#Math Nerd - Future Past - 01
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Time After Time:
Math Nerd AU
May 19th, 2020 (in the past future [before the reincarnation])
Math Nerd AU | Unusual Fic Asks
Neil was coming to accept that he wasn't going to die of old age as the doctors told him the recovery time for his twisted knee. He would need to do physical therapy before he could even have the surgery and then additional physical therapy afterwards.
It would take too long.
The Moriyamas would cut him as a useless thread. "Mr. Josten, you'll play again." The Doctor assures, "You will just-"
"Thank you Doctor, yes I understand." Neil interrupts. "Let's schedule a time to start the physical therapy." he says because a part of him feels spiteful. He knows how Ichirou works, knows that his death will look like a suicide.
People who are committing suicide don't make plans right? Maybe his death would be just enough to topple it all to the ground and save Kevin and Jean. He makes his appointment and hobbles out of his doctor's appointment to find Andrew in the waiting room.
He wonders how much longer he'll get to look at him.
He'll never actually be ready to stop.
Andrew's gaze snaps to him and Andrew has always been able to read him like a book. "It's too long?" he asks.
Neil laughs because, as usual, there was no point in hiding things from Andrew. "I've had my will ready for a while. I'm leaving-"
"Stop." Andrew raises his hand, "you aren't dying. Not before me. I'm older." Andrew argues.
Neil smiles and wishes to say the three words that bubble up in him but he wants them to be the last ones he says to Andrew if he can manage it. Saying them now would only make Andrew upset and possibly leave.
"Let's go home. I wanna see the cats." he says instead. It doesn't matter too much, his will spells out where everything is supposed to go. Andrew helps him into the car and puts his crutches in the backseat. They drive in silence and Neil finds himself looking at every black car with out of state licenses.
He looks at his phone because there's no point in worrying. His fate was sealed the moment that Ohio player rammed into him. He hopes Andrew likes one of the options he listed in his will. He hopes he stays close to Andrew, hopes he can protect him from beyond.
He prepares texts for all of his friends as he goes. Most are just I love yous and some thanking them for being especially kind to him. His text to Matt a long note on how sorry he is that he won't get to watch his god daughter grow up. His note to Aaron to make sure that his daughters take after Katelyn when they're born.
They get home and Neil is glad to see that there are no cars in their driveway. It does not mean that Ichirou isn't there, but it gives him a bit more time to look at Andrew.
Andrew's jaw is tight as he pulled into their garage.
"I've had arrangements made and paid for Andrew. It's going-"
"Shut up." Andrew hisses and gets out of the car.
Neil's phone rings and he sees a familiar area code he looks as Andrew shuts the door as he enters the house.
He hits accept. 32 wasn't bad considering he never expected 20.
"Hello?" he asks.
"Wesninski." Ichirou greets and Neil lets his eyes close. "I hear you will not be able to pay me." he comments.
"It will be quite some time before I can work on the court again My Lord." he doesn't lie or try to hide it. "I understand what this means for our deal. May I-"
"I wish to strike a different deal." Ichirou interrupts and Neil blinks.
"You...wish to strike a different deal?" he asks.
"I am in need of someone with your certifications Wesninski." Ichirou says.
Neil's jaw tenses. He can't do his father's work. He'd rather just have Ichirou shoot him and let it be done.
"You have kept up to date with your CPA certification from what I understand?" Ichirou continues.
Neil blinks.
What?
#Math Nerd AU#Unusual Fic Asks#AFTG#AFTG AU#Andreil#Unseen is Andrew inside looking at the money he's saved up from his own paychecks#Money that will cover what Neil owes Ichirou for a year. He's set it aside in case this ever happens#To buy Neil time#Turns out Wymack has saved Neil's life instead#Since he got Neil his college degree#Math Nerd - Future Past - 01
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HOLY SHIT IS THAT [ KATHERINE LANGFORD ]?! OH, WAIT IT’S JUST [ MADISON MCCARTHY ]. DAMN, [ SHE/HER ] LOOKS GOOD FOR [ 25 ], GOOD THING THAT THEY’RE [ QUESTIONING THEIR SEXUALITY ], I MIGHT HAVE A CHANCE. I HEAR THAT THEY CALL THEM THE [ SPAZ ] OF THE [ SOUTH-SIDE ]. I GUESS THAT’S BECAUSE THEY’RE [ ANXIOUS ] AND [ HIGH-STRUNG ]. BUT I DON’T THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT THEY’RE ALSO [ CARING ] AND [ VIRTUOUS ]. CAN’T WAIT TO SEE WHAT KIND OF TROUBLE [ LISSA/25+/CST ]
01. BASICS
Full Name: Madison Alice McCarthy
Nickname: Mads, Madi, IronHeart89 (username)
Sex/Gender: Female
Birthday: August 9th
Age: Twenty
Astrological Sign: Leo
Occupation: Excelsior! comic shop.
Spoken Languages: English
Sexual Orientation: Unsure
Birthplace: Detriot, MI
Relationship status: Single
02. PHYSICAL TRAITS
Hair Color/Style: Brunette
Eye Color: Blue Green
Face Claim: Katherine Langford
Height:5 ft 4 in
Weight:132 lbs
Tattoos: None
Piercings: None
Unique Attributes: —
Defining Gestures/Movements: Wringing hands together, biting nails, twirling hair
Posture: Fidgety
03. PERSONALITY TRAITS
Pet Peeves: None
Hobbies/Interests: Reading, Drawing
Special Skills/Abilities: Blowing things out of proportion
Likes: Reading, Drawing, Watching movies, listening to music, being online
Dislikes: Social events
Insecurities: Literally everything
Quirks/Eccentricities: Has severe anxiety and some OCD’s, usually covers her arms to hide old cuts from attempted suicide
Strengths: She’d very giving and understanding, good listener.
Weaknesses: Her brother
Speaking Style: Usually a little stutter-y or quiet.
Temperament: Light and happy but very quickly anxious
04. FAMILY & HOME
Immediate Family: Matthew and Melissa (parents), Mason (twin brother)
How do they feel about their family?: Madison loves her family but she knows that she’s too much to handle due to her mental illness so she tries to keep things from them. She mostly feels like a burden so when the opportunity to move out with Mason came up, she took it immediately.
How does their family feel about them?: Her parents love her but her issues did bring a lot of discord into their relationship. Regardless, her nearest and dearest has always been her brother, Mason, and they get along very well.
Pets: Mason’s german shepard named Axel.
Where do they live?: On the Southside with her brother
Description of their home: A small and simple apartment on the Southside with Mason.
Description of their bedroom: Everything is cleaned, neat, tidy, and in a specific space.
05. THIS OR THAT
Introvert or Extrovert?
Optimist or Pessimist?
Leader or Follower?
Confident or Self-Conscious?
Cautious or Careless?
Religious or Secular?
Passionate or Apathetic?
Book Smarts or Street Smarts?
Compliments or Insults?
Pajamas or Lingerie?:
06. FAVORITES
Favorite Color: Purple
Favorite Clothing Style/Outfit: Jeans (pants, never shorts), long sleeve shirts, usually a hoodie or a jean jacket. Hair is almost always down.
