An eventful day
Jul. 12th, 2004 06:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sniffnoyStarting with last night.
I was not about to work on the 5th floor, as the 5th floor was taken up by everybody arguing against Dan Rubin. So I went to the basement. I forget exactly what happened, but I was sitting next to Fergie and across from Liz and for whatever reason I was saying about how I wasn't working upstairs because of Dan Rubin. She didn't know who that was, and wanted to know what sort of ridiculous things he was claiming. I didn't feel like describing them.
Me: Why don't you just go up there and listen to it yourself?
Liz: I can't.
Me: Oh, you're on basement duty?
Liz: No...
Me: ...is it because you have no shoes on?
Liz: No...
(silence)
Fergie: She's a girl, you idiot!
Me: OH! Well it wasn't *that* obvious!
A few seconds later I was repeatedly trying to explain that that was *not* what I meant, but I couldn't because I was laughing too hard.
Later that night, for no apparent reason, I looked up an explicit formula for the nth prime number on Mathworld, wrote it down, and showed it to everyone in the 5th floor lounge. I then proceeded to program it into the TI-89 and find that it takes ridiculously, ridiculously long, as expected. Today I tried having it calculate the 8th prime number, at the beginning of geometry. It hadn't terminated by the end of the class.
As for today.
Xin's alarm doesn't work, it seems; I've never heard it go off, even once, and it's set to the same time as mine. So today I was woken up at 7:30 by my alarm, turned it off, and then accidentally fell back to sleep. Xin, apparently, never woke up at all. By the time I woke up it was nearly 10:00. Whoops. I missed Glenn's zero ring lecture, unfortunately. I just got there for his proof - assuming, of course, our new axiom that ∃a∈N - that 1∈N.
After Number Theory was Graphs and Knots, where Rohrlich (sp?) finally introduced the knots part of the course. He talked about knot invariants and gave us the example of tricolorability, and then talked about the Reidemeister rules for transforming planar projections of knots. (Which we are most certainly *not* going to prove. He did give the actual definition of an ambient isotopy, but there is no way we are going to actually work with that.) He didn't get to actually proving that the Reidemeister rules preserve tricolorability - he's going to do that next class, although I did that during class. Anyway, I noticed that in all the (planar projections of) knots I had seen so far, the number of strands equaled the number of crossings... except the standard projection of the unknot, which Rohrlich said was considered to have one strand. So I looked at how the Reidemeister rules affected the number of strands and crossings, and found that each preserved the difference between the numbers of strands and crossings. I asked if this was a useful invariant, and he apparently hadn't anticipated this; he thought about it, and so did the class, and then someone pointed out that, as there are 2 "ends" for each strand, and 2 "ends" for each crossing, there must *always* be the same number of strands as crossings, and Rohrlich must have just messed up earlier when he said the standard projection of the unknot was considered to have 1 strand rather than 0. Hooray for utterly useless invariants! :P
Finally, the note.
Apparently, yesterday, Etienne (whose idea it was, apparently), Dina, 5 other counselors, and Fergie wrote an anonymous, horribly mathy love note for Sherry and, this morning, put it up on the phone-message board, along with a rose and chocolates that Dina bought. However, Li-Mei and Connie got there before Sherry did, took them down, hid them, and told Sherry that what was there had been a mathy pornographic note from Fergie! *And* nobody else who was involved will help him. So naturally Fergie was going to get lots more problem sets if he didn't do something; he talked to Li-Mei at lunch, and she said she'd tell Sherry what really happened. So she and Connie go and sit down at the same table as Sherry, and start talking to her. We can't tell what's going on over there, but it doesn't *look* like Li-Mei is helping to get him off the hook...
Fergie: I've always wanted to get fucked by 3 girls, but this is NOT what I had in mind!
Well, they did tell Sherry the truth, but she still gave Fergie extra work, for being involved. And got generally mad at everyone involved, especially Etienne. For a while Dina managed to successfully deny she had bought the chocolates; she said she had accidentally left some chocolates in the lounge, and they must have been taken and used for this. She was found out too, though. And now apparently all the counselors involved, especially Etienne, are, apparently, in a lot of trouble, though of what form, I don't know. I must say, I don't think I've ever seen Etienne look that scared before...
Now I must finish up here, for at 19:00 Bernie (that is, Aaron Silberstein) is giving a lecture on nonstandard analysis...
EDIT: Sorry, Dustin gave the lecture, not Bernie. I'll write about it tomorrow...
-Sniffnoy, annoyed that he seems to have lost the paper containing the final power structures from the Illuminati game on Friday
...oh yeah, the detail I forgot was that, for whatever reason, Svetlana is now also known as "Ebay".
...yeah, that was pointless...
--
"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government,
intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from
the cares of office."
-Ambrose Bierce
I was not about to work on the 5th floor, as the 5th floor was taken up by everybody arguing against Dan Rubin. So I went to the basement. I forget exactly what happened, but I was sitting next to Fergie and across from Liz and for whatever reason I was saying about how I wasn't working upstairs because of Dan Rubin. She didn't know who that was, and wanted to know what sort of ridiculous things he was claiming. I didn't feel like describing them.
Me: Why don't you just go up there and listen to it yourself?
