January 2008
35 posts
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"Higher-dimensional linking integrals" →
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Paper finally uploaded to the arXiv. Thank fucking god.
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Learning about Poincaré Duality angles, which are really interesting, but no actual examples have ever been computed.
Season 2 of The Wire is much more enjoyable the second time around. I think it helps to know what ends up happening to Ziggy.
Glad for his sake that New York’s kicker didn’t miss the third one.
Wiki spam really sucks when you’re the dude running the wiki.
Google Maps location finder is for shit at my apartment.
I really wish the Mexican cart outside the math building was about 20% better than it is.
@rapunzelchen30 Unfortunately, they’ll probably get it figured out long before they actually stock the things in February.
If I needed a new laptop, the MacBook Air would be at the top of my wishlist, despite its doubly-stupid name.
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…A hollow sphere is an example (you can see the entire thing from inside), a torus isn’t.
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What would you call a surface which is such that you can see the entire thing from some point in space?
Not a whole lot of defense being played in Indy today.
When this game started out 14-0 Seattle, I definitely wasn’t expecting a Green Bay rout.
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Turns out the result in our paper may be much more general than we had originally thought.
Fucking Inkscape pisses me off. How goddamn hard is it to make transparent segments stay transparent when you export to PDF?
Answer: 44 minutes for one bag, 58 for the other.
Christ! How long does it take to get the bags from the plane to the baggage carousel?
The guy who was checking boarding passes and IDs at the airport this morning was incredibly (and obnoxiously) thorough. Is that a new policy?
Frontier seems to really be pushing to get this plane off the ground before it starts snowing.
So frustrating not to be able to watch the season premiere of The Wire tonight.
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“In general, computer people love computers — so when computer people tell you...”
– John Gruber
I love how when you try to sudo from an account not on the sudoers list the terminal scolds that “This incident will be reported.”
There’s something about wearing an expensive shirt that makes you feel good about yourself.
Annals of Medicine: The Checklist →
“Medicine today has entered its B-17 phase. Substantial parts of what hospitals do—most notably, intensive care—are now too complex for clinicians to carry them out reliably from memory alone. I.C.U. life support has become too much medicine for one person to fly.”
Summarizing incomprehensible pseudo-math from physics papers sucks.
My parents’ wireless router is infuriating. It drops my computer’s connection about once an hour.
“He’s a hackable dude for sure” →
Self-publishing is the new blogging →
“When you’ve flown that far from Gutenberg, the only place to travel is back.”
…Admittedly, in about as much time as I just spent creating a crappy, non-reusable workaround, that somebody probably could have been me.
Somebody needs to get on creating a LaTeX eprint package that can handle BibTeX styles other than plain.
Tres leches cake is so, so good.
It’s amazing how long fiddly webpage maintenance can take. Yet again, evidence that you should do it right the first time.