Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... to my esteemed coworker finagler!!!! Have a great one!!!

Mathematical humor

Today's xkcd is screamingly funny, at least to anyone who knows the Banach–Tarski Theorem.

Done yesterday (20101010 Su - 42base10)

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Not a bad day by any means, but a little frustrating in spots. No recording to speak of, but I did manage to upgrade my desktop machine to Ubuntu 10.10, which fixed the problem I've been having (and wasted many hours on) persuading gdm to give me a user-defined (.xsession) session. It wouldn't matter so much if I wasn't trying to save power by turning the machine off when I'm not using it.

A good walk -- three miles by Los Gatos Creek. Along the way I saw a truly marvelous vehicle -- basically a bicycle with a wheelchair replacing the front wheel. Looked hard to pedal, but the kid in the chair was obviously having a blast.

A phone call pointed out once again that I really don't think well on my feet, especially when distracted by driving. It wasn't really much of a success. I did figure out what I should have said, about half an hour later. *shrugs*

Much was made of the fact that 101010 in binary is 42 in decimal. Treehugger pointed out that's it's also the day the Eames Office celebrates the wonderful film Powers of Ten by Ray and Charles Eames.

Other links under the cut.