Bah?

Greetings from Amazon.com ( Read more... )

...or the day when I celebrate the fact that for the last 230 years America has been Not Our Fault. <.insert winky smily, or something equally inane, here ( Read more... )

We woz robbed ( Read more... )

1. Not that I'm wearing them, just I can't be bothered to write proper like wot i usually do. This is despite having worn shorts all last week; yesterday and today I've been in long trousers. Teaching in shorts would just feel weird (though I did go to Sunday church in shorts for the first time 8 days ago and that felt fine... weekday services ( Read more... )

Well, I do have the AV key to my teaching room. I was testing it out today (the AV equipment more than my key really) and I found out that I can play DVDs on the big screen, with stereo speakers. This gives me naughty ideas...

Party in 6 Evans any-one?

1. Riding a horse is pretty much the most fun thing you can do with a non-human animal ( Read more... )

So, tomorrow I once again depart these green and pleasant lands for the shores of Amerikay (or, rather, the deserts thereof). It's been a pretty busy couple of weeks, as I've been trying to cram a bunch of stuff in. This is the first summer for which I'll only be spending two weeks back at home (I don't think it's ever been less than two months ( Read more... )

Just had to share these with you:

Thm 1. [Ceder] There is a decomposition of IR^2 into countably many subsets none of which spans an equilateral triangle

Thm 2. [Schmerl] There is no such decomposition where equilaterial above is replaced by isosceles.

And they say set theorists never get cool results like that that they can share at cocktail

For a start the sun didn't start going to bed until about 9:30pm -- how lazy is that! In fairness, it got up before I did; I hope it got enough sleep and isn't go to start getting tired and dull ( Read more... )

Arrived at Heathrow this morning and am currently struggling to stay awake until a sensible hour. I didn't sleep for more than hour on the plane, but a nap I took 3-4 seems to have worked pretty well. I just couldn't get to sleep when everyone else was sleeping, but dozed off for a bit during the hour between breakfast and landing ( Read more... )