Turns out the problem that was bugging me all of today and a good chunk of the prior few was a sign error. And now it's fixed. Ah, research, how beautiful you are.

Now it's on to grading my hefty chunk o labs. This will require the good whisky, and the snowman stickers.

It is the best movie. I am in a glad mood. The cake I am eating also contributes to the glad mood.

It is ( Read more... )

I am going to try to do some translating, and figure I might as well post things, in case anyone else is interested in poetry. I don't want to let my ability to do this decay much more than it already has! So, if you are curious, some ( Sappho )

Firstly, I don't think I've seen the sun since Thursday. That's a bit longer than I think is ideal. Nextly, my house eats lightbulbs. I don't know why this is. Another one was lost to the hallway today. These are dark times.

I feel like a real academic now, the rateyourstudents blog posted my submission! It's kind of like being in Nature, except better ( Read more... )

Rubik's cube tells time ( Read more... )

They are! Last two weekends, I was up at Dartmouth for Homecoming and Sink. It's odd having the two big draws back to back. I confused Gabe, he saw me last Friday and thought I just hadn't left all week. Quite to the contrary - I spent the intervening week doing all sorts of work. What a bother, that work is. But! I had a fantastic time visiting. ( Read more... )

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I have renormalized the massive scalar field! And not just in the "subtract infinity" sense! I could totally show this to math people, and they'd have to be like, yeah, the stress tensor totally vanishes. So, this is a victory. Next up is making this work with a different choice of modes, and then onward to a nonzero potential! Ever, ever onward.