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I just finished up the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, and I feel like I just did a line of bravery-dust. It's incredibly empowering stuff to read, I just think I need to really strain myself in applying it. I would like to get a copy for maebalyne_xo, she could really benefit from him. I do feel a little bad though, because I did kind of rush through it, so I will eventually re-read it in a more meditative manner.

What's up next?
The Art of War by Sun Tzu?
Memories, Dreams and Reflections by Jung?
The Critique of Pure Reason by Kant?

I'd really like a light history of mathematics, or introduction to linguistics at hand.
Summers almost over!

La Biblioteko de Babelo
de Jorge Luis Borges
Tradukis Manuel Giorgini

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Oooh - And I also found out that the Peterborough Public Library has all nine volumes of Coplestone's History of Philosophy. I started on Vol. I yesterday, and got to about pg. 39.

Damn, today was fine.

When I got up, Chad was just about to leave for Chapters. He waited for me to have my morning English muffin, and cereal, both of which weren't necessarily eaten in the morning, though they are patently morningish foods.

He invited me to drive him, which was a pleasant surprise, and I think I did an okay job of getting us both over there in one piece. It's great that he's willing to let me drive, because this means I might actually get some practice in Peterborough. The drive to Chapters is about six blocks, and we made a brief stop at Rogers to drop off a couple movies.

Once we got to Chapters, we stayed for the better part of five hours. I attacked some more of Don Quixote, aswell as looking at a book of the Ten Greatest Mathematical Puzzles of All Time, and some Latin stuff. The Ten Greatest weren't really that awesome, and I think the author might have been embarking on some crazy tangents. In the section on the Fibonacci problem for example, he found a way of mentioning, and illustrating Mobius strips... How'd he do that? Another one I checked out, was Introducing Relativity. I would actually like to sit down and read that whole thing, because it seems fascinating. They did even go so far as to mention some nontrivial math! Sacre bleu!

We managed to come up with some nontrivial math ourselves, when we came up with a question about the Harmonic Series. We were looking for a function such that H_f(n)≥n. Where of course f(n) is the smallest such integer, and H_n is the partial harmonic sum. After shottily messing around with it for an hour, we appreciated a barista's hair who was working at Starbucks, and deemed the problem intractable by our means. Chad kept on looking at Voltaire's Bastards, and that was it. When we got home, we checked MathWorld, and figured out it was way harder than we'd originally though.

When Victoria got home from work, Chad and her went off to the gym. I went climbing and finally splurged on a Rock and Rope membership. Damn, so much fun, but my hands are still callousing up and I need to pause often.

Start: Sep 20 2007 - 7:00pm
End: Sep 20 2007 - 9:00pm

Eunoia and Crystallography author Christian Bök kicks off York University's Canadian Writers in Person reading series on September 20. Listen to a lecture from one of Canada's best-selling and most noted poets. The readings, which are free and open to the public, are held Thursdays at 7:00 p.m.

Bök is the author of two poetry collections, Crystallography (Coach House, 1994) and Eunoia (Coach House, 2001). Eunoia, one of the best-selling books of Canadian poetry in history, was the winner of the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is also the author of the academic study Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science (Northwestern, 2002).

Wow, I am so excited for this.
I better brush up on my monovocalic-lipograms, just to feel like a mortal at that man's feet.