David Feuer

I recommend Numberphile, which introduces mathematical ideas of various sorts and is aimed at a general audience. I most especially recommend the videos featuring Dr. James Grimes, but most of the others are good too. Don't bother watching the wretched ones about logarithms unless you want a lesson on how not to explain something.

For math fans and especially people interested in mathematics education, Victoria "Vihart" Hart makes some really amazing videos relating to mathematics in various ways. Most of them go by too quickly to be good for people trying to learn about a subject for the first time, but they give some very interesting ideas about how one might teach those subjects. Her Green Bean Matherole video, on the other hand, is a very good introduction to the idea of a vector field.

I recently pulled some corned beef out of the refrigerator, intending to make a sandwich. Unfortunately, when I smelled it, it didn't smell right. In fact, it smelled revolting. When my mother, with a declining sense of smell, smelled it, she thought it smelled fine. I am very curious whether electronic noses have gotten good enough these days to detect spoiled food.

A thick vine climbs up the tree, around and around.
The way its bark cracks seems almost to trace spirals along its length.
A thick braid of narrower vines twist down from a branch high above,
some of them shooting off thin branches with small, pointed leaves.
But something is a bit odd: the big vine climbing up the tree has been cut off.
Its base and root are nowhere to be found.

I haven't had any electricity since Friday. It's now (just barely) Wednesday. I still have no idea when we'll get power back. I'm particularly frustrated by the fact that the streetlight across from our house is the very first one that's dark—just about all the houses I pass on the way home have gotten their power back. I'm sure a big part of the problem is a huge tree that fell down up the block and knocked down the power lines. I suspect they may consider the job of getting rid of that tree too time-consuming to be worth tying up a crew when they have so many other outages they can fix more quickly, but don't think they can work around the tree to fix the power lines. I don't really know, however. In other news, a giant limb of the giant oak in our back yard broke off in the storm and fell over, but didn't manage to fall down. So we have a tree-sized branch (I'm guessing 100-200lb) just resting up in the tree. It's a tad scary, though I don't think it will fall. The thing that's most annoying about all of this is all the food that I'll have to throw away.

Don't put the captions at the top of the screen unless you have a damn good reason. It's annoying as all hell when it covers the faces.

A recent xkcd about getting out and doing something with your ideas.

Yeah, that. Don't forget to do something fun.

The colors on this dreamWIDTH site are horrible. I don't like pink. I also don't like the horrible maroonish color, whatever that's called.