Tweets from 2011

I was banker in French monopoly, brother took money from the bank, I said "mi caisse es tu caisse", multi-lingual pun #funniestmanalive

@badmachinery my dad gets a new pen every christmas but can't draw, so pen fetish -> artistry is ruled out. artistry -> fetish still poss.

@standupmaths or how about a tiny tiny version (click on Proceed to this site at the bottom) http://tinyurl.com/2eosgvs

@eqdynamics why are you telling me this now?

@eqdynamics which one?

@brittneybean CFCs, which were causing the holes to grow, were banned ages ago. So problem solved, as far as we're able

@brittneybean was the email I just got from quora automatic or did you actually invite me?

@Electrokittie not necessarily

enjoy this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_7wh_ClamA

@brittneybean replace 'agenda' with 'brag' and you have a conversation in a maths department

@HilariousCow that would certainly make assassin's creed more playable. I want to know when animation skeletons will have movable shoulders

I love Germany and Germans. Look at this shop! I would buy lots of them if I was impulsive http://tinyurl.com/32vfkz6

another meal, another cut finger

a reading of the hardest recipe ever, farce double: http://tinyurl.com/yb5ovg5

making all my cookery books better by adding this step to every recipe: leave in fridge overnight; reheat in microwave.

Raskulls is fun! It's like sideways Mr Driller with alternatively cute characters

oh dear. Failing the Bechdel test is the least of Raskulls' problems with female characters

@divbyzero first thing he'd do would be to close the door to make sure he's inside.

going to change my name to Christian My-Middle-Name Perfect, so I can say "'my middle name' is my middle name" and be right twice

@Bishnavitch as strong as your relationship is, I'm not sure it's strong enough to withstand a forced viewing of that film

@theyellowstereo Hooray! I need some good new music.

@theyellowstereo but the yahoo player thing is taking a few attempts before it'll play each track

@brittneybean so that 'abbrv.' in dictionaries is autologic

trademarks should work the other way too, so if the people decide on a better name for a business they have to use it, eg marks and sparks

you left snot rags in my car @aperfect

@alexbellos if anything is a candidate for my Interesting Maths Esoterica collection, that is. Hugely impressive.

@mathshistory is there nobody notable who shares my birthday? So if I try hard enough, in 100 years it could be me today?

@maricarjagger @peterrowlett http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmVOZ8WJKp4 as a silly first entry

@kenfodder thanks!

@brittneybean ta like

@brittneybean fairly sure there's an app for that

@peterrowlett playing a game last night, players asked if we were rolling too many 8s. Engineer friend used Excel, I wrote probability table

Audacious Parking dot com http://twitpic.com/3qkqrq

@brittneybean sort of not-quite-great film though

@brittneybean it's worth watching, but wasn't as amazing as the title

why does an image search for "not surprised" give so many results of young people at parties?

what a nice girl on the phones at Domino's. What a pity there's no way I can sound attractive calling up at 5.30 for a single pizza

@TeXtip if that's in reference to multi-part function definitions, MathJax supports all of amsmath, including \cases

javascript's console.log can substitute parameters like printf. Sitar music is playing as my mind opens up to a new world

@Bishnavitch that is a cracker of a joke

I want to buy a coin sorter. 99% of hits are the same electronic one with different brands. Surely there don't need to be any moving parts?

@Bishnavitch videos soon?

@Gelada oh, to be in a department with money to fritter on "decoration" and "walls"...

Ana Tijoux: pretty good!

TEAM MEMO: Pick your new nickname from here http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/01/the_20_best_nic.php cp is now "Tony Bagels"

how is the Wikipedia page on Loci so short? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_(mathematics)

@HoeJodgkiss oh no I've just realised orangutans don't even exist in India

@aperfect mudlarking on the thames sand banks http://www.walks.com/Homepage/Beachcombing_Walks/default.aspx

@Bishnavitch it's more of an art project than a joke, but no they're not serious

Monday: meetings. Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday: Maths-Aid; xbox. Friday: clean house. Oh no I have a routine!

