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?
I finally have my dining room table!
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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 :)
*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.
My new favourite fridge magnet
Got a package in my mail tonight :) That made my day :D
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.
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://www.whatpc.co.uk/news/1157891
UPDATE: The millennium problems have a new webpage: http://www.claymath.org/millennium-problems
Just wanted to say…
…how much I love this song. You really all should listen to it. It's… beautiful.
Aaaaah
Just spent 2 hours talking with the girl.
Life is good.
my own mini MASH marathon
I've been watching MASH reruns since last saturday :)
weird.
MEEP!
Muppets Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and his assistant Beaker defeated Dr. Strangelove, Dana Scully of “X Files” fame and Star Trek's Mr. Spock to be voted Britain's favorite screen scientists.
Monday, September 6, 2004 Posted: 0728 GMT (1528 HKT)
EXETER, England (Reuters) — Muppets Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and his assistant Beaker defeated Dr. Strangelove, Dana Scully of “X Files” fame and Star Trek's Mr. Spock to be voted Britain's favorite screen scientists.They beat their closest rival by a margin of 2 to 1 and won 33 percent of the 43,000 votes cast in an Internet poll published in Monday.
Spock came in a distance second with 15 percent followed by The Doctor, from Dr Who, who garnered 13 percent. Scully, the only woman in the poll, came in sixth. “They are accessible, humorous and occasionally blow each other up,” said Roland Jackson, of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA).
The balding, white-coated Honeydew and flame-haired, bulging-eyed Beaker created an array of crazy gadgets on the popular television show. “They're the kind of scientists you would like to be but never quite dared to,” said Alan Slater, a scientist at the University of Exeter in southwestern England.
The poll, sponsored by the BA and the BBC cult television website gave the public five weeks to choose their favorite scientist from a shortlist of 10 that included Dr. Evil from the film “Austin Powers,” Dr. Frankenstein, Frank N. Furter, of the “Rocky Horror Show Picture Show,” Dr. Emmett Brown, of the film “Back to the Future” and Q of James Bond fame.
Results of the poll were announced at the start of the week-long BA science conference here.