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Monday, May 5th, 2003
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12:56a - Quizzage
 | If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be Saunders Mac Lane's Categories for the Working Mathematician.
I provide an array of general ideas useful in a wide variety of fields. Starting from foundations, I illuminate the concepts of category, functor, natural transformation, and duality. I then turn to adjoint functors, which provide a description of universal constructions, an analysis of the representation of functors by sets of morphisms, and a means of manipulating direct and inverse limits. Which Springer GTM would you be?
The Springer GTM
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I don't rightly know how I could do any of those things, as I don't even know what they mean.
current mood: busy
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4:00a - Alarm
Fire drills, tornado drills, school violence drills, terrorism drills, and whatnot tend to make us very, very blasé about the possibility of these things actually occurring. Although, when I was in high school, I was occasionally prompted to contemplate my own mortality when I was in certain parts of the building during a tornado drill, which necessitated that we go outside to reach the basement. We all pretty much looked up into the blue skies at this moment and thought, "Okay, here's where we get sucked into the tornado and die because our school was designed by bloody morons."
The idea of course is to practice, because obviously we will have no idea what to do unless we practice all the time. And to a certain degree, I suppose, this is true, as it never would have occurred to me without lots of practice that a good idea in case of a tornado would be to go outside. However, the primary effect seems to be that an alarm going off is absolutely nothing but an annoyance as far as anyone is concerned. You sit still, hoping that it will go away soon and you won't actually have to move: ironically, precisely the opposite of what is intended.
( Some incidents of alarm )
current mood: contemplative
current music: Concerning Hobbits
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11:23p - Silly song meme
Naturally, I used the Tea Party to answer the questions. ;-)
Are you male or female? White Water Siren
Describe yourself: All My Charms
How do some people feel about you?: Sister Awake
How do you feel about yourself?: Apathy
Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend/interest?: Temptation
Where would you rather be?: Gone
Describe what you want to be: Watching What the Rain Blows In
Describe how you live: The Bazaar
Describe how you love: Dust to Gold
Share a few words of wisdom: Turn the Light Down Low
current mood: busy
current music: Requiem - The Tea Party - The Interzone Mantras
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