Author Archives: matt

After multiple years of neglect, I’m rereading one of the main proofs from my dissertation. And boy, does it suck. Vertices changing names all over the place, overly torturous logic, the whole bit. Just awful. Wasn’t I supposed to have … Continue reading →

Hm. Been a while since I’ve written one of these, between not having regular ‘net access and my standing rule that despondence is not a good state from which to be blogging. Anyhow. My laptop sucks. Don’t get me wrong: … Continue reading →

Well, not quite, but maybe. Right now I’m sitting here half-tired and half-not, with fragments of evocative but mostly meaningless phrases from the latest Tom Waits album running through my head. Given that I haven’t slept well two nights running, … Continue reading →

If I ever get around to making the official List of Things What Make Me Happy, I’m sure that day-passes to rail-transit systems will crack the top 20. For a mere $9, I have in my current possession a two-day … Continue reading →

I’ve been house-sitting for most of the past week; given that there are no pets in said house, it’s pretty light duty all things considered. It took me about a day and a half to get over the I’m in … Continue reading →

…or maybe that’s just a false memory of a Golden Age of Blogging. Probably, come to think of it. I’ve been back in the birth-country for about a week and a half now, and somehow in that time I’ve managed … Continue reading →

Been a busy couple of weeks here in Nutshell Central. Principally there was Workshop Hell, which I’ve come out the other side of pretty much unscathed, and with a better working knowledge of Fourier transforms and weavelets than at any … Continue reading →

I have an occasional weakness: every now and again, when I find myself at a bookstore and am not worried about money, I will buy a computer book. Principally, these books tend to be about programming in Cocoa, the native … Continue reading →

The other week I bought Mike Doughty’s new album; it features a song called “Busting up a Starbux”. This evening I was out doing math with my most recent visitor, and heard the album — including said song — over … Continue reading →

OK, so I’m being bad about updating again. I plead summertime and easy living as my excuse. Things going through my head recently: A long time ago I bought a bunch of “snack bags” (small, sealable plastic bags) on the … Continue reading →