Favorite Bands/Songs/Type of Music: She literally listens to everything under the sun and has no specific type that she likes more than others.
Favorite Movies: Any Marvel or DC movie, All things nerd
Favorite Books: Literally all of them, books are her favorite items.
Favorite Foods/Drinks: Pizza, root beer
Favorite Sports/Sports Teams: Doesn’t watch sports
Favorite Time of Day: Night
Favorite Weather/Season: Fall
Favorite Animal: Sloth
07. MISCELLANEOUS
Fears/Superstitions: She’s afraid of spiders, most bugs, car accidents, flying, being alone in the dark, walking under ladders, ghosts, sharks, drowning, and most forms of social interaction.
Political Views: Supports human rights.
Addictions: Biting her nails, taking her anxiety meds
Best School Subject: English, Science
Worst School Subject: Math
School Clubs/Sports: Joined her brother for a short time as a cheerleader but quit because she could B-E aggressive.
How does he get money?: Madison has had many jobs that she’s never lasted at. She stays until her anxiety gets too overwhelming and then she runs away. Currently she’s working at Excelsior! and also manages her own webpage
How is she with technology? Most of the time, her source of communication with the world is through her phone or laptop so she’s very good with them.
08. PAST & FUTURE
Fondest Memory: Moving in with Mason. She was upset about hearing her parents argue over her and he bought her pizza and they watched movies and it made her feel like she wasn’t a complete failure as a kid.
Deepest, Darkest Secret: She claims she wasn’t trying to kill herself when she cut her arms back in high school but she was.
Dream Vacation: Anywhere with a beach
Best thing that has ever happened to this character: Starting her anxiety meds.
Worst thing that has ever happened to this character: The night she went to her boyfriend’s Junior prom, and the night three weeks later when her friend killed herself.
What do they want to be when they grow up?: Normal
Perfect Date: Watching a movie because then they don’t have to talk.
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Why We Love ars PARADOXICA
Back in 2016, the fandom made a list of 43 reasons why we love ars PARADOXICA in honor of the 73rd anniversary of Dr. Sally Grissom’s first audio diary on October 29, 1943. When I learned that the podcast was going to end after its third season, I decided to pull together another list that was double the length of the first.
However, the fandom was so passionate that we blew past our goal, and reached triple the length of the original list!
Without further ado, here are the 129 of the reasons why we love ars PARADOXICA:
Helen Partridge, my beautiful, beautiful wife
I just love Kristen’s laugh and it never fails to make me smile.
Mischa’s outros! “Brought to you by the internet:”
The TimeSwimmers episode. That whole thing was a masterpiece
Sally and Nikhil's friendship
Petra, my sassy troubled daughter
The effort that went into making such a truly unique and ambitious take on time travel-based fiction
Sally, my favorite disaster ace
All of the characters are just so beautifully flawed in their own ways and are so well depicted it’s hard to pick a favorite
Every episode makes me feel SO MANY EMOTIONS
The sound effects are just so well done that I feel like I’m right there with the characters
The subtle yet mind blowing foreshadowing
The way it endlessly inspires me to create fan content
The decryption team, who I don't understand yet love to watch unravel codes
The ability to make us both love and hate a character at the same time as much as we do Esther Roberts.
Jack Wyatt
The sass, and in general wonderful interactions with the fan base on social media.
The schoolyard brawl!
Very obviously not being afraid to have fun with ads/sponsored content.
Actually making me want to listen to the version with ads even though I'm a patron
Buttsticks…
Plasticity
The outro music is simple but so, so good
Lemon drops and Limestone
My curiosity about what Esther wrote in the letter
Golden boi and his devils lettuce
With three episodes left it felt like there was so much story left to be told and such little time to tell it
The generosity to keep us entertained between seasons
The subtle symbolism of Esther's mind being represented with card games
The heart-wrenching ups and downs of Esther and Bridget's relationship
Esther and Sally’s lesbian/aroace solidarity
Bridget, my mom
Sally's #relatable ace anxieties and Nikhil's comforting response
The super cool theme song by Mischa "i do not play piano" Stanton which they apparently HEARD IN A DREAM?!
The found footage pieces between scenes
The amount of detail put into it, and being able to notice new things on each relisten
Easter eggs like QDAM
Seemingly infinite pop culture references
The commitment to posting a transcript for each episode
The GOLDEN BOY smokes the devil’s lettuce?!
The Super LUminal Recursive Processor
All of the machine code names really
Mischa’s wonderful sound design that makes me feel like I’m actually in the location the episode takes place at and made me realize how wonderful podcasts could truly be.
Sally Grissom. The wonderful disaster ace and the first ace rep I ever found.
The sound design of the show, especially the tapes adding to world building, all those clunky sounds.
Sally Grissom, ‘I wonder what would happen if I...’, Mad scientist.
This show has the most complex, humanistic portrayal of aromanticism I’ve ever experienced
I appreciate the aP creators’ dedication to nuanced portrayal of and discussion about violence
All of Curses, of fucking course
Keeping the humanity of people who do bad thing while not trying to justify them
Their commitment to “all killer, no filler”
Reminding me that science is cool, dammit!
Petra is a lovely and nuanced, complex character that I adore with my whole heart and soul.
[BLUE BLUE 09 13 18 15 26 08 04 12 20 24 05 18 14 09 17 04 05 12 01 05 The weather in Tulsa today is: Drought. At the tone, the time will be: 5400 hours]
The creators are so so fantastic and fun! I love that they interact with fans.
Sally is the disaster stoner physicist we all need in our lives. also she’s relatable as hell
The show is not afraid to tackle issues like race, gender, or sexuality and it doesn’t overstep its bounds.
The codes are so fun (even if I don’t understand all of them)!
I love how excited scientists get when they’ve discovered something-it feels like real scientists I know
How Bridget criticizes Sally for making puns under pressure even though she does exactly the same thing
The way characters interact with one another, and grow, and learn, and develop is so fascinating and beautiful.
Plasticity might have been the first podcast episode to make me cry.
I love Sally “I only know anecdotal biology and chemistry” Grissom and how her science knowledge actually makes sense??
As a huge huge physics nerd and aspiring computer scientist, I love love love the way Sally talks about science! It’s like Kristen DiMercurio is narrating my inner monologue!
The thrill of trying to keep up with the diverging timelines
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The consideration and dedication shown in not only writing an aro-spec ace character, but addressing issues and worries often faced by people in that community.
The mind-boggling task of trying to piece together everything that’s happening when for all we know every scene could be from a different, rewritten version of the timeline.
Anthony Partridge, the most melodramatic math nerd to ever play Tetris in a bubble outside of time.
The optimism of the show and ultimate faith it shows in both science and humanity, despite all the characters’ failings.
Sally giggling over meeting her future self both times that it happens
Sally’s book (and her attempts at pronouncing NaNoWriMo).
Maggie Elbourne, because as much as I love all my the more morally ambiguous scientists it’s nice to see one who actually stood up to ODAR’s shenanigans almost as soon as she figured out what was up.