@aperfect too late for mudlarking, you fool!

is there a site like the Hype Machine that doesn't consist solely of remixes and Kanye West-alikes?

@aperfect oh no, too many rough surfaces. Graze City. LEAVE YOUR HOUSE

@HilariousCow What's wrong with the DLR? Do you have bankerphobia?

The mario tune is so good; how come it wasn't composed before? cf Uptown Girl uses Mozart melody http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXjsoZG9mxQ

@HoeJodgkiss now whenever you cross a border it'll look like your life has taken a turn for the worse, all tie and shirtless.

@MagBilliardsDev is that just on the last table or on all of them?

@mathshistory in the past two days I've learnt about two mathematicians born within a couple of miles of me! Let's hope this rate keeps up

@kenfodder happy birthday! I hope Adam has done something nice for you

This bad music album I downloaded yesterday seems to have transmogrified into a good music album overnight

@beefok very possibly. Level 3 was ruthless

since when does it take 48 hours for an undelivered parcel to get back to the sorting office?

maths teachers: is there somewhere a short list of topics covered in the most popular A-Level Maths & Further Maths modules?

@MalloryJenkins can I ask who you meant to @ mention there? I get loads of people accidentally typing my username

@mathshistory the twitter experiment is going very well, thank you

a three-day experiment in broadcasting field recordings, sounds, etc. (it's the most pretentious thing, be warned) http://ustre.am/sVCP !

@mathshistory euff, you've already made me join the IMA! Maybe I will join one when the other runs out

@MalloryJenkins I live nowhere near there. I'm in the north of England. I wonder why my tweets are showing up in CA

@for_the_winn when did you join twitter? I've just noticed I'm not following you!

In the alternate universe where everybody is an artist, what does Mr Spock say when he wakes up?

@stewartandco I have to walk up northumberland street to get to work but I always forget you're at the library and miss out on tasty food :(

@Gelada gospel truth

@brittneybean every time you use t.co to shorten a url I think of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEr-AKJr-LI

aaaahhhhh when did nurse jackie series 2 start?

@standupmaths so jealous. Our maths building is being recladded with boring squares

In the emptiest cinema watching everyone's third choice film.

what is even the point in finish-in-the-oven baguettes? I have yet to succesfully slice one in half and fit my lunch in

If the people upstairs just put their shoes on at the front door instead of in the bedroom I could sleep in for another hour each day

Sat on a train driving on the right hand side. Everything about this is wrong. Expect to start walking on the ceiling soon

what's the maximum number of wiggly things I should tolerate making their ablutions in the shower with me? Today two wigglies and a spider

@rockhyrax no such pity from CP. At this moment they are probably somewhere out in the North Sea.

it's possible that I love mozzarella too much

how is this even a niche? http://butchesholdinganimals.tumblr.com/archive

play asteroids in a hyperbolic space (actually interesting!) http://www.paradise.caltech.edu/~cook/Workshop/Java/SpaceJewels/main.html

@aperfect indeed!

Dear Diary, What a lovely day I've had!

@aperfect a case of the Hong Kong SoHo phenomenon, I'd wager

I'm such an avant-garde hipster I've decided to become an inventor so the things I do now become obsolete, and I can then do them ironically

I'm going to open a kilt shop called Knick-Knack-Plaidy-Whack

do green and brown go together?

@HilariousCow can you draw a picture of what shape the input looks like, or can I test this with an xbox controller plugged in a PC?

@HilariousCow looks like +-30 degrees clips to a line. Here's bmax code http://tinyurl.com/6lctwt7 and a demo http://tinyurl.com/5vbvbpm

@theyellowstereo what kind of thing would you cover?

@theyellowstereo should I have commented more? the daily/weekly graboid was my main source of good new music

@theyellowstereo and if you'd had ads which sometimes weren't for american apparel, I might've clicked them

there goes another big bar of dairy milk

scandalous! My campaign against mad facebook dating ads is just making them worse: "Find the 1 (or 2) at DateBridge"

New mathem-o-blog post: A demo of the Numbas maths exam system. http://checkmyworking.com/?p=274

for people who can finish the cryptic crossword before breakfast, the escorts advertising in the LRB Personals aren't very subtle

@peterrowlett our professor of pure maths (Sarah Rees) uses a Tablet PC in lectures. Just Journal + lots of scrolling, I think.

