I'm single, and I'm okay, and she's okay, and we're still friends, and that's basically optimal.

 Harrison and I made a conjecture. We asked (separately) s-m and Babai if it was open. s-m didn't know off the top of her head and got us the answer otherwise really fast. Babai responded with the following, paraphrased ( Read more... )

it's mah birthday!

Wooo!!!

emily bargar came dancing, and I met Emily Riehl's officemate, and I'm totally going to dance lotsnlots.

My current plan for this quarter is to take Babai's graduate Discrete Math concurrently with Math 199, or 203 if I can handle the combined workload.  I have Babai's approval for the Discrete class -- he gave me some problems to chew on, and I solved all but the one he said would take forever.  (One of them was straight off my Interesting Test ( Read more... )

Such an awesome fuckin' discussion. But most importantly, everybody seemed to share the feeling as we walked back that the discussion, heated, deep, and philosophical, was exactly what they came here for.

I explained it best to Mindy here:

(10:04:39 PM) Louis (GTalk): my personal faith is based around
(10:05:15 PM) Louis (GTalk): the value of ( Read more... )

Woooo this place is everything I hoped it was! From the pediatrician dude who taught himself web design and database management -- and 's offering me a job -- to bio and econ and polisci and comp religion majors who appreciate nerdinesses other than their own. Eeeeeee wooooo. I ran into people I knew and met lotsandlots of new people. Wooooo! An ( Read more... )

Having three weeks alone is kind of boring.

However, several things make it more interesting, e.g. having people provide me with interesting math: Harrison gave me a copy of a paper on incidence algebras that I read today, which was pretty damn interesting.  Generalizing something that can encapsulate the Riemann zeta function and chromatic ( Read more... )

Job's been pretty fun.  I am now more comfortable with wee likkle kiddies ( Read more... )

I'm at HCSSiM.  As always, oh my god, I'm home for the first time in a year.

Soooo at home.  So wonderful.  I'm totally, completely content.

It's the most wonderful feeling I've had in a long, long, long time.  (About a year, to be more precise.)

s-m gave me very detailed hair care instructions (unprompted, of course), advised me to find a better ( Read more... )