
<p>And yeah, prefixes do complicate things. You just have to convert everything back to the standard scientific notation when you do calculations and its stupid. I guess the only case in which it’s sort of useful is when actually talking. It’s easier to say “3 microliters” than to say “3 x 10^-6 liters” for example.</p>
<p>I always write little Es instead of ‘x10^n’.</p>
<p>I do that on the calculator. I just write out the full thing by hand. Sucks.</p>
<p>Significant figures are the bane of my existence.</p>
<p>Of course.</p>
<p>When my new computer comes I think I’ll run Ubuntu on this one. Get my nerd on, you know.</p>
<p>Didn’t you buy a macbook?</p>
<p>By “this one,” I’m assuming she meant the computer she’s currently on.</p>
<p>Oh, right, I can’t read.</p>
<p>I’m so popular.</p>
<p>Ramalamadingdong.</p>
<p>That’s kind of dirty when you think about it.</p>
<p>Coldplay is disbanding. </p>
<p>I never know if a band name should be singular or plural. Coldplay are disbanding?</p>
<p>No they’re not. </p>
<p>And I’d say is. Are makes me think of the Premier League.</p>
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<p>The subject of the sentence is a band, which is a collective whole, which is singular.</p>
<p>God, it’s 5:32 PM on a Saturday and I’m correcting grammar on CC. Shoot me now…</p>
<p>On the other hand, I’m probably going to be hanging out with friends in a bit. :)</p>