Wasn’t there a movie in the Eighties whose tagline on the posters was “The most erotic thing in their world was money”?

2006: The Ananova story, if memory serves, was about a Russian newspaper being penalized(?) for a cartoon of two currency symbols (dollar and euro?) going at it doggie-style.

visual illusions

At ten years, Fluffie considers herself too mature for the four-foot jump to a favorite perch; so I improvised a stairway from a couple of crates, and am gratified to see her merrily hopping up and down it.

I hate when that happens!

I have long taken delight in how the Net lets me rub electrons informally with scholars such as John Conway and Larry Trask.

On September 12, I wrote to Eric Weisstein of MathWorld:

If the tetrahedral rotation group is isomorphic to A4, as is easily shown, why are they listed as distinct groups of order 12?

It appears that my question triggered a major rewrite of the latter page. Wow. (The answer to my question is that there are two unrelated groups called T, both of order 12.)

2006: Trask died in 2004, alas.

I was not distressed to learn that this Power Mac 4400 (bought in 1997) is too old for MacOS X – until I found that Mozilla is not available for MacOS 8.

My housemate, uncharacteristically awake before dawn, complained that she could not reach her mailbox (which is on this site). Thinking quickly I guessed (accurately) that, being hosted in Virginia, ogre.nu was temporarily knocked out by the hurricane.