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Month: September 2004

Coming down with something…

Posted on September 10, 2004 By admin 28 Comments on Coming down with something…

Blergh. Went to bed at 10pm last night cause I was exhausted and had the headache from hell. I think I caught a cold, cause my sinuses are all blocked up – above and beyond my seasonal allergies. Yaaaay. I was asleep as soon as my head hit the pillows, and proceeded to have the most fucked up dreams I've had in a long time.

Some images I remember:
– playing croquet with the boys (wtf?) indoors, but on grass.
– looking at Michel's new appliances, while his pet gorilla (?) plays in the kitchen sink
– 70s style roller-skate park, with those god-awful 70s color in big stripes all over the place
– Having coffee at [info]raspberrysalmon apartment, except its not in Vienna, it's right near McGill, in those old walk-up style apartments, with scary old-crone, bitter, angry neighbours.
– Being called to take a jet because the president of Slovakia (again, wtf?) needs my IT skills.

And the last dream I remember before waking up would make a great movie. Basically, everybody was forced to flee the surface of the earth and head underground (reasons unclear), but a bunch of people and I had to mount a recovery operation to go get stuff (objects unclear) back from above. This thing took place near my old high School, and had just the right amount of suspence to be a thriller, but not be scary. A fun dream, I wish I could relate it better :)

Anyway, I need to get my ass in gear.

Heyho, heyho, it's off to work I go.

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Ever had one of those days…

Posted on September 9, 2004 By admin 5 Comments on Ever had one of those days…

…when you felt like you'd obtain a great deal of satisfaction from committing bloody murder?
…when it all started quite nicely and went to hell REAL fast?
…when you just wanted to chuck it all away and go raise llamas in Tibet?

Ya. I'm having one myself.

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I finally have my dining room table!

Posted on September 9, 2004 By admin 8 Comments on I finally have my dining room table!

And yes, I know the chairs aren't completely built yet, but it's 11:30, my drill battery is dead and I don't want to wake my neighbours up. I'll finish them tomorrow. Anybody know where I can find nice placemats?

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well, that's a start

Posted on September 8, 2004 By admin 4 Comments on well, that's a start

Heard back from McGill dude regarding my lunch offer. He said he's busy as heck this week and we can setup something after sept. 15. Seeing as he CC'ed his secretary and another person, I'm feeling better about the chances of this actually happening :)

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*YAWN!*

Posted on September 8, 2004 By admin 3 Comments on *YAWN!*

I did something rather silly last night: I read until 2:30 am. I'm feeling it today.

Marc's mother is in town for the next month and is living at our place. This promises to be interesting.

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My new favourite fridge magnet

Posted on September 8, 2004 By admin 19 Comments on My new favourite fridge magnet

Got a package in my mail tonight :) That made my day :D

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Job leads

Posted on September 7, 2004 By admin 6 Comments on Job leads

Just sent email to McGill dude inviting him to lunch later this week. I still haven't had a chance to see him since that last time. I think he's just uber-busy, especially as he's head of the biochem department and term has just recently begun (which means that the university bureaucracy is back in full swing). If this doesn't pan out, I think that'll be a fairly strong indication that things fell through :( Meh, we'll see.

Also sent email/CV to old boss at Ste-Justine. I'm not really optimistic about that one, especially since my current salary is way more than I used to make there, and they've been known to be stingy. Anyway, its a long shot, but it might prove interesting, especially since they're going to be working with IBM life sciences (which would be a very good thing as I ultimately want to work for these people :D)

heyho, heyho, it's back to work I go.

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Today is a big day for math news.

Posted on September 7, 2004December 12, 2013 By admin 4 Comments on Today is a big day for math news.

Apparently, two Millenium problems from the Clay Mathematics Institute are close to being solved (think of it as the Nobel Math prize). Solving any of those problems brings with it worldwide math fame, and 1 million US$.

Tentative proofs for both the Riemann Hypothesis and the Pointcare conjecture have been brought forth. The problem is, these are so advanced that nobody can really understand them to disprove them :)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=857&ncid=757&e=10&u=/nm/20040906/od_uk_nm/oukoe_science_maths

http://www.whatpc.co.uk/news/1157891

UPDATE: The millennium problems have a new webpage: http://www.claymath.org/millennium-problems

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Just wanted to say…

Posted on September 7, 2004 By admin

…how much I love this song. You really all should listen to it. It's… beautiful.

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Aaaaah

Posted on September 7, 2004 By admin 4 Comments on Aaaaah

Just spent 2 hours talking with the girl.

Life is good.

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