Vague resolution one of several

[quadrature]

I need to find a few more Why Nots here.

Being home in Seattle with many of you this last week did much to shake up my ideas of how to exist here in Ann Arbor. Of course, it offers about a bazillion times more problems than solutions, but we'll see what we can do. Just about every goal seems rather unattainable at this point, though.

Comments

[thatnight]

You can do it. Sometimes "why not" can be infectious.

show em sauce

[asleepatbeulahs]

well.
if the subject is dead, infection is nie impossible.
Or, if they are a seventy year old Japanese person.
And, its hard to be infectious when you risk deportation. (Than again, I`ve never been deported before....why not???)

Um, I seem to have egotiticlly subverted this thread, so lets get to the moral of the story, being; Is Ann Arbor as dead as Rural Japan?

Ganbatte, Show `em what a little teriyaki sauce can do!

Re: show em sauce

[quadrature]

I probably should have made clear that "at this point" refers to the time between now and next Saturday, when I'll have taken my second qual.

But infection might be possible, though the seventy year old Japanese person might not be the worst analogy out there at times... ;)

[oneirophage]

I am curious: Which ideas in particular were shaken up?

[quadrature]

Well, more that I could stand by and do nothing and everything would work itself out. And, of course, things would work themselves out in a fine manner, but not one that is as good as I know can be.

[oneirophage]

Is the abstract nature of your response a side effect of practionifying mathematics? If so, I'm going to begin suggesting politicians start picking up their abacuses and take some time in the hallowed halls of university cruching numbers. Then, and only then will they be fully prepared to make the highest quality non-statements. I mean, they have a good start on it, but it seems you might have found the missing link.

[quadrature]

To be honest, mathematical experience does help in saying very true things, including things with non-obvious meaning, in particularly obtuse ways. Unfortunately, they types of non-statements you get from math tend to appear like they say less than they do (for math is all about specificity), which seems to be the opposite of what politicians want.