Happy Halloween

Short 3 minute movie by my room mate and me.

Even Newer Book

I got another new book. It's called, "Multivariate Statistical Modelling Based on Generalized Linear Models." It's over my head, but hopefully that just means it has a lot of good stuff in it. So, it should be good. I'd recommend it to anyone familiar with linear models, but looking for something more generalized.

I saw the movie, "Proof," last night. It's got a mathematician that goes crazy in it. If I ever go insane it will at least, perhaps, mean that I am finally becoming a good mathematician. Overall it was just an ok movie, I wouldn't really recommend it. The whole time I was like, "Come on, when are they going to show the proof?!" They didn't show it until the very end. And even then, just a couple pages of it. I would have liked to see a little more of the proof, but maybe the movie was targeting people that "aren't that in to proofs."

New Book

I bought the book, "Where the Wild Things Are" today. It's a great book. I'd recommend it. I had my room mate read it out loud to me (not the room mate that's the Psychology PhD student, the other one). He enjoyed it. He liked the part where all the wild things were acting fierce and Max is just sitting there all unimpressed.

Movies

The first half of Wallace and Gromit is pretty good. I fell asleep about half way through, not because it was boring, just because I was tired. The best part was, however, the short clip before the movie started - a five minute segment with the penguins from madagascar. I didn't stop laughing from start to finish. It was really hilarious. It's worth the price of the movie ticket just to go see a penguin slap a blowling pin in the face and say, "I'll deal with you later." It's really good. I would definately recommend it. Even if you go see another movie, it'll be tempting to sneak into wallace and gromit just to watch the penguin clip.

Pyramids

A pretty cool picture of the pyramids in Egypt.

Why study when you can write a blog

It's getting late. I've been studying as much as I can these past few days. I have a big test tomorrow. The chapter is called, "Survival Distributions and Life Tables," but that's just a fancy way of saying "Chapter 3: A few uninspiring reasons to memorize lots of formulas". It's late now though. I'm leaving in a few minutes to pick my roommate up and I'm getting too tired to do some serious studying. We get to use a formula sheet, so if I make a good formula sheet, there shouldn't be very much memorizing at all. In your face, Chapter 3!

I caved in and got the internet for my phone. It's kind of cool, but slow and unreliable. Kind of like a Tortoise that never keeps commitments.