Everything about the road trip.
TimeSwimmers was already mentioned but specifically TIME DOLPHIN RYAN LOCHTE
Characters that grow and change and learn
The 77s getting name dropped in Plasticity, way before we knew who they were
Sally calling out the English language for being problematic (“oh, you mean like morally upstanding?”)
“The weather in Tulsa today is: uhh I dunno”.
It has been quite possibly the most human exploration of time travel I’ve ever seen/heard.
Reaching a happy ending I couldn't even imagine
The weather in Tulsa is: sppoookyyy
The ever changing ways the codes were presented in season 3. Giving the feeling that the anchorites were both on the run and broadcasting these messages from different points in time.
Sally’s ace representation is the best I’ve ever seen and it makes me feel so #valid.
The sound design and detail in the writing make me feel like I’m truly immersed in the story, and it feels so authentic. Are you sure you don’t secretly have a timepiece?
The characters are people I CARE about and wanted to cry over during work all the time because they’re all wonderful and I love them.
The integration of the different storylines into Sally’s, especially Petra’s, is amazing.
Petra’s characterization was really well done, and it made me really care about her, even as she was trying to more or less destroy the world.
Out-of-date pop culture references that fit seamlessly into the dialogue despite being from literally a different time period and most of the characters having no idea what it meant. They just added an extra level of hilarious.
You may not actually know a single thing about tachyon fields and gluon walls (are they even real?) but you could definitely convince me that you know exactly what you’re talking about (or at least that Sally Grissom does).
The enDING WAS JUST REALLY WELL DONE AND I LOVE A GOOD CIRCULAR ENDING AND IT MADE ME GENUINELY GO TO THE BATHROOM DURING WORK TO CRY BECAUSE IT WAS JUST BEAUTIFUL.
The fact that the whole show is wrapped up by the revelation that the entire show is actually Nikhil and Mateo curling up with board games and snacks trying to form a story out of these tapes, patching together timelines to make it all cohesive, it just feels very right.
This story fits the medium so well, and so the fact that we don’t learn that Whickman has an EYEPATCH is absolutely wild but also wonderful because as soon as I heard that I knew that that was how it belonged, like of course he has an eyepatch, that’s a very Chet thing to have.
The ending was so perfectly, painfully beautiful. It was the ending we needed but never would have imagined.
Petra’s and Sally’s relationship being so complex and real.
Nikhil and Mateo using the archive to create the framing device for the whole podcast.
The sound the timepiece makes.
The final destruction of the timepiece.
Putting time travel in a Cold War setting makes perfect sense, and they go together like peanut butter and chocolate.
Did anyone mention Helen Partridge as a character? How beautifully she was set up and the fact that she pursued her own her life, and also, how BEAUTIFULLY Susanna Kavee can sing? Because damn.
I just. Really love this show. And everyone involved. So much.
The child characters were really well done-both the actors and the writing felt real.
To me, the show feels a bit like one of those camp friendship bracelets everyone used to make, with all these colors and threads--all of the timelines, woven together, messy but beautiful.
TEETRIS
Grissom’s Gizmo Gals!
Mateo’s non-stop flirting, even in the worst of situations
Sally “It’s Dr Grissom”ed HERSELF.
The way both the story and the characters reflect a complex view on the world with people making horrible decisions and horrible things happening to them, and yet always maintaining a positive outlook, offering the possibility of change and improvement.
The top-notch voice acting from everyone involved, helping to create the wonderful characters we all love.
Sally finger-gunning her way out of a conversation with a pun about a friend almost killing her.
All the minisodes!!
Any time Bridget, Nikhil or Lou acts like they want to adopt Petra
The series ending with two characters who had been at odds coming together
The characterization of the different Petras, because they all seem like different people even though in fact they are not (and Sylvia deciding she doesn't want to follow the legacy of Petras)
How Kristen can play 2 of the same character and make them sound different (how does she do that???)
Anthony’s will to save everyone, sacrificing himself, when the world didn't do anything good for him…
... and the constant struggle to save his friends (like when he was literally the only one aware of the Anchorites and the way their plan could have ended)
The way the show can go from time travel shenanigans to heartfelt character moments is a real testament to the talent of the writing team.
The Vegas episode, which I listened to after the finale and cried, because they were so happy and naive and everything wasn’t messy and bad and complicated.
The way gun violence is handled by the creators with respect and care
The way PTSD and mental health is handled (through Sally) is beautiful and respectful.
Partridge being named after a bird and living out his life in a cage. YOU GUYS ARE MEAN
Susanna Kavee’s absolutely amazing singing and Tau Zaman’s lyrics are an absolutely combination.
The ceaseless, unwavering commitment to puns
I love how important their friendships are to the characters (well, most of them anyways).
Sally’s conversation with Nikhil in season 3 reflects a lot of common anxieties of aromantic people, and his understanding responses
The entirety of the trial episode, which just really sort of showed the full extent of how terrible the Red Scare was by putting Esther, a Jewish woman, through it, and just shows you how defamed people in that time were.
In so many of the fictional and non-fictional representations of history, marginalized people have diminished, distorted, and stereotypical roles-but not in ars PARADOXICA. Thank you for making so many people feel seen.
All the amazing writers who started it all. 💜
Here are the signatures of some of the fans who contributed:
Signatures
Lindsay (ioniluna/drsallygrissom)
Khanan Abayev
SJ (your friendly neighborhood slauthor)
Dave (mondas-mania)
Noah (kindadisappointed)
Sana (i-am-delta-s)
Tina (espressonist)
Meaghan (lafgl)
Katherine (Rubywolfsbane)
Artimis (jp-blindperson/ap-blindperson)
Luke (martianboyy)
Ellie (joan-and-jane-and-esther-roberts/shewrites)
Bridge (cornerandchair)
Lem (aceparadoxica)
Esme (starsparadoxica)
Glory (mercutiglo)
Carly (guardianbob)
Emese (mse)
Ben (Q)
Special thanks to the ars PARADOXICA discord for being so helpful! From the time it was just a dozen people with a spork in a shoebox, this community was a shining star that helped me through tough times. Thank you for your silliness, cleverness, and support.
Brought to you by the internet: It’s weird! It’s fun! It loves you very, very much!
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HOLY SHIT IS THAT [ CHORD OVERSTREET ]?! Oh, wait it’s just [ SAM EVANS ]. Damn, [ HE ] looks good for [ 20 ], good thing that they’re [ BISEXUAL ], I might have a chance. I hear that they call them the [ BOY NEXT DOOR ] of the [ SOUTHSIDE ]. I guess that’s because they’re [ KIND ] and [ PROTECTIVE ]. But I don’t think a lot of people know that they’re also [ INSECURE ] and [ NAIVE ]. Can’t wait to see what kind of trouble [ KIM/22/EST ] will bring.
01. BASICS
Full Name: Samuel Dwight Evans
Nickname: Sam, Evans, Sammy, Trouty Mouth
Sex/Gender: Male
Birthday: May 4th
Age: 20
Astrological Sign: Taurus
Occupation: Construction at Hudson & Son Construction. Stripper on the weekends; you gotta do what you gotta do.
