October 24
Meghan was petting my mane when I woke up, and I was still mostly across her chest, 'cause I guess I couldn't have rolled off last night with Aric right up next to us.
Someone had pushed the blankets down off my back, but Meghan had pulled them up across her where I wasn't covering, 'cause I must have pulled my wings in while I was sleeping, and she'd gotten cold.
I nuzzled her cheek, and she asked if I knew what time it was.
Aric didn't have a clock in his room where I could see it, and I thought that I might wake him up if I got his portable telephone, but I did anyway and I gave it to Meghan so that she could look at it because I was still sleepy enough that I would probably drop it if I tried to turn it on.
And getting it cost me my space on the bed; Aric had moved over to hug Meghan and I was kind of mad at that but not really.
She looked at the time and said that if I wanted to fly we'd better be leaving before too long. And I did, but I also didn't want to leave, so I got in bed and leaned up against Aric's side which wasn't all that comfortable but I wasn't planning on going back to sleep, so it was all right, and it let me look at both him and Meghan, which was nice.
Meghan reached up and started rubbing my muzzle with her hand, and I gently stroked her belly with my hoof, and brushed up against Aric's chin with my fetlock and he wrinkled his nose which was kind of cute so I did it again and he sneezed, and then he opened his eyes.
Meghan gave him his portable telephone back and he looked at it and then put it beside the bed, and he started stroking his hand down her stomach and I did the same with my wing and kissed his cheek, and for just a moment I thought that if we went any further I wasn't going to have time to go flying this morning, but then I decided that I didn't care.
Since I'd already missed flying, me and Meghan decided that we'd both take a shower with Aric, too, because even though it was crowded it was fun, and this time I made sure that they both got washed first before the hot water ran out, so the shower was getting kind of chilly by the time that I was finishing and I had to tell them to get out because I didn't want them to be uncomfortable.
Both of them stayed in the bathroom until I was done, though, and then Aric asked Meghan if she wanted to see if David and Angela were home, and she said that at this point she didn't really care, but she kinda opened the bathroom door slowly and I think she would have pulled it right back shut if she'd seen either of them outside in the hallway.
They got dressed in his room and I pulled the blanket back up over the bed and preened my wings. The feather that I'd bit off still hadn't decided to fall out, which was starting to annoy me. It would eventually but it was going to bother me until it did.
Meghan brushed my mane for me and Aric used his fingers to go through my tail, since we only had one brush. And he also teased me a little bit just because his hand was right there, and I was stretched out on the bed with my legs tucked under me so I couldn't do anything about it even if I'd wanted to.
When Meghan figured out what he was doing, she threw the brush at him, and he claimed that it had happened by accident and I'd had a knot in my tail just under my dock. And he said that he hadn't meant anything by it, and I told him that he'd better have meant something by it.
He said the problem with having two girlfriends was that we ganged up on him. And Meghan said that she was going to gang up on somebody, and got on the bed behind him and reached around and said that she was going to help groom my tail, too, but that wasn't what she did.
We finally said our goodbyes to Aric and we both kissed him and then when we were walking back, Meghan asked me how I'd feel if she decided to have sex with Aric by herself some time that I wasn't free to come over, like this weekend when I was gone. And I said that that would be really nice, because that way neither of them would be lonely, and the two of them were really cute together, too. And she thought about that while we were walking, and finally when we were getting close to campus she asked me if I really meant that, and I said that I did. I thought I'd probably be a little bit upset if they wouldn't let me come over because they wanted to have sex without me, but if I was somewhere else, I didn't think it would be fair to make the two of them stay apart, and I also thought that the more comfortable they were together the more fun we'd have when we were all together.
Meghan asked what had happened to the me that had been at Waldo's and not sure if she wanted to try a threesome, and I said that I'd changed my mind and maybe it had been unfair to ask me when both her and Aric were fondling me because they both knew that right at the base of my wings was one of my weak spots, and she laughed and said that she shouldn't have told Aric about that, but I wasn't sorry that she had.
We got to breakfast late, and a lot of the food was already gone when we arrived. The waffle-maker was on its table with a bowl of batter next to it, but it wasn't working and I thought that if I'd gotten there sooner maybe I could have had a waffle, but morning sex was better than waffles anyway.
Peggy and Christine and Sean were gone, too, but Anna and Reese were still there, although they were done with their food. And we didn't have a whole lot of time to eat ourselves, 'cause I still had to get my books for thermodynamics class, so I kind of bolted down my food and then flew back to my room to get my saddlebags and then flew over to the Dow building.
We learned more about alchemy and reactions in class today, and this time he told us about pressure and put the equation for a reaction out on the markerboard and he said that it was a common reaction in places which had smog. And he wrote the alchemical equation and then the moles for it under that, so we could figure out the ratio of change.
