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When you walk, where do you look?
Generally, you can look in one of three directions: down, up, or straight ahead. It seems that most people, including myself, naturally look down. By experimenting and being conscious of where I look while I walk, I�0�9ve noticed a correlation between my thoughts and the direction that I�0�9m looking. […]

The following books are piled next to my bed (from top to bottom):History of the Peloponnesian War by ThucydidesHistory of Ancient Greece by Jean HatzfeldAntigone by SophoclesBeing Digital by Nicholas NegroponteDesign for Community by Derek PowazekThe Twilight of American Culture by Morris BermanHippocratic Writings edited by G. E. R. LloydThe Baffler #14Early Greek Science: Thales […]

Word Art. I’m sick of having to hook up the color printer at the computer lab just so somebody can print out a stupid chemistry lab with Word Art titles and gradient-filled Excel charts. Chemistry is supposed to be a difficult major. Don’t these people have anything better to do than make their labs look […]

Thank you, Benjamin Franklin, for Daylight Saving Time. I used the extra hour to do laundry. Unfortunately, my clothes still smell bad from that mildew incident.

The style of this web site contradicts the rest of my life. This web site is clean, simple, and elegant. Each detail is intended to support the larger whole of ktheory. It is organized. My bedroom, in contrast, is quite messy. I have boxes laying around from online purchases I made a month ago. Piles […]

The Intermediate Value Theorem (IVT) is definitely the best math theorem ever. The IVT is stated thus:
Suppose f(x) is a continuous function on [a, b]. Furthermore, suppose f(a) is negative and f(b) is positive. Then, there exists c element of [a, b] such that f(c) = 0.
The IVT may be stated generally:
Suppose f(x) is continuous […]

Freshly laundered clothes, if not fully dried and left in a pile, will start to mildew. To learn this fact through experience is unpleasant.
I’d also like to point out that 2000 Flushes toilet bowl cleaner is mislabeled. It’s more like 50 flushes.

[Delving more into the banalities of my life�0�7]For lunch today, I had sushi and a latt�0�5, available at the modestly priced and conveniently located Divinity School Coffee Shop (“where God drinks coffee”). For dinner, I am eating peanut M&M�0�9s and Diet Coke. What my dinner lacks in nutritional value, it almost makes up for in […]

Tomorrow I have midterms in both Analysis and Computer Science. I have a quiz in French. I have problem sets due in all three classes. Next Tuesday, I have a paper due on books I haven�0�9t read yet (but am looking forward to reading). These books include Thucydides�0�9s Peloponnsian War and The Hippocratic Writings, as […]

I can�0�9t believe the news todayI can�0�9t close my eyes and make it go away�0�7But I won�0�9t heed the battle callIt puts my back up, puts my back up against the wall
Monday night I saw U2 play at the United Center. It was the best concert I�0�9ve seen. Bono is very talented at interacting with […]

A month has past since the tragedy. Ktheory took a little hiatus while I moved into my new apartment in Chicago and created a routine. The hiatus continued because I felt compelled to write about the tragedy, but I don’t want to. The attack feels so monumental that it requires comment. So here goes:
How we […]