2005.09.30 12:18:02 EDT Thoughts on a friday morning I have this most awesome idea for a sandwich shop. It should use gourmet bread and nice ingredients like Panera, and should have a set menu like Panera. But you know how Panera introduces new sandwic
2005.09.29 12:25:09 EDT Three happenings on a Thursday morning Three things marked this morning: a mathematical Eureka, a hug, and a discovery. The mathematical thought is directly related to yesterday's post on fluid dynamics so I just added it to that entry as
2005.09.27 16:43:07 EDT Two analysis problems Problem 1: Consider a bounded domain U with C2 boundary. Let f denote a harmonic function in C2(U) that is continuous up to the boundary of U, which we denote by S. Let T be a subset of S, and suppose
2005.09.26 22:45:35 EDT Willie the pooh Finds One The story began about 3.5 months ago, when we moved into our current house. I went to the local Bank of America to change my address (being a computer whiz actually resulted in my mistrust of doing fi
2005.09.22 23:44:39 EDT I grew up there 這是我的故鄉，我成長的記憶。這，是Google鳥瞰世界的影像&#
2005.09.21 16:59:00 EDT Naughtiness in the English Language An article appeared in the New York Times titled Almost before we spoke, we swore. It reports on scientific inquiry to the social/linguistic/neurological significances of cursing. According to the art
2005.09.19 17:24:49 EDT First day of class; At the supermarket The first day of classes is surprisingly uneventful. I woke up at nine, after sleeping a mere 6.5 hours. But my body feels like it wants to be up, so I let it. Showered, read some news on the web, and
2005.09.18 22:46:36 EDT Cooking Journal Update: Just realized that some of the following paragraphs doesn't make much sense without context. Quite a boring day: did some reading, did laundry, watched Philadelphia Story with French Subtitles
2005.09.17 22:46:30 EDT RIP: Serge Lang Whoa! Just found out that Serge Lang passed away on September 12, this past Monday. He is an algebraist, and technically a 先輩(senpai)/學長(xue zhang) of mine: Ph.D. Princeton
2005.09.16 18:08:05 EDT Perplexing audition results Yay! For Me! Okay, I am actually more perplexed than happy at this moment. So, I went to Woolworth to check on the Jazz Ensemble audition results. To be honest, I wasn't quite expecting it to be poste
2005.09.15 23:00:56 EDT Two-day Journal, in which Willie discovers the Blue Line and Auditions for PUJE Yesterday I made an awesome discovery: the campus shuttle service. Actually, I knew that they existed since sophomore year, but while living on campus, taking the shuttle from one place to the other f
2005.09.12 22:05:17 EDT Department Reception; Cooking Journal Today was the reception for first year grads. I woke up earlier than usual (8:30am), showered, dressed, doodled around, had breakfast, and left home at 10:30. Got to school by 11. Spent about half an
2005.09.12 01:22:05 EDT Why science reporting tends to be rubbish As if to affirm my assertions in this entry, The Guardian is carrying a story on why most science reporting are rubbish, which also included the very informational link to BadScience. To summarize: th
2005.09.10 13:09:18 EDT Katrina: the bleak aftermath The biggest threat of hurricane Katrina is slowly manifesting itself, and people are starting to notice. From the fallout of one the most horrifying disasters in American history, we can, unfortunatel
2005.09.08 01:39:39 EDT Tesanovic on Austin Convention Center First hand account of conditions at Austin Convention Center. It is written by Jasmina Tesanovic, a writer and filmmaker from Serbia. Quote: ... This center for refugees is well-organized, compared t
2005.09.08 00:28:52 EDT The decline of journalism in the U.S. I can't stand watching American TV news anymore. Just now, there was a segment on NBC 10, the local (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) NBC affiliate station, about the so-called liquid armour. How do I star
2005.09.06 20:50:04 EDT Cooking Journal Mom left for Taiwan today. Had to get up early (4:30am) to take her to the airport. The large number of people at the airport at 5:30 in the morning, and the 5-minute queue in front of the "Departure"
2005.09.05 02:34:15 EDT Why many published papers are not rubbish As usual, science reporters exaggerate the findings of a particular researchers in order to make a more shocking headline. New Scientist, the self-proclaimed "World's No. 1 Science and Technology News
2005.09.04 20:23:48 EDT The Decline and Fall of TR Once we thought they were the ruthless rulers of the ancient world, chasing down cars and eating lawyers. Then we realized they might not be so terrorizing after all because of their short small forea
2005.09.04 13:44:07 EDT Mail mix-up For some reason, we've been receiving rather lots of "mixed-up" mail recently at home. And the mix-ups are usually due to the incompetence/laziness of certain third parties. For starters, the previous
2005.09.02 12:59:10 EDT Unprepared for Disaster: Katrina Back in early 2001, "the Federal Emergency Management Agency ranked the potential damage to New Orleans as among the three likeliest, most castastrophic disasters facing this country.". The other two