you might question choosing humble bread as a favorite food, but next time you're eating it, consider how good it is, and how we've had like three thousand years to perfect it. imagine what pizza will be like in three thousand years. that's what bread is like RIGHT NOW!

I'm learning to use Emacs.

Question: What is the meta key on the new powerbooks? And yes, I know I can use Esc, but 1) that's different than the meta key and 2) its small and in the corner, so it doesn't really speed things up.

UPDATE: Terminal menu -> Window Settings... -> Keyboard

Then select `use opt as meta'.

1) Dear Berkeley Math people: Do you know how to use MathSciNet from home ( Read more... )

This week's contribution to the blogging world are the following three pictures:


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[referring to Hartshorne vs EGA]

"Why read a good book by a good mathematician when you can read a great book by a great mathematician?"

I'll have my external hard drive with lots of music/books in my office for most of this week, so please stop by Evans 712 and trade electronic stuff with me!

"I wish you were my GSI. Because then you could teach me linear algebra and afterwards we could get dirty."

*she reads this as I'm writing it and says*

"Ah! And then we could Couple!"

I decided to solicit more money from the government and throw together an NDSEG application. Here's a draft of my research statement. Most of the time writing it was spent trying to reduce it to less than 3000 characters...

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The Rain: This picture will likely say enough.


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Today was good. I was less shy today.

Brillhart: Highlight of the morning: John Brillhart sat down next to me at the end of breakfast. He didn't seem to remember me. After a day we're getting along pretty famously.

I mention that I took his linear algebra course. His response? And you're still around doing math?!? He says "hi" to Santiago and ( Read more... )