Archive for February, 2005
Saturday, February 12th, 2005
I tried the BK Veggie tonight for dinner, and I have to say that I would rate it slightly above "acceptable". It was not gross, by any stretch, and in fact, I mildly enjoyed it. Now, it does not compete with the Whopper; okay, it's not even on the same ...
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Friday, February 11th, 2005
Ariele and I took the afternoon off and ran the gauntlet of awesome shopping outlets. First, we drove to the Fry's in Burbank to check out music, movies, computers, computer parts...everything electronics. We then came back to Pasadena to peruse The Apple Store. Wow, what a place. I mean, I've ...
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Thursday, February 10th, 2005
I am taking a math course this term from a professor who taught one term of another math course I took last year. This particular professor is _very_ entertaining, which makes the math lectures significantly less boring. Every now and then, he says something that I find simply priceless. It ...
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2005
Today being the first day of Lent means that it was also my first day without meat. I have, though, allowed myself to include fish in my diet for the duration of Lent. For lunch, I had a "farmer's market" pizza from the cafeteria on campus, and it was actually ...
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2005
Here is a nice article from a person describing the various open source applications he uses on his Windows XP machine.http://www.driverheaven.net/~pete/article1.htmInterestingly, the idea of porting open source software to Windows is relatively controversial in the Linux community. Some people believe porting such applications to Windows gives users an excuse to ...
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Monday, February 7th, 2005
Do you know what makes a function "integrable"? I thought I did, but as usual, I really didn't, at least until today. Two buzz words kept floating to mind: "continuous" and "bounded". Of course neither of those matter. So, what makes a function "integrable"? A function f(x) is integrable on ...
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