@gingerbeardman do you have a copy of the monkey logo that I could use in my matrix multiplying monkeys example?

@gingerbeardman ehh, 400x400?

applewood smoked cheddar in a jardine's kettle chilli con queso OH MAN

New mathem-o-blog post: Not-quite-slides from a talk about Turing completeness (http://bit.ly/fqkdIh)

@beefok you say numbers and acronyms and I am impressed even thought I don't know what they mean

newsjack is back! http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00yc08c/Newsjack_Series_4_7_Premiere/

POWER YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWN

Very good meeting today, but now I have to get the metro at school kicking-out time, and then drive through the Tyne tunnel at rush hour :(

The Romanian restaurateurs' association invites you to "Bucharest, Buchatable"

my Drink Stiffness Preference is edging up; currently at "2-ply cardboard" -- double measures of squash; five scoops of hot choc

hid the dog's toy in a really good place. He is more stumped than the combined English cricket teams of the 1990s

I love Germany and Germans http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_06qrFnvnw

@ColinTheMathmo does the proof of that involve numbers mod 4? I'm just a group theorist, proper numbers hurt my head

@ColinTheMathmo jolly good, I've got it right then. I'm not a good group theorist, but know some. What's your problem?

@JSlayerUK mmmmmmmmmmmmyes

@stewartandco can you remember the name of the supplier of those cumberland pasties you used to sell back when you first opened?

@ColinTheMathmo sounds like perfect MathOverflow fodder. I'll check my many books for a "simple" theorem

@ColinTheMathmo in fact, there's this question, whose answers tend towards applications of group theory http://bit.ly/hRFYGx

ok, what do I have to do to become a German? http://bit.ly/gTM3Bj (loads more at http://bit.ly/gx2vqb )

@standupmaths a feat that Wolfram|Alpha would very likely be capable of

@brittneybean yes but a boring maths one and we have no money

basically, I acquire jazz albums as and when great jazzmen die

There's taking an early night and then there's whatever this is. Night night world, see you next week.

@aperfect you're not in one of those converted railway carriage indian restaurants, are you? Are you eating poppadums?

New mathem-o-blog post: Hardy’s Course of Pure Mathematics (http://checkmyworking.com/?p=281)

Sitting by the window in a cafe, eating a pain au chocolat and scowling at passers-by

both starters and puds AND flatbread cafe have closed?! Where will I go for yummy yum yums now?

@Electrokittie I know - Bourgeois Problems, right?

People are wearing some bold skirts today. I approve.

@peterrowlett what would helping involve?

@peterrowlett ok, I think I can do that. It sounds interesting

I have done nothing useful today twitpic.com/40hd2d

@gingerbeardman correct. Aka Loopy in Simon tatham's portable puzzle collection

@DrMathS you mean sum of its digits is equal to sum of digits of its distinct prime factors?

Wallpaper/mood synchronicity twitpic.com/40uk96

@mathshistory or if you feel like reading ~500 pages on the topic, Cajori's History of Mathematical Notations http://bit.ly/fwT3T8

need a wee need a wee need a wee on a train need a wee

@GreyAlien I'm doing the same with my little brother. Currently we're having a ziggurat competition

how do I arrange it so this is the first thing I see every morning? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHo6qWxoDOQ

internet explorer is bad at what it does

NTFS is bad at what it does (no. 2 in a series)

Arrrg! I had two hours in hand, now going to arrive at the station with like 90 seconds to spare

Couldn't find anywhere good to get fast food near Nottingham station. So hungry

using my boss's office for the afternoon. I'm living the American Dream

sour cream and chive dip builds healthy bones. Is that right?

