My creations, could be musical, literary, graphical, or in other formats, but generally fall under the category of Art.
2009.07.0322:41:26 EDTValentine for the relativity geekThis just came randomly into my head (well, while I am trying to think up a T-shirt design). A (really geeky) valentine's day card for your favourite relativity geek: Rμν - ½ R gμν
2009.06.1211:42:48 EDTIntroducing my new blog: Asking QuestionsAfter thinking about it for a while, I've decided that I will get a WordPress account. Most of the reasons are given in this post from a few months ago. In any case, this will not mean the death of bl
2008.04.2415:37:35 EDTOn Doron ZeilbergerScanning through the offered seminars today, I came across an entry that I've already mostly missed (in part because my office hourse): Between 2:15pm and 3:15pm today, Professor Doron Zeilberger of
2007.01.0501:31:39 ESTChinese soft keyboard via XKBDOh well, since oxim won't run on my laptop, I've decided to code myself an on-screen keyboard to use with gcin. Ideally I would like to have done it with xvkbd, since its layout scheme is more elegant
2006.04.1201:33:33 EDTA double joke plus one moreWatch 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
2006.02.2800:12:24 ESTOde on the Death of a Favourite CatThrough fifteen winters, springs fourteen, Their love this orange cat had glean-- Deserved we all agree. For he's not just a pretty boy: With brains and brawls he oft brought joy, Or preys caught from
2006.01.2900:26:53 ESTJournal: Chinese New Year's EveIn another 8 minutes comes the new Chinese year, one of 丙戌, a year of Dog. Today, being New Year's Eve, in accordance to the Chinese tradition, we made 年糕 (Nian2 Gao1; Year
2005.10.0320:26:16 EDTUpdate to website; Cooking JournalThe spider mystery has been solved: it is a wolf spider. Am in the middle of some renovation on the website: the "papers" and "teaching" sections will be up shortly, probably within the next 10 hours.
2005.09.1822:46:36 EDTCooking JournalUpdate: 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
2005.09.1222:05:17 EDTDepartment Reception; Cooking JournalToday 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
2005.09.0620:50:04 EDTCooking JournalMom 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"
2005.08.1618:14:21 EDT99 Hair-pins: a tale of moralityTo all you teachers, would be teachers, and grammanazi out there: This, matey, is a weblog entry. I wrote it for the fun of it. It was a moment thing. If you ever have one of those moments, you would
Anime/Manga (3) News, reviews, recent purchase, thoughts, and pretty much everything about Anime and Manga.
Books (7) Book reviews primarily. Sometimes recommendations of new publications or mentioning of books I really want.
Chinese (33) Posts written in Chinese, posts about the Chinese language or culture, or posts concerning my experience being of Chinese descent. (以中文寫作, 或是內容有關於中國語言及文化, 和我個人的華人經驗的文章.)
Creations (12) My creations, could be musical, literary, graphical, or in other formats, but generally fall under the category of Art.
German (1) Posts written in German. It will be empty for a while, until I become passable writing in German.
French (1) Posts written in French. (Les entreés écrivées en français.)
Religion (1) My thoughts about religion in general, specific news about the various religions.
Japanese (1) Posts written in Japanese. It will be sparse until my Japanese becomes better.
Linky! (55) Boing-boing-like entries which links to fun stuff I found on the web (many of them through boing-boing).
Linux (22) Things related to the Linux operating systems. Particularly prominent on things about Gentoo, my preferred flavor.
Mathematics (59) Posts about mathematics. Upcoming conferences, conference descriptions, papers I am reading, papers I am writing, pre-prints, all sorts of goodies. Also some of my thoughts about mathematical education and such.
Movies (1) Movies I saw recently. Reviews. Movies I plan to see in the future. Expectations.
Music (10) Posts about the music I listen to or the music I play. Things about the music industry usually don't go here (they end up, almost always, in the outrageous! category.
Politics (7) Things that, unfortunately, I have to deal with as an American in a democratic republic, but about which I really wish I could just stop caring.