Topiary progress report

Yep, the spam headers just continue to get weirder… (and they’re just the ones that actually make it through the spam filter). I keep having all these good intentions of writing in my diary more consistently, but life just keeps getting busier (I was “volunteered” onto another committee today – it’s something I really want…

A possible solution to allimom’s maths problem: It’s a while since I’ve done matrices, so I may have forgotten some of the symbolic conventions, but I think what you’re being asked to prove is that is true for all values of n. n=0 and n=1 are trivial, of course. For n=2, Proof by induction involves…

Thursday 3.40 pm I’d originally envisioned spending today exploring and maybe hitting a museum or art gallery. Instead, I sat in the Chinese Gardens reading until nearly 2 – still, that’s what a holiday is all about 🙂 I sat in this pavillion for a bit, until I looked up and noticed the spiders living…

Dinner at El Pollo Loco (which translates as Crazy Chicken! :-)) – a chain version of the taqueria we stopped at for lunch. We’ve decided on a change of plans for tomorrow. Instead of following Route 66 out of LA, we’re going to head into Nevada and go to Las Vegas! Hmm, I suppose I…

On Thursday night the weather forecast wasn’t looking good for Friday, with heavy rain predicted in the mountains, but the rest of the weekend looked ok, so we were up bright and early on Friday morning ready for our adventure. Lytteltonwitch arrived just after 8 (wearing an identical black bookcrossing t-shirt to me! I couldn’t…

PixieKitten’s question was: Give me the reader digest edition of where you stand on all the big issues – religion, politics, sex, drugs and music =) Wow, you don’t go for the trivial, do you? Ok, here goes. Religion I’m an atheist. I was brought up as a vague sort of Christian (I think we…