Matt, why not?

Go, Theo! You've definitely earned that.

if I could eat chocolate, the promise of visiting a Bruxellian chocolateria would swing me towards that.

Keeping kosher can also do that. When I was in the conference in Rome a couple of years ago, the smell of ice-cream floating in the streets was so hard to bear, it was so amazingly good.

[Edit: 5*2=7+3, and the first hugs the second, like it's comforting it since it can't have ice-cream, too.]

Where did everyone go? I don't want to have to start cleaning yet.

FWIW, Chumley says you don't have to. But he is notorious for not having a conscience, on account of felinity.

Yay for Chumley!

I am super-slacker, since all the west coasters were up before me, too.

Happy (Belated) Birthday DX!

Yeah, if ita had favored (favoured?) London, she would have mucked up your decision process with a spanner.

This made me laugh.

potential gift for Jesse!

This, too.

Why do babies HATE having their noses wiped and faces washed?

I knew a kid whose parent (s? can't remember) would wipe its nose with their HAND. That kid really freaked out when I went at it with a tissue. (Note: Use of "it" is because I can't remember which kid it was and whether it was a boy or girl. I am confident the child was, in fact, one or the other.)

I'm probably 'fessing up to the worst sort of vanity, but I look much prettier in my own head than I do in photographs. Ah well.

I look completely different in my head -- I have no real sense of the actual shape of my face, even. Weird.

Nilly! Would you mind if I ran a math thing by you?

Also, hi!!!

(You know I don't just love you for your math, right?)

Would you mind if I ran a math thing by you?

You know I don't really know math, right? I just know how to use some of it. But I would love to try and help, if I can.

(You know I don't just love you for your math, right?)

(Hee. You know it's true for why I like you, too, right?)

Belated Happy Birthday, DX!

t MATH

I just know how to use some of it.

Good enough. Check my reasoning, okay? p and q are relatively prime. We have two numbers, p/4 and p^2 + 3q^2 (and we know all of these are integers). If p is not divisible by 3, then these numbers are relatively prime as well, because (this is the part I need to be checked on -- the above is true, I need to prove it) you can divide p^2+3q^2 by p/4 and get 4p + (3q^2 / (p/4)) (I'm kind of using the Euclidean algorithm a bit). Then the problem is reduced to 3q^2 and p/4 -- p/4 can't have any different factors from p, nor can q^2 from q, so the only way 3q^2 and p/4 can have any factors in common is if p is divisible by 3. Yes?

t / MATH Also, I've taken to writing M.Sh.L. at the end of proofs in my notes, just because it makes me think of you every time. Though I suppose, for completeness, I should figure out how to write it in Hebrew?

Nope, he can't possibly be. Rowlf first appeared on the Jimmy Dean Show (yes, the sausage guy used to be a singer) back in the early sixties, ten years before Waits's first album came out. Waits was only 14 when Rowlf started pounding away on his piano.

I am corrected. However, I am curious if Rowlf was always a piano playing dog, or if that aspect of his character developed later.

Breakfast This Morning: Sauteed mushrooms scrambled with eggs, chopped green onions, cheddar and gouda. Lattes & english muffins.

We're listening to Belle & Sebastian. JZ is reading my Mojo magazine about Kate Bush.

Matt should go to Stockholm. Other people should go to London. Maybe everybody should go to London.