probably all too silly

I was thinking about an ex-mathematician friend the other morning as I walked my dog. Actually, I was kind of thinking about math and, more specifically, Number. For a long time I have accepted the notion that abstract concepts Exist, I guess in the Platonic way, and as such, Number is Real in some way [...]

quick update

I managed to complete a full draft of the aforementioned application letter. It has me exhausted. I sent it off to two willing guinea pig readers, and I refuse to think about it for a couple of days.
My eyes are computer-fried today, and I’m going to read some nice print on an actual paper [...]

hard

Why, why, why is it so hard to apply for jobs? I really, really, really would like to have this job. That I could do and be good at this job I have no doubt. I don’t have precisely the experience level that they state, but I’m completely capable and would be very enthusiastic about [...]

first cat post

Well, the inevitable is here. I’m writing about my cat(s). I’ll leave it to my friend Mike to do the appropriate intellectual analysis, but the fact is – I am a cat (and dog) lover. I have a new cat, and I’m gonna write about him.
Pittsburgh has not been good to my kitties. Since moving [...]

my German just won’t cut it

Behold! There is another Lonely Librarian on the other side of the globe. She linked to me, so I had to give her the shout out! Hey! Ho! We are both a little less lonely, though she definitely has the advantage over me of being obviously bilingual. [Not so sure my design is all that [...]

stuff on stuff

Haven’t written in a long long while. Shame on me. But today I was thinking….
My Grandmother recently decided to sell her house and her stuff and move into an assisted living situation. I got a self-portrait my father painted some many years ago in the mail as a result of this purge. I was looking [...]

surplus

In that marvelous way that the web can get you to something you weren’t expecting find I ran across “Gin, Television, And Social Surplus” earlier today, and it has been on my mind. (Research ethics aren’t holding things together for me today, I’m afraid….)
I’m intrigued by the underlying idea of this discussion that there are [...]

sleepy

My brain is dead. I woke at 5:30am and couldn’t get to sleep couldn’t stop obsessing couldn’t stop the madness! I’m so tired and the Lonely Librarian’s Library is so quiet that I feel asleep at my desk for half an hour.
I’m not doing a great job with the daily postings, but no sense in [...]

minimalia

Taking a break from the academic discussions of the last couple of days, my head is fuzzy. And the Lonely Librarian is especially lonely with not a one person coming in today. My short Saturday shift ends soon, and I can walk out into the gray warm humidity of a Pittsburgh Spring. Not so bad, [...]