/. Pablo and Hubble

Interesting article on The Birth of WikiNews.

apology and WQO

My apologies to anyone who dropped by during the night for the Pedro the Lion torrents: my computer reset and left you high and dry. Please reseed after you download to ensure everyone gets a chance to hear this. Thanks everyone.

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Thomas Forster's unfinished book:
An Introduction to WQO and BQO Theory

Combinatorics Seminar OSU, Friday May 6^th
Neil Robinson: On S. B. Rao's WQO conjecture for degree sequences of finite graphs




Policemen look at remains of a car that was used in a suicide bomb attack in the Athamiya district of Baghdad April 29, 2005. Four car bomb attacks targeting Iraqi security forces killed 13 people and wounded 50 others in Baghdad on Friday, police said, piling pressure on Iraq's new government one day after it was formed.

Pedro the Lion - 3.30.05 (torrent)

TORRENT
Pedro the Lion: 03.30.05
Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA

Second night of two in SF opening for Low.

Source: Sony ECM-717 Stereo Mic > Sony MZ-NH900 Mini Disc > Stereo Cable > internal soundboard
Transfer: Amadeus II > wav

Size: 63.6 MB, 45 min 56 sec

Set List:
01. Bad Diary Days
02. Rapture
03. I Do
04. (talking)
05. I Am Always The One Who Calls
06. Slow And Steady Wins The Race
07. (talking)
08. Indian Summer
09. Of Up And Coming Monarchs
10. Foregone Conclusions
11. June 18, 1976
12. Keep Swinging
13. (talking)
14. Criticism As Inspiration
15. Never Leave A Job Half Done


*#*# DO NOT SELL *#*#

Taper: Aaron Miller (ajmiller |at| mac.com)

Pedro the Lion - 3.29.05 (torrent)

I found two live Pedro the Lion concerts on Soulseek. I made torrents out of them and will post them here, there, and everywhere.

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TORRENT
Pedro the Lion: 03-29-05
Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA

First night of two in SF opening for Low. Missed first few seconds because I was at the bar getting a drink... oh well.

Source: Sony ECM-717 Stereo Mic > Sony MZ-NH900 Mini Disc > Stereo Cable > internal soundboard
Transfer: Amadeus II > wav

Size: 66.2 MB, 47 min 47 sec

Set List:
01. Nothing->Penetration
02. Never Leave A Job Half Done
03. Foregone Conclusions
04. Of Minor Prophets And Their Prostitute Wives
05. (talking)
06. Priests and Paramedics
07. Big Trucks
08. Secret of The Easy Yoke
09. Start Without Me
10. Bands With Managers Are Going Places
11. I Do
12. (talking)
13. Keep Swinging
14. When They Really Get to Know You They Will Run

*#*# DO NOT SELL *#*#

Taper: Aaron Miller (ajmiller |at| mac.com)

the original Paranoid Android

I saw The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy this evening and it was enjoyable. They included my favorite line from the book, the one that had me on the floor, crying from laughing so hard, for several minutes in sixth grade. It got a decent laugh from the crowd, too.

I met with Yared today, who gave the WQO talk Wednesday. He and Neil wrote a paper describing the fine structure of lower ideals of WQO's that I'm reading now. I hope to work with him on some WQO and BQO problems (because we all know finite graphs are better quasi-ordered under minors) in the future. He's fairly funny, too.

Darth Vader has his own blog HERE.

new music, old concerts

Weezer
new album 'Make Believe'
torrent of 2-17-02 concert in FLAC


Rilo Kiley
1-11-04 concert in mp3


/more pictures/
The Mountain Goats (w/ John Vanderslice)
10-18-04 concert

the gravy, not the whole damn meatloaf

The longer this site goes, the more pages I end up writing, the more web space I use up. As my paltry 5 megs of free space has dwindled, I have had to delete many of the old images I stored there for this site. I have since started using a service to host images thus eliminating that need, but the old pictures are slowly getting deleted as I write new stuff. Sorry to anyone who has noticed. I'll eventually have to have this thing hosted somewhere else, but I'm here for the time being.

Ben Folds on Conan O'Brien tonight (4/26).




Togo Fucked

Olive Garden of Evil

I am not going to run the full marathon in May. I'll do another half-marathon in Cleveland and do the full run this fall in Columbus and maybe Dayton, too. I'm not prepared enough and I don't have the confidence to finish, yet. I know I'll still get there, just a little later. My training schedule was tight and the few lapses I had put me too far behind to make 26⁺ miles by the end of May.

