Brain, are you thinking what I'm thinking?

[lorimt]

The following thoughts occur to me as I plan to update this LJ. As I want the other entries to be coherent, I shall dump them here.
-Ariel, Cal and Jeff don't have livejournal. This is a pity, particularly as Ariel knows origami stuff and probably remembers more of the origami talk than I do. Cal and Jeff are summer math incarnate. Shmack and Katy's journal almost compensate but not quite.
-Lawns exist to look nice, lawn-mowers exist to make lawns look nice. Trees look nicer. Hills like trees much more than lawn-mowers like hills. (Best analogy ever)
-Computers with on-off switches should make use of them. Tilting the entire tower an inch or so is not an intuitive on-off switch.

Comments

[sithjawa.livejournal.com]

Ariel is (rarely) on AIM. She'd probably get on to discuss if you bug her/micah.

[(Anonymous)]

And my email still works perfectly...
It's abarton@hmc.edu. (Or abarton@odin.ac.hmc.edu)
I remember there was a nifty proof that, for any crease node in a flat model, the absolute value of the number of valley folds minus the number of mountain folds coming out of the node was 2. (The proof involves cutting (gasp) off the corner, then looking at the sum of the interior angles of the polygon formed by the cut.) There's also the pretty thing where you make a flat model, unfold it, two-color the resulting "map" ("countries" are separated by the creases), and refold it.

And I have a nifty PHiZZ unit torus. If you want, I can ask east-summer-chat if anyone has a digital camera, so I could send you a picture...

[lorimt]

Oooh, shiny. If someone has a camera, pictures would be great. I'll probably e-mail you about the proof. Do you know of any good math and origami books, or other sources of interesting proofs?

[(Anonymous)]

Nobody appears to have a camera. :-(
The only source of math origami info I know of is Tom Hull's website (it's http://web.merrimack.edu/~thull/OrigamiMath.html, if you don't know it.) (Tom Hull is the guy who did the talk.)

Oh, one more thing: in the two-coloring I told you about, only count creases that are folded in the end result. A crease to find your place doesn't count..

[artemis-lizzie.livejournal.com]

Hey! Don't I count, too! I've got an LJ!

[lorimt]

Yes, but you rarely update us when Cal does something amusing.

[ziqueenmab.livejournal.com]

Holy baggles, 'tis a Lori!

I was just thinking last night about your mom people in East who ought to have LJs and don't, and Cal and Jeff were quite high on the list.

Them and Eckert. You know that'd be fun to read.

[zwilichkl.livejournal.com]

Cal is far to lazy to have a live journal. And he hates writing. Pretty much a lost cause.
However Jeff does read LJ. He would probably get a journal if you asked him nicely and gave him a hug *shudders*.

[(Anonymous)]

Hey, I was just thinking about this the other day! I actually wouldn't mind getting a LJ, except that I don't have a referral number thingy and I don't wanna pay for it. But if someone will give me one, I wouldn't mind. I could use a journal that I won't lose under my bed and forget about after a week. I'll even forgo the hug, just this once. ^_^

Oh, and while I'm at it... very nice compliment, I guess, but how exactly am I summer math incarnate? Or at least part of it, along with Cal?

[lorimt]

Hey Jeff,
You and Cal are summer math incarnate mostly because of some incident or another Katy wrote about. I don't remember if it was in LJ or on Schmack, but not long after Cal's "news article" hit schmack. I remember wishing I were taking summer math and watching the random amusing things occur. That is all.