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Nov. 2nd, 2002 12:37 amIn the spirit of this journal, which seems to involve a lot of random lists, and since there are many random tidbits I can throw in here, I present the following.
*I will never make a good mime. I'm simply far too fond of talking. On the other hand, I managed for an entire hour and a half during trick or cheese.
*I've realized that I am fond of being the major cause of randomness in my own life. Well, thats not entirely true, I like to be involved in whatever the randomness is. I don't like events beyond my control to be stranger than those I can create or join. This probably helps explain a good number of the quests to varying locales that I led in high school.
*Along the lines of the previous note, I would someday like to see a proof by interpretive dance. In the ideal it would convey the rigor of the proof to mathematicians, but also convey the meaning and the ideas to everyone in the audience. Naturally, there would be no speech, just music, props and human movement exploring a brilliant mathematical concept.
*I recently read the following quote. "We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning to the phrase 'to live like men.'" I'm not sure I agree. It comes closer if space really does mean space and not matter, which we often mean when speaking of things which are not space.
*I should cook sometime soon. I've forgotten how nice cooking can be.
*Someday I will live in a house or apartment or other multi-room living space which I can help design. When I do, there will be a library. (A room devoted to books and their reading) This room may very well come at the expense of more common living rooms or family rooms and the like. The idea that I will someday be able to do this is exciting. To walk into an entire room full of books waiting to be read by me and those I know, to know that you are surrounded by friends, or at least those worth getting to know is a marvelous thing.
*Whoever came up with trick-or-cheese was brilliant. It was a wonderful way to spend an evening. And after all that, I got to launch pumpkins 60 feet almost straight up.
*Tomorrow (later tonight if you insist on telling time by a clock) I get to go to my first math conference. I listened to one of the speakers tonight and found out afterwords that he knows someone I know from Mathcamp. The math world really is quite small.
Speaking of the conference, I need to get up tomorrow morning. Hence, I should sleep now.
Goodnight, and sleep well.
*I will never make a good mime. I'm simply far too fond of talking. On the other hand, I managed for an entire hour and a half during trick or cheese.
*I've realized that I am fond of being the major cause of randomness in my own life. Well, thats not entirely true, I like to be involved in whatever the randomness is. I don't like events beyond my control to be stranger than those I can create or join. This probably helps explain a good number of the quests to varying locales that I led in high school.
*Along the lines of the previous note, I would someday like to see a proof by interpretive dance. In the ideal it would convey the rigor of the proof to mathematicians, but also convey the meaning and the ideas to everyone in the audience. Naturally, there would be no speech, just music, props and human movement exploring a brilliant mathematical concept.
*I recently read the following quote. "We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning to the phrase 'to live like men.'" I'm not sure I agree. It comes closer if space really does mean space and not matter, which we often mean when speaking of things which are not space.
*I should cook sometime soon. I've forgotten how nice cooking can be.
*Someday I will live in a house or apartment or other multi-room living space which I can help design. When I do, there will be a library. (A room devoted to books and their reading) This room may very well come at the expense of more common living rooms or family rooms and the like. The idea that I will someday be able to do this is exciting. To walk into an entire room full of books waiting to be read by me and those I know, to know that you are surrounded by friends, or at least those worth getting to know is a marvelous thing.
*Whoever came up with trick-or-cheese was brilliant. It was a wonderful way to spend an evening. And after all that, I got to launch pumpkins 60 feet almost straight up.
*Tomorrow (later tonight if you insist on telling time by a clock) I get to go to my first math conference. I listened to one of the speakers tonight and found out afterwords that he knows someone I know from Mathcamp. The math world really is quite small.
Speaking of the conference, I need to get up tomorrow morning. Hence, I should sleep now.
Goodnight, and sleep well.