There was a principle called Le Chatelier's Principle, and it said that the system wanted to stay like it was before, and it didn't like change, and it applied to pressure and temperature.
And when he was done showing us the heat equations, he told us that if we were designing an alchemical factory, we needed to use the equation he had worked through to at the very end, and it might make the difference between our factory running smoothly or exploding.
Me and Lisa met in the lounge again, and we both went through the lab notes to make sure that there weren't any mistakes, and then I went back to my room to do homework.
Peggy was there, and I hugged her and said that I'd missed her all weekend, and she said that she hoped I'd had a good weekend. And I told her that the three of us had finally all had sex together and she asked how that had gone, and I didn't understand exactly what she was asking until she said that she didn't really need to know the technical details of who was where, but she wanted to know how we'd felt about it.
I said that I thought that everyone had liked it, and I hoped that that was true. It was a little bit strange being there especially when Aric and Meghan were more focusing on each other instead of me, and some things hadn't quite worked out like we'd hoped they would, but mostly it had gone pretty well and after the first time it got a lot easier for all of us.
I didn't get my thermodynamics homework done but I figured I could do it later in the day, and I switched my books and notebook so I would be ready for math class after lunch.
Me and Peggy walked to lunch together, and I got a decent salad and so did she. And she said it felt weird to be back in class again because the whole weekend had seemed kind of long but had also gone by really quick if that made any sense and I said that it did.
It felt like it had been a really long time since I'd been to class or to lunch with everyone, even though the weekend had only been one day longer than normal. And I'd thought that maybe it was because me and Aric and Meghan had spent so much time together, and done so many things, but maybe everyone was feeling the same.
I'd missed finding out how everyone else's weekend had been since I'd missed them at breakfast, and the lunch conversation was kind of subdued anyway because I think a lot of people had spent most of the weekend having fun and playing and less of it resting than they should have. Which was something I was guilty of, too. Meghan looked tired but happy, and I probably looked the same.
When we were done eating, me and Sean carried our dishes back to the rollers and I got up on my hind hooves and watched as a hand pulled the trays along. I wondered what it would be like to work back there—maybe the same person had taken my tray every time, but I didn't know who she was, and she probably didn't know any of us, either.
We went to math together and Professor Pampena reminded us about double integrals and then said that we could use polar coordinates instead, and I wasn't really sure what those were, but it made me think of the frozen north where the Crystal Empire was and Yakyakistan, too. But it was actually about using rays to cut into arcs like you'd cut a pie.
It used radians to work which I didn't really like all that much, but it made a neater equation when he was done, and I trusted him when he said that it was simpler than what he'd taught us last Wednesday. I think if I knew radians better it would have been simpler.
Then he said that since he'd showed double integrals to us he had to tell us what they were good for, and we could find the area with it or density and we could also find center of mass or the moment of inertia which was about how things resisted changing direction, and so I thought that if I wanted to, I could figure out how hard it was for me to turn when I was flying.
His first example was an arc around the origin of the graph, and that was pretty easy, but it got more complicated when the circle wasn't centered on the origin, because we had to figure out what the bounds of the equation were, and if we went off the wrong side of the graph, our rays would never touch our circle.
After class was over, we went back to his room to do homework, and we listened to Lisa Gerrard while we did. And after we'd gone over our answers together, I wrote out an equation in Equestrian for Professor Pampena.
I didn't go right back to my room after leaving his—I went down to the basement instead and went by Sean's old room and poked my nose in the bathroom even though I probably shouldn't have. It had been on my mind since the three of us had showered together because it was a lot roomier here than it was in Aric's shower and I really wanted to do some social bathing again.
It looked just the same as it had before, and I thought that we could maybe get together after finals or something because it would be a great way for people to relax.
I flew around campus a little bit to work my wings, because it felt like forever since I'd gotten a decent flight in. And since I didn't have any of my flight gear, I didn't want to go too far off-campus, even though I probably could have flown around as long as I stayed low, but I didn't. I still had my thermodynamics homework to do, and I didn't want to wait until tomorrow to finish it.
So after I'd stretched my wings for a while, I landed back on the boardwalk and went inside the dorm and up to my room, and I got out my physics homework. I hadn't gotten too far along when Peggy arrived and she sat at her desk and started doing her own homework.
She had her ear-speakers in, but I could still faintly hear her music, which was a nice accompaniment while I worked.
I got pretty focused on it, and when I was done, I saw that Peggy was looking at me and she said it was really weird how my ears were always moving around, and asked if it was something that I noticed because she thought it would bother her.
I said that I kind of did sometimes but usually it was like breathing or walking or flying and I didn't really have to pay any attention to my ears, and they just did what they wanted to and heard what they needed to.
There wasn't enough time to read Romans, so I just relaxed on the bed until Peggy was done with her work and ready for dinner.
