floffee runs

I don't know why the word 'floffee' came to describe the coffee runs we make in the afternoon, or why there's an l in there. Fletch, who coined the term, claims it means "fancy coffee," because we've been going to this tiny hole in the wall on maiden lane instead of the pete's down on mission. Anyway, there's a natural lull in the day, when the food from lunch is really solidly digesting, and 6pm (my office is 9-6, don't get me started) seems like forever from now, so we generally get up and stretch at least, and usually someone will suggest coffee, and the rest of us will say hells yeah. We come out of the mental fog for a couple minutes, and then back to work.

sophie being cute

A sizable portion of this blogs readers come here just for cute photos of my wife. Who am I to argue?

not photos from the book

The mathematician "Paul Erdős":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s had a saying: when he came across a particularly beautiful proof, he'd say "That's one from the book," meaning the book that God kept all the best proofs in. bq. Although an agnostic atheist, he spoke of "The Book", a visualization of a book in which God had written down the best and most elegant proofs for mathematical theorems. Lecturing in 1985 he said, "You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book." He was really a fascinating fellow; really, go read the "wikipedia page":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s about him. Fun fact: if Hank Aaron has an Erdos number of 1 because of a signed baseball, mine is four, because of a project I owned, and passed on to an academic. The book I'm talking about, though, is just the one I'm meant to be working on. In a world filled with wonders like Erdos numbers and cloudy skies and busy life all around, is it any wonder I get distracted?

gonna start on a new book

I have a couple projects that at least have enough photos for book-ifying. I don't know which one, though. The street stuff is a little premature, I think; I don't know where it's going yet. The photos from the ferry might be a good group. There's also the signs project, which up until this moment only existed in my head... it's really loosely framed at this point, and none of the pictures have made it up here yet. It's also way too soon to put that one on paper. So, ferry photos it is. Of course, I have 10 other projects demanding my attention; there's the watch that I've been planning to build, there's the camera repair that I haven't finished, there's the postcard list, the wheels that I need to build for myself so sophie can have hers back, the bluetooth chording keyboard for my ipad, and the camera, which will happen about the time I retire at this rate. Anyway, don't look for this book thing to happen soon. I've no idea what form it'll be in, who'll print it, or any of that. Silly details.