-
Meta
Archives
Monthly Archives: October 2009
NaNoWriMo excitement
You know how you’re looking forward to an exciting event, and the countdown to the event is just as exciting (if not more so) than the event itself? That’s how the countdown to NaNoWriMo is. Sure, midnight the first is … Continue reading
A Life Motivator
After poking around Chaotic Shiny’s NaNoWriMo motivator for a few minutes, I moved on to the life motivator. (Seriously, give the NaNo one a try next month.) What exactly the purpose of the life motivator is, I’m not sure. Let’s … Continue reading
How early is too early?
Train rides, I have discovered, are good for thinking and writing. I left home early tonight to go to an event, and as expected, I need that time, as the train decided to lull after the second stop. If the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
The bus problem
I’ve run across an interesting problem. On my trip home from my internship, I take a train followed by a bus. However, more than one bus will get me close enough to home so that walking the rest of the … Continue reading
Review: Running with Scissors (book) by Augusten Burroughs
You know that saying “Truth is stranger than fiction”? It’s true. I finished reading Running with Scissors, a memoir by Augusten Burroughs today, and despite all the reviews on the back cover saying that the book was twisted and horrifying … Continue reading
NaNoWriMo, age, and time
As National Novel Writing Month participants everywhere know, NaNoWriMo begins less than a week from today–five days from the time this will be read by anyone besides myself. Some will argue four, but that’s just a different way of counting, … Continue reading
Public transportation pet peeves
As you may have guessed by reading this site, I am carfree. As a result of such, I take advantage of my area’s public transportation regularly. While it certainly isn’t stellar compared to other systems that I’ve experienced such as … Continue reading
Cantor and Infinity, Part Two
Now for Cantor’s diagonal argument. Cantor showed that the natural numbers and the integers have the same cardinality, and even the natural numbers and the rational numbers. But what about the natural numbers and all the real numbers? Let’s say … Continue reading
Cantor and Infinity, Part One
Only in America would someone sue someone for over a billion trillion dollars. To be exact, we’re talking $1,784,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Kevin Houston of the University of Leeds is cited in the article as saying, “I don’t think the human brain is … Continue reading
The real review: Artemis Fowl
As I mentioned yesterday, I finished reading Artemis Fowl, a book about a twelve-year-old criminal and genius who gets on the bad side of a bunch of fairies. He also has a minion…erm, bodyguard named Butler. Sounds cool, right? The … Continue reading