-Mathematically, I'm apparently a descendant of Gauss, Euler, Fourier and
Hilbert. Check this out on the
Mathematics Genealogy Project.
-I really like trains and will rubber-neck every time I hear a Nathan
Air Chime or an EMD two-stroke motor.
-I like to read magazines, especially
The New Yorker,
The Atlantic Monthly and
Harper's.
-I'm very fond of Film Noir, Westerns and movies by the Coen Brothers.
To look up information on movies visit the
Internet Movie Database.
-I'm a pretty bad speller and thus must frequently make use of
Merriam Webster.
Although for less Americanized spelling, I often prefer the
Oxford English Dictionary.
-I ride my bicycle frequently. I am a member of the
Waterloo County Wanderers.
I was a member of
Brazos Valley Cyclists
when I lived in Texas.
-I have an unusual fascination with weather. See the local weather in
Waterloo, and compare it to
Edmonton or
College Station, TX.
Also see weather radar
Environment Canada -- Exeter,
NOAA -- Great Lakes [note: EDT=UTC-4, EST=UTC-5].
-I also am unusually fascinated by geography. See
MapQuest for some
maps and driving directions. There are excellent relief maps of the
United States through
here.
I couldn't find such nice maps of Canadian Provinces. However, there
are many interesting tables and plates available though
Statistics Canada. I've also had some fun looking at information at the
U.S. Census Bureau.
Trivia
Newton couldn't count?
"The popular idea of mathematics is that it is largely concerned with
calculations," writes Karl Sabbagh in The Riemann Hypothesis (Farrar, Straus
and Giroux). "What many people don't realize -- and mathematicians at parties
have given up correcting them -- is that mathematicians are often no better
calculators, and sometimes worse, than the average non-mathematician. . . .
Even the giants of mathematics suffer from this minor disability: 'Sir Isaac
Newton,' said one observer, 'though so deep in algebra and fluxions, could
not readily make up a common account; and, when he was Master of the Mint,
used to get somebody else else to make up his accounts for him.' "
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
I am involved in an evil enterprise.
"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make
empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a
covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of
Hell."
-- St. Augustine
