So far I have managed to shower, shave, eat, activate my debit card, get money for laundry, get a haircut, and get to work early today.

Just eating would have made this an unusually productive Saturday.

It's very rare that I would write two poems in one day, but today I have indeed done so - one very short, one moderately long:

The Art of Seizing
The Alethionaut (This Bold Sunrise)

Fun fact: The first one got a lot more views because it is tagged "twilight". This is tragic.

I seem to be in good health today, surprisingly and undeservingly. Met a friend at brunch that I hadn't seen for a long time, we had a good talk. He's a computer science/math double major, and seemed quite interested in my theory. Said I must have too much free time, though; maybe true, maybe not. Either way I need to think about how I'm ( Read more... )

The last time I felt this depressively groggy and confused was the day before coming down with a really bad flu. Combined with yesterday's coughing and nausea, I'd set pretty good odds of being one sick dude tomorrow.

I keep seeing this girl, and every time I do, I get the mother of all déjà vus. Not just your ordinary run of the mill déjà vu, like I've seen her before, but I have this sense that I know her, we've talked and interacted. I have all these vivid but nebulous memories of her that I just can't place. That feeling that you read about in books that ( Read more... )

May be close to a new mathematical theory. Need more time to develop it, but too busy. Obviously it's hard to break truly new ground in mathematics but if my ideas check out they could represent a fairly novel approach to a familiar topic. Then again, I could develop it all I like, prove all of my hypotheses, and probably still wouldn't get ( Read more... )

It feels good to be back in Chinese class. Over the summer I felt like a bit of a fish out of water, with anxiety in the back of my mind as I noticed my competency in the language slowly slipping away. Now I'm back where I "belong", and I'm surprised by how quickly it's coming back to me. I guess I was afraid I'd get back into it and find I didn ( Read more... )

Perhaps my last bit of fractal art for a while:
http://pifactorial.deviantart.com/art/MoD-Bubble-Bursting-136415035

Also, perhaps my first bit of fractal art that looks the slightest bit artistic?

Just finished a math problem this evening that I'd been working on for the past week. Like every time in my life I've felt like I was close to breaking new ground in mathematics, the results were disappointing. I've been doing pretty well lately, enjoying and coping with my classes better than I expected, fairly high ratio of good moods to bad. ( Read more... )

I said I'd keep messing with it! I developed a weird non-associative (?), non-commutative algebra, then tried mapping it onto 3 dimensions and... well, whether or not I did it right, I finally came up with something interesting:
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