Sister: You’re an idiot.
Me: I’ll kill ya..
Sister: I’ll kill you first.
Me: I’ll kill you second.
Me: Wait..
Archive for July, 2007
27 Jul
A Typical Conversation
24 Jul
Infinity: Without the Woo, Part 1
Last time I talked briefly about pretend mathematicians. Y’know, people who’ve actually never studied the stuff they’re claiming to refute. Because “common sense” tells them it’s wrong. And “common sense” is, as we all know, the guiding principle of mathematics.
So this time I’ll actually get into cardinality and infinite sets a bit.
22 Jul
Different Sizes of Infinity: Woo Masters, Unite
I misunderstood the lengths at which people who’ve never studied something in their lives would go to nonetheless spew and spatter about that something. I can almost imagine the spittle spraying from their mouths as they rave.
21 Jul
An Interesting Idea
Someone somewhere should make a Web 2.0-ish collaboration site where people can do math together. Maybe like an IM service meshed with LaTeX capabilities, but without the coding hassle. Point-and-click type stuff. And an ability to save the notes and do projects together. Oh, and some basic graphing capabilities. And the ability to export the [...]
21 Jul
The Science of Avatar: The Last Airbender
One of the best American, made-for-TV cartoons out there is Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender. It’s about a world in which certain people are born with the ability to control an element, either fire, water, earth or air, and a boy named Aang who is the reincarnation of the Avatar, master of all four elements.
The [...]
19 Jul
Atheism, a Theism?
Atheism isn’t a religion, okay? Atheists don’t worship their lack of god. They don’t worship nullity, or the void. They don’t worship, period. Worship is undeserved devotion, and that’s just not us. If something deserves my devotion, it’s usually because it has qualities I find appealing already and which I can access without worship. Music? [...]
17 Jul
Random Round-up
o The root of the word “president” is the verb “to preside”. Perhaps we should pick a different word, because they tend to do more than preside.
o I saw birds scavenging for food on a median strip on the way to class this morning. It’s interesting to think about that in terms of evolution. You [...]
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