Paper

Found out last week that a paper I wrote for a conference has been accepted. In many respects this is great. The drawback is that it comes at a price of a 30 minute presentation of said paper. I don't speak the native language, either. Most of the geek world converses fairly well in English, as do I (being a native speaker). Nevertheless, these sorts of things make me nervous....

Some maths history from the BBC

Adorably cheesy, as all BBC programs seem to be. But well presented topics on some of the great math geeks of the 19th and 20th century.

Cliff Clavin

I feel that this is a fitting first post to what should never be an overly serious stop in cyberspace:

"I think you're missing the point here. It's not that Wile E. Coyote wants to eat necessarily or that he wants to eat a roadrunner. What he wants is to eat that particular roadrunner. Its very existential." - Cliff Clavin