Back home. It was lots of fun!

I'm leaving for Texas! Texas A&M in College Station. Back Sunday.

I thought I was going on Friday, but... change of plans. See y'all.

[http://www.math.tamu.edu/research/workshops/tags/TAGS06.html]

A possibly interesting Slashdot post about an "engineering" approach to writing ( Read more... )

Ann Arbor is very pretty. At this time of the year trees and flowers are blooming all over. It's a "walkable" city and when you walk around you usually go by some pretty nice houses with gardens in front, trees, etc.

The student ghetto is dingy as usual. Oh well. Nothing terrible though.

What the...???

http://keithschofield.com/pi/std.html

I got a forwarded email:

On Wednesday of this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00
in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.

Just in case you are awake and want to celebrate.

Conference was good. My talk... eh... I think it went all right. There were some nice comments and a few questions, so hey. :-) The FIU campus is ***gorgeous***!!!! They have ponds on campus with birds, fishies, and turtles. They have lush grass and lots of sculptures all over campus---a few clunkers, and some interesting pieces. One thing that ( Read more... )

Vanquisher of cars-parked-in-my-spot! I found a police cruiser chillin' across the street and asked him to arrange to tow the EEEEVIL car parked in my spot. Hey, just because you have to get drunk on a Thursday doesn't give you the right to park in my spot, sorry. And when I stay in my office working my butt off past 1am I am in NO mood to forgive ( Read more... )

( I went to New Orleans for Mardi Gras yesterday... )

Yesterday I got in the mail the "transfer of title" document from Toyota Financial. I now own my car! Sooo cool. I guess I have to go to the DMV and "re-title" it or something. I have no idea what that's about. :-) But anyway this is pretty sweet!

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