Jack sent this over. Maybe you’ve seen it, but I hadn’t. I laughed the whole way through.
I wonder if this is how my thesis defense will sound to the ordinary person on Monday.
Hilarious.
Edit: Apparently the paper is available here.
Another edit: The powerpoint used in the talk is here.
So you may have been thinking that I was going to write about some of the great pranks my friends and I pulled this weekend (there were two, and they were hilarious, right Alyssa?), but not here. Not yet, anyway.
With the day four minutes from over, I just found Gmail’s joke, and I had to […]
30 Rock is a really funny show. I recommend you all watch it. Of course, The Office is funny, too, but this is good.
No news from grad schools yet. Hopefully next week and/or the week after.
Classes are going well, I think. I like Complex Analysis, and I may not hate my Classical Mechanics course (for […]
I love comics.
Even more, I love comics about mathematics.
Fresh Whole Rabbit. Looks delicious…read the reviews.
I couldn’t help myself. $5 to bjhess.com.
It’s not too often you see the Poincare conjecture mentioned in a comic strip, but here it is.
In other news, I’m officially dual-booting between Windows XP Pro and Ubuntu Linux 6.10. The Super Grub Disk was immensely helpful in doing so.
Mike, Why didn’t you let my computer remember your password?
Because, Sarah, I rarely post, and if you started posting a lot under my name, no one would believe it was me.
That would be the fun of it. Everyone would know it’s not you… but only I would know it’s me. So you […]
A joke, as heard from Clark Bennett at Math-Aid a couple of weeks ago:
A mathematician, a physicist and an engineer were all given a red rubber ball and told to find the volume. The […]
Hey all. I really intended to blog more frequently. I really did. And maybe I will soon. But right now, I’m going to talk about graduate schools. I’m sure you’re all interested.
I took the general GRE test yesterday. I’m so glad that’s over. I do not actually know how well I needed to do, but […]
Sometimes I feel the need to indulge the physics side of my geekiness (even though I’m a pure mathematician at heart :)). From the UI SPS website:
Physicists Bill of Rights
(Author Unknown)
We hold these postulates to be intuitively obvious, that all physicists are born equal, to a first approximation, and are endowed by their creator […]
