So, is this where we came in...?

What's going on? I mean, come on, what is it?

It's beginning to make sense now but, what's this, I haven't seen that before...

Ah, I see, there's where that bit fits in.

And so it goes, on and on.

navigate the seas of the sun

i want to jump into space and swim through galaxies

now, how many mid-terms must a poor boy take?
before the problem sets cease?

and how many papers must he write?
before he is allowed to be?

the answer my friend, is interior within the set
the answer is also on the corner

yes, and how may breakfasts
of oatmeal and toast must he eat?
before he has the time to make anda bhuji?

and how many times must he choose
between Chic-Fil-A and Panda Express?
or the co-op store downstairs
with the hippies and their semicooked food?

the answer my friend, is an unbounded maximum
as the universe is unbounded too

and how many months of ceaseless toil must he himself bury
before they give him his degree?

the answer my friend is no longer existent
the foc's no longer agree!

clap clap clap

When I was a young warthog

I remember when I was a kid I used to day dream about being on a room on top of a sea, with the waves all around me, and I was living alone.

I had a bed and no walls, and there were two machines - one that would give me any food I wanted (which at the time were pizza and rajma chawal) and the other any book I wanted.

For a while I remember debating if I should have two book machines - one for the serious books, and one for cartoons - or just one.

I dont remember when I stopped day dreaming about that particular thing...funny thing isolation.

Note to self at the age of 25 - this would be a terribly lonely existence!

I made an awesome rajma yesterday, I swear this one's as good as home - the consistency, the taste, it's freakin' perfect!

Great E Play

In the beginning there was the unseen hand. It was soothing and caressed one with a deep touch.

Then came Downward D and Upward S; from them arose Sir Plus (of two kinds - P & C). Sir Plus turned out in turn to give rise to Dead Wait; the government was questioned, its habits and its tendencies.

Slowly everything seemed to sink until after the last of the Great Wars arose two figures - Max U and Jee Eq - to turn everything sharper, and everyone became more thoughtful. (Some quibbled about themselves being whole, but this was aggregated over). Max U had a cousin - Max EU - whose role is being questioned.

More years passed, with Max U and Jee Eq spawning many young ones, though some of them rejected their parenthood and preferred isolation. These would come to be known as Par Eeq.

Then arose several parallel universes, and Max U had several cousins, or rather mirror images of himself. Some of these mirror images were wholly different creatures, yet oddly related.

With the creation of parallel universes, a minor storm which had been brewed at Max U's time, but laid dormant, now started raging. Ani was - and remains to this day - the fundamental actor in this drama; several of his brethren grew to be famous though none to his glory.

With more time passing, people grew impatient for there were issues on which Ani's answers were found to be not true; now Insty & the Well Mannered One were in charge. It remains to see where they will lead us.

truth

Apparently block recursive estimation of structural equation systems allows you to estimate the entire economy; this according to Richard Just provides the sole justification for any econometric work.

By itself that is a very powerful statement.

What is to follow is even more so...

So one of the students asks the great man, "but is the assumption of zero covariance amongst blocks realistic?".

Just replies "No.

This is why econometrics is an imperfect application of statistics. "

touche!

it is a rare day when you witness a wise man speaking truth, and I am NOT being sarcastic!

the best years of our lives

i cannot exist in a vacuum, i need something to define and guide me. something bigger than me, and I am part of it.

perhaps this explains why I find living easier as I "grow up".

"gotta push that wheel of dharma, push it right around.." (Bruce Dickinson in Darkside of Aquarius)