time's up: now, the holidays.
- something's not quite right with a recent proof i had in mind. there's a gap in the argument and i can't seem to patch it. i still believe that the result is true .. just not quite a proof yet.
tomorrow's a trip home to see my parents. i decided on three days off, which isn't much anyway because day one is for travelling. tomorrow is:
- 8:30am airport shuttle,
10:00am flight,
.. then noon,
and life begins again:
lunch and family,
but not mathematics.
- day three is christmas tuesday. i'm not religious and my family's not religious.. but somehow it's christmas. you shouldn't do math on christmas, should you?
- at least not on christmas morning?
even if you don't have any presents?
..at least, i don't think i'll have any presents..
Math and presents mentioned together reminded me of this:
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I'm not going anywhere for Christmas. However, today I spent ~30 min on Google "Street Views", revisiting the streets of Pittsburgh (mostly the Oakland area). Just like the real thing, without the hassles of traveling. :)
Leonid
Just like the real thing, without the hassles of traveling. :)
ReplyDeleteunless you can smell indian food or the faint sour smell of french fry oil (near the O) or the smell of musty old books from the Carnegie Library, i disagree. it's not quite like the real thing at all!
I guess I am more visual than olfactory. Which reminds me of the theory of learning styles: visual, auditory, kinesthetic... I don't know if there is an olfactory learning style. I hope not. It's hard enough to teach calculus to kinesthetic learners. :/
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