Thu Jul 01 1999 08:20:
Yes, once more Leonard Richardson Month is upon us. I was going to
reuse the 1997 Leonard Richardson Month copy for the third year
running, but let's try to put a stop to the practice of reusing
copy for the third year running, shall we?
There is a new Mail You Can Bruise.
It's not even from a real person, but I think it's funny. I get the
"fire is being strobed!" security message a lot, but I'd never gotten
this security message before. Now I can say "Yes, I get alerted by email
whenever someone is in promiscious mode." Whenever someone is in
promiscious mode, I know about it! You can count on that.
I now have a whole bunch of travelogue pictures from my mother, which will soon be integrated into the travelogue proper. I am
distressed to discover that the haircut I had did not make me look
older. In fact, it made me look like a thirteen-year-old. Fortunately,
I no longer have that haircut.
In just nine days {I can make you a man, I will be twenty years old}. Huzzah!
Thu Jul 01 1999 12:54:
I just met Arely Zaragoza, who I went to high school with, in
Ackerman. She is in a pre-med summer plan here, apparantly. I believe
she is going to Cal State Bakersfield.
That trumps what I was going to put here, which is that I got
my story published in Be Dope.
That story is in the vein of the Adam Kaplan school of comedy, which holds
that anything involving the word "ass" is funny. I think I did as
well as I could have done, given the subject matter.
Mike Popovic, Be Dope editor extraordinaire, has offered me a
CD of BeOS 4.5. Yippee! Now maybe I can finally get my music in gear.
So kids, if you want a copy of BeOS 4.5, just write a silly story
for Be Dope. Note: I cannot guarantee that this will work for you.
I went to the EMS library, looking for the thing by Kolmogorov on
the relative magnitudes of the different indices of a function, thinking it would be fun to read over the weekend.
Unfortunately, while "the thing by Kolmogorov on the relative magnitudes of
the different indices of a function" is how I store it in my mind,
that's not something you can search on in the EMS library. Everything by Kolmogorov
I could find looked too heavy for me, so I'll have to ask Prof. Enderton
what paper or book he was talking about. This is no great loss, as
there are two other books I am in the same predicament about, and I
can just ask about all of them at once.
I did get Kernighan's (ho ho ho! I'm Brian Kernighan!) UNIX Programming Environment,
Brooks' (ho ho ho! I'm Fred Brooks! No, never mind) The Mythical Man Month, and Knuth's
Literate Programming, which will hold me at least through the
4th of July weekend.
Along the hall of the 6th floor of the Math Sciences building,
there are portraits of mathematicians. Godel is right outside the
door, and Kolmogorov is a little down the hall. Kolmogorov looks like
he was quite the ladies' man.
Thu Jul 01 1999 14:16:
The door mentioned in the last entry is the door to the room where
I am taking my Linear Algebra class.
