2006.04.29 15:56:43 EDT Badminton scoring Just found out from Daryl (our badminton coach) that He is getting married. Because of that, he is moving about 100 miles west, to the middle-of-nowhere Pennsylvania And so he can't coach us anymore.
2006.04.28 18:26:46 EDT On the Miyagawa/Dower incident Updated May 2nd S sends me a link at ESWN commenting on the same issue. The author there did more research than I did, and quotes more liberally. To see some examples of what I was riling about below,
2006.04.25 14:30:50 EDT German exam Okay, passed the second language exam. Now I only have the Generals left to look forward to for the remainder of this semester. Compared to the French exam, the German one was a lot less intensive. Bu
2006.04.22 00:23:52 EDT Badminton videos on YouTube Some really cool badminton videos that I found on YouTube: Some segments from Melbourne 2006 Semis. Much of the video is from the women's doubles match where the Chinese were just dominating, and the
2006.04.21 17:19:19 EDT Anime Reviews Just watched two Anime series recently. AIR TV Air TV is quite obviously, into the third episode or so, an anime series based on a video game: there are several characters each with a side story which
2006.04.20 19:26:50 EDT Spring pictures Picture time! Dad got a free digital camera from a credit-card rebate program or something. It is made by the Taiwanese camera company Premier (their website is down at the moment, so I won't link to
2006.04.13 17:41:05 EDT The most expensive sandwich BBC carries a report on the McDonald sandwich--not made by the fastfood joint, but by chef Scott McDonald--now selling for a limited time (until the Monday after Easter) at the London department store
2006.04.12 01:33:33 EDT A double joke plus one more Watch out! Puns ahead! For a while, when he was down, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon spent some time with Friedrich Engels when he couldn't afford rent. One day, Karl Marx decided to pay them a visit. Of cou
2006.04.05 05:12:33 EDT Notes on Strichartz Finished! Notes on Strichartz estimates here. The last section on application of the inequality to semilinear wave equations is a bit sketchy. The non-casual reader should be able to fill in the holes