I usually post these updates as friends-only, but since I don't think anyone actually uses livejournal anymore or even reads these posts, this one is open (for those of you syndicating from facebook or other sources) but contains less information than other updates of this type ( Read more... )

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4, 5, & 6. This story begins as so many other stories begin: in a bar. The bar in question is the Iron Door. Why does this story begin in a bar? A simple answer, involving boredom from both the government and people on this day twenty years after the revolution. The official parties -- mostly concentrated on Národní třída, the site of the ( Read more... )

As shiga pointed out (and you googlers learned), the problem was sourced from George Gamow's One, Two, Three... Infinity. The solution below, however, is by Paul Nahin and is remarkably simple.

We do indeed use the complex plane for this solution. Remember that multiplying a complex number by i is geometrically equivalent to a 90 degree rotation ( Read more... )

This is the story of a young and adventurous man who discovers an ancient parchment amongst his late great-grandfather's papers. It reads ( Read more... )

After a few years studying the subject, I think I am finally sufficiently qualified to claim that 99% of the field is complete bullshit.

The problem, naturally, is that most economists are too far brainwashedimmersed in the discipline as it has been established to recognise that fact ( Read more... )

The local easter tradition is for women to buy (not make) faberge eggs and give them to men to whom they are attracted ( Read more... )

1. I knocked off work at around midnight, and it being a friday night, went out for a beer. A man at the table is a 60something-year-old very tall, very gay, black actor from New York. He's been living in Prague for 18 years. At some point he starts telling stories: "So there I was, doing acid with Fellini. As the trip's ending and he's coming down ( Read more... )

I don't think I have ever been stoned enough -- nor shall I ever be -- to truly understand Thomas Pynchon.