distracted.

there are certain tasks which require pre-planning: computer programming is one of them, as well as LaTeXing. but now i will add going to the mathematics library [1] as one of those tasks.

having just come back from that wonderful archive, my intent was to borrow Reshetnyak's Space Mappings of Bounded Distorsion, but walking through the shelves to look for it, i paused a few times and grabbed a few other texts, including:

• Optimal Transportation and Applications by Ambrosio, Buttazzo, Cafarelli, Villani, and Brenier.
  
  
• the Plateau Problem, Part I: Historical Survey by Fomenko.
  

such selections aren't so bad .. i might learn something (professionally) useful from reading them.

in contrast, visiting the um askwith media library and borrowing the first two seasons of "Samurai Jack" [2] on DVD can't possibly be anything but pure distraction and diverson.

oh well. a boy's gotta cut loose, sometimes. q:

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[1] technically, the one @ um is called the shapiro science library, but as you readers know, none of that science stuff is as interesting as mathematics, anyway.

[2] found on the cartoon network, samurai jack is a wonderful animated show. it's amazing what you can do if you're an animated character named jack and in possession of a katana sword. (;