InaDWriMo final post

I'm done.

This is, however, contingent on my changing my mind on source code pages. They now count towards my page count. And thus, with 53 written pages against the 22 when I started, I have 31 pages written, which is at least one page per day in November.

So why this flip-flop, you might ask. I have had a conversation for a bit over a week now with The Influential People In My Field - who, to a large part, are also my thesis examiners. This conversation started with me sending out a lemma and asking for opinions, and now boiled out to them asking for precise context for the lemma before they can even try to think about it sensibly. Undertones seem to indicate that my way of viewing the subject matter is alien enough for them to be an actual obstacle in the discussion.

Hence, it is in everyones interest that they get to read my thesis draft. In order to learn about my point of view from it. Thus, my thesis draft should, preferably, actually be good at the task of teaching them about what I do.

So I got a direct order from my thesis supervisor to start polishing, now. And thus, I reevaluate the value of ignoring source code, and conclude that I finished InaDWriMo.

William Blake

filkerdave informs us that today is William Blake's birthday. My own honorium will be from Auguries of Innocence, the introductory stanzas to which have coloured my own view of mathematics for ever and ever. Reading them in the subway art at Stockholm University subway station is one of my fonder memories of studying there.

To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.

Meme

Stolen from silmaril

It would take 47 bottles of Beamish Stout or 13 shots of Absinthe to kill me

Fort Worth Dating

Their only Guinness was by the bottle. Not gonna kill myself drinking Guinness unless I can get it from the tap.