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    Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
    4:28 pm
    Notation Fail
     So, I'm reading a book on Clifford/geometric algebra. They introduce the pseudoscalar/volume form, and show how it works a lot like imaginary i. So much so that many texts use the symbol i for it, but this book is going to be more careful than that. The pseduoscalar has non-trivial commutation behavior, so using i would suggest too much simplicity.

    ( Instead... )
    Saturday, June 27th, 2009
    2:30 pm
    Books!
     Could anyone use a collection of math books amounting to most of an undergrad program? I'd like to find a good home for them.

    ( List inside. )
    Saturday, June 6th, 2009
    5:04 pm
    I think this is worth reading: On rape and men.
    Thursday, January 8th, 2009
    10:59 am
    Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
    8:25 pm
    Now sing my muse, for ’tis a weighty cause.
     Explain the Magnet, why it strongly draws,
    And brings rough Iron to its fond embrace.
    This Men admire; for they have often seen
    Small Rings of Iron, six, or eight, or ten,
    Compose a subtile chain, no Tye between;
    But, held by this, they seem to hang in air,
    One to another sticks and wantons there;
    So great the Loadstone’s force, so strong to bear! ...
    First, from the Magnet num’rous Parts arise.
    And swiftly move; the Stone gives vast supplies;
    Which, springing still in Constant Stream, displace
    The neighb’ring air and make an empty Space;
    So when the Steel comes there, some Parts begin
    To leap on through the Void and enter in ...
    The Steel will move to seek the Stone’s embrace,
    Or up or down, or t’any other place
    Which way soever lies the Empty Space

    -Lucretius Carus, (circa 99-55 BCE), On the Nature of Things
    2:22 pm
    An unanticipated benefit of my foreign domain registrar: French spam.
    Thursday, September 11th, 2008
    7:48 am
    The meadow grass is turning brown...
     Anyone interested in a traveler passing by? I've got the urge for going, and visiting somebody along the way could be nice.
    Sunday, March 16th, 2008
    9:55 pm
    Saturday, we got to see Andy Stewart playing in Columbia. It was very good music, and he's awfully funny to boot. Speaking of Silly Wizard, "We didn't know we were a band at first. We just thought it was a ceilidh that had gotten out of hand."
    Thursday, December 27th, 2007
    10:12 pm
    I sure can pick 'em
     Griffen & Phoenix, a "heartwarming romantic comedy". Both have terminal cancer...
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