Destination: USA

RV Pickup

Wed, 1 Jul 2015 | By bmckiernan | Views [118]

Just picked up the RV. Bringing it home to pack up! 

The Gnome prepares to return

Wed, 1 Jul 2015 | By gnome-san | Views [401]

the gnome is set to return home After circling 98% of the globe thus far, and a marvelous adventure it has been.  So if you wished to travel what equipment and clothes have worked?  Haglofs GoreTex, Chacos sandals as a secondary and for ... Read more >

Photos: Lesser Floridian palmetto gnome

Wed, 1 Jul 2015 | By gnome-san | Photo Gallery

And We're Off!

Wed, 1 Jul 2015 | By mwollak | Views [169]

Jeanette and I are going on a 7 1/2 week trip of a lifetime. 4 countries, 14 cities, thousands of miles, 2 world travelers and 1 incredible adventure!  Follow along as we explore together! Shanghai > Beijing > Hangzhou > Hong Kong >... Read more >

Small bike. Huge (s)miles

Wed, 1 Jul 2015 | By yoshic | Views [183] | Comments [1]

I am so happy with my choice of motorbike, as I took a rather unorthodox path when deciding on basically a medium sized dirt bike to do what most 'bikers' do on larger, or way larger more road oreientated machines such as the Kawasaki KLR 650, or BMW ... Read more >

Ready for the Weekend

Tue, 30 Jun 2015 | By kakimono | Views [445]

On Friday night, we took advantage of our new key priviliges to go into the guy's dorm without waiting outside for someone to let us in. Since I'd been the one to ask Dr. Aktar, he'd e-mailed me (and no one else) to tell us that it should work now, so ... Read more >

Tags: dresses, math, movies, walk

Time Flies When You're Doing Research

Mon, 29 Jun 2015 | By kakimono | Views [403]

Thursday was the last day of the algebra short course. We finished up our cursury discussion of category theory with a couple of examples and theorems, and Dr. Aktar asked if we had any other questions. Angelo wanted to hear more about tensor products ... Read more >

Tags: analysis, dgvf, keys, math, set theory

Photos: More from the secret island

Mon, 29 Jun 2015 | By gnome-san | Photo Gallery

Photos: Morning and evening, and it was good

Mon, 29 Jun 2015 | By gnome-san | Photo Gallery

Photos: Agent Orange Scans

Mon, 29 Jun 2015 | By agentorange | Photo Gallery

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The Revenge of the Projects

Sun, 28 Jun 2015 | By kakimono | Views [469]

During dinner on Tuesday, Dr. Farley made a comment about how he wanted to resurrect the original problem. (You know, theo one about generalizing procedures from two generators to more which mostly consisteted of cutting up and rearranging squares.) ... Read more >

Tags: dgvf, math, thompson group t

The Lead Up

Sun, 28 Jun 2015 | By agravlee | Views [121]

Right now its Saturday, and I leave for Miami on Tuesday and then to Buenos Aires on Wednesday. I am really excited, but also nervous at the same time. I'm sure this is common; most of the time I'm nervous only until I realize how excited I am. I like ... Read more >

Lost items

Sat, 27 Jun 2015 | By yoshic | Views [167]

I have been trying really hard to keep track of all my stuff. On the whole I have done pretty well for 11 countries, and 60 different hostels so far.   This is what slipped thru-   1. Sunglasses (broke - Mexico) 2. DIY Camera ... Read more >

Modules on a Tuesday

Thu, 25 Jun 2015 | By kakimono | Views [404]

In the algebra short course, we continued our discussion about modules before moving on to category theory. Along the way, Professsor Aktar took a detour to talk a bit about motivation for some of these ideas and definitions. This brought us to homology, ... Read more >

Tags: advice, analysis, dgvf, math, thompson group t

Photos: Profile Photo

Thu, 25 Jun 2015 | By ilivewhereiam | Photo Gallery