Snow Contest Winner! or Will Anyone Believe Me? Please? With nobody picking the first day of snow, November 22nd while we were home, I had the next closest date by picking 11/23. I'm pretty sure you can't change the date in the comment area, so suck on that, unbelievers. Stay warm and stay young.
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The 2007 HMA Nominations or Right On Time, As Always Going in to this year, I didn't expect these awards to be so difficult. Then I discovered a few thousand new bands and things got hairy. It can't be avoided any longer - the mainstream and indie "Song/Album of the Year" categories have to diverge. The line is fine in some cases; don't leave irritating messages about how you think Wilco should be considered mainstream: these decisions are final. I'm also thinking about an additional modification to the normal award format, so when the awards arrive during the first week of January, brace yourselves. One further note: these are all fantastic achievements in their respective media formats. I'd encourage all of you to check out each of them Song of the Year [Mainstream] All U Can Eat ~ Ben Folds Kiwi ~ Maroon 5 Atlantic ~ Keane The Little Things Give You Away ~ Linkin Park Reckoner ~ Radiohead Song of the Year [Indie] Culling of the Fold ~ The Decembe...
2007 Snow Contest or This Should Have Been Posted Sooner Some of you might have already seen snow this year. I noticed that northeastern Indiana received some flurries yesterday morning. But remember: you're aiming to pick the day on which it first snows here in Indianapolis. Get in your votes - early voters get best pick of the days! Leave your pick in the comment box.
Tell Me Something I Don't Know or No, Seriously, Tell Me I really shouldn't complain much when a professor in graduate school goes to great lengths to prove exceptionally easy facts. The catch to this scenario is that it rarely ever happens: there are no exceptionally easy facts in any graduate math course. Anyone who has spoken to me of grad school knows that I pull my hair out over some of the crazy things that these people do at the chalkboard (and then expect us to follow with smiles and nods). But last week was different. Maybe the cold snap got to my analysis professor's brain. It didn't have much hair to push through, so I really believe this to be the cause of the mind-numbing stupidity that he vomited onto our impressionable young minds. In essence, he proved 1 + 1 = 2. At first I was stunned. What could I make of this fact? What sort of history-changing applications could I find for this incredible breakthrough? Would solving this problem at math cockt...