No Lemon Please

My First Stylesheet

Tue, 05 May 2009 12:00:00 CDT

I was digging in the wayback machine and was surprised to find various versions of my old website, which managed to survive my adolescence. Sadly, I couldn't find any of my pre-teen sites, but ...

My Workspace

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:00:00 CDT

Lately I have been interested in improving my workflow. I've spent the past month or so trying new ways of doing things in hopes of making my workflow a little better. Not much luck. I can't ...

Color Preference

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:00:00 CST

I am sitting here working on my site, when I randomly decide to pull up the color information with the web dev toolbar.

And I'm thinking My, that's a lot of shades of grey. So I ...

Firefox Keywords

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:00:00 CST

How often do you find yourself going to google.com to do a search? Going to amazon.com to look for a product? Some suggest using the little search box in the top right of most browser, but personally ...

Scribble Scribble

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:00:00 CST

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How to read, for:

Math majors: 0 ≤ xi minus eta ≤ B sub n minus A sub n < episilon

Non-math majors: 0 ≤ scribble minus scribble ≤ B scribble minus A ...

Twitter Filters

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:00:00 CST

Twitter is great. We all love twitter. It's simple, and that's what is great about it. It does not have a lot of features, but that is usually fixed by a third party app. There is one major ...

One word.

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:00:00 CST

"What's your login name?"

"Caitlin Woodward."

"One word?"

"WOOD-WARD... oh, yes."

A Christmas Story

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 12:00:00 CST

I don't remember where I got this, but I find it in my documents every now and again. It's my favorite Christmas joke:

This is the time of year when we think back to the very first ...

All Intentions

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:00:00 CST

I devoted a whole night aside to work on my site. Didn't really happen.

I had one goal: Enable/Implement a comment system.

What got accomplished: Small tweaks to the sidebar and ...

10-2-4

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:00:00 CDT

"What's with that clock? 2, 4, 10?"
"Um, those old Dr. Pepper ads? You haven't seen those? My grandparents used to have that clock."
"What does it ...

Life defining

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:00:00 CDT

Some of my life-defining moments:

Doing pages of math work, praying for no little mistakes, and getting the answer correct!Completing math proofsBuilding a full website without crossbrowser ...

Complex Cartesion

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:00:00 CDT

My Complex Analysis book reads, It is presumed that the reader is familiar with the Cartesian coordinate system.

...why would you be taking Complex Analysis if you weren't?

SublimI'mAwesominal

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:00:00 CDT

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Erd�s-Ko-Rado

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:00:00 CDT

Following my previous post, Erdös quickly became my favorite mathematician. One, he specialized in graph theory, currently my favorite branch of math. And two, the Erdös number thing was ...

Math Narcissism

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:00:00 CDT

A couple years ago, I learned about this thing called the Mathematics Genealogy Project. It's a math family tree based on mathematicians who have earned their PhD. A mathematician's parent is ...

Changing Sides

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:00:00 CDT

"Wanna try to partition your hard drive again?"
"Nah, we can do it in Seattle."
"Your backup is here, though. If it messes up, you will have to wait to get your ...

Roman Numeral Clocks

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:00:00 CDT

I have developed a recent obsession with analog clocks. Not just any analog clock, but one with roman numeral numbers.

Take a look at these two clocks. Notice anything unusual?

Look Between

Fri, 30 May 2008 12:00:00 CDT

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Credit Cards

Mon, 19 May 2008 12:00:00 CDT

Today at work, Andy was complaining about the company business card (that was actually designed by guys who work here) and how it was hard to read the numbers. I told him that he is supposed to feel ...

Unsexy PC Way

Wed, 14 May 2008 12:00:00 CDT

"The computer just closed itself in an unsexy PC way!"

-Sarah

Hole in my Shirt

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:00:00 CDT

My favorite shirt has a hole is in. Dead center in the front. Sad.

Elevator Interrogation

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:00:00 CDT

The other day, I was headed to work, riding up the elevator in my office building. A white-haired business man got in the elevator with me. You could tell he was high in ranks by the quality of his ...

Caitlin's Approval

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:00:00 CST

Mom: Go get Caitlin's approval.

Conlan, walking over: Where's your approval?

The Bird and ER Scenarios

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:00:00 CST

A bird almost flew into the side of my face today. I was walking out of an open doorway on the school campus, and this huge black bird swiped down and inches in front of me. Had I been a few seconds ...

Poop Invariant

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:00:00 CST

My algorithms professor writes the lowercase letter "l" with loops. Because of this, whenever he writes the word loop, it actually looks like "Poop". See picture (I apologize for ...