Stay in Math, Kids

So I'm pretty sure that this cherry picker/sunset date idea (http://blag.xkcd.com/2009/04/06/a-date-idea-analyzed/) is just about the coolest thing I have ever heard of. It also definitely makes me regret not having persevered in my mathematical studies (which, as previously mentioned, were not all that extensive nor very impressive) because now I'll probably never be able to work this type of thing out. All I'll be able to do, if I happen to come up with something this awesome and offbeat and ridiculous, is tell people about it really enthusiastically and hope that it will fall on the right ears for someone to actually figure out how it would work. Being enthusiastic about things is something that I do relatively well, though, so I guess I can legitimately have some degree of hope that that could happen.

I do love my current fields of study, though, so not having carried on with math wasn't a total loss.

Math Party

Yesterday I attended a housewarming party in honour of two of my friends' new apartment. One of them is actually in math and the other one thinks/pretends that she is. While getting my drunkpants on at this party, which was attended by a bunch of other math-type humans, I realised what one of my favourite things is about people in math. I really like how they integrate math terms into everyday conversation. This is probably not unique to the mathematically inclined but doing it with math words seems to have a certain... tang. This realisation came about when one of the partygoers referred to the number of people that she has dated as her relationship experience set. I liked it a lot.