As Tyler's panicked post probably indicates, I've been flouncing about lately all over the place. Two b'nei mitzvahs occurred in the famiglia a week apart, and one of them was in London, so I was there for a while catching up with cousins, and relations more distant. One of my cousins has just had a baby, so we went to visit him. We also did a ( Read more... )

So I am spending this week attending the Canadian Quantum Information Summer School and its associated Student Conference. What that means is this: I spend all day listening to lectures that are fractionally off of being identical to the ones I heard a month ago at the Conference on Operator Algebras in Quantum Information, and then I miss out on a ( Read more... )

So I am walking back from school when by me drives a car blasting, no foolin', Pretty Fly (For a White Guy). Sometimes you just have to pause in wonder and marvel at the kind of world we live in.

The Erotic Diary of Anne Frank

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Noted recluse Thomas Pynchon uses Youtube to sell his newest book. Since I was so fond of his previous book, and also relatively impressed by the other book of his that I've read, this is exciting ( Read more... )

Again. This idea is one that I have been advocating for some time (mostly when drunk), and I thought the final party bit was unique to my formulation. Once again, huzzah to Ryan North, for reading my mind, and then putting my words in the mouths of dinosaurs.

This is the kind of news story that I live for: a bunch of Orthodox Jews, including five rabbis, arrested for such nefarious activities as money laundering, dealing fake Gucci bags, and selling black market kidneys. Be still my heart...

Another thing the internet has provided: A website of ancient Greek and Roman jokes. In case you are wondering, the Greek version of a Newfie is an Abderite, or a Kymean.

Seriously, how did people live without the internet? In two days I have ( Read more... )

I have been advised by my adviser to study quaternions over the next little while. Yes indeed, today is the best day of my life. Quaternions are pretty much the reason I wanted to do pure algebra in the first place; that and category theory, so it's exciting that I am now being instructed to learn about this stuff. Be still my heart ( Read more... )