Holy shit. Life just picked up and got turbocharged. Things are coming at me a million miles an hour.
Don't be havin' no time for jibber-jabber.
- Geometry is cool.
- This Iron Noder quest has provided the impetus needed to write a whole bunch of geometry related nodes.
- Writing makes me happy.
- Math makes me happy.
- My math notebooks are filling up.
- Excel spreadsheets and Matlab scripts are useful for seeing math formulas come alive.
- Reading Madame Bovary.
- Working with Phased array antennas and microstrip patch antennas with a professional colleague, and writing Link budgets for geostationary communications satellites makes me realize how damned lucky I am to have found a career in something so incredibly interesting.
- Dropped weight to around 190 lb. That's a 25 year low. Feels great!
- Eating is overrated.
- Women confuse me.
- I've been socializing with a group of intelligent and attractive single women. And I don't feel a thing for them. Kissing any one would be like kissing your sister.
- I was married to a wonderful woman.
- I've had relationships with wonderful, extraordinary women.
- May be destined for a single life.
- Still, it's nice to know that, for a brief time in life, I was able to get close enough to someone to get to know their extraordinary qualities, their fears, their charms, and their stories.
- Lucky, lucky, lucky.
- Music is a great complement to running.
- Want to write How to Explain Techno to Friends Who Love Classical Music.
- Have been running longer and faster than I have in past 13 years.
- I turn 60 in four years.
- Thinking of doing something for the senior olympics when I hit that milestone.
- What a compliment it is to have a book pressed into your hands and have your friend say, "Read this book. You'll love it. This made me think of you."
- Other nice things: "Come on, let's get a cup of coffee."
- Other nice things: When she bums two cigarettes from a random stranger at a bar. One for her, one for you.
- Other nice things: Getting an I Miss You message on FB.
- Other nice things: Running a sub eight minute mile.
- The average time for a photon to emerge from a Sol-class star is, well, I'm getting inconsistent answers on this, so I might have to do the math myself. Some of the sites say 50,000 years. Some say significantly less.
- Reading Hans Bethe's lecture to the Nobel prize committee. On how stars burn.
- Going through Leonard Susskind's Stanford lectures on "Revolutions in Particle Physics."