2008.07.1322:59:15 EDTKerr-Newman paper posted on arXivFinally! I have changed from a consumer of scientific progress to a producer thereof: my first respectable paper has been posted to arXiv. It is on "A space-time characterization of the Kerr-Newman me
2008.07.0223:10:39 EDTFireworks after moving inFor some reason, Princeton Township decided to run its firework display this evening. Not exactly on the same calibre as the one given next to the Charles with the music of Boston Pop, but still quite
2008.06.2718:46:15 EDTHoneymoon picturesI have returned from my Honeymoon in Britain. There will be text-based descriptions a bit later, after my wife and I sort out some more mundane details about moving into a new apartment, getting car f
2008.06.0823:48:09 EDTIt's finally sinking in... I am no longer a bachelor!By the great noodly appendages of the flying spaghetti monster, I am a married man! Ceremony was great, people were awesome. More detail to follow tomorrow or Tuesday.
2008.05.2221:17:49 EDT5-sided Sierpinski GasketWhile in the stall attending to some personal business today, I read the graffiti as usual. One particular one is a pretty poor attempt at an Apollonian gasket. Somehow from there I started wondering
2008.04.3011:06:36 EDTWalk the plank!As the accusation of problems with Sequoia voting machines that were used in this past Presidential Primary escalate, I think I more and more agree with what Practicality says in regards to Sequoia's
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
2008.04.1420:50:07 EDTRIP: Johnny WheelerJohnny Wheeler was one of the last surviving giants of physics from the earlier half of last century. Besides being a great physicist, he was also a great mentor, and a bridge between the generations
2008.03.2710:22:22 EDTNew Upper Bound for Rubik's Cube SolutionsPosted on the arXiv: Twenty-Five Moves Suffice for the Rubik's Cube. Tomas Rokicki (Stanford trained computer scientist [I didn't know CS can be listed on the Math Genealogy Project...]; logic puzzle
2008.03.2517:09:51 EDTSome exact integralsDoing integrals are often hard things. Beyond the traditional bag of tricks that include standard change of variables, trigonometric substitutions, and such, there are often integrals here and there t