Cricket cricket: short for "Cricket Cricket I'm On Fire", a non-competitie game. Sort of a cross between Pictionary and Telephone/Gossip. Each person gets a vertical half sheet of paper, and starts by writing at the top a phrase, anything that would be good for pictionary or charades or the like. Pass the paper around the table. Each time you get a paper, if you see a phrase, draw a picture to depict it (no letters or numbers), and if you see a picture, write a phrase. Fold so only the part you just did shows, and pass on. End with a phrase. When all are done, unfold the papers and laugh at the results. Next round, pass the papers in the opposite direction.
Hilarious with the right people. Great time-waster with friends. Great break from competitive games.
Green onions: yum! Love them. Dunno why. Addictive veggie matter.
Infinities: My specialization for my MS in Math was Large Cardinals. I don't remember as much as I wish I did (sigh). Fascinating. Mathematical infinities larger than any physical infinities in the universe. How the human mind can wrap around the unwrappable.
For example, consider inaccessible cardinals. An inaccessible cardinal is a cardinal which is uncountable (bigger than the cardinality of the integers) and is bigger than any union or power set of a smaller number of smaller cardinals. The cardinality of the reals is not inaccessible; it is equal to the power set of the integers. Inaccessible cardinals are Truly Freaking Huge. And yet, they are perhaps the smallest -- and easiest to understand -- example of large cardinals.
Zow. Interesting, no?
Naked primes: Came from old flirtations, most notably with australian_joe. Math + nudity, woo! How can you lose with that?
Paradoxen: This statement is false. Consider the set of all sets which are not members of themselves -- is this set a member of itself, or not? Is self-reference really the root of all evil?
Sapiosexuality: mmmmm, brains! Whatever else my sexuality is doing, this part I am certain of: if there's no brain connection, there's no interest (or at least, no lasting interest).
Warm things: and hot things, too! Candle wax, soft blankets, sweatshirts, slippers, flannel, fires, snuggly bodies... I have a couple of microwave-heatable things I like to sleep with, too, especially in the winter. I had a girlfriend who knitted me a blanket... mmm, she knew the way to my heart.
no subject
Hilarious with the right people. Great time-waster with friends. Great break from competitive games.
Green onions: yum! Love them. Dunno why. Addictive veggie matter.
Infinities: My specialization for my MS in Math was Large Cardinals. I don't remember as much as I wish I did (sigh). Fascinating. Mathematical infinities larger than any physical infinities in the universe. How the human mind can wrap around the unwrappable.
For example, consider inaccessible cardinals. An inaccessible cardinal is a cardinal which is uncountable (bigger than the cardinality of the integers) and is bigger than any union or power set of a smaller number of smaller cardinals. The cardinality of the reals is not inaccessible; it is equal to the power set of the integers. Inaccessible cardinals are Truly Freaking Huge. And yet, they are perhaps the smallest -- and easiest to understand -- example of large cardinals.
Zow. Interesting, no?
Naked primes: Came from old flirtations, most notably with australian_joe. Math + nudity, woo! How can you lose with that?
Paradoxen: This statement is false. Consider the set of all sets which are not members of themselves -- is this set a member of itself, or not? Is self-reference really the root of all evil?
Sapiosexuality: mmmmm, brains! Whatever else my sexuality is doing, this part I am certain of: if there's no brain connection, there's no interest (or at least, no lasting interest).
Warm things: and hot things, too! Candle wax, soft blankets, sweatshirts, slippers, flannel, fires, snuggly bodies... I have a couple of microwave-heatable things I like to sleep with, too, especially in the winter. I had a girlfriend who knitted me a blanket... mmm, she knew the way to my heart.