@Gelada I saw this and it reminded me of you - inflatable almost-geodesic frame for a tent http://heimplanet.com/produkte/the-cave/grid/#

would you like some nice music to go with today's nice weather? Paris Jazz Piano by Michel Legrand - http://bit.ly/g47lFe

Dear Outlook Web Access, it's no good saving a draft of my email if the only time you do that is at the start when the page is blank

@kenfodder ssh! That was going to be my follow-up tweet

I'm eating waitrose's least inspiring ready meal twitpic.com/43bi1a

@alexbellos was perelman in the news before or after twitter appeared?

@aperfect that's, like, yourself's opinion, man

yum yum yum tyrrell's salt and vinegar crisps yum

@Electrokittie I made that tweet a lot more cheery in my mind by adding a comma!

brilliant sculptures by a Mr Euclide http://bit.ly/ghbZO4

@HoeJodgkiss if I had a squid for every time I've heard a bad sealife pun...

@HoeJodgkiss michael jackson bad, not bad bad

Home made bhajis. They were unexpectedly tasty! twitpic.com/442sb7

my brilliant plan to make dinner from scratch might have actually been a bad plan. I'm still cooking at 9.30

Mmhmm that is right. Yep. twitpic.com/443uy7

why don't worker insects of the famly Formicidae float? Because they're not boy-ant!

@peterrowlett yep, I assume it's about something I can answer

@badmachinery call me a glory seeker, but I support Generic Team in Red. All my favourite brands of beer, car, cleaning product support them

@HilariousCow unity hates my browser, but is that like my james-bond-goon idea with points for shooting wide and hamming up your death?

I assume the atom symbol on the bottom of my tupperware means it's microwave-safe, not gamma ray-safe

lovely horsey clip clop http://bit.ly/fUEpGh

@mattybeardsmith omnipresence

is "every human born has the same number of children" a sufficient condition for evloution stopping? Trying to parse this awful BBC piece

@peterrowlett hah, I still haven't thought of any examples in newcastle since you came up

@mathshistory @mathsinthecity that's a very sparse biography. The village I grew up in can do better, per capita!

@Electrokittie plenty of Indians called De Souza in Goa

look, a chicken made of eggs http://bit.ly/e1M8zO

Solidarity is Illusion: The Political Economy of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic http://bit.ly/g6t93D

@Gelada banach-tarski says nothing about pairs of elements remaining next to each other, so the result will be very messy indeed

if Goldbach's conjecture is true but unprovable then it is impossible to correctly round down (in floating point) 0.5 + 10-n for certain n

@Gelada I always prefer an impossibility theorem to an attempted proof

@Gelada brill! have you seen this? http://bit.ly/hcbbN0

why does the Erdos number project say there are *currently* 511 people with Erdos no. 1?

seriously though theatre royal, I don't need to be emailed every single day about Blood Brothers.

@Bishnavitch are you up and about again then?

someone please explain the plot of The Illusionist in a way that doesn't make me sad. I need a hug now

I have woken up with Minnie Driver's awful rendition of "Stand By Your Man" from Goldeneye in my head.

why is there a rule that people listening to the radio during daytime have awful musical taste?

@Electrokittie you tell 'em!

@JSlayerUK why do you have to live down south? I want tasty cake

@brittneybean having children with Liam Neeson would be ok though?

I've decided to write an email to a radio phone-in show in case they ever do a show about premonitions

My mutant gene has reactivated, so once more I have shed my normal human skin and become one of the Ecze-Men.

@JSlayerUK imagine the state we'd be in if they knew what they were doing!

Left my laptop charger at my mum's, so forced to use old PCs. Bricked one installing ubuntu, the other can't keep up with me writing email

I'd like to play a good game about King Arthur.

v disappointed about the lack of enthusiasm for my FS Pop Shrove It event on facebook. That is a *golden* pun!

@rockhyrax I defy you to find this cute

@rockhyrax would help if I pasted the link! http://cuteoverload.com/2011/03/05/they-call-me/

going to open a poets' retreat called the Scansion Mansion

@brittneybean oh no that makes sense am I a pretentious ponce?

I'm very pleased with what I have made: http://somethingorotherwhatever.com/monkey/circles/

@alexbellos oh bravo! Well done indeed!

@brittneybean there are never more than 3 dogs barking at once in Portsmouth.

