October 2009
25 posts
seanhussey: Based on my visual survey of downtown Boston last night, the most popular costume for women this year is Daddy’s Little Disappointment.
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Legendrian contact homology and... →
A joint paper with David Shea Vela-Vick.
Two stylistic comments:
One-sentence abstract!
Holy negated adjectives, Batman. There’s the doubly-negated “nondestabilizable”, which appears in the title and in approximately every other sentence despite the fact that it’s completely ridiculous-sounding, as well as “nontrivial” (12 times),...
Recently read: Eating the Dinosaur, by Chuck Klosterman
Klosterman continues his run as the most earnest essayist working today. The highlights from this collection are “What We Talk About When We Talk About Ralph Sampson” (self-summarizing), “‘Ha ha,’ he said. ‘Ha ha.’” (on laugh tracks), and “T Is for True” (on the literalism of...
Managed to travel all of two miles in the last hour. I could walk faster than this, SEPTA.
We took off with Yanks—Angels still undecided. I’m a lame Schrödinger’s Cat: my waveform is a superposition of mild annoyance & mild relief.
And the waveform collapses to mild annoyance.
sportsguy33: Peyton Manning and Alex Rodriguez are the 2 most clutch athletes in sports. I will now sprint through a plate glass window.
Words it is NOT ok to ever say →
Agreed.
(via ThatWhichMatter)
wilshipley: Hey, Nobel, I’m ALSO not George Bush — where’s MY $1.4MM?
Score another one for the power of rhetoric.
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I am uncomfortable when math has actual numbers in...
shoesonwrong:
Me: I wonder what the current biggest known prime number is.
Him: You don’t know?
Me: I’m not good with numbers.
Him: You majored in mathematics with a focus on number theory.
Me: Yeah, I didn’t major in being the fuckin’ Rain Man.
My sentiments exactly.
(via Merlin Mann)
hotdogsladies: When two cyclists collide after simultaneously blowing through stop signs at a busy intersection, the world briefly makes way more sense.
A New Cognition Term →
cornpensation, noun. The act of making mental adjustment for keming that doesn’t actually exist.
Example: “Wait, you wanted me to buy cheerleader pom poms? Oh. I totally cornpensated that one. …Awkward.”
(via ThatWhichMatter)
badbanana: Reinstalling Microsoft Office on a Friday night. There are so many sad layers to this, I feel like an Olive Garden lasagna.
It’s a miracle: an email identified as spam by my school’s mail server was actually spam.
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Recently read: The Mating Season, by P.G. Wodehouse
This entry in the ongoing Jeeves & Wooster saga is less mean-spirited than some of the earlier ones (e.g. The Code of the Woosters), which is a good thing. On the downside, the Jeeves/Wooster dynamic is less prominent than usual, as evidenced by the lack of a contest of wills over Bertie’s sartorial excesses.
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Spectral Characterization of the Trace Spaces... →
Giles Auchmuty
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Finite energy solutions of mixed 3D div-curl... →
Giles Auchmuty, James C. Alexander
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L^2-well-posedness of 3D div-curl boundary value... →
Giles Auchmuty, James C. Alexander
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Grid diagrams and Heegaard Floer invariants →
Ciprian Manolescu, Peter Ozsváth, Dylan Thurston
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Asymptotic Vassiliev Invariants for Vector Fields →
Sebastian Baader, Julien Marché