What I did today

[lederhosen]

Some days, proving a mathematical result is like building a Rolls-Royce engine, every piece perfectly shaped and meshing precisely with the next.

Some days, it's like patching up a battered Volkswagen with duct tape and chewing gum, in the hope that it can go just a little further before it falls apart.

Guess what sort of day I just had.

(At least I didn't quite end up having to pee in the radiator.)

Comments

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

Forwarded to a friend currently trying to finish writing his PhD thesis (computational biochemistry) and he sent me back this link http://www.osnews.com/images/comics/wtfm.jpg

[quatranoctal.livejournal.com]

I've been trying to read somebody's code they wrote two years ago (and after showing it to them, they were none the wiser either), so I'm forwarding that to them.

[velvetink.livejournal.com]

I managed to put the deadlock on the front door when I left and then couldn't
get back in today - had to break into the house (via a previously broken into window badly patched up with chipboard) - so while I was out getting another piece of wood to replace it daughter comes home and blows up the vacume cleaner! oh what fun. Upside is bunnings could't work out the cost of the wood panel because they'd lost the code so only charged me $3 for cutting it to size.