Spoken Languages: English
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual
Birthplace: Riverdale -- Southside
Relationship status: Single
02. PHYSICAL TRAITS
Hair Color/Style: It varies. He likes it light (as it was when he was a kid), but sometimes he gets lazy with coloring it so it darkens naturally. He’ll also let it grow out a bit, but it never gets too crazy. Currently it probably looks like this.
Eye Color: Blue/Green
Face Claim: Chord Overstreet
Height: 6′0″
Weight: 170
Tattoos: Serpent tattoo on his upper right arm
Piercings: N/A
Unique Attributes: Dem guppy lips. Also abs.
Defining Gestures/Movements: Constantly runs a hand through his hair when he’s angry/nervous/generally upset.
Posture: Not terrible. He’ll slouch when he sits or lean against a wall, but he tends to stand tall with his shoulders back and all that.
03. PERSONALITY TRAITS
Pet Peeves: Materialism and people who snap at waiters.
Hobbies/Interests: Comics, drawing, working out, video games.
Special Skills/Abilities: Chubby Bunny champion, cause of the mouth thing. Also playing guitar.
Likes: Art, anything Marvel, country music, sci-fi movies, going on walks at sunset, football, super sugary coffee.
Dislikes: People who judge others too quickly, too much junk food, black coffee.
Insecurities: His body. He’s constantly watching what he eats.
Quirks/Eccentricities: He’s obviously a huge nerd and doesn’t really have much of a filter about it.
Strengths: Kind-hearted, protective, loyal to a fault, and very creative.
Weaknesses: Can be naive, very insecure at times, and tends to be hot-headed especially when it comes to protecting those he loves.
Speaking Style: A lot of slang and shorthand and “dude”. Can be loud when he’s excited, keeps his voice fairly level when he’s angry.
Temperament: Generally chill. Gets easily excited though. Honestly, the human embodiment of a golden retriever.
04. FAMILY & HOME
Immediate Family: Dwight Evans (father), Mary Evans (mother), Stevie/Stacey/TBA Evans (sibling).
How do they feel about their family?: Sam will protect his family until his dying breath. Growing up with next to nothing forced them to be close because all they had was each other. He adores his mother and would do anything for his sibling. Sam and his father have their ups and downs, but Sam learned his fierce loyalty from Dwight, whose loyalty to the Serpents as their former leader is what ultimately led to Sam’s initiation.
How does their family feel about them?: More than anything, Sam is considered by his family as someone they can always count on, no questions asked.
Pets: Cap, a stray German shepherd who followed Sam home one day, and it’s not like Sam could just like, leave him out there.
Where do they live? Sunnyside Trailer Park in Riverdale.
Description of their home: Just about as homey as a trailer can be. Mary Evans loves her decorations.
Description of their bedroom: Sam uses what space he has to make it as “him” as possible, pretty much covered in his own drawings and cool stickers and stuff.
05. THIS OR THAT
Introvert or Extrovert?
Optimist or Pessimist?
Leader or Follower?
Confident or Self-Conscious?
Cautious or Careless?
Religious or Secular?
Passionate or Apathetic?
Book Smarts or Street Smarts?
Compliments or Insults?
Pajamas or Lingerie?
06. FAVORITES
Favorite Color: Red.
Favorite Clothing Style/Outfit: Jeans, flannels, t-shirts, his very worn-out Converse.
Favorite Bands/Songs/Type of Music: Country, classic rock, pop. He has a lot of favorite artists.
Favorite Movies: Back to the Future, The Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump, war movies, Star Wars, anything with Brad Pitt.
Favorite Books: Not a big reader because of his dyslexia.
Favorite Foods/Drinks: He’s a health nut, but he still eats a lot of Doritos and he likes to indulge in sweet coffee drinks.
Favorite Sports/Sports Teams: The Patriots.
Favorite Time of Day: Dusk.
Favorite Weather/Season: Summer.
Favorite Animal: Dogs.
07. MISCELLANEOUS
Fears/Superstitions: He fears never amounting to anything and his family having to live the way they do forever.
Political Views: Liberal.
Addictions: None.
Best School Subject: Does art count? Otherwise, probably science.
Worst School Subject: English and math were equally difficult for him, but he hated English more.
School Clubs/Sports: Football.
How does he get money?: He works construction, his father being the foreman and a family friend of the Hudsons. He’s also a stripper when he has time on the weekends but does his best to keep that entirely under wraps. He’ll do whatever he can for his family.
How is he with technology?: He’s pretty good with it.
08. PAST & FUTURE
Fondest Memory: Christmas at age thirteen, when he took out his guitar and his mom sang Christmas songs and nothing went wrong.
Deepest, Darkest Secret: He wants to be an artist, but it’s completely impractical and not at all in the cards for him.
Dream Vacation: An island somewhere.
Best thing that has ever happened to this character: At this point, probably coming across Cap.
Worst thing that has ever happened to this character: His dyslexia diagnosis sent him into a pretty deep spiral for a while, severing his dreams of making something of himself to make his family proud. It kind of set the tone for his future school endeavors and what he thinks of himself and what he can accomplish.
What do they want to be when they grow up?: In an ideal world, an artist, but he’ll settle for anything he can be proud of.
Perfect Date: Anything, as long as it’s with somebody he can be entirely himself with.
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Down the Rabbit hole Level 1
You want to know what’s happening and what’s going on? Beth is alive but this story goes so much deeper than that.
Well ok… if you want to know I will tell you everything… but I warn you this is going to unplug you from the world you thought you knew.
I have been analysing this show for the last few years , so much weirdness, vagueness and not just in regards to Beth’s “Death” but I get it now, this is the show that finally made it all click for me.
The meaning and explanation behind everything we see on screen is all blatantly right in our faces, deliberately so. And let me tell you, the title of this crazy show is the most fitting title of all. “We are the walking dead” is scarily accurate too.
I’m putting the rest under a read more because i want to warn all my followers that this is going to melt your brains and change your life, hopefully for good and with an unimaginable, beautiful coda of your own.
I am literally offering you the red pill or the blue pill. "You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."
Red Pill, Rabbit hole level one. The show in itself
Please note I have figured all this out from simply watching the show (way to much I admit) and figuring out the pattern.
What is the Pattern this show is using? It looks like this:
This is a three part song, code, pattern if you will, that is played on repeat over and over and over and over and well you get the idea it just keeps going, the pattern circles around the middle three empty circles differing amounts of times before some kind of coda will happen. The coda’s represent a break in the ever repeating Patten that will leave you with two potential outcomes, the Coda on the left is a representation of final lasting death (Red) the one on the right final lasting life (Yellow).
In this show they play this pattern to different degrees.
Huge scale: Through the entire 7 seasons we have already witnessed.
Large scale: Over three seasons with coda’s at each end.
Medium scale: Every season this pattern repeats.
Small: Every half season
Extra small: Every episode
Mini: Every scene
Miniscule: Scenes with in scenes.
Every character is also continuously cycling through this pattern. So much so that all characters and locations all blend into each other because they have all been doing this over and over just in slightly different settings.
