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I remembered a couple more random things I’d been meaning to blog about, before being distracted by deleting half my entry the other day. For a start, I’d promised to post the official list of books from our fabulous “When Ballycumber went to Dunedin…” memory game we played on our way down to the booksale….
What I read in 2007
Total = 123 books January (14) The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett Sleep Demons: An Insomniac’s Memoir by Bill Hayes The Diary of a Nobody by George & Weedon Grossmith Eldest by Christopher Paolini (borrowed from meerkitten) The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (library audio book) A Special Relationship by Douglas Kennedy The…
Hen (and a few Roosters and Chicks) Night
We decided to hold this month’s meetup a week early, so that it could also be a hen night for awhina. Or more technically, a “hen and rooster and chicks” night, because we wanted her fiancé and the kids to come along too. For months lytteltonwitch, MrPloppy and I have been teasing awhina about being…
For allimom
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…
Sydney part 8
Monday 25 October 2010, 9 am I woke up this morning with the beginnings of a cough and a sore throat. Not surprising, really, after yesterday’s adventures. The rain continued in fits and starts of drizzle all day, with an occasional downpour to break the monotony. It was still reasonably warm though (on land, at…
Being brave, and books in a fridge
It’s been a while since I posted, I know (in fact, it’s been a while since I was present on-line in any meaningful way, so I haven’t been keeping up with DD and LJ as well as I should have, so my apologies to anyone whose major life events I’ve missed). As in September and…