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This weekend’s being spent at DANGER, a sort of but not really impromptu meeting of mathematicians in Tennessee. (DANGER stands for something, but damned if I can remember what anymore.) I suppose you could technically say that this is the … Continue reading →

Am I the only one who’s moderately disturbed that the U.S. Post Office’s website is at http://www.usps.com/, with http://www.usps.gov/ set up as a redirect? I mean, sure, there’s been a lot of abuse of .com, .net. and .org domains, with … Continue reading →

It wasn’t that long ago that I was complaining about how warm it was, it being autumn at all. The national weather service forecast tells me that the temperature in my vicinity is expected to dip below freezing this coming … Continue reading →

I’m writing this post on my new office computer, the much-heralded G5 iMac. So far it’s pretty sweet, in that it runs much better than the decrepit Windows PC it’s replacing, and is prettier to boot. It’s a little slow, … Continue reading →

Another weekend of geting little enough done behind me. The seasons here have gotten to that stage where it’s cool enough outside that running the air conditioner at night seems like a waste, yet still enough that opening windows doesn’t … Continue reading →

One of the perqs of being an academic is that every now and then, textbook publishers send you free texts. Apparently they’ve decided that the best way to get profs to select their books rather than their competitors is to … Continue reading →

So it’s been nearly a week for me without a working laptop, and four days since I dropped her off at the shop. It’s cliche, but I really do feel like there’s a part of me that’s missing. This whole … Continue reading →

Some weeks ago, the Vice-President of the United States told a Senator of the opposition party, while on the Senate floor, to go fuck [him]self. This was excused by various pundits as being unimportant since the Senate was not actually … Continue reading →

Milady Powerbook is causing me problems right at the moment. Problem 1 is an inability to accept discs in the SuperDrive; problem 2, which manifested spontaneously while I was taking the recommended steps to solve problem 1, is that it … Continue reading →

There’s a cricket in my apt. It’s drIVinG mE MaD…