Break Week
Nov. 24th, 2010 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowAfter a thundersome night, it's a cold wet day. I lost my umbrella a while back and haven't replaced it yet, so I'm afraid the dogs will have to go without their walk today.
Break week has been relaxing and utterly unproductive. I'm about 2/3 of the way through the Erickson, and I've begun reading Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones on the side. I should probably also try to finish off Salonika this week. (I'm eager to begin reading The Linguistics of Punctuation, but I usually don't have two non-fiction books going at once. When I do, I tend to neglect one or the other.)
One of the drawbacks of learning to cook new things is coming to be dissatisfied with store-bought versions. I've already ruled out store-bought spaghetti dinners; now it looks like apple pie will also have to go on the blacklist. ("I can do better than this. I've done better than this!") For a sloth like myself, though, it becomes a serious contest between convenience and quality.
It's been a while since I've posted any mathematical content. The Ramble, I must admit, is defunct. (I got about as far as I intended to, but I did leave a few things hanging.) I also never got around to finishing the series on topology. Mea culpa. I do have an idea or two for some possibly interesting posts, but they'll have to marinate a while.
Still watching Farscape; next up is "The Way We Weren't", which is an excruciating episode. (Good, but painful.) Seeing them in order does give a better sense of the sweep of things. I'm hearing good things about a British series, Misfits; I'll have to look into ways of viewing it. (I'll probably wind up waiting for the DVDs to come out.)
Ah, well. Back to the nongrind.
Break week has been relaxing and utterly unproductive. I'm about 2/3 of the way through the Erickson, and I've begun reading Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones on the side. I should probably also try to finish off Salonika this week. (I'm eager to begin reading The Linguistics of Punctuation, but I usually don't have two non-fiction books going at once. When I do, I tend to neglect one or the other.)
One of the drawbacks of learning to cook new things is coming to be dissatisfied with store-bought versions. I've already ruled out store-bought spaghetti dinners; now it looks like apple pie will also have to go on the blacklist. ("I can do better than this. I've done better than this!") For a sloth like myself, though, it becomes a serious contest between convenience and quality.
It's been a while since I've posted any mathematical content. The Ramble, I must admit, is defunct. (I got about as far as I intended to, but I did leave a few things hanging.) I also never got around to finishing the series on topology. Mea culpa. I do have an idea or two for some possibly interesting posts, but they'll have to marinate a while.
Still watching Farscape; next up is "The Way We Weren't", which is an excruciating episode. (Good, but painful.) Seeing them in order does give a better sense of the sweep of things. I'm hearing good things about a British series, Misfits; I'll have to look into ways of viewing it. (I'll probably wind up waiting for the DVDs to come out.)
Ah, well. Back to the nongrind.
