First, did you miss all the popular music this year? Go educate yourself in a mere 4 minutes and 38 seconds with the top 25 Billboard 'hits'. (For the record, I recognize only one of those songs. Take a guess.)

There will be a fancy list of resolutions and a summary of 2008 later. However, I just thought of a goal for 2009. Look at my memes ( Read more... )

To do before Tuesday ( Read more... )

Jonathan Clay did a concert in the Hub tonight. This event had been pimped out almost all summer through Facebook and emails and who-knows-what-else, and I found myself wondering who on earth this guy was when I saw an invitation to a Facebook group declaring excitement over Jonathan Clay's coming to campus on 12 September in my inbox. Since I ( Read more... )

Yeah, I should have pimped this earlier, but it's tonight!

Please join the Infinity Club on Thursday (Jan. 17th) from 7:30 to 9pm in Teasley Hall for a presentation by Mike Byster:
THE HUMAN CALCULATOR!Mike Byster was born with a lightning-fast brain allowing him to memorize tremendous amounts. He is one of the fastest mathematical minds in the ( Read more... )

Mira showed Sarah and me this in the math center tonight. The person in the bathrobe cracks me up ( Read more... )

Some random tidbits from my first week back that just don't fit anywhere else ( Read more... )

I leave on Sunday. I have yet to start packing.

I found this through some inspired macros on lolpotters. Yes, HP Bananaphone. I've been singing it to myself all day.

This article explains a lot--to me, at least. I'd rather have people tell me things the way it is right away instead of kicking around the point and softening it, as they tend to do. And ( 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... )

First, I really like this suggestion. The sad funny part? Scroll down in the comments. I could actually read that sum in its LaTeX form. Which reminds me, I never did my entire entry in LaTeX.

While we're still talking about math and nerdity, have a video of James Blunt on Sesame Street. It's a triangle ( Read more... )

LJ Spoke on Tuesday Night. Under a sockpuppet, of course. Yeah, that clarified a lot.

Last updated 8 August 2007

Looks like strikethrough is going bold. The newest LJ release (bugfixes, features, et cetera, over at lj_releases bolds deleted/suspended users and delinks them. mightygodking got suspended (along with all his other accounts) before all this started. ( Read more... )