Friday, July 04, 2008

celebrating 4th of July with a brand-name, laziness, and a little LaTeX

sometimes starbucks is rather convenient. for one thing, brewed coffee refills are $.50 + tax, which is kept hush-hush, of course.

also, there is no FREE internet. t-mobile is a partner of starbucks, so if you want to pay a fee analogous to that in an airport, then you can have the web for a little while.

then again, it's amazing how much you can get done, when you DON'T have the web at your fingertips. hence, the convenience: i was able to work reasonably efficiently, for an hour or two.



today is an american holiday, so i'm not enacting my "1pm to 4pm" rule. still, in LaTeX i've changed a few paragraphs here and there, added a few lemmas to the LaTeX, but none of it is serious work.

soon i will have to be serious, if i really want to finish this paper and to publish it. i suppose that i still have some growing up to do.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I assume you don't have a Starbucks card? If you do, refills of brewed coffee drop from 50 cents to free... and you get two hours of free internet each day!

janus said...

interesting.

i'm already juggling a few credit cards (as signups for other vices), but that is tempting ..