Hiiiiiiiiii. As the title (point, point) implies, I've recently created a writing journal, where I'm slowly trying to migrate everything I've ever written (from several websites and several computers) into one place on the web.

The good: Organizing prose and poetry is good for the planet my sanity, and I have projects up there targetting steady, ( Read more... )

Because I can't let this slide:

I can forgive the incorrect expressions for y(t), though I wonder how the hell some of you managed to insert sin(theta) terms in there when this is linear motion along y.

I can forgive the too-early plug-and-chugs, because, when a helicopter is rising and drops a parcel after some time t, it's not that hard to forget ( Read more... )

Yes, I know it's been awhile. Yes, I know I've been booking appointments and then backing off at the last minute. No, I'm not proud of that. I apologize. ...But I made it to this one, didn't I? That's got to count for something.

Yes, I suppose a lot's been happening since our last session. I can't, I can't even remember what we talked about - ( Read more... )

Because I haven't written anything decent in a long time. Because I suddenly realized that, hey, I had started on another writing project long long long long ago! Because I need to get into writing again. Because I am overworked and need some form of release (yes, the irony is not lost on me.) Because Flower-boy is in this chapter. Because. Because ( Read more... )

In several hours I will be going to Ottawa to register as a full-time Master's student at the University of Ottawa. The drive is roughly five hours long, and knowing this only makes clearer just how far away I will be from Mississauga, where I have been living for well over a year.

I know a little bit about Ottawa, tidbits of information I've picked ( Read more... )

(cross-posted from Canada blog) :

I never learned how to drive before coming to Canada, but I'd been a passenger on an almost daily basis for nearly 12 years back home. And although it made for extremely high stress levels sometimes, the system was mostly simple: if you can do it without getting hit or hitting anyone (and even here there is some ( Read more... )

First order of the year, as per an e-mail from my adviser in uOttawa:

"Hi guys - so I am thinking of planning a go-karting / minigolf party for us.  The [co-adviser] and [another Physics professor with PhD] groups will also be joining in. It will be a big Biophysics party!"

On a side-note, I have not done either activity in my life before. This ought ( Read more... )

(cross-posted on: http://7kmilesaway.blogspot.com/)

Over the past few weeks I have been constantly hearing this phrase: "98 days of summer." Canada's Wonderland, a gigantic amusement park thirty minutes by bus from where I live, is handing out season passes valid for all "98 days of summer." Ads for grills, barbecue sauce, inflatable pools and ( Read more... )

I've decided to start a separate Canada blog. Yes, that is exactly what it sounds like - a blog that will contain anecdotes, observations, and general musings on life as an 'immigrant' here in the North. Also, I hope it would eventually come to present a candid, almost conversational, depiction of this place, the people, the sights and sounds. ( Read more... )

"Get complete, customized solutions to stubborn Math and Physics problems."

If only this had existed back when I was in college....@_@ Would I rather.... (a) spend four to six hours slaving away at a QM problem, or (b) fork over $3.30 and have it handed to me on a silver platter?