@brittneybean every bottle of malt vinegar produced in the UK travels through Portsmouth at least once before being sold

@brittneybean a 1997 study showed that standup comics' jokes were 19% more likely to fall flat in Portsmouth clubs, compared to the UK avg.

SO WINDY

Fact: the French say 'formidable' because of a 13thC. satanist cult which believed the devil was an ant who tempted peasants with sweet jams

Fact cont.: 'formidable' is an abbreviation of the exclamation, 'ce succès goût mieux que votre plus douce confiture, fourmi diable'

@peterrowlett I think you need to book in a stay at the Scansion Mansion

@fumbleweeds please explain that, or post pictures. They sound delicious

when did I download all this synthpop? I don't even like synthpop.

@fumbleweeds oh wow! That did not fail to deliver

Five fresh fish to whoever can sort out my blog-gone-crazy situation.

@standupmaths and with just enough 1s to represent the classic mersenne primes!

plastics fact: on TS Eliot's death, it was revealed that for 13 years he had been talking to Dow about becoming the public face of Styrofoam

the letters Eliot left behind indicated that Dow were open to the idea, but unsure why the 20th century's greatest poet wanted the role

twitter fact: there's nothing on the twitter page telling you to stop posting nonsense when you're bored.

@rockhyrax noted. I think i can see the ear, but that only makes one piglet

@RANIELDANSON that's enough for a mighty cerf and terf!

@peterrowlett this week I proved that all finitely generated groups are computable on the third level of the Grzegorczyk hierarchy

@peterrowlett more interestingly, I'm on my way into maker faire uk. Zometool should be there and hopefully more maths stuff. I'll take pics

A hand-cranked Turing machine at #mfuk twitpic.com/494wsl

it's emusicsmas, and I've found no good new music. I'm just going to listen to Thomas Tantrum again instead.

my hair is at the awful intermediate "sticky outy all over this place" stage, meaning I now look as fashionable as I feel

Serious question: what's the most foggy it can be? I wouldn't like it to be more foggy than it is

Priscilla Ahn has such a lovely voice

@ColinTheMathmo and you have to go all the way up to 73! to get an exact number of years

@ColinTheMathmo that reminds me: the best group theory my supervisor and I could think of is fundamental groups of topological spaces

@GreyAlien true that

Poetry from my phone's predictive text: Je vous remercie pour vos réponses, and I will not have a lot.

wow wow wowee! Interactive geometry in html with jsxgraph http://remember2015.info/labs/chalkboard/page/Geometry.html

@MarcusduSautoy while you're here, can you see if you can spot any Maths in the City? I think Newcastle is mathematically uninteresting

@MarcusduSautoy but not in Newcastle!

@MarcusduSautoy ok, you can have that, but it was a Gateshead project...

@MarcusduSautoy I've thought of a Newcastle maths fact! The Newcastle Metro line is topologically unique - it's pretzel-shaped

@HoeJodgkiss something something the George Foreman Grill of the jury failed to reach a decision

@HoeJodgkiss what did the boson say to the quark? "You really know how to turn on the charm!"

"doeth represent the square of squares squaredly" - definition of zenzizenzizenzic, or my uni election Nerd Party campaign slogan?

#terriblephysicspuns @HoeJodgkiss why did poor Einstein move out of his student digs? Lorentz was too high

@HoeJodgkiss oh well done! Well done indeed

@Alternativemeat oh wow, I will definitely have some of that if I see it

@peterrowlett the way I thought about it was, what do I want my descendants in the 22nd century to think I did?

Christian Perfect is Pro-Chive.

@peterrowlett my blog has trouble staying extant from one week to the next; I don't think it'll remain part of the historical record

@standupmaths @jamesgrime I think I've got it - Var(sum K rolls) grows with K, so move up then down is more likely than move down then up

@standupmaths what about my million runs? http://bit.ly/eFxoio

It's finally happened. My water bottle emptied itself into my backpack. Smell very strongly of blackcurrant now

Is Ribena's company newsletter called the Blackcourant?

Red top, white denim skirt, black tights. This girl has managