today at woik

Arthur is in fine form today. Maybe he's psyched about the upcoming banquet. (I am.) (Tried to braid my hair in the front on either side & tie the braids back behind my head, but the tying didn't work, and they're all shabby anyway, so I was going to comb 'em out, but then I stepped on something & cut my foot & had to hydrogen peroxide it & inspect for mini-shards, and then I was out of morning.) S'anyway, ALG tried to explain the stair-step limit problem I am bothered by, and then what this smoother circle in the title of this paper he was carrying around is about (it's got to do with noncommutative geometry), and then he answered another question that's been bugging me: what operation are those computers doing when they figure π (that's supposed to be pi---ymmv) to more and more decimal places? (He showed me one simple formula for π that was proven long before Newton;there are other formulas that converge faster, give you 5 digits with 5 iterations---or maybe not "iterations," but something like that.)

Then he told us the following joke.

There are 10 kinds of people in this world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.

ha ha ha ha ha

Our exec ed is Irish, and he's taking us all out for luncheon this day.

today at woik

Arthur is in fine form today. Maybe he's psyched about the upcoming banquet. (I am.) (Tried to braid my hair in the front on either side & tie the braids back behind my head, but the tying didn't work, and they're all shabby anyway, so I was going to comb 'em out, but then I stepped on something & cut my foot & had to hydrogen peroxide it & inspect for mini-shards, and then I was out of morning.) S'anyway, ALG tried to explain the stair-step limit problem I am bothered by, and then what this smoother circle in the title of this paper he was carrying around is about (it's got to do with noncommutative geometry), and then he answered another question that's been bugging me: what operation are those computers doing when they figure π (that's supposed to be pi---ymmv) to more and more decimal places? (He showed me one simple formula for π that was proven long before Newton;there are other formulas that converge faster, give you 5 digits with 5 iterations---or maybe not "iterations," but something like that.)

Then he told us the following joke.

There are 10 kinds of people in this world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.

ha ha ha ha ha

Our exec ed is Irish, and he's taking us all out for luncheon this day.

poem i made up most of in the shower this a.m.

            Slacks
an all-slant rhyme appreciation

Of all our daily words for pants,
Let us not relinquish "slacks."

Trousers, britches, pantaloons,
dungarees---I like these, too,

yet, of the terms we might forget,
they seem to be endangered less.

"Slacks" is of a fashion old,
and not just in the fashion world;

it's hardly butch---may not be fem-
inist, as it's not used by men

referring to their own attire
(unless they're rather broad of mind)

---but "slacks" is jaunty, free and light;
the kind of easy feel I like;

it calls up crisp-creased linen, silk,
a herringbone, or some fabric

with lovely tiny-flower print,
swishy, swaying, smart-looking.

The word's just grand---I've thought upon't
and say to you:  "slacks" must live on.

poem i made up most of in the shower this a.m.

            Slacks
an all-slant rhyme appreciation

Of all our daily words for pants,
Let us not relinquish "slacks."

Trousers, britches, pantaloons,
dungarees---I like these, too,

yet, of the terms we might forget,
they seem to be endangered less.

"Slacks" is of a fashion old,
and not just in the fashion world;

it's hardly butch---may not be fem-
inist, as it's not used by men

referring to their own attire
(unless they're rather broad of mind)

---but "slacks" is jaunty, free and light;
the kind of easy feel I like;

it calls up crisp-creased linen, silk,
a herringbone, or some fabric

with lovely tiny-flower print,
swishy, swaying, smart-looking.

The word's just grand---I've thought upon't
and say to you:  "slacks" must live on.