A PSA for your Face

I replaced the heads on my electric razor today and had a shave. It is remarkable how much real blades that actually cut can work compared to rough blades that just kind of scrape at the face. My chin isn't as speckled with black and red spots like usual.

Another Analysis Joke*

A graduate student in Mathematics is at a popular bar when he sees another grad student sitting alone. He walks up to her and says,

"It seems really compact in here, how about we subsequently converge?"

She replies,

"Are you dense? You'll never get within epsilon!"

*May not actually be funny to anyone.

Don't Bother Calling

When I answered the phone with wet hair, I considered the fact that my phone could be damaged. I ruled this as unlikely, but it happened anyway.

I'm working on ways to "cheat" the system and not overpay for a new phone with features I'll never use. Does anyone have an old Sprint phone they would like to give/sell me?

Limited Mobility

Here is a short list of things one can't do (painlessly) with bruised ribs:

• Lay down on one's back,
• Erase chalkboards/whiteboards,
• Lift things,
• Lay down on one's side,
• Ride a bike,
• Sit in a chair for any amount of time,
• Stand for any amount of time,
• Hug,
• Lay on one's stomach,
• Laugh, cough, or sneeze, and
• Realize that one is modifying behavior for a bruise.

Analysis Destroys the Brain

While doing analysis homework, investigating sequences, I thought to myself,

"And then aleph-null things lead to another..."

I would like to point out that Blogger did not let me type the entity ℵ in this post.

Sleep Confusion

Last night, I had my reoccurring dream that I had gone halfway through the semester without attending or doing any of the work in one or more of my classes. This dream caused so much stress that I woke up, got a hold of my senses and counted the classes I was really taking. It turns out that my dream assumed I was only in the classes my office mates are in (O.D.E., Combinatorics, Applied). However, despite my reassurances, this dream happened again several times of this cycle.

I think it has something to do with not going to class due to professors being out of town recently, but I can't be sure.

My Friends Are Strongly Connected

I was perusing Facebook and found a cool application (after Jon Dokulil added it) about making a "friend wheel." Normally, I say "bunk" to any application, but this attracts my graph-theory interests, as it places your friends in a circle with lines between them if they are friends with each other. It turns out that being in JDE has granted me a strong network of friends who also know each other. This is the largest cluster, followed closely by math grad students and the Supersnafu crew from high school. Click here for the full-resolution version of my friend wheel, or click here for a smaller, annotated version.

I also noted that the application was created by some sophomore in the UK. It's pretty cool php scripting, but I think his talents should go into something else. Yet, more people know him for his facebook application than people know me for... what have I done?

Algebra Has Destroyed My Brain

I woke up very groggily, thinking "My action of conjugation is trivial, and yet I am still simple. Therefore, I am in prime shape."