In the dead of night, when the world is asleep and no one is looking, I dabble in the blackest of arts: statistics and probabilities. My inner mathematician is mysterious, mighty, and mischievous.
I’m a duffer, as you might guess, so rather than compiling Excel spreadsheets and clogging my computer’s circuitry with programs designed to crunch [...]
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Mad Math
Posted in academia, advanced navel-gazery on May 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Carcasse, Tu Trembles?”
Posted in advanced navel-gazery, amor fati! on December 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today I’ll begin by getting my geek on. This presupposes that I sometimes take my geek off, which is obviously a figurative manufacture, but bear with me. We won’t get very far if you keep on quibbling.
I play fantasy football, a game of very sober make-believe in which adults contend by picking real football players [...]
Blink by Blink
Posted in advanced navel-gazery on October 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today you find me writing in the midst of an existential overhaul, so keep your expectations modest. Chances are good that I’ll collapse like a storebought soufflé in midsentence.
The local terrain’s been a bit shaky of late, and I’ve struggled to keep my footing. There is genuine trouble afoot, to be sure, but I think the [...]