They had scrod fillets which were pretty good, and they also had put out spinach at the salad buffet, and they also had clam chowder for soup, so I thought it was a pretty good dinner, even though almost everyone else at the table complained about it.
Christine said that the next weekend was parent's weekend and they'd probably have something good for dinner on Friday night, so that was something to look forward to.
I asked Meghan if she wanted to come with me to Durak tonight and she said she didn't know how to play, but I said that I could explain it to her on the way over. And she hadn't gotten all of her homework done, so I went to her room and stretched out on her bed and she sat down next to me, and I put my head on her lap while she read her homework and scratched behind my ears sometimes.
Then the two of us walked to Fourth Coast together, and I told her how the game was played, and she lost the first time 'cause she didn't really understand, and then after that she was a little bit better and she didn't lose her second hand.
Aric took the two of us back to his house in Winston and let me steer and choose the gears for the last part, and we'd both decided that we were going to leave kind of early tomorrow morning so that we would be ready for class.
So we went upstairs and while Meghan was in the bathroom I asked Aric how he felt about me and her having sex without him sometimes, and he said that I'd been doing it before, so it wouldn't be that different if we kept on doing it like that. And I said that I had hoped he'd think that way, 'cause Meghan had also asked me if it was okay for her to have sex with him when I wasn't around, and he said he hadn't expected her to ask that.
When she came back to the room, she said she was kind of surprised that Aric was still wearing his clothes, and he said that he'd kind of been waiting for her to come back and undress him and I said that I wanted to this time.
I got up on the bed so I could take their shirts off, 'cause that was the easiest way, and then I got Meghan's bra off, too, and then got out of bed to take their pants and underwear off, and then the three of us got in bed together, and Meghan thought that since it was usually Aric's night he ought to be in the middle first.
Growing some pony parts, Aric?
No argument there.
...I just realised, it's gonna really suck when Silver heads back to Equestria. Here's hoping Aric and Meghan visit sometime! Perhaps even move in!
St Paul is probably the most important person in Christianity after Jesus. He wrote about 1/2 the New Testament In particular, he is the one responsible for the Catholic church not allowing women priests & AFAIK he is the one the church used to decide that priests can't marry.
For Silver, his most important statement was that "the age of miracles is over". That means her presence on Earth is not a miracle
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Maybe Meghan and Aric will find solace in each other when Silver has to go back to Equestria.
Hmm, now that I think about it, could Silver be setting them up to be with each other once she's out of the picture? In other words, is Silver shipping Meghan with Aric? Inquiring minds want to know!
Radians are simple:
A circle has τr (TauRadians). Using τ (Tau), just figure out the fraction of the circle or how far around the circle one moves. It is that simple. Some morons throw in extraneous factors of 2, but that is just plain foalish.
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Paul is the David Miscavige of Christianity:
They both hostily took over the religions after the deaths of the founders.
I guess she groomed someone else's tail.
I got a wafflemaker for christmas... So I had waffles, next I have to get sex.
Admiral, you're improving my life!
Quite the development in Silver's love life. At least Aric and Meghan won't be lonely when the visit ends.
And yeah, polar coordinates make double integrals far, far simpler. Even trying them in Cartesian sounds like a nightmare. Yecch.
new tradition in the making ....
the moment Princess Celestia asks about more details on that entry
Silver is going to make a killing just writing erotic novels back in equestria on the side of her weather job...
Definitely very happy Silver.
Thank goodness someone is, 2017 hasnt finished reaping yet.
Richard Adams, Watership Down. RIP
all that comfortable, I think
sat down
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polar coordinates (and change of variables in general) are designed to make complicated bounds of integration or integrands simpler. Polar coordinates excel at integrating curves. Instead of x and y coordinates, points are defined as a distance from the origin (r) and an angle from the positive x axis (theta). Here's the conversion
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So lets try to find the area of a circle of radius 1. In Cartesian coordinates (x,y) our circle is defined as x^2+y^2=1. solving for y gives y=-(1-x^2)^(1/2) and y=-(1-x^2)^(1/2) so for our y integral these equations are our bounds. our integral is dxdy over y=-(1-x^2)^(1/2) to y=-(1-x^2)^(1/2) and x=-1 to x=1. It's a pain to solve (and also extremely difficult to explain without a drawing) but it's doable. But what if we define our circle using polar coordinates? We have a radius that varies from 0 to 1, and an angle that sweeps from 0 to 2pi. So in polar space our bounds of integrations are 0 to 1 for r, and 0 to 2pi for theta. This integral is a lot easier to do than the first one. However you do need to multiply by what's called the Jacobian. It essentially accounts for the distortion that you get by changing coordinates. For polar, this value is r. So we get the double integral rdrdtheta from r=0 to r=1 and theta=0 to theta=2pi. This calculation is a lot simpler. Here's the magic. When we started, our domain was a circle, but when we transform it to polar, it's now a square (although it's distorted). We simplified our domain to make the math easier. If you still don't get it, it would be better for me to write it out and I'll do that if you want.
