I envy Shayna her good fortune and her medal, but I also know that I don't have anything approaching a 3.96 GPA, nor such a deep and wide array of achievements, so there's no way …

I met Shayna Parekh my freshman year at Cal. We took a history class and a seminar on women in leadership together. We hung out sometimes, and she reminded me of the best aspects of …

I won a free drink at Tully's today because I guessed that Victoria Falls sits on the river Zambezi and I was right. I finished watching Margaret Cho's performance recording, which satisfied me more in …

From Crystal and Paulina: "Shopping is tough. Let's do some math." Yesterday I saw part of Margaret Cho's I'm The One That I Want and found it disappointing. Maybe the second half is better. Then …

I scored at the Friends of the Public Library book sale today. I got a free Stanislaw Lem anthology and I bought Ray Lynch's Deep Breakfast and They Might Be Giants's Miscellaneous T on audiocassette …

Until yesterday, I had never before seen a transparency whose title read, "Just When You Thought It Was Safe: MORE Intertwined Languages."

As Leonard noted, last night I went to the Pinker lecture. Steven Pinker said, to paraphrase, "here's my hypothesis of how our memory of words and our computation using rules gets us to speak the …

More Khayyam madness: Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit Of This and That endeavour and dispute; Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit. You know, …

I am one of those people who have let Omar Khayyam's poetic works overshadow his amazing work as a mathematician. First Lewis Carroll, now Omar Khayyam. What next? A thousand years ago, Andrew Wiles will …

Shweta Narayan and I had lunch together. Thank goodness that she Has Been There with regards to having Indian parents. My parents and even my sister make me want to make some major life decision, …