BIFURCATION BIFURCATION BIFURCATION MAKES TODAY A GOOD DAY!!!

Also, my hair is "permanently" purple as of Saturday night.

Also, I have an airbrush tattoo of a very large black octopus silhouette on my left shoulderblade.

I love you, Advanced ODEs.

~If you can't join 'em, beat 'em.

Never mind - I made the horrible mistake of installing updates. So now I am back to square one, with nothing working. So I am going back to my room to pick up my computer, then back to the library to type in all its numbers to the Acer website to beg for the wipe-everything-and-start-over CD, which did not come with the computer ( Read more... )

Flash works now. The only things left unworking are wireless internet, microphone, and headphones. (I've got an Acer Aspire 4820TG.)

~If you can't join 'em, beat 'em.

Did I remember to tell you that Dr. Wilson wants me to prove some things he wants to know about Haar functions for my thesis? I don't think I did. (More information later.) I like Dr. Wilson. He likes me, so far. He vehemently refuses to call himself an applied mathematician though, or a mathematical physicist. I want to give him some shirts that ( Read more... )

Adobe Flash Player is incompatible with my hardware unless I use Windows, so I can't use Blackboard or Youtube or pretty much anything. I will be switching back to Windows as soon as I can afford it.

~If you can't join 'em, beat 'em.

When the new computer had Windows, it could see networks and get online. Now that I've installed Ubuntu on it, it can't see networks or get online. Jonathan Godbout told me, "Ubuntu 10.04 must not come with a network card driver. You need to install one." So I Googled "Ubuntu 10.04 network card driver," and found that Ubuntu 10.04 does come with a ( Read more... )

Erik Demaine friended me on Facebook yesterday.

Also, I feel like Snow White. The Four Dwarves go off to work and their home is an ongoing futile project. I wish I had some woodland creatures to help me clean this place.

~If you can't join 'em, beat 'em.

Elijah asked me to marry him.

I get to plan the MOST MATHEMATICAL WEDDING EVER!!!

~If you can't join 'em, beat 'em.

I am AWESOME.

grey_ghost is AWESOME.

sing0bounce is AWESOME.

Elijah is AWESOME.

Meeting more of Elijah's friends, and some of their friends, and some entirely new friends, all of whom are AWESOME, is AWESOME.

MATH IS AWESOME.It feels so good to have finally given a talk on the 'gons. A huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders. I even gave myself permission, ( Read more... )

A tornado canceled my flight from Burlington on Wednesday (7/21). (I got to see the tornado over Lake Champlain. It was cool ( Read more... )