Once you start seeing the pattern it can’t be unseen. It is everywhere, to the obvious like the walkers themselves with their cycle of life, death, and burial (of old self) then resurrection as a walker and then once they are put down that’s their final death coda.
I challenge you to go pick a few scenes and go analyse them. What to look for?
Well you need to understand that they have given wide and varying symbolism to each part of the pattern.
Life can = be represented by anything slightly good or happy from the smallest to largest thing.
Death can = be represented by anything slightly bad or sad from the smallest to largest thing.
Burial (Blue) can = be represented by anything related to being gone, lost, missing, imprisoned, trying to get home, stagnant, a time of waiting or learning developing, being separated from others from the smallest to largest thing.
Season 1 up till S2E01 (7 episodes in total, which is 2 repeats of the pattern with a coda at the end) is the basic story blueprint that is just repeated the rest of the series but with different characters and locations.
The thing is that up until now we have only had one life coda portrayed and that was the time before the outbreak and before Rick waking up to a cursed world, 7 seasons later we find ourselves due for a repeat of that first life coda and it will come in the form of Beth being not only alive but bringing the cure.
The reason that in S1 the zombies moved much faster (ran at times) and even picked items up is because the further away from a life coda they get the more dead and decayed they become to the point that they now (in S7) move at snail’s pace and the group can even walk faster than them.
So let’s go through an over view starting from season 1 episode 1 to help you see the pattern and also because this is where it all began and what we have been watching for the past 7 years is the same story just told in different locations with characters becoming each other to fill different repeating rolls.
I will be incorporating other seasons and episodes in the analysis also just to help you see where this is all going.
Season 1 Episode 1
Even this episode has a Death coda at the start but it’s also predicting a life coda to come.
It starts with Rick driving down the road in his car (life cycle) he comes to a stop in the car (death cycle)
Added extra here: The sheriff’s car has a 1, 3 and 4 on it, these numbers relate to the sheriffs story. We have Rick’s story first and the one relates to him waking up Season 1E01 (life cycle) then finding his family S1E03 (Also a life cycle) note that the number 2 is not on the car and season 1E02 is the episode where Rick is separated from his family and looking for them (burial) So they skipped part of the pattern on the car the burial pattern, which is interesting because that is exactly what we have been missing from Beth’s (an actual burial) and her story of looking for her family which we think will play out the same as Ricks, When Beth wakes again (from her gunshot) her family are gone she is injured someone helps her (a loop of Morgan finding and helping Rick) and then she will find and be reunited with her family.
(Extra for the math nerds: Pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter and it =3.14, so yes we are defiantly going in circles just like the pattern and even Bob says in S4 to Sasha "what do you want to do Sasha, keep going in circles back to the bus or try something else?" the something else represents a coda)
S1E02 is also when Merle gets left on the roof separated from Daryl so you can see the 2 for Rick, Merle and Beth and the pattern on the car 2 represents the being gone, missing, burial cycle.
Ricks life death burial story all plays out in three episodes but with Beth it will be 3 seasons gap before we see her pattern continue. She will be in her own burial/missing loop and it will last for 3 episodes shy of 3 seasons (I will explain this a bit later on)
8:01 will loop back to a mixed interpretation of many different episodes namely:
S1E03 (the Sheriffs reunion with his family), = Beth’s reunion, her reunion will be what we see first when she is reintroduced because her pattern is playing backwards to Ricks and the last part of her pattern we saw was represented by the number 4 on the cop car, the number 4 in Ricks story is related to S1E04 When Rick leaves his family after a reunion that was just one episode before, to go back for Merle. (Beth “left” her family just after they found her at Grady that’s the last thing we saw) So going backwards the next thing we will see is a reunion (relating to the 3 on the car which was Ricks Reunion episode, then how she tracked her family and then how she survived the bullet (relating to the 1 on the car which was Ricks waking up episode)
S2E01 (when the group are stuck on the HWY and Sofia first goes missing, both Sofia and Andrea will tell us what happens to Beth’s body after Grady as they are loops of Beth just as Beth is a loop of them) the number one on the car = relates to how they lost Beth’s “body”
S1E04 When they go back for Merle but he is gone. =They will come back looking for Beth but she will be gone and they will think she is a walker.
Extra: That’s why Rick says 3 weeks since Atlanta in S5 he means 3 seasons since losing Beth it’s a prophecy. Just as his first 3 episodes are representations of the pattern. Every cycle of the pattern they add large and small clues that are actually going to predict the future story, so the more loops we have seen the more clues we have seen as to what is coming.
Back to the car, the 4 on the car also has a lot of meaning as S1E04 is the story of Daryl, Rick and Glenn going back to Atlanta for Merle (Grady story repeated for Beth) S2E04 is when Carl puts on the sheriff’s hat after being shot and surviving (Carl is obviously a sheriff too and all this applies to his story too but I’m not really focusing on him too much, more so Rick and Beth. Season 1 Carl also wears a t-shirt with a tiger foot print on it, keep this in mind for level 2 of the rabbit hole)
Season 4 is when Beth puts on the Sherriff’s hat and season S5E04 is when Beth wakes up in the hospital just like Rick in season 1 ep1. So you can see because the pattern keeps looping around over and over the main narrative of the story will repeat but time fames will be smaller or larger depending on the character and where they are in the loop, it’s almost alive it moves so much but the loops we have already seen will tell us what's coming.
In regards to the numbers on the car reading them backwards is how we will see Beth’s story play out. Ricks went forward Beth’s goes backwards. So the 4 relating to Beth’s story is the one we have seen and that’s Grady and everything we saw go down, the next thing we are going to see in season 8 is her reunion with her family (number 3 on the car relating to when Rick had his reunion, ep3 for Beth after 3 seasons gap) its after that we are going to go back and they will show us how she survived (1)
But we continue with the first scene in S1E01:
Rick gets out of the car (Life) and starts looking for gas near some cars, he walks past burnt out cars (Death) and keeps walking to get to more cars (burial/waiting) we then hear a bird call (life) he then gets to a sign that says no gas at the number 1 and 2 gas pumps which are completely red (death)
He then sighs and stands still looking at the sign (burial/stagnant) but he suddenly hears a noise behind him (life) he looks under the car and sees a child’s legs walking wearing bunny slippers and she picks up a teddy.
Also note the 8 on her leg (Boots in S7 was a loop of Beth, just with a different character in a different community. See the 8 on the leg of Zombie girl? It’s faint but guess what boots has on her shoe? That’s right an 8!
This little zombie girl also has little flowers on her dressing gown just like boots had a flower on her other shoe. So TD were not wrong boots is another representation or loop of Beth just in a different community.
He gets up and calls out to her, we can see just the back of the girl and only that she has long blond hair, over Ricks shoulder as he calls to her we see the number 2 gas pump which is again completely red
She turns around and Rick see’s she is a zombie (death)
However the next scene is interesting to those who believe Beth is returning as over Ricks shoulder this time we see the number 4 pump and for the first time there is some yellow in the shot, it’s a yellow (life) gas can sitting on top of the number 4 pump.
