2008.02.27 06:52:28 EST The Princeton Yes! Oh man am I slow. I've been wondering about the "YES!" carved into the footpath connecting Whitman College and the Dinky ever since the College first opened. And this morning, walking toward Fine Hall
2008.02.26 15:14:25 EST Walk or Wait redux Several weeks ago I wrote about a paper asking whether to walk or to wait at the bus stop, and proposed some possible generalizations. Apparently someone else also thought about possible generalizatio
2008.02.10 02:57:29 EST Weights and measures: goldsmith edition Stop me if you've heard this one... Which weighs more: a pound of gold or a pound of feathers? No, they don't weigh the same. And no, it is not because of buoyancy. Gold, like all precious metals or g
2008.02.10 00:29:57 EST wrapfig.sty Cute trick I just found: it is possible to "in-line" a picture or a block of text or a table similar to the HTML box model where the in-line material is floated in the middle of the page with text wra
2008.02.08 14:52:23 EST MacBook Air I have never seriously considered owning Mac hardware before. I was forced to use old Macintoshes, and then some iMacs during high school; when I worked at Argonne, the lab uses almost exclusively Mac
2008.02.07 10:28:33 EST Happy New Year Happy Chinese New Year! I think my penmanship (or should it be brushmanship?) was better two years ago. And strangely I cannot find any pictures of last year's. (Though, I composed the Lian myself th