Here's a picture of both Laika and Claire:

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Happy birthday, boyplankton and fire_sister!

Yesterday the CSUCI math club had a meeting to adopt a new constitution. As advisor, I have been loosely advising the process over the past week, and the document was pretty good. The document was a completely new one, but the main fundamental changes were to shift most of the details to bylaws instead of the constitution itself. Then things ( Read more... )

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According to this article a group of astronomers redefined what a planet is, and Pluto no longer makes the cut. Aside from my having a couple of issues with the new definition itself, wide acceptance would then make my kindergarten teacher a liar, which is clearly against the rules of the universe. Therefore, I assert the new definition is bunk ( Read more... )

I didn't win the lottery. I guess I'll have to try harder next year.

Mylantas are not candy. I just ate a bunch of them since they are the only remotely snacklike thing on my desk. I'm online watching the final table of World Series of Poker, and it looks to be over probably within an hour - hopefully. The guy who I picked a few days ago to win it all came in fourth, so that's not too bad. Anyway, just a little ( Read more... )

I just placed an order for this book, for which I've been looking for a nonastronomically priced copy for several years. With a sense of supreme awesomeness, I would like to announce that I found it at close to one tenth market value (the bookseller had an alternate spelling of the author's name; that probably helped).

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Man! It's so tempting to just add a bunch of people as friends just to increase my Livetrump card stats!

Only three more hours until Claire and I leave for Vegas, baby! Yeah!

See you greenjayne and skertopia!