Liz: I can't.
Me: Oh, you're on basement duty?
Liz: No...
Me: ...is it because you have no shoes on?
Liz: No...
(silence)
Fergie: She's a girl, you idiot!
Me: OH! Well it wasn't *that* obvious!
A few seconds later I was repeatedly trying to explain that that was *not* what I meant, but I couldn't because I was laughing too hard.
Later that night, for no apparent reason, I looked up an explicit formula for the nth prime number on Mathworld, wrote it down, and showed it to everyone in the 5th floor lounge. I then proceeded to program it into the TI-89 and find that it takes ridiculously, ridiculously long, as expected. Today I tried having it calculate the 8th prime number, at the beginning of geometry. It hadn't terminated by the end of the class.
As for today.
Xin's alarm doesn't work, it seems; I've never heard it go off, even once, and it's set to the same time as mine. So today I was woken up at 7:30 by my alarm, turned it off, and then accidentally fell back to sleep. Xin, apparently, never woke up at all. By the time I woke up it was nearly 10:00. Whoops. I missed Glenn's zero ring lecture, unfortunately. I just got there for his proof - assuming, of course, our new axiom that ∃a∈N - that 1∈N.
After Number Theory was Graphs and Knots, where Rohrlich (sp?) finally introduced the knots part of the course. He talked about knot invariants and gave us the example of tricolorability, and then talked about the Reidemeister rules for transforming planar projections of knots. (Which we are most certainly *not* going to prove. He did give the actual definition of an ambient isotopy, but there is no way we are going to actually work with that.) He didn't get to actually proving that the Reidemeister rules preserve tricolorability - he's going to do that next class, although I did that during class. Anyway, I noticed that in all the (planar projections of) knots I had seen so far, the number of strands equaled the number of crossings... except the standard projection of the unknot, which Rohrlich said was considered to have one strand. So I looked at how the Reidemeister rules affected the number of strands and crossings, and found that each preserved the difference between the numbers of strands and crossings. I asked if this was a useful invariant, and he apparently hadn't anticipated this; he thought about it, and so did the class, and then someone pointed out that, as there are 2 "ends" for each strand, and 2 "ends" for each crossing, there must *always* be the same number of strands as crossings, and Rohrlich must have just messed up earlier when he said the standard projection of the unknot was considered to have 1 strand rather than 0. Hooray for utterly useless invariants! :P
Finally, the note.
Apparently, yesterday, Etienne (whose idea it was, apparently), Dina, 5 other counselors, and Fergie wrote an anonymous, horribly mathy love note for Sherry and, this morning, put it up on the phone-message board, along with a rose and chocolates that Dina bought. However, Li-Mei and Connie got there before Sherry did, took them down, hid them, and told Sherry that what was there had been a mathy pornographic note from Fergie! *And* nobody else who was involved will help him. So naturally Fergie was going to get lots more problem sets if he didn't do something; he talked to Li-Mei at lunch, and she said she'd tell Sherry what really happened. So she and Connie go and sit down at the same table as Sherry, and start talking to her. We can't tell what's going on over there, but it doesn't *look* like Li-Mei is helping to get him off the hook...
Fergie: I've always wanted to get fucked by 3 girls, but this is NOT what I had in mind!
Well, they did tell Sherry the truth, but she still gave Fergie extra work, for being involved. And got generally mad at everyone involved, especially Etienne. For a while Dina managed to successfully deny she had bought the chocolates; she said she had accidentally left some chocolates in the lounge, and they must have been taken and used for this. She was found out too, though. And now apparently all the counselors involved, especially Etienne, are, apparently, in a lot of trouble, though of what form, I don't know. I must say, I don't think I've ever seen Etienne look that scared before...
Now I must finish up here, for at 19:00 Bernie (that is, Aaron Silberstein) is giving a lecture on nonstandard analysis...
EDIT: Sorry, Dustin gave the lecture, not Bernie. I'll write about it tomorrow...
-Sniffnoy, annoyed that he seems to have lost the paper containing the final power structures from the Illuminati game on Friday
...oh yeah, the detail I forgot was that, for whatever reason, Svetlana is now also known as "Ebay".
...yeah, that was pointless...
--
"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government,
intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from
the cares of office."
-Ambrose Bierce
na-ah..
Date: 2004-07-12 05:55 pm (UTC)PS And just so that you know.. All head counselors *knew* about it, and about 7 or 8 of us were actually involved in the whole thing. So, ha. =P
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Date: 2004-07-12 07:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-12 11:18 pm (UTC)Thats what I have been trying to tell you for a long time! :-p
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Date: 2004-07-13 03:46 pm (UTC)Note the reason.
Date: 2004-07-13 03:47 pm (UTC)Re: Note the reason.
Date: 2004-07-13 04:08 pm (UTC)But I digress. Blair was the female HC and she played poker with some counselors in the 4W lounge late at night in 2001.
Re: na-ah..
Date: 2004-07-13 10:02 pm (UTC)Re: na-ah..
Date: 2004-07-14 02:28 pm (UTC)-Dina
Or smbody pretending to be Dina, anyways. )
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Date: 2004-07-17 09:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-18 03:27 pm (UTC)