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I was playing with Boinx iStopMotion the other day (which I got as part of the MacHeist 2 software bundle), and this was the result…. Notice how hard we work:

Well, since Mini insists, I suppose I’ll spare time for an update.
Life in Lincoln has been OK, aside from the random old woman who ran a red light and hit my car last week as I was making a left turn.  The accident was completely her fault, and she acknowledged that, which helps, but doesn’t […]

Well, I’ve completed my week of orientation here at the UNL Department of Mathematics. It was nuts. Lots of long, boring talks from people who continually told us obvious things. The funny thing is that the few things I was really excited about (getting a key to my office, getting my log-in info for the […]

Courtney has a new Brown Sharpie comic regarding Ben and myself. See previous post for a bit of elaboration.

Well, here are the results.

The Cadets — 91.050
Phantom Regiment — 90.100
Santa Clara Vanguard — 87.600
Blue Stars — 80.400
The Academy — 79.350
Troopers — 74.900

It was a good show, overall–much better than Omaha, and not just because the corps were five or so weeks cleaner. It was in Memorial Stadium, home of the Huskers. There are […]

We have a guest speaker named Gerald Beer coming in about a week and half, and one of our professors wrote a list of things we need to cover before he arrives.
1.) Normed Spaces
2.) Attouch-Wets < X,d>
4.) Countability
5.) Seperability
This list is copied word-for-word, number-for-number from the board. Ironic that #4 is countability.

Courtney wrote a math haiku, expressing the Newton polytope of the product ideal of two monomial ideals I and J in terms of the Newton polytopes of I and J (denoted K(I) and K(J)):
K of I times J
Equals K(I) plus K(J)
Minkowskily so.
Zach (our professor), responded by shaking his head, sighing, and saying “Nothing good can […]

Well, I’ve been in Nebraska for a little over a month now, and things are going all right.  Lincoln is great. I recently started the Nebraska IMMERSE program, which has been an adventure, to say the least. I just need to remember that IMMERSE is not identical to grad school, and so if I’m sick […]