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lorimtIn 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.
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Date: 2002-11-02 01:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-11-02 03:08 am (UTC)We have Kurt to thank for that. It's just another reason why he kicks ass.
--Dan
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Date: 2002-11-02 11:02 am (UTC)what's the conference? who was the speaker?
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Date: 2002-11-02 01:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-11-02 02:38 pm (UTC)the math world isn't necessarily that small: persi diaconis and mira bernstein are two rather highly-connected nodes. (-:
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Date: 2002-11-02 11:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-11-02 11:14 am (UTC)-Jen
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Date: 2002-11-02 06:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-11-03 05:11 am (UTC)Why do I remember this?
And what is trick or cheese?
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Date: 2002-11-03 12:30 pm (UTC)http://odin.ac.hmc.edu/~mvrable/funwiki/index.cgi?TrickOrCheese
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Rita
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Date: 2002-11-06 04:53 am (UTC)What would you think of this interpretation? Our society is obsessed with time. That is, in our interactions with other people, especially in societal rather than personal contexts, the temporal index is the most important. Rent is due every month. Homework is due every week. The meeting is at half past two on Thursday. Suppose I had class on Monday in meeting room 11 and on Wednesday we moved to meeting room 13. It would make very little difference to anything if Monday's class had been in MR 13 and Wednesday's in MR 11 instead, but it would make a great deal of difference if Monday's class had been given on Wednesday and vice versa. Specifically, it would have been a great deal more confusing.
But on a personal level, I think we can enjoy space if we can bring ourselves to forget about time. Or perhaps we forget about time by enjoying space. On the top of a mountain, we can enjoy the spaciousness of the view and the wind and the taste of the air and forget how much time is passing. The same thing happens when we are with a good friend and enjoying the lack of space between us.
Where is that quote from? I'd like to put it in my quotations archiv
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Date: 2002-11-15 02:26 am (UTC)no subject
Dear lord, yes... making poor people sell Kool-aid door to door. And pretending to be French going on gas station hunts. Oh well... at least I'm not selling WORMS, all sad and pathetic like, right Lori? Haha.
~Erin:>