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.haskell: finally got the photo situationall straightened out (thanks ariele). .let me know what you think. .a caption engine is coming, but nobody hold their breath. (ps – try to count how many thumbs you can see over the lens).

.neutrinos have mass because of off diagonal terms in the total hamiltonian. .freaking amazing. .electron, muon andtau neutrinos are eigenstates of the weak interaction, but not of the total hamiltonian. .thus, the three states are coupled and oscillate in time between oneanother. .equivalently, you can write eigenstates of the total hamiltionian which are mixed states of the electron, muon and tau neutrinos. .these “mixed”states (in some sense more “pure” than their “constituents”), have well defined mass. .so the original neutrinos must too. .it’s just hard to see since we’reused to looking at things in the electron, muon and taun neutrino basis instead of the “mixed” one (plus defining mass requires arguing some semantics). !mixingimplies mass! .now someone just needs to find how much.

.one fish, two fish, red fish, woman-on-top fish.

.took the stat-mech midterm today. .not too bad, though decided i no longer knew fifth grade math and so couldn’t invert a few simple little sums offractions. .wahoo’s fish taco for dinner – got the bonzai burrito (wet with green salsa). .pretty tasty, though must admit i felt a little off gastronomically afterwards, and i’d much rather blame the burrito than the damn good slice of coconut cream pie i had at pie n’ burger. .drive-by-ganked a nice camellia from the neighbors. .gave it to ted. .katie’s jealous.

.took the two pieces of my car and reconstituted them intoone at the saturn dealer. .shopping with ariele. .didn’t find a rug, but reinspired my desire for a papasan. .got mydrink on in the evening with greg, heidi, jeff, ariele, paul.za, brenda and peter at xiomara – a chichi latin american place in old town. .drank a couple mojitos and ordered an isla flotante – a hardcaramel covered meringue floating in sugary goo. .tasty, but a bit over the top. .brenda mentioned one robbiewilliams and how he was some sort of mega-star everywhere outside of america. .she claimed that americans obviously had no ears and couldn’t judge quality. .i said tina turner is also huge in non-america, and for good reason: we didn’t want her; she sucks (though, note). .my argument, though seemingly flawless, didn’t go overwell. .after paying the (hefty) bill, we (now including michelle and suvir) headed over to lucky baldwin’s (a pub in old town a bit more my style). ?everpurchased a three liter bottle of ale for 75 dollars? .neither have i, but we did get one for $38 after they messed up our order and brought us the big bottleinstead of the “small” 1.5 liter. .chimay blue. .rock on lucky b’s. .heidi got, as we say in the northern.id vernacular,plizastered. .good times all around.

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.yeah. .definitely haven’t written anything for a week or so. .something would happen, or i’d have a thought, and i’d say “i should write that up” and then proceed to not. .well, it’s not like anyone actually reads this thing, so i guess there’s no harm done. .anyway, big news yesterday. .i ordered a new digital camera from adorama on sunday, and it arrived yesterday. .super excited. .it’s light, small, slick and seems to have a good number of flash, exposure an sensitivity settings. .the auto setting isn’t terrific in low light, but it’s good enough to be corrected with some basic one-click software. .look for pictures to be added to the site soon.

Effluence from the stream of life

.hopefully, peter jennings’ person of the week tonight will represent the other side of the coin of the gay marriage issue (?is that “heads” or “tails”, then? !hey-ohh!) (see 2/27/04). .i realized last night that i never purchased a february dvd. .guess i need to think of something quick. .heidi suggests spaceballs. .looking at my list, i’m tempted by blade runner.