I'm starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel that is grad school. I give it a 75% chance of being an oncoming train.
What this means for you, dear readers, is that in the coming weeks you'll be seeing a lot of bloggy self-plagiarism. I'll kick things off by posting a puzzle/meme I tried to start back in aught-one, which never caught on - probably because back then, we had to blog while navigating uphill both ways on monkey bars, and it's awfully hard to type with your toes.
Lo! Broil a new meme! Smile on cod, tilt silt, follow.
- loft list:
- T, doc, no E!
- Ms. Wena
- Orb
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Some things spread like wildfire across the blogs. But, can an artificial meme, designed specifically to measure the speed of its spreading, spread as fast? If we know its speed, can we know its position at the same time, and vice versa?
Matt and Mrs.Whatsit tagged me with the 7-meme and 8-meme and I have bee
I got tagged with a meme by Greg who is trying to track the branching tree of this meme, so go check his post out (especially let him know if you do one of your own).
Over at Uncertain Principles, Chad writes:
Easy-peasy! I've got it all figured out. Here's the solution:
What do I win?
What kind of S waves to trains generate?
HP: No prizes until you make the blockquotes work better!
LL: I have no idea. OMG I NEED THE PUNCHLINE NOW.
If you don't get cracking on that thesis, you'll be telling me.
(Not a very funny punchline- can anyone else do better?)