So I've moved over to Blogger.  Follow the further Adventures of Count Dangerham!

So this morning while getting off the bus, I accidentally proved, in my head no less, that the repeating decimals are indeed rational numbers. This is most certainly a mean mathematical feat, and I mention it only because:

-- I don't remember ever being presented with such a proof, so I'm a little proud that I thought of it independently, modulo ( Read more... )

"Oh wow it's been a long time since I posted I gotta get on that etc. etc."

Because god knows the interblag is already full up on self-indulgent whining, I'll try to keep it brief. A lot of weird crap has happened since I last posted. Maybe I'll write about it (the crap), maybe not. I haven't decided. Here's the one-sentence summary of one two ( Read more... )

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What confuses me about buying music on iTunes is this: if you can get songs like "Stairway to Heaven" and "Iron Man" for a dollar, I think all the other, lesser songs should be fifty cents at most.

So on NPR right now is an extended story about a proposed law in Afghanistan that would mandate that a woman can't leave her house without her family's permission.

Fuck that.

I am suddenly so ecstatically happy that I live in a country with a decent level of protection and almost unfettered freedom.  America isn't perfect, we can all agree on that, ( Read more... )

So Facebook has happened to me for the third or fourth time.

My astro professor looks a lot like Tintin.

So Black Sabbath's song Iron Man is about a time traveller who witnesses a future apocalypse, and returns to prevent it, but ends up gaining super powers and causing the apocalypse, in his rage. I got a lot more enthusiastic about it when I learned this ( Read more... )

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