I've decided that mongooses are absolutely adorable and that I want one.

Look at that. You cannot resist that ball of cute. No one can.

World Peace.

Miss Universe better get busy.

Thanks to the wonderful world of cleaning, I found a couple of more mathy scribblings, mostly about the mathverseThere are doodlings of Differential Dog, Quotient Kitty, Matrix Mouse, and Complex Cheese. Below these doodles are drawings of Integra and Deritivo, with "Hi! I'm Integra!" and "Hi! I'm Deritivo!" written below their respective doodles ( Read more... )

So. That was exactly what I needed to hear this time of year ( Read more... )

The emofest yesterday felt really good. With that, I return to my usual schedule of extremely disturbing link fodder. If I scar you for life because of this, that's an SEP.

The Wrong Sort by novembersnow. Dobby/Sorting Hat. This is absolutely hilarious.

mooders (who is someone else now, I think) wrote Dobby/Mandrake. These are actually more sweet than ( Read more... )

The archiving project is up to February 2005. WOOT. My updates become more sporadic around this time, so I'm very close to finishing. I'd also like to dig through my sock LJ (ironically, this account is much older than this one) and get those old entries out, especially since I do discuss an era left out of Tail--all because the people involved ( Read more... )

I love LJ's stats page. The really fun part is the raw data page, though. You get gems like this ( Read more... )

Happy Canada Day!

Completely off-topic, my half-birthday is this Saturday. This happens to be 07/07/07. We all know that the number seven has many, many uses and meanings. In math alone, seven is a Mersenne prime, a happy prime, a safe prime, a Lucas prime, a Woodall prime, a lucky prime, a self number, and many other types of numbers. Outside ( Read more... )

Total Word Count: 6906 words

Today was really slow. I did manage to reach word count, even if it did take almost all day because of taking down the writer's block wall brick by brick. Sundays are slow days in general, it seems.

Also, I'm giving a 30-minute chalk talk Thursday on applications of the Pigeonhole Principle. It may be a dry-erase ( Read more... )

I've learned a lot this week, and not just about math. Today we talked graph theory and introduced a lot of new problems, so now we have all the basic problems to choose from. I really like several of the problems we talked about today, even if I'm having a hard time wrapping my brian brain around some of the definitions, but that may be in part ( Read more... )