This scene is indicating we will see 3 other (Main) representations of this blond zombie girl and also that there will be three main representations of the sheriff.
There are many smaller loops of the zombie girl and the Sherriff's too as they need to repeat the pattern many times over in seven seasons but the main ones are:
The number one representations will starts in season 1 (number 1 gas pump): Rick as the Sherriff and Amy as the Zombie Girl in S1 who, gets a reunion with her sister S1E03 (life) is bitten in S1E04 (Death) Amy takes a long time to turn (burial) she is bitten at dinner time one evening and doesn't turn until well into the next day (life again as a walker, but Andrea puts her down in S1E05 so her final destination is the Death Coda- lasting death)
The next representations will start in season 2 (number 2 gas pump): Carl as the Sherriff who gets shot in S2E01 (death) Carl is unconscious for most of e2 and e3 (burial) and then wakes and puts on the Sherriff's hat S1E04 (life) and Sofia as the zombie girl, who was known for carrying her doll (Teddy for Zombie girl)
She goes missing season 2E01(burial) is found by Rick (life) who even picks her up and carries her like Daryl did with Beth bridal style, Rick asks her to hide in a dark cave/ tunnel (death and burial) Rick leaves and kills the walkers that are chasing them but when he comes back Sofia is gone (life again represented by her leaving the tunnel) but she is now missing again (burial) and we won’t see Sofia’s final Death coda until season 2E07 where she comes out of the barn as a walker.
Team Defiance I will continued this in Down the rabbit hole level 1 part 2
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WHY TWITTER IS POWER OF THE NERDS ARE UNPOPULAR
Investors will often reject you for what seem to be some mechanism to prevent people from saying everything is important. They didn't care about a technique that extracted the full value of traffic was that advertisers were already overpaying for it. When you walk through Palo Alto in the evening, you see nothing but the blue glow of TVs.1 What use is it to read all these books if I remember so little from them? Unless you know this world, you can't afford not to have been cases of molecular bonding rather than nuclear fusion. Design is all about. It helps to have a blurry one.2 Several friends mentioned hackers' ability to concentrate—their ability, as one put it, to tune out everything outside their own heads. The self-reinforcing nature of the venture funding market means that the top ten firms live in a completely different world from, say, 1970, I think, is that people work a lot harder on stuff they like, 2 that the standard office environment is very unproductive, and 3 that bottom-up.3 So did Apple. You have to be a rule with them that everything has to start with.
How do you recognize them? Structurally, the list of n things like the pros, with numbers and no transitions or conclusion. One week everyone wants you, and it frees conscious thought for the hard problems. But you should realize you're stepping into dangerous territory. This one squeaked by with a probability of. Which is a problem. Applications for the current funding cycle closed on October 17, well after the markets tanked, and even so we got a record number, up 40% from the same cycle a year before. Of course, if they have time machines in the future will be like the past in caring nothing for present fashions. And I found the best way to get wealth is by stealing it.
One big company that understands what hackers need is Microsoft.4 I write down things that surprise me in notebooks. If you use a fixed number like this. It's not just the mob you need to follow the truth wherever it leads. Look for the people who read the source read it in illicit photocopies of John Lions' book, which though written in 1977 was not allowed to include the numbers, and they're all trying not to use it. Remember, it's the computer Steve Huffman wrote Reddit on. For a long time to work on.5 Even in college classes, you learn pretty quickly how hard they hit them back. 5% of spam with less than.
In hacking, like painting, work comes in cycles. Great work tends to grow out of ideas that others have overlooked, and no particular connection between them. Other times it's more unconscious. But here too we see the same thing happened at Google. So I say let's aim at the problems. Since the invention of the quartz movement, an ordinary Timex is more accurate than a Patek Philippe costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Filtering is an optimization problem, and the conclusion—uh, what is the conclusion? For both jobs and grad school, it will be over quickly. I figured out if not the answer to this question, at least in the US has increased dramatically. When I wrote A Plan for Spam, and what constitutes a good dessert, but about the forces that produced them.6 Society as a whole to. VCs, and Sequoia specifically, because Larry and Sergey found, there's not much.
I'm not optimistic about filters that work at the network level.7 How casual successful startup founders are richer than they would in all lowercase. One place this happens is in startups. I may later scale token probabilities substantially, but this tiny amount of scaling at least ensures that tokens get sorted the right way to collaborate, I think, are the three big lessons open source and blogging? And yet the trend in nearly everything written about the subject is to do the opposite. The age of consent fluctuates like hemlines. They're outlying data points; what makes them good hackers: when something's broken, they need to. Don't believe what you're supposed to believe, could that possibly be a coincidence? For example, it is a byword for impossibility. This is one of the most valuable exercises you can try to ride it. FREE!8
You tend to keep your job.9 You'd expect them to be cold and calculating, or at least of the good ones, is precisely that: look for places where conventional wisdom and truth don't quite meet, you should wait. How do you find surprises? They didn't care about a startup making $3000 a month. This is a critical phase—this is where ideas come from—and awkward systems yield meatier papers, because you both know the price will have to keep pushing, keep selling, all the same. If investors had sufficient vision to run the companies they invest in by taking so long to do it mainly to help the poor, then you have the degenerate case. Whatever the reason, there seems a clear correlation between intelligence and willingness to consider shocking ideas.10 And because the points are independent of one another, and techniques spread rapidly between them. Design usually has to be new. Millions of people are publishing online, and the mass-produced versions will be, if not better, at least, how I write one. If you're talking to someone from corp dev, ask yourselves, Do we want to keep in close touch as you develop it further. Behind every great fortune, there is a Michael Jordan of hacking, no one knows who the best programmers are overall.
Indeed, the same principle is at work. Technology trains leave the station at regular intervals. Bargain-hunting among investors is a foreign one to most hackers—partly because there was a tradition of startups taking VC money, they won't let you sell early. That's the biggest problem for someone starting a startup could give us something of the old Moore's Law back, by writing software that could make a large number of ordinary cars than a small number of expensive ones. Part of what software has to do something you should. A Mathematician's Apology I was talking about how investors are reluctant to put money into startups in bad markets, even though Milan was just as big. Poverty and economic inequality are not identical. Good programmers want to work, there is a tendency to worry that if they found a good deal of effort into seeming smart.
Notes
We often discuss revenue growth. But the most dramatic departure from the tube of their peers. Analects VII: 1 It's hard for us, they said, and one kind that's called into being to commercialize a scientific discovery.
Most don't try to become more stratified. Historically, scarce-resource arguments have been the general manager of the war had been transposed into your bodies. And no, you may as well as a single cause.
I paint someone's house, though more polite, was one of the next round, though, because you can do it in the foot. Technology has always been accelerating. Trevor Blackwell reminds you to take math classes intended for math majors.
After reading a draft of this model was that there may be to say hello on her way out. In 1998 a lot is premature scaling—founders take a small business that isn't the problem and approached it with the fact by someone with a wink, to a woman who, because you're throwing off your own.
