party at Landon's and Fabrizio's

2430 Indianola Ave.

Come around 8ish on Saturday, June 16^th. Food, drinks, and math.

definition of the shift graph

in some tiny Hell

It seems like all that I do is move stuff from one apartment to another. I feel out of place and disoriented because very little seems to fit or make sense. All my plans are tentative and feel a bit crazy. I have deadlines and committments to meet and I'm doing everything but trying to meet them. Life feels rushed but yet I'm bored; I have all this time I don't know how to fill.

Fabrizio is also in a funk. In an attempt to counteract our existential malaise, we've pledged one nonstop week of math starting tomorrow. No TV, movies, books, girls, parties, or goofing off for seven days in a concerted effort to accomplish something significant. Wish us luck.

I have to wake up early and go to the topology conference. That's all for now.

a beautiful day in the neighborhood

Won't you be mine?

I woke up around 7, stretched forever, picked raspberries, and stopped by the grocery store to buy the things we forgot yesterday. Topological Ramsey theory until I fell back asleep. I nearly electrocuted myself on my newly installed air conditioner because it was tilted incorrectly and condensed water was tricking INTO the apartment. Fab took me out for delicious Indian food for lunch. I ate more than I wanted to but I rarely allow myself the luxury of Indian, so I had difficulty restraining myself.

Raegan invited us to go to the wine festival at the North Market. They kept buying me little samples of wine because it's my birthday: now that's presents! Much, if not all of it was locally grown and produced, which kind of puts an upper limit on the quality but after enough it's hard to tell anyway. The best I tasted was called 'Viking White'.

Thanks to everyone who called today. It's just great to hear from everyone. I live in a tiny, self-induced, insular world and I sometimes forget the perspective necessary to appreciate all the people I have in my life because I focus so much on what I do. I'm glad anyone can remember things like this, since god knows I have trouble. All the best!

why aren't i doing the right thing?

A protester sets himself on fire in front of the Ukrainian parliament building in central Kiev July 8, 2005. A group of demonstrators gathered in central Kiev to protest against corruption among Ukrainian high officials, Itar-Tass news agency reported. Police managed to put out fire and deliver the protester to hospital.

Went out to breakfast at the Dube, grocery shopped, moved things all day, tried to get a couch (and failed), made beet burgers, downloaded and listened to a lot of new (to me) music, drank Belgian fruit beer, sat out on the roof and talked vector bundles and partial orders with approximations.

We still don't have a confirmed ride to the conference yet. Anyone want to drive us to Granville on Sunday? You know you want to.

fuck Jerry

We are into the song 'Rainbow Connection'. We've downloaded as many covers of it as we can.

We are in the middle of moving. They want us out ASAP, so I'm going to be busy for a while.

Fab and I went to a party last night. It was hosted by people in the math department. But when we got there it was apparent that they people didn't really *LIKE* math! There was a 'no-talking-about-math' rule which was incomprehensible to me. What the fuck? What better place than among people who understand what math is all about. But apparently they're just in the grad program to avoid a real job. That's not an inference, someone really said that. It boggles my mind.

The topology conference kind of starts tonight, but we probably won't get to go. Lack of rides and all that.

Back to work.

Live dual, laud evil

Cookout at MILO was a success. Corn and sausage abounded. We have started moving into the new place. Fab is sleeping there presently while I type. Three bedrooms! The mind reels...

髭どのに呼れたりけりはつ蛍
hige dono ni yobaretari keri hatsu hotaru

called forth
by Mr. Long-Beard...
the first firefly
Issa, 1812

everyone listen to Jon Brion

Laura and I went out picking raspberries this morning. There weren't quite enough to warrant a full collection. In a few days there will be more than I can carry home. I still have some in my freezer fom last year at the same place.

Around noon Abby came over and we had lunch (vegetables courtesy of Laura's farm) and traded stories about what we've been up to lately. Then we rode to the Lennox and watched Cinderella Man. AMC has a money-back guarantee if you don't like that movie, you can have your money back. So we got back what we paid for it...

We are off to MILO to have a cookout soon.

That's absolutely retarded!

A beautiful account of how a group of kids dressed up as zombies and shuffled their way to a fight with D&D nerds...HERE.

"The final test of every new mathematical theory is it's success in answering pre-existent questions that the theory was not designed to answer. By their fruits ye shall know them -- that applies also to theories."
D. Hilbert, Über das Unendliche

Test Your Knowledge of Keanu Reeves HERE.

"That's absolutely retarded!"
Fabrizio, on the negation of the axiom of choice

ah, homework and AMC

Blame the above. They have kept me from writing.

No class or work tomorrow = fun tonight for Landon and Fab.

All hail the delta-system lemma.


Police move protesters from the motorway near Gleneagles in Scotland before the start of the G8 summit, July 6, 2005. Anti-G8 protesters clashed with police on Wednesday as the heads of the Group of Eight industrialised nations prepared to meet at the heavily fortified Gleneagles golfing resort near Edinburgh.

ouch

Unpaired words

How to explain this? Weird falling girl...

Mountain Goats live on KEXP: link.

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I made chili last night. Fab likes spicy hot food (VERY spicy) so he bought some habanero peppers, which he didn't tell me were the hottest peppers on the planet. They rate at 20,000-30,000 Scoville units. After I cut them up my hands burned for hours afterward. The chili made my head sweat like my hair was on fire. It was a fun experience but I couldn't really enjoy the flavor because it was being overpowered by the heat. Also, do not scratch yourself anywhere sensitive when your hands have capsaicin oil on them...

off to run before the rain

Never underestimate the power of a dork with free time who finds you attractive to find-and-replace together a complete list of all your image-a-day pics in one GIGANTIC html file and post it on his blog. You may have to adjust your virtual memory to scan this monstrosity of pics.



Columbus fireworks tonght seen from the roof of MILO.

VACANCY

anti-choice?
homophobic?
evangelical christian?
xenophobic?
pro-business?
anti-privacy?
old, white, and crazy?

please mail your resume to:
White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20500
re: SCOTUS

-Anonymous Coward

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