I'm still reading Douglas Hofstadter's G�del, Escher, Bach, and I'm in the chapter entitled Typographical Number Theory. (By the way, even though I've seen Hofstadter in person and in pictures, whenever I try to picture …
Happy New Year! The fax got sent, and it's a new year, full of hope. I'm drinking Martinelli's sparkling cider that I was too tired to drink at midnight. Let's rock!
Leonard says, "The problem is that you have to send a fax."
I needed to send a fax and I don't have a fax machine. The Phone Company doesn't cover the area code I needed (702 -- Las Vegas, possibly all of Nevada). I ended up calling …
Aaah! I went to my new apartment to pay the January rent and get a key and I discovered that it's not in Berkeley! The house stands just on the wrong side of the Berkeley …
Sometimes dread does have a name. For example, this morning I dreaded my mother. I snuck upstairs with my cereal because every time she sees me make a bowl of cereal she criticizes me for …
Reread Anurag Mathur's book The Inscrutable Americans. Much like R.K. Narayan's My Dateless Diary, which is better and which mentions Berkeley. The funniest portion of the Mathur novel concerns our Indian visitor's discovery of American …
Yesterday I tried to "show San Francisco" to a cousin, Anand-from-Michigan. Of course, that went miserably, because the wonder and loveliness of San Francisco is the many little neighborhoods with distinctive characters, and the bookstores, …
This set of links on Gödel, Escher, Bach includes a reference to...Clifford Pickover!