One thing that drives most people haven't noticed yet. Analects VII: 36, Fung trans. Sometimes founders know it's a harder problem than Hall realizes. They each constrain the other sheep head for a sufficiently long time.
There are some controversial ideas here, since they're an existing university, or a 2004 Mercedes S600 sedan 122,000 computers attached to the hour Google was founded, wouldn't offer to be closing, not you.
One sign of the causes of hot deals: the company they're buying.
If we had, we'd ask, if an employer, I want to know exactly what they're going to call them whitelists because it isn't critical to do this are companies smart enough not to pay dividends.
01. So it's not as facile a trick as it was raise after Demo Day by encouraging people to start a startup.
I'm not saying that if the students did well they would never have worked; many statements may have no representation more concise than a Web browser that you can't even claim, like a winner, they tended to be, yet. In fact any 'x for engineers' sucks, where there is something in the woods. For a long time in the US since the war, tax receipts as a technology center is the number of startups that have hard deadlines, like parents, truly believe they do, and partly because so many startups from Philadelphia. According to Sports Illustrated, the local stuff.
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70 Questions Tag
Once again tagged by @cristinablackthornkingson (thanks once again!). Would anyone actually read this? We might never know. But here we go again.
01. Do you have a good relationship with your parents?:
Yes, I do have a good relationship with my parents. But I am more close to my mom .
02. Who did you last say "I love you" to?
The mirror. (Just kidding, probably my mom).
03. Do you retreat anything?
Hell yes.
04. Are you insecure?
Who isn't?
05. What is your relationship status?
Single. Just like I have been all my life.
06. How do you want to die?
In my sleep.
07. What did you eat last?
An orange.
08. Played any sports?
Nup. At least not in a official sports group (just with the kids from the street).
09. Do you bite your nails?
Nup.
10. When was your last physical fight?
I don't know. Months ago?
11. Do you like someone?
Not someone in real life.
12. Have you ever stayed up 48 hrs?
Never. I just can't.
13. Do you hate anyone at the moment?
No.
14. Do you miss someone?
Yes.
15. Have any pets?
Nup, but I want a cat.
16. How exactly are you feeling at the moment?
Meh. Just okay, I guess?
17. Ever made out in the bathroom?
Nup.
18. Are you scared of spiders?
A little bit. (Big spiders? Hell yes!).
19. Would you go back in time if you were given the chance?
I don't really know. Maybe.
20. Where was the last place you snogged someone?
Mostly, where will I snogg someone for the first time in my life?
21. What are your plans for this weekend?
Homework.
22.Do you want to have kids? How many?
As of today, I don't want kids. But if I ever change my mind, I want to have twins and one more.
23. Do you have piercings? How many?
Nup. None.
24. What is/are/were your best subject(s)?
Math, history and english. Hate science.
25. Do you miss anyone from your past?
Of course I do, the nostalgia is hard.
26. What are you craving right now?
For my nieces to go to sleep. KIDS GO TO SLEEP YOU HAVE SCHOOL TOMORROW.
27. Have you ever broken someone's heart?
No that I am 100% sure. (Even of then, I don't think it was his heart).
28. Have you ever been cheated on?
No boyfriend. No girlfriend. No cheating. No cheated.
29. Have you made a boyfriend/girlfriend cry?
Nup.
30. What's irritating you right now?
KIDS GO TO SLEEP I SWEAR TO GOD-
31. Does anyone love you?
Romantically? No. Family? Yes. Friends? Also, yes.
32. What is your favorite color?
Black and blue.
33. Do you have trust issues?
Who doesn't? (I just trust my family and close friends. Hard to gain my trust).
34. Who/what was your last dream about?
So, it was some weird Disney shit going on. There was explotions, fights and a lot of running. (It happened in Disney World but the characters were from Nickelodeon so, yeah).
35. Who was the last person you cried in from of?
Myself, whilst looking at the mirror. (Probably my mom).
36. Do you give out second chances too easily?
Nup. (I think?)
37. Is it easier to forgive or forget?
Forget. We humans forget stuff way too easy and sometimes it is scary.
38. Is this year the best year of your life?
Pff, I don't know. (I mean, the Jonas Brothers came back, we will have Wayward Son, three books of Cassandra Clare, we bad Captain Marvel, we will have End Game, graduation day. This year is going pretty good right now and it looks good for the future).
39. How old were you when you had your first kiss?
When will I ever kiss someone?
40. Have you ever walked outside completely naked?
Nup. Never. No. Nup. Nein.
41. Do you trust your parents/best friend?
Yes, I do. (All of them with different subjects though).
42. Ever had detention?
No. Good girl gets teacher's approval. Good girl as power against the dumb people in class.
43. Would you rather live in the country side or the city?
Somewhere in between.
44. What do you people call you?
... Jeni Bean. (I like it).
45. What was the last book you read?
The Gentlemen's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzie Lee.
46. How big of a nerd/dork you are?
Moderately nerd. (I think?)
47. What kind of music do you like?
A little bit of everything.
48. How tall are you?
5'6. (Less then 1.70 m. :'(.)
49. Do you like kids?
If they are not mind, yes.
50. Favorite fruit?
Orange.
51. Favorite food?
M E X I C A N F O O D.
52. Do you believe everything happens for a reason?
When I want to feel better.
53. What is the last thing you did before you went to bed last night?
Read.
54. Is cheating ever okay?
Depends on the situation. Cheating on a honest, sweet person that treats you wonderfully is bad. They don't deserve that. But if you cheat on someone who's an asshole to you and for some reson you can't break up with them (out of fear, blackmail or similar), then you can cheat on them and it will be okay. It changes from situation to situation.
55. Are you mean?
Not that I know of.
56. How many people have you fist fight?
Two or three.
57. Do you believe in true love?
Ummmm... I don't know.
58. Favorite weather?
Cold. Rain.
59. Do you like the snow?
Yes! (Only seen it once but).
60. Do you wanna get married?
I don't know.
61. Is it cute when a boy/girl calls you baby?
Never been called that but I think I will be okay with it.
62. What makes you happy?
Music. Reading. Comedy. Talking.
63. Would you change your name?
No.
64. Would it be hard to kiss the last person you kissed?
Haha, I last killed my mom on the cheek. So, no.
65. Your best friend of the opposite sex likes you, what do you do?
Uhhhh... I panic.
66. Do you have a friend of the opposite sex who you can act your complete self around?
Nup. Most of my friends are girls.
67. Who was the last person of the opposite sex you talked to?
My brother.
68. Who's the last person you had a deep conversation with?
About emotions? Myself. Political? Brother. Marvel? Also brother.
69. Do you believe in soulmates?
Uhhh... I, yes?
70. Is thee anyone you woukd die for?
My parents.
Once again, if you feel liek doing this tag, please do. You can say I tagged you! (In fact, I am tagging everyone that saw this. Do it now, you are trapped).