OSU helping to make quantum computers

qua cheap bastard

I had been neglecting upkeep of my bike so it was pretty much in shambles after riding through the winter. When I got the brakes and chain replaced today the repair guy was incredulous that I could even get the bike to stop at all, considering I had no brake pads left and had been scraping metal on metal! I have a few more things to do on it before I'll really feel good about it again but at least I'm a little bit safer.

3 spring haiku

Haru no mizu yama naki kuni wo nagare keri
The water of spring
Flows through
A mountainless country.
-Buson


Nan no ki no hana towa shirazu nioi kana
From what flowering tree
I know not,-
But ah, the fragrance!
-Bashô

Nureashi de suzume no ariku rôka kana
The sparrow hops
Along the verandah,
With wet feet.
-Shiki

sunday, snowy sunday

In a great interview, John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats says:

"don't follow John Darnielle's advice, no matter what."

That seems logically impossible, now that I think about it...





For all your Arrested Development torrent needs: HERE. To anyone who watches the show: GOB's magic show music is now so hilarious to me that I start cracking up as soon as I hear it, before anything even happens.

for the tinfoil-hatted among you

anonymization.net

I read on John Vanderslice's page that he was looking for places to stop on his solo tour. I called Magnolia Thunderpussy and Used Kids on Thursday to see if they would have him play an in-store performance. I guess they just thought I was his publicist (or representative?) and directed me to booking. I talked with some people and they OK'd it! So I emailed Vanderslice, told him what I knew: the names, phone numbers, and email addresses of the people I talked to. He emailed back today saying he'll come! Nice.

片方は雪の降也春の雨
kata-kata wa yuki no furi nari haru no ame
on one side
snow falling, on the other
spring rain!

-Issa, 1822

I'm always happy to call bullshit

Josh and I made plans for Friday night. Naturally, he left me waiting hours only to have him back out at the last second. I got mad even though I should have seen it coming a mile away. On the other hand, it took me 10 years to learn to not count on my best friend in grade school, John, and I really only started hanging out with Josh in fall 2002.

The surprise end to this story is that Josh called me up Saturday afternoon and just apologized his heart out for being such a total asshole to me for the last 10 months. He has had this on-again off-again relationship with a girl in his building named Molly who keeps treating him awful and making him act in ways he ends up regretting. He tries to distance himself from her and whenever he does, she latches on tighter. I've watched this develop and seen Josh slowly become aware of the negative effect she's had on him. He asked for my help in trying to lose this girl and call him on his bullshit more. Hey! I'm always happy to call bullshit. I was completely not on his side before he called but I'm always a sucker for an unqualified honest apology that tries to put things right.

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Tickets for Lollapalooza are bought. They came to just under $100 each and I'm kicking myself for not being trusting enough to have bought them for $35 BEFORE they announced the lineup. Kathy had emailed me about 2 weeks ago telling me I should -- I just couldn't bring myself to buy them blind.

What's up with the weather? It was 80⁰F the other day and now it's snowing. I'm not complaining, mind you, it's just unusual.

I stopped in around 2:30AM at The Laughing Ogre after work tonight to see how the 24-Hour Comic Day artists were doing. Only 3 guys were doing it and they looked totally professional! I assumed more Crap Art-minded people would be there too. I brought them food but since they were already well stocked, I kept the Doritos for myself.

old music

"I Shit My Pants":
Spontaneous Ancient Literary Structure in Modern Colloquial Speech

Ben Folds DVD
July 13, 2004
New York, NY - Central Park Summerstage
torrent




Fabrizio and I will go to this

Lollapalooza 2005

July 23 & 24
Chicago, Grant Park - $85


Earth Day Fesitival at the Clintonville Community Market
Saturday, April 23 - Noon to 7PM

WQO, TMBG, OGRE?

I skipped my one class today and I feel sheepish about it. It was cold and downpouring outside and since I ride my bike, I skipped.

This week's combinatorics seminar: 4-27-05 @ 3:30PM
"On Well-quasi-ordering lower sets of finite trees, a new proof"
Funny, I read the old proof (by Nash-Williams), and there needs to be a new one!

They Might Be Giants
Live: 07.02.04
Promowest Pavilion - Columbus, OH
torrent file
"Ladies and gentlemen. If we had a magic wand and could go into the future: we would surely go into the future and take away that magic wand. But right now we have to get back to the original song... about the wand."


It's a worldwide event, but locally:
The Laughing Ogre, 4258 North High St., Columbus, OH 43214
(614) A-MR-OGRE Start time: Noon. Store open 24 hours during event.


