While attempting to ask this person on AIM for help on negative exponents in algebra, he just kept reminding me of you. I think you two would get along very well. Here's part of the convo, feel free to message him on aim and talk your insane nonsense to each other.

[Yeah, it's long, so if you're not Skurai then don't bother reading it.]

[15:56] chicnstu012: are you good at math?
[15:57] PaulostheSpy: Depends on the math.
[15:57] chicnstu012: Negative exponents in algebra
[15:57] PaulostheSpy: :hooooooooly $#*@:
[15:57] PaulostheSpy: oh yeahhhhhhhhhh
[15:57] chicnstu012: ?
[15:57] PaulostheSpy: I can do thattttttttttt
[15:58] PaulostheSpy: what's your uh...
[15:58] PaulostheSpy: negative... exponent.
[15:58] chicnstu012: So will you help me?
[15:58] PaulostheSpy: Ohhh huh. Use at your own risk, sure.
[15:58] chicnstu012: ....
[15:58] chicnstu012: You're confusing the hell out of me
[15:58] PaulostheSpy: you have no idea
[15:58] PaulostheSpy: how much you've confused me
[15:58] PaulostheSpy: just now
[15:58] PaulostheSpy: proceed
[15:58] chicnstu012: lol
[15:58] chicnstu012: how did I confuse you?
[15:58] PaulostheSpy: if you need mah help list the uh ... issuez
[15:59] chicnstu012: Ok, I drew the problem in paint, including the answer and the steps to get there (Im teaching myself out of a book) but I just don't understand WHY it works, and if you can tell me/explain to me why, it would be greatly appreciated.
[16:00] PaulostheSpy: well.........
[16:00] PaulostheSpy: you see, CHICKEN STEW
[16:00] PaulostheSpy: From what I've read.........
[16:00] PaulostheSpy: Exponentiation is a mathematical operation, written as an, involving two numbers, the base a and the exponent n. When n is a positive integer, exponentiation corresponds to repeated multiplication; in other words, a product of n factors of a:
[16:00] PaulostheSpy: ..........what the heeeeeeeck does that mean.
[16:01] chicnstu012: Im assuming you won't be able to help eh? lol
[16:01] PaulostheSpy: oh no ...... I uh
[16:01] PaulostheSpy: I can uh
[16:01] PaulostheSpy: I can make the coffee
[16:01] PaulostheSpy: %#*@$%@%@#$%@#%@#%@#^&^@
[16:01] PaulostheSpy: SEE THIS IS WHAT PISSES ME OFF
[16:01] PaulostheSpy: AND YOU HAD TO BRING UP
[16:01] PaulostheSpy: YOU PAIN IN MY ASS
[16:01] PaulostheSpy: I TRIED SO HARD
[16:01] PaulostheSpy: OH
[16:01] PaulostheSpy: WHEN I WAS YOUNGER
[16:01] PaulostheSpy: I GOT A CERTIFICATE
[16:01] PaulostheSpy: OUT OF THE WHOLE SCHOOL
[16:01] PaulostheSpy: 1,500 LITTLE PRICKS
[16:01] PaulostheSpy: I BEAT EM ALL
[16:01] PaulostheSpy: AT MATH
[16:01] PaulostheSpy: THEN
[16:01] PaulostheSpy: CAME
[16:02] PaulostheSpy: ALLERGBRA
[16:02] PaulostheSpy: HOWEVER THE %#$* YOU SPELL IT
[16:02] PaulostheSpy: and then
[16:02] chicnstu012: ...
[16:02] PaulostheSpy: BOOM
[16:02] chicnstu012: You need to take some xanax bro
[16:02] PaulostheSpy: that was the end of my math
[16:02] PaulostheSpy: CAREER
[16:02] PaulostheSpy: FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE
[16:02] PaulostheSpy: GOD DAMN IT CHICKEN STEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[16:02] PaulostheSpy: 1,500
[16:02] PaulostheSpy: I HAD A CHANCE
[16:02] PaulostheSpy: OH MY GOD
[16:02] PaulostheSpy: STUPID ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSS STUFF IN MY HEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[16:03] PaulostheSpy: COULDN'T UNDERSTAND THE POWER OF 10
[16:03] PaulostheSpy: OR 0
[16:03] PaulostheSpy: OR ANYTHING
[16:03] PaulostheSpy: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
[16:03] PaulostheSpy: so you go ahead and send that paint prog so we can proceed with trying to help you with your allergy
[16:03] PaulostheSpy: allergbra*
[16:03] PaulostheSpy: allergebra*
[16:03] PaulostheSpy: aller... ally... ally doo
[16:04] chicnstu012: k, just fyi, any number to the power of 0 is equal to 1
[16:04] *** PaulostheSpy has received C:\Users\Bob\Desktop\k.jpg.
[16:04] PaulostheSpy: dunno why 0 would even come near 1 but ima look at that photo now
[16:05] PaulostheSpy: ab
[16:05] PaulostheSpy: ab -1
[16:05] PaulostheSpy: 1_b1
[16:05] PaulostheSpy: b1 multi vitamin gotta take
[16:05] PaulostheSpy: a 1 b
[16:05] PaulostheSpy: ab gotta work on sit ups
[16:05] PaulostheSpy: uh
[16:05] chicnstu012: Im going to stab you in the face through your monitor.
[16:05] PaulostheSpy: there u have it
[16:05] PaulostheSpy: work on b1 vitamins, I also suggest b12
[16:05] PaulostheSpy: for the energy
[16:05] PaulostheSpy: and POWER
[16:05] PaulostheSpy: to get the ABS going
[16:05] PaulostheSpy: to do sit ups
[16:06] PaulostheSpy: there u go
[16:06] PaulostheSpy: =]
[16:06] chicnstu012: /facepalm
[16:06] PaulostheSpy: told you, use at your own risk
[16:06] PaulostheSpy: 1,500 people
[16:06] PaulostheSpy: god damn
[16:09] PaulostheSpy: 1,500
[16:09] PaulostheSpy: 1 OUT OF 1,500
[16:09] PaulostheSpy: GOT A MATH DIPLOMA
[16:09] PaulostheSpy: HOWS THAT MATHEMATICAL EQUATION FOR YOU
[16:09] PaulostheSpy: RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHH!! !!!!!