So it turns out that Resident Evil: Apocalypse is a terrible terrible movie. Who new?

(I really need to go watch the 3, yes THREE, commentary tracks sometime soon)

Wow, we won. I wish I could have been there for all the on-site stuff, but I still had a lot of fun hunting with Meta-Physical Plant (the ~8 person Berkeley branch of Physical Plant). Although I wish that the team had been smaller (it's unclear to me just how many people were actually being productive over at Random, and how many were just along ( Read more... )

Wow, this has been a good break so far. Went skiing last week in the Berkshires (very happy to see my sister!), which was excellent. During this time, my mom decided that she wanted to make a real-life photographic comic strip. This means that she posed us in various ways and took pictures, and later on captions and talk bubbles are going to be ( Read more... )

Why do I fall asleep during class? Because I go to sleep listening to things like this.

Ed Witten's voice IS the perfect lullaby.

After solving puzzles for an entire afternoon, and spending the evening making fun of the ridiculous movie that is Tommyknockers, I decided to get some food at 1am. (mmmm...special chicken burrito and i quickly became good friends...) This is the same time that hundreds of frat boys were trying to live out their drunken fantasies and pick up random ( Read more... )

I have neglected you, livejournal. I could claim that I was abducted by friends and made to play the bongo drums (Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat) for hours on end, but that was only one day out of the last two months. I could claim that I spent many nights reading paper after paper on ADS/CFT, but you'd probably just laugh at all the ridiculous acronyms ( Read more... )

Oh man, there was just a blackout in the neighborhood -- apparently a power line started going crazy and catching on fire. For lack of anything better to do (and out of extreme curiosity for what was going on), Joel, Dan, (their roommate who's name I never learned), and I wandered down the blocked off street. Sometimes sorority girl conversations ( Read more... )

I never ever EVER want to take that test again. Fortunately, the problems weren't terrible this time around, but 6 hours is still a ridiculous amount of time to be taking a test ( Read more... )

So it has been decided today that non-invertible matrices must be terribly lonely. After all, they are excluded from almost every single named matrix group...they are complete social outcasts. Therefore, we must rise above this prejudiced behavior and declare a national singular matrix day ( Read more... )

Just sat in on math 250 (groups, rings and fields). Ken Ribet is a very cool guy, as is evidenced by the fact that he wears blue tennis shoes with no socks! I should start doing that...