CAG@ICH#42
I'm gradually firming up my definitions. What i'm really after in my third places is independence, not simply affiliation of whatever sort with the local population, as this is necessary simply for a place to exist. The differences between chains and franchises has also become clearer (known at all) to me lately, happily. And i haven't made any new crunchy friends along the way. Pooh.
Mathematica is causing me more grief than ever before, and it's not even a difficult program i keep trying to implement. I've come to accept that i'm not inherently good at coding, whatever the inheritance of skill might make possible being certainly far removed from the irritable ruts i've been stuck in since the beginning. At least i am making progress in a sense, and i tend now to generalize well once things get going on the small scale. This is merely a brief break.
Online television has, i think, won me over. The best stuff out there is what people are driven to share. Lately my television watching, with the exception of "The Hidden Fortress" (fantastic), has been "The Daily Show", "Slacker Uprising", and now "Democracy Now!", with an occasional Heroes" thrown in for good measure.
Chris's parents, wine aficionados, reminded me of a single shop i've heard of that serves varieties of espresso beverages, wines, and dense pastries, and somehow has become a social hub. I think this is such a fantastic thing that i've incorporated it into my dream student-run Martian coffeehouse, which probably should connect in some way with a restaurant run by someone like Matt, who'll also be involved in the procuring of wines. (I still think that dreams should be expressed in the unconditional future tense.) Is there some sense in which wine and espresso are mutually exclusive social lubricants that i should grasp, explaining the conventional strangeness of this idea?
Anyone interested in going to Zeppoli's some Wednesday evening?
After the debate last night other-Matt introduced me to a clever hemicircular method of taking means, apparently dating back to the Pythagoreans. (By the way, did the Monad inspire Dr. Manhattan's symbol?) This is one of those moments when familiar objects from disparate mathematical disciplines (statistics and plane geometry) come together in a simple but (contemporarily) unexpected setting. Awesome. Too bad i'm devoid of hemicircular surfaces to engrave. Might there be some extensions of these connections to higher-dimensional spheres? In the immortal words of Rorschach, "Must investigate further."
Mathematica is causing me more grief than ever before, and it's not even a difficult program i keep trying to implement. I've come to accept that i'm not inherently good at coding, whatever the inheritance of skill might make possible being certainly far removed from the irritable ruts i've been stuck in since the beginning. At least i am making progress in a sense, and i tend now to generalize well once things get going on the small scale. This is merely a brief break.
Online television has, i think, won me over. The best stuff out there is what people are driven to share. Lately my television watching, with the exception of "The Hidden Fortress" (fantastic), has been "The Daily Show", "Slacker Uprising", and now "Democracy Now!", with an occasional Heroes" thrown in for good measure.
Chris's parents, wine aficionados, reminded me of a single shop i've heard of that serves varieties of espresso beverages, wines, and dense pastries, and somehow has become a social hub. I think this is such a fantastic thing that i've incorporated it into my dream student-run Martian coffeehouse, which probably should connect in some way with a restaurant run by someone like Matt, who'll also be involved in the procuring of wines. (I still think that dreams should be expressed in the unconditional future tense.) Is there some sense in which wine and espresso are mutually exclusive social lubricants that i should grasp, explaining the conventional strangeness of this idea?
Anyone interested in going to Zeppoli's some Wednesday evening?
After the debate last night other-Matt introduced me to a clever hemicircular method of taking means, apparently dating back to the Pythagoreans. (By the way, did the Monad inspire Dr. Manhattan's symbol?) This is one of those moments when familiar objects from disparate mathematical disciplines (statistics and plane geometry) come together in a simple but (contemporarily) unexpected setting. Awesome. Too bad i'm devoid of hemicircular surfaces to engrave. Might there be some extensions of these connections to higher-dimensional spheres? In the immortal words of Rorschach, "Must investigate further."