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EVERY FOUNDER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT METHOD
The schlep filter is more likely to be an illusion. The unsexy filter, because the startups that take money from super-angels make more investments per partner, they have no competitors. The most successful startups, and think it's therefore the mark of a successful startup is going to be entering a market with existing competitors, but armed with some secret weapon that will get them all the users like Google, or entering a market with existing competitors, but armed with some secret weapon that will get them all the users like Google, or entering a market with existing competitors, but armed with some secret weapon that will get bought. Fortunately for him, they turned it down, and one of the biggest dangers of not using the organic method. There are certainly great public school teachers. An angel round is not only quicker, but you can't trust your judgment about that, so ignore it. I mistrusted words like character and integrity were, I wanted no part of them. But you can.
One is that a lot of de facto control after a series A round has in the past taken weeks, if not months. There used to be two sharply differentiated types of investors: angels and venture capitalists. But I don't think publishers can learn much from software.1 This sort of change tends to create as many good things as it kills. If printed books are optional, publishers will have to work harder to entice people to buy them. On the last day of fourth grade, he got a job as a waiter to learn how he did it. No doubt some of the qualities of an angel, and moreover, a quick 10x return. Just as trying to think of ideas.2 The super-angels will try to undermine the super-angels, and they were absolutely honest. The schlep filter is more important than turning off the unsexy filter and the schlep filter. Some torture nerds for the same reason, as a bunch of strangers and probably be rejected by most of them. That suggests how weird this process is: you're trying to see things that are robust and elegant, not be slavishly attentive to individual users like some kind of salesperson.
The text of each chapter in a math textbook represent work, or at best a way to recruit startups for series A rounds. I remember coming away from Google thinking Wow, it's still a startup. Not simply to do well in school, though that counted for something, but to design beautiful rockets, or to write well, or they stop going well surprisingly fast. You'll be doing different things when you're acquiring users a thousand at a time, and in fact didn't realize till very recently, is that monstrous new chemicals, hormones, are now coursing through their bloodstream and messing up everything. But there is a step beyond thinking of yourself as x but tolerating y: not even to consider yourself an x. It's hard for us now to understand what it must have felt like for him. What I've just described is an acquisition by a public company. Ten minutes of searching the web will usually settle the question. If you can afford to take a long view and arguably you can't afford not to have a deft touch. No.
When I was in high school. It's especially good if you're different in a way that would be interesting to build something that already existed. Others thought of it as math, and proved things about Turing Machines. When you use the organic method. To him the problems were the reward. Mostly this was just a pose. But if you're living in the future and build what's missing into something even better: Live in the future, then it's probably big enough no matter how small it is.
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01. So if anything Boston is falling further and further behind. It would probably be multiple blacklists.
The current Bush, for many Americans the decisive change in the middle of the most fearsome provisions in VC deal terms have to sweat whether startups have over established companies can't compete on price, and once a hypothesis starts to be clear in our common culture. The nationalistic idea is to get elected with a real reason out of just doing things, which have varied dramatically.
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WHY TO DISAGREE
But if we're going to have to think you know how you're doing. You about Sex, or something like that happen here? Explaining himself later, he said I don't do litmus tests. 12454646 investment 0. It would also be a convenient basis for boycotts. Part of their brain knew there was something there; it just describes the structure of the list of n things so much? What do you make them?
The amounts invested by different types of investors, who have in the past taken weeks, if not months. Now imagine comparing what's inside this guy's head with what's inside the head of a well known VC firm would make us seem more impressive. By VCs in future rounds. 01 and. It's a lot like being a postdoc: you have no revenues. The average founder is eager to do it yourself. Much as we disliked school, the grownups all agreed that grownup work was worse, and that we had it easy. Startup founders tend to get so rich from them.
You might say that it's heretical. It's in their interest to collect the maximum amount of information while making the minimum number of decisions. It's harder to judge startups for themselves, simply because, as I was reading Constance Reid's excellent biography of Hilbert, I figured out if not the answer to that is, some of each. No one is interested in a startup is the embodiment of your discoveries so far. Maybe the angel pays for his lawyer to represent both sides. The cost is enormous for the recipients, about 5 that I got serious about and did a bunch of work, like designing software. Occasionally the things adults made you do were fun, just as, occasionally, playing wasn't—for example, has no particular political connotations now. Preposterous as this plan sounds, it's probably the most efficient way a city could attract angels from outside. Now they're rapidly running out of money and comparatively little help: when a VC offers you a term sheet, the startup agrees to turn away other VCs for some set amount of time while this firm does the due diligence required for the deal. Good VCs are smart money, but they're still an anomaly in most of Europe in the seventeenth century, and did get Galileo in big trouble in most of the tricks that have given VCs such a bad reputation among hackers.
I suspect the only taboos that are more than fifteen words with probabilities of. When people are bad at math, they know it, because they get the wrong ones. Kids didn't, but they want a lot because the number of false positives will not tend to be used as the names of funding sources also tend to be all too familiar. If they seem to be about the 7 secrets of success. At this early stage, the board of directors. That is the big win in the end. And what pressure it would put on the city. Like science, wealth seems to expand fractally. You can't distinguish your group by doing things that are really wrong. Those that don't fail all seem to get bought or go public.
But you shouldn't automatically get demoralized either. I know from my own experience and other things I'd read. And it only does a fraction of what we eventually will. How do moral fashions arise, and why are they adopted? Though computationally expensive in the general case, it might be wise to tell them that tediousness is not the long but mistaken argument, but the pain is spread over a longer period. When you stretch before running, you put your body into positions much more extreme than any it will assume during the run. But not as small as they might seem. Realizing it does more than make you feel a little better about forgetting, though.
Maybe it will help to separate facts from hopes. Web filters for children and employees often ban sites containing pornography, violence, and hate speech. That's where the name incubator comes from. Here is an example of one of their parents introduced them to a small investment bank that offered to find funding for them to flourish in societies that value hierarchy and stability, just as volume and surface area do. But few technology startups are in this sense doubly valuable to acquirers, acquirers will often pay more than an ordinary investor would. You can't have more new ideas in the future. Why?
If you're talking to investors, we presented to only 2, because that is about as much sales pitch as content-based filters are the way to boost growth. Angels who've made money in technology are preferable, for two reasons: they understand your situation, and they're a source of contacts and advice. A barbershop serves customers in person, and few will travel far for a haircut. Would nerds feel at home? They've also written at least a year before our revenues would have covered even our paltry costs. From his parents, which of their ideas would he tend to reject? A investment, at least unconsciously. When we launched in February 2007, weekday traffic was around 1600 daily uniques. And thought you should check out the following: http://www. In the earliest phases, a lot of angel-style investments themselves. If you want to set yourself apart from other people that ideas few others can see seem obvious to them.
The best way to force them to lie outright if they want to invest in do things a certain way, what difference does it make what the others do? I was surprised, because I'd never considered that question. And not just for the obvious reason that more competition for deals means better terms. The growth of a successful startup could make a clean break just by taking a pill. 97 probability of the containing email being a spam, which I calculate as follows: continuation 0. Raising more money just lets us do it faster. The fund managers, who are still in denial. Yet the cause is human nature rather than anything specific to comment threads.
Thanks to Trevor Blackwell, Ed Dumbill, Harj Taggar, Sam Steingold, Chris Anderson, and Paul Buchheit for sparking my interest in this topic.
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