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A little while ago, I mentioned a few blogs that I read solely for the purposes of schadenfreude. The title of this post is a literal one-sentence quote from one of those blogs, namely Atheistwatch.  Atheistwatch is a blog run by Metacrock.

Metacrock is a very...interesting character, and is difficult to adequately describe in a few paragraphs.  ( Read more... )

Due to recovering from the interview, getting started on learning the stuff that I need to learn to help popefelix  (sorry, I didn't realize that this was tied in to an actual project, otherwise I would've moved my ass sooner!), trying to find a free file hosting service (because the updates will be pdf files from now on until livejournal has LaTeX ( Read more... )

That I'll never again have a career where I can adequately provide for my family.  That I won't get the job that I'm about to interview for next week.

Hmmm...although I probably should answer with profound sayings, the only things I can think of are humorous things...

1.  "You go now!  You been here four hour!"

2.  "You really enjoy Chinese food."

3.  "Try '...except in bed.'"

4.  Having bundles of two or more fortune cookies all with the fortune "The fortune of the person sitting to your left is ( Read more... )

I haven't participated in an according-to-Hoyle boycott, but I have personally decided not to ever buy certain products because of their commercials.  These products include many mainstream shoe companies (Nike and adidas, I'm looking at you two), along with Volkswagen (three words:  "dah dah dah..."  GAH GAH GAHHH!!), and Scion (you're putting ( Read more... )

My first job was at a local chain of fast food restaurants called Burger Time.  The name of the restaurant has no relation to the classic arcade game of the same name; this is both unfortunate in that the video game was much more fun, and also a good thing, since I wouldn't have enjoyed getting chased around by anthropomorphic pickles, hot dogs, ( Read more... )

Note:  A good deal of many of my mathematical posts are based off of 130+ pages of course notes, entitled An Introduction to Pure Mathematics, that I wrote for a course designed to help with the transition from thinking of mathematics as "number-crunching and formulas" to...well...what mathematics actually is.  If you wish to read on, I hope you ( Read more... )

I've made several attempts at blogging in the past, but they've all failed:  partially because I wasn't motivated enough to write, partially because I was too afraid of saying something that could offend people who were--at the time--coworkers (thinking specifically about my years in academia here), and partially because I'm simply not used to ( Read more... )