Kak no-pyccku...

I don't care if it has songs about cannibalism, I hate musicals.

where there is a choice and oh so many options.



I've got a plan!

Also, I hope all of you are doing well and enjoying summer! Cold drinks, bbqs, and good company for all.

The cat is dead.

Long live the cat.

This will, I think, warrant some elaboration. But not right now.

We should have a send off for Rebekah on Saturday the 19th. I'm happy to host again, but if anyone else has any suggestions this would be the time to float them.

I've also been updating my ChudBlog and neglecting to post here. Sorry.

A Day at the Farm

I'm doing a little research project. I'm looking for any results in Several Complex Variables that are true in C² but not in Cⁿ (n>2). Have you seen any?

Such a thing is a little difficult to search for. I have found a few things, though. E. M. Chirka proved such a result in 2001. Following Chirka, G. Bharali recently did some work along the same lines. Also, Rudin has such a result in Function theory in the unit ball of Cⁿ.

NEW GOAL
Submit application for AWM Workshop for Women Graduate Students at Joint Mathematics Meetings. Application due August 25th. Joint Meetings in early January 2009 in Washington, D.C.

Wondering what my chances are to get a poster presentation slot. Application mentions eligibility requires "substantial progress toward thesis." Wonder what "substantial" means in this context.

I do better under deadlines. Application process could be worthwhile just to have a deadline for something. Had wanted to go to JMM in January and had begun pondering funding sources. This could work out well!

Thinking I ought to inform The Advisor of this plan. I will have to ask him to write yet another letter saying nice things about my mathematics.

Anyone else out there in the æther planning on attending the Joint Meetings?

so i read creepypasta stuff last night b/c of the post (thanks evan;)) and was pretty creeped out cause i was dark and i was home alone at gabe's place, surrounded by tiny humanesque figures, paintings of monsters, a floppy leather face, etc, and my period came fourteen days early so when i stood up (gross out alert, esp. for all you guys) i was terrified to find blood on my leg and not know why. to top it all off, brody stood at the top of the stairs and stated meowing like crazy and refused to come into the basement with me. i dont know what the fuck he thought was down here, but after all previous events, i was thoroughly frightened.
as a completely unrelated note, anyone wanna come over and watch a movie tonight before i go pick up gabe?

Whoa that's so random am I right

Okay, hi. I'm looking at putting together an application for graduate school for the fall (yes, I know, it's really late, the department said they'd still consider an application). I have many questions which I hope you all may be able to give me some perspective on.

( Cut to save your friends page )

EDIT: Indecision is lame. :S

WebMD just sent me an email about drinking enough water. Ha! Ha.

Beware of sugar and caffeine. Ha!

Dehydration can cause migraines. Double ha!

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I may be punchy. Goin' to see my mom! Zoooom.

Job interview on Thursday.

And here are some more iscribble screenshots from yesterday:

( here! )

And to think I always thought this was convergent. Damn.

UPDATE: Better do this to avoid division by zero...



And define the sequence to be zero for y=1904 and 1994.

SOMETIMES I WONDER
Sometimes I wonder how I ended up engaged to someone so un-geeky. I wonder if these differences between us points to deep compatibility, or to a divorce in fifteen years after an explosive blowout over how one house just isn't big enough for my sci-fi DVD collection and his sports equipment.

I do tend to wonder these things more on days where I've spent my time entirely in my pajamas, alternating between watching Star Trek reruns on cable and playing video games on my computer. Days like today.

Love is weird. And amazing. But mostly weird.

iscribble.net!

"EXTREME SNOWBOARDING-FOR REAL THIS TIME"

EDIT: And I'm exhausted! It started off slowly but it got pretty good. There was a robot-ghost dance party and everything.

EDIT 2: Jamie posted some screenshots! Thanks, Jamie!

"Sing to the LORD, all the earth; proclaim his salvation day after day."

and His name is fans. two, in particular from Ace Hardware, that after 5 years in Minnesota I finally purchased.

NEWSFLASH
What's worse than a lottery ticket that gives you 1:1,000,000 odds?

How about one that gives you 0:1,000,000 odds?

Insignificant yet significant difference. See CNN article.