Chilean riot police battles petrol bombs being thrown by university students during a demonstration in Valparaiso, Chile, April 21, 2005. The demonstration was called by the students after an increase of the costs of the public transportation.

forever glorify the functorial

My downstairs neighbor smokes too much! It sometimes makes me lose my appetite it's so nauseating and pervasive. I have to change rooms or leave the house when he chain smokes. It's probably not really that horrendous but I have always really hated smoke. It's one thing to go to a concert (well, maybe not so much anymore now that they've passed an indoor public smoking ban) where you expect it to be: you factor that in when making the decision to go. But not having a choice in my own home sucks major donkey balls.

Saunders Mac Lane, 95, Pioneer of Category Theory, Dies

Category theory is the shit, no bones about it. A lot of people call it 'general abstract nonsense', but I've only recently started really learning it and it blows me away every time with its elegance and naturalness. You could rightly say it is the formalization of analogies. And analogies between analogies, etc.

listening to the D, live

It is starting to get too hot to run whenenver I want. I think I'll have to begin running in the morning, otherwise I'll overheat. It's funny how I can remember thinking, "I'll wish it were this cold someday soon," when I was freezing my ass off running in February.

Winter: too cold.
Spring: too wet.
Summer: too hot.
Fall: just right.

May Shows

05.05 - $25
Ben Folds at Murat Egyptian Room (Indianapolis, IN)

05.07 - $12
Decemberists at Little Brothers (Columbus, OH)

05.12 - $15
Mike Doughty at the Odeon (Cleveland, OH)

05.17 - $12
Rilo Kiley and Nada Surf at Southgate House (Newport, KY)

05.20 and 05.21 - $20
Patton Oswalt at Funny Farm (Youngstown, OH)

05.21 - $8
Headphones at The Grog Shop (Cleveland, OH)

i am not waiting -- i am waiting

the floor that's sweeping the nation

Ohio Mushroom Society Events 2005


Paul Graham dissects PR in the media.

Optimism triumphs over experiential learning in the latest Slashdot poll.

too much iridium

Paul McCartney in Columbus Oct. 22 at Value City Arena. Tickets are $197-$77!


Generalized problem: What is the expected number of components of the k-dimensional n-checkerboard,[n]^k, with each unit k-cube independently colored one of r colors? In this case, unit k-cubes are adjacent if they share an (n-1)-dimensional face.

Realistic endings to popular jokes HERE. So funny.
via boingboing

Rare metal found in samples at Serpent Mound
Too much iridum means it was probably the imapct of a large meteorite a long time ago.

Informal non-gender specific greetings!

I went to mail something this morning and the mailbox on my streetcorner is gone. I hope I'm in the right dimension.

I think THIS is how I should run the Cleveland Marathon.

Informal non-gender specific greetings!

Putnam math test results are back.

the spiky-haired one

Math seminars for this week here at OSU.




An anti-Bush protester hands out his version of the U.S. Dollar bill during a protest outside the venue of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund spring meetings, in downtown Washington, April 16, 2005. Protest crowds at this weekend's meetings were a fraction of those in the heady days of Seattle, but activists vowed to make enough noise to push their agendas forward. Finance chiefs from the Group of Seven economic powers met Saturday to discuss two of the global economic concerns over which they have least control, high oil prices and China's fixed currency peg.

But until that day, you will be the Falcon...

I put comments back in the site. Leave me a message if you read this site; I don't know who's out there these days.

read or reread

This is the pose that got me in trouble yesterday. That one pesky back muscle was pretty painful this morning so I'll have to take it light for a day or so.

There were some bad links to previous months' posts that are now fixed. Feel free to read or reread at your leisure now.


It's at the Arena Grand Theater, where I can see movies for free.



Free streaming video of the MSRI Math Lectures HERE. I can't believe they just give this away!

set for September

Google map of my house.

I pulled something in my back this morning during yoga and it has been annoying me all day. The real test is after I wake up tomorrow -- usually bad strains get worse and light strains fade by morning for me. Also, I hate running when my back is messed up as it usually exacerbates it.

Death Cab For Cutie's new album set for September


I have always been enamoured of the Gettysburg Address. HERE are some mp3's of some famous people reading it. Check out Johnny Cash's version.

tactile dactyl

Taxes were easy. It took like 10 minutes, and that was mostly for the forms to load, to create pdf documents, etc. Man, it's easy when you're nice and poor.

American women have no nipples (before 10 p.m.)

Many live Neutral Milk Hotel mp3's HERE.

I've decided to start taking advertising for this site. The offers were just getting too good. The first banner add is below.