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[20 Sep 2008|11:51pm] |
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This is what I get for cleaning. I leave a bucket of strong bleach solution in my room with the no windows open and a fan blowing, and then go to sleep after eating a nothing in an 6 period except for some frosted mini-wheats. I wake up after sleeping 5 hours, extremely nauseous. I had a headache all Friday, and only now am feeling back to normal. Chlorine gas gives one hell of a hangover.
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| Once again among the living |
[10 Sep 2008|05:11am] |
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Whoa, 16 months since a post.
The most significant effect of having leapt the orals hurdle is how much better I'm sleeping. I'm chronically a night person, but now I'm in bed at 10PM and up at 5AM. I'm guessing that if I'm worrying about something (even if not completely consciously), I can't let myself fall asleep. The thing is, I don't feel any less worried now (re: the giant to-do list I constructed in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) kiwisquash's office). I've had conscious worries intrude into my sleep before, but I have a relaxation technique where I "manually" set them aside in my mind. Anyway, now I can tell if something's really bothering me that even I'm not aware of. I wonder if it will still be effective now that I'm conscious of it.
A complete side note: LJ's spell check thinks that "leapt" is misspelled.
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| The Joy of Scotch |
[17 Mar 2007|01:52am] |
... was was killed to a significant degree by the shittiness of my trip home. It took about an hour because I had to shovel my way out and in. Plus, a hedge stole my keys for about 5 minutes before giving them back.
... man, this totally sounds like a drunk posting, but it really isn't.
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| Pain is... |
[12 Dec 2006|07:03am] |
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...realizing that in all likelihood, your lecturer won't require you to be around for the final, but you've already booked a flight for the 23rd.
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| Stupid fog. |
[01 Dec 2006|04:30pm] |
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Well, I'm still in LI, and not because of Chicago weather (which was what I was worried about). There was dense, low-lying cloud cover over most of LI today. Since LIMA's instrument landing system is broken, no planes could land there. So it wasn't Southwest's fault, it's because I live in crappy LI, where they can't afford to fix anything.
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| Well, I guess he still knows I'm alive. |
[15 Nov 2006|01:54am] |
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From Dennis:
This is to invite you,[et al] to the Stanford (see web page) Conference on "the geometry and topology of moduli spaces" friday 200pm to monday 600pm january 12 to jan15 2007 travel and local expenses will be covered by the focused research grant with same name at stonybrook.
So, after having visited Stanford over 8 years ago, apparently I will be returning. I wonder how my two impressions will compare?
Hmmm... I complained about not having anything to look forward to, and then this happens....
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"Man, this being single sucks. Also, I hate not having solved the HRT conjecture."
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| the sky is falling |
[14 Nov 2006|12:58am] |
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On my way in to the dept. today, a tree branch about an inch and a half in diameter and four feet long fell onto the hood of my car from a height of at least 40 feet. It just dented my hood, but it scared the crap out of me.
Holiday airline travel is expensive. I suppose I got out lucky with a $300 ticket when I'm flying out two days before Christmas. On the plus, I'm going to be getting $250 of it back due from a travel voucher I got from last time I flew SW. Because of savings due to re-booking that same trip, I'm also getting to fly to Chicago for a weekend (Happy Thanxmas) for a total of $18.10!
Despite the fact that our current physical models forbid it, it seems that my mass is actually increasing. My only hope now is to either evaporate away my rest mass via Hawking radiation, or exercise.
Also, I'm bored. I don't have anything to which I'm looking forward that isn't completely pathetic.
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| ....timing! |
[06 Aug 2006|03:11am] |
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If you read the Penny Arcade news posts, you will have already seen this.
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| Comparisons |
[24 Jul 2006|11:57pm] |
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While playing around on this site, I quickly reached a difficult question. Which is better, the softer patter of rain on leaves, or prostates?
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| NTREDME |
[24 Jul 2006|07:09pm] |
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At first I thought the vanity plate said, "Neutered me". But I think the shamrock bumper sticker that became visible when we stopped at a light made it clear.
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| <flex nerdliness> |
[21 Jul 2006|02:52am] |
I spent Monday night and most of Tuesday installing Linux on an ancient 100 Mhz Pentium that the dept no long uses. I got it working (including a surprisingly snag-free cross-compile of the kernel), but it was so slow that it made me realize that my intended use of it as a file server probably won't work.
However, there are two more (what I assume are identical) P100s for the taking, and this system does have some advantages for being a headless server. It will boot with no keyboard plugged in; it has a (slow) network card, a 1 GB hard drive, and on-board video. What could I do with three such systems?
Well, probably nothing, since the other problem is power consumption: if I leave my current file server running 24/7, I can feel it in the electric bill. I could feel the heat drafting up from the P100 and its chipset. It's slow, but it's an old, high-voltage system that's very inefficient. It's got a 230 watt power supply, and that's with hardly any peripherals. After reading about putting linux on a Linksys router, I dreamt that what I really want is something with roughly the horsepower of a 200 Mhz Pentium, a fair amount of ram, all running on next to no power. I stumbled on this, which looked good, but then I found something even better. <drool>
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