Daily Thought Archive

My 70-ish-year-old advisor wrote on my thesis draft, "You may want to increase your figure size to accommodate semi-blind committee members."

Maybe I'll run everyday during April again this year.

It's a good thing I have several email addresses. Otherwise I wouldn't have been able to sign up for my third free trial of wolfram alpha pro.

I just learned about the Dawson Function. Maybe after the show ended, Dawson and Joey started doing calculus.

It isn't a good Reggie's breakfast until you finish your meal, order another one, and then need a box.

A good proof should take at least an hour to write, use several white boards, and in the end, be about four lines long, finishing with, "well shit; that was easy".

New personal record: I dropped one full cup of water onto another full cup of water and they both spilled.

I'm all mentally recovered and refreshed after spring break. Now I'm ready to go on this thesis.

Whoever said don't talk to strangers is crazy. In the last three days talking to strangers had yielded promotional casino chips, a trip to a rope swing and waterfall, and a free pass to the united club.

Today's rope swing was pretty awesome too.

First rule of carpet ball, keep your hands off your balls.

Dear el casino, thanks for contributing to my fun fund :-)

The Inverse Eigenvalue Problem: When you start with all the eigenvalues and eigenvectors and drink until you forget them.

Today started with two no-show buses, a missed class, and no veggie patties at subway. This must be what the postapocalypse feels like.

Wow, I guess once you start, reading research papers is quite manageable.

Oh awesome. The ticking of my clock was just perfectly on beat with my music. That was cool.

I thought I lost a glove, but it was just hiding.

Pigging out at HongKong buffet is way better than going to the gym.

I had to run to catch the public bus today. That hasn't happened since I lived in China. Kind of a fun memory.

I find it frustrating working with people who can't effectively decide between the backspace key and the delete key.

For the record, I don't care if my hamburgers contain horse meat.

Floating points really float all over the place. Since when does 3.0 * 0.2 = 0.6000000000000001 ?

Wow, numpy, your awesome code is really making my thesis go smoothy.

Just when I thought the university couldn't get any shittier, today the whole north engineering building literally smells like shit.

Well Cody and Max, you got me. I downloaded spotify today.

My phone just had a very close call with my water.

People do weird things with elevators. I watched a lady wait three minutes for the elevator to go down a single floor.

Today's thesis progress: wrote the table of contents.

The republic wireless update makes the phone a lot nicer. I wonder if I should still try to root it?

Nice going boys. You're playing yesterday's tape.

I accidentally read about 60% of this script after looking up the quote

It's 6:00 and there is still a little bit of light in the sky. That's encouraging.

Putting on these screen protectors is nearly impossible.

Come on weather, hold out so I can fly tonight.

A sure way to confuse yourself in the morning: set your alarm clock to make the same sound as an incoming phone call.

Who knew installing an OS from a flash drive would cause errors that installing from a CD didn't?

Ahhh, my chicken wings are so sore. This year is going to have a lot of pushups.

I've officially been crowd surfing now.

I finally got free hot chocolate refills at Reggies!

I think that seminar presentation went quite well considering when I started preparing.

Sometimes being less prepared to teach turns out better.

Today's breakfast: Burnt pancakes. Yummy!

I'm sleeping in my motorcycle helmet tonight.

Darn nose. Stop bleeding already!

This is graduate school people. Don't just sit there like you're dead. Participate in your classes.

Interesting. Searching the same dates and cities at kayak.com can give different results in different browsers!

This DIY rent-a-car idea sounds interesting: Relay Rides.

My Christmas beef stick is officially gone.

All these years I've been playing don't stop believin' wrong.

Come on snow, go away! Don't you know some people want to try out their new ripstick?

Craigslist Joe is the coolest movie I've seen in a while.

And it's available on netflix.

I found this gem on the great lakes science center website: "a static generator generates 200,000 volts of electric current"

Sooo much spaghetti and no palm tree to puke under.

Since I'm in the tire changing mood recently, I finally fixed my bicycle tire.

Mexican pizzas ruined my resolution!

Thanks Santa, now I don't have to ride on the death tire anymore!

Big plans in the morning: Flying lesson!

How can it be happening again already?

Semester GPA: 4.0!

Finished my last motorcycle ride of the season today. (And somehow my tire survived)

Dear Winter,

Thanks for finally agreeing to take a year off :)

Dear maps, before you publish a book, check for misspelled words, mismatched parentheses, and verbless sentences.

Also, six introductory pseudo-chapters is too many.

I've mentioned Tim Minchin before. Now he's got me in the Christmas mood.

I though I'd finally make it through a semester break without considering dropping out. But sure enough, the department administration is making me reconsider.

Maybe I'll get back to a regular sleep schedule tonight.

Exams start tomorrow. Wish me luck.

How did I get from a graphing tutorial to the Wikipedia page for Easter Island? I didn't even notice it was happening until I almost ended up at youtube.

I'm risk champion again! (How do you like that Annika?)

According to humanforsale.com I'm worth $1.9 million. I thought that was good until all my friends all scored higher :(

I'm officially registered for all one of my classes next semester.

I forgot to start my advent calendar until today! (Three bonus chocolates for me)

My body is so sore! Just a few weeks off really got me out of shape.

I should have known the grocery store would be closed on Sunday. I guess it's hotdogs and cheesecake for dinner.

I can already tell writing left-handed is going to be a pain. Let's see how exams turn out.

Just taught my last lab of the semester!

Come on california dmv, can't you just leave me alone?

I'm officially signed up for republic wireless.

I got a static shock from my headphones today and then my computer stopped playing sound for a few hours.

It's getting colder and colder, and today it snowed. It's only a matter of time until I need warm water to start the motorcycle.

Looks like I'm getting back to my roots for the next month or so; my phone broke.

Second place at the turkey trot. If I hadn't taken that week off of training, I might have gotten first.

For many things in life, when you get the details just right, nobody will ever notice. But when you mess them up, everybody notices.

A long weekend from school can really cause my sleeping hours to drift.

It may have taken an 11° day, but I finally made it out for another run (shirtless no less).

My latest hobby: Origami

Only one more class until Thanksgiving break!

My high school Chemistry teacher used to say that a polar bear's fur was colorless, not white. She was crazy.

Occasionally someone clearly illustrates a complex phenomenon with a simple demonstration. That's awesome.

Unfortunately sometimes that demonstration requires the java runtime environment which is kind of a bummer.

Few things are as irritating as a good idea presented by a poorly articulated argument.

We're living in a society people! You can't have your big killer dogs roaming free!

Thinking of Maggie...

Partly because I like her, but mostly because she's my most active website stalker :)

Quantum mechanics is actually pretty cool when you don't jump straight for all the utilitarian approximations.

Sometimes the "established results" are only established because someone said it and everyone else assumed it was true.

Politics are like Pokemon cards. It's just a bunch of douchey little characters that eventually evolve into other douchey little characters, and I'm not caught up in the craze.

Happy election day.

Doing my laundry is turning out to be more of a chore than I initially expected.

The new school year's first "age of empires" games took place today.

Let's add microwave oven to the list of things I've transported on my motorcycle.

It's official. Whenever I run on the public track, I have to be the fastest person on it. I can't stand letting casual runners pass me even if they're only doing a few laps.

Today I actually proofread something and caught a real error just like I resolved :)

The college Halloween party advertised "free food". That was a little bit of an overstatement.

First race since the Warrior dash. I'm officially in better shape than last year.