I keep forgetting to schedule something fun here at the Math Department. Alas.

I want to wake up with your hair in my face ( Read more... )

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I'm at home at my mom's place. Free food everywhere (well, I didn't buy it, but I can have it), junk food piled high among it. I've already had too much and I can see more looming on the horizon.

I am a rational human being. I am paid to be a rational human being. How does a simple regimen of self-control fall away this fast in the face of an ( Read more... )

This may have my vote for greatest academic article of last year.

A sample: "Whereas philosophers have been primarily concerned with the goals and intentions of the bullshitter, we are interested in the factors that predispose one to become or to resist becoming a bullshittee. Moreover, this sort of bullshit - which we refer to here as pseudo- ( Read more... )

http://bit.ly/2dQNU7c

Unreal. The wages of whiteness: invade a federal installation under arms, tear up a protected wild area, get in a gunfight with federal agents that leaves a man dead -- but hey, it's all legitimate protest protected by the First and Second Amendments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRp1CK_X_Yw

Hillary '16, because who doesn't like the thought of Mark Ruffalo naked real action on jobs, climate, and all the other big issues facing America?

I get a Twitter account to jump in to a math convo. I tell it to leave my contacts alone, I don't follow anyone initially, et cetera.

My brother immediately texts me, saying he's surprised I got a Twitter account.

You ain't the only one surprised right now, bro.

So I'm watching my way through Pretty Cure, and I'm up to "Yes! Precure 5 GoGo! the Movie: Happy Birthday in the Sweets Kingdom." On the one hand the villain's major motivation is apparently that he is never satisfied by sweets, and the heroines are rescued from near-defeat by (the audience being encouraged to wave their souvenir lights in the ( Read more... )

Beat FF VIII today, after laying waste to Omega Weapon. That'll free up my evenings for a while.


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