One of my favorite uses of this is the definite integral of e^(x^2). This isn't solvable, but if we square it, we can do a change of variables to polar coordinates where it is solvable. Then once we get the number, we can just take the square root.
Radians are the natural measurement of angles. This isn't a very rigorous proof, but it should work to explain the concept. Lets take a line of length r and fix one end then rotate the line through one complete rotation so the free end traces out a circle. The length of an arc drawn like this is given by the equation L=thetar. Since we swept the line through a full circle, the arc length is the circumference of the circle, or 2pir. So plugging this in we get 2pir=thetar. Solving for theta gives us theta=2pi, so a circle has a total angle of 2pi radians. Similarly a semi circle has pi radians. There's better proofs, but i'm tired.
The two most common moments of inertia are area moment of inertia and mass moment of inertia. These are how area and mass respectively are distributed about an axis. The mass moment of inertia measures how hard it is to angularly accelerate an object. It fills the role of mass for a rotational system. Area moment of inertia is is similar, but for properties related to shape, not mass. So for example area is stretching, area moment of inertia is bending.
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I suggest you look up recipes for doing your own waffle batter. I particularly like using sourdough starter in the batter. Or plain yogurt.
Storebought mixes invariably have so much sugar, it might as well be mislabeled cake mix.
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¿Why deal with the unnecessary factors of 2? ¡Just use τ (Tau)!! A circle has τr (TauRadians).
And she's probably the only one on the planet who thinks so.
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There's one pony part he'd be proud to grow.
There probably aren't that many people who would prefer breakfast to morning sex.
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And that unfortunate parting is getting very close.
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And the one that other Protestant churches debate endlessly when it comes to interpretation of scripture. Because there's a fair bit of interpretation on what he meant, specifically, and whether it was meant to be addressed to all Christians, or the ones specifically at one church or another.
Which means that if she had hopes of getting sainted, she's going to have to perform a different miracle first.
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Just ask yourself this: would Silver Glow be so caring about her close friends that she wanted to make sure that they'd stay happy even without her?
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Whether Paul's role was a 'hostile takeover' or not is perhaps a matter of debate. Certainly, he was influential in what the Church would become, especially since his writings--or writings credited to him--form a large part of the New Testament, and from that the basis of all Christianity; that having been said, there was an awful lot of things that he didn't say, and a lot of stuff that in modern times is open to interpretation by the various different branches of Christianity, so I guess if we're going with a corporate metaphor, Paul took over the board and then over time the company spun off several dozen subsidiaries companies.
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I do what I can!
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Should they wind up marrying each other sometime later in life, it would be the most interesting 'how we met' story ever.
Well, it's greek to me in both cases, so . . . .
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I think that would be a good tradition, and I regret not thinking of it back when I was a college student.
Oh man, that would be an interesting side job for her to have.
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I know.
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I think that's the one big advantage to having two (or more) different ways of approaching a problem--if one method doesn't work, perhaps there's another one that will. More than one way to skin a cat and all of that jazz.
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Really depends on what the music is. For example, since I work in an auto shop, I get to hear all kinds of music and talk shows on customer's radios when I test drive their cars, or even pull them into the shop. Normally, it ranges from stuff I like, to stuff I don't really care one way or the other, to stuff that I just outright hate (those are the ones where I usually turn the radio off). However, in once case it was a song so good that I'd never heard before, that I bought it on iTunes.
Proper clam chowder, or that horrible red stuff the Americans eat?
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The proper stuff (well, as proper as you can get without being in Maryland or Maine).
Honestly, I wouldn't be complaining either if I had the variety Silver it getting. Here we get the option of slimy chicken with rice, slimy chicken with rice and veg, crusty chicken with potato, deep fried fish, and variations on a grilled boot.
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One nice thing about Kalamazoo College was that they generally had at least decent food, and a good variety of it. I suppose part of that was because of how much the college cost--at the time I went, it was the most expensive college in Michigan.
Silver does have the right mindset to keep a stable triad actually stable.
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She does, and in some ways that raises a lot of further questions, doesn’t it?
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I actually tend to imagine that attitude being pretty common among level-headed and practical ponies.
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It probably is, to be honest.
Heck, IRL equines need to keep herds together to survive, so you’d think that instinct would be baked in to ponies.
This is why Belgium is so small.
Just pretend its physical size has nothing to do with it. It's because they prefer waffles over morning sex.
If Silver Glow's parents don't show up, I will be le sad.
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Their waffles are pretty good. . . .
Mmh, I hate to disappoint you. . .
Bad Pony! No colic for you!
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Good thing the MLP ponies seem to not get it as often as IRL horses, especially with their terrible (for equines) diet.