things are nice.

Mr. Collins recommended me Beckett's short the unnamable. i'm looking for it online.

i'm feeling much like a certain fable lion, d'you know the one?--just about to have my claws trimmed and my teeth extracted and loving every opiate minute of it.

vocab in recent conversation: dragées, "objet d'art," capoeira, "alack the day," filtrum (!), ephemerality > ephemeralness ( Read more... )

Here's a drawing i did from sometime early last week: a tribute to Vladimir & Estragon from Beckett's Waiting for Godot. to have added the tree from the play would've meant using a different grid. same proportions of the human body as before, though--involving the golden ratio.


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i've been altogether--and at times unintentionally in the altogether (O watch out, pun!)--intensely sick since friday. it's worst in the mornings. while bedridden i did write some alright prose that might be fragments of a short story--i've not written one of those in ages.

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i wrote a few really long rants (that i thought were sort of greatly) in my new tiny 100p journal of graph paper, but i shouldn't post them here. maybe if you see me and ask for the thing, i'll have it with so you can read some. instead, i offer completely unrelated topics of babble.

(here's something) i derived this!--last year, while bored in Mr ( Read more... )

(1) i just made half of $15,000 (!!!) in doing a semi-big rendering (pen, pastel) project for my father. blimey! (it's thuper, though i think my father's trying to make architecture seem more appealing to me by 'finding' me work like this). anyway, i think i'll go buy a camcorder---i need one of those. maybe a new phone. of course like 92 percent ( Read more... )

about this problem.

one elegant volume problem:
this is an icosahedron. suppose it has side length m. if a cylinder of radius 4*m/5 (centered about a vertex) is used to drill through the icosahedron--starting at a chosen vertex, going through the centroid of the solid, and coming out at its opposing vertex--what is the volume that the cylinder has ( Read more... )

someone gave me stawberries last night at Cosi. Mmmm.

it seems just about time to post more anagrams. i'm curious if anyone gets them, but it's probably better that i not know. you know?

(anyway) here's what i got for that tetrahedron problem. could someone try it and see if they get the same?

initial expression:

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shouldn't endoteric be a word--if exoteric is? and shouldn't endoteric have the same meaning as esoteric?

an elegant problem from saturday morning:
on one face of a tetrahedron with side length a is an inscribed circle. a cylinder is then used to drill out from the circle to its opposing vertex. what is the volume of the solid removed? (in terms ( Read more... )

::far off look:: people...'re fun.

and again, i thought i had a theorem i could call atleast partially my own:
Jen showed me that someone else on this planet had found out how to express simple sine and cosine in terms of e and i. crescent fresh.there's a time to explicitly explain a situation, and there's a time to explain all of it indirectly. ( Read more... )