Kate Beaton, she who controls the seas of internet cartoons, demanded more Murphy Brown comics.

Ph.D. IN PROGRESS WHILE IN POVERTY
See "Poverty in Higher Education" and "Poor, Even by Grad Student Standards."

The University of South Carolina's average stipend in 2008 is $4000 below the national average as reported by the Chronicle in 2003. Nutty.

Oh my goodness you guys replied the heck out of that last post! I was not expecting that! And I was inspired this morning - my friend Candace's comment made me laugh. There is no end to the delight I have in exaggerated clothing.



Back on June 23rd, I should have said Happy Birthday to Bosch, who turned 22. Well intentioned, I still forget things sometimes. A fortnight late, but Bosch, Happy Birthday!


also also also: Sorry I obviously make comics in 10 minutes sometimes

*taps mic*

I have a job offer from the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education. So does Scott. And, um, I'm happy for Scott n' all, and thrilled that we'll continue to live together, but they put me in their top salary bracket. I've never even heard of that happening to first-timers without teaching degrees or TESL certification. I can't smile or have beautiful hair over the telephone, so I have no idea what I did to impress them so.

my laptop power cord broke. so no internet, no laptop use even. have to resort to coffeeshops.

but that was DAYS ago. maybe two. i get impatient. i daydream about electronics. i examine the power cord, strip off the plastic, and then decide i still can't fix it, even in my daydreams.

then another DAY goes by. then i daydream some more.

then i drink a lot of beer.

then i fix my power cord. i had alternate plans, that involved my old shitty desktop, somehow piping its DC power out to my laptop, bypassing the AC-to-DC box. thank god I didn't do that, i'm sure it would have ended in fire.

in fact, i still consider my telephone-wire-plus-tape solution to have an extremely high chance of catching fire as soon as I walk out of the room. Every two minutes I feel the air around my "solution" for heat buildup. 'cause I don't know anything about electricity. while I was patching my solution together, I had to keep reminding myself "don't touch that!" to things that were connected to electricity. Clearly this is no long-term solution, and this thing will be torn apart as soon as the real thing arrives in the mail.

basically, for this adventure and so many others, I AM LUCKY TO BE ALIVE.

I blame the summer heat. I don't have a fan yet, and it's too early for AC. I've already watched Wolf, X-Men, X-Men 2. I cannot sleep, ergo this was bound to happen.

Also, drinking in the summer night (when you are very hot) basically destroys the effects of alcohol in 8 beers. I am totally sober. Damn. I wasted 8 beers. Time to go try the 9th.

NASA's MESSENGER probe found water in Mercury's atmosphere. That's wild.

The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete

X-posted. Sorry to those of you recieving spam.

The moon is shooting down our rockets with deadly moon beams. I told you all, but no...

You've heard Shatner's version of Common People, but how 'bout Jamie Hewlett's version?

Funny Ha Ha: Truck full of fire extinguishers catches fire.
Funny Oh God No Please No: Truck flips over and it is full of bees. Full. Of. Bees.

This retrospective on Link's Awakening sums up my feelings for the game perfectly.

Fox News does a poor job of photoshopping NY Time reporters to make them look like evil creeps. Next, I expect them to photoshop in an insanely offensive sambo-type Obama.

This blog has Monsters!

This blog has links to other, failed blogs. The ones that got a single post out before total abandonment.

CT for DS? Faith in Square-Enix restored! ...But you're still hungry.

Missing scenes from Fritz Lang's Metropolis found

Russian concept designs for a dirigible mail office. I would like to work there.

Awesome abandoned theaters. More awesome abandoned stuff.

We're running out of...Gallium? We're so bombarded with the imminent extinction of petroleum and water and what not, that it's all kind of numbing, but that we might see the end of several common metals in a decade? That's scary.

All six of the Wall-E promotional vignettes

Also, the Buy N Large website is massive. Nice legal notices.

Hellboy meets James Lipton

Also see: Part 2, Part 3, PSA, and his Audition. More here.

Ookla the Mok sings a song about the Super-Skrull


The Channel 4 recreation of The Shinning is impressive, as are a lot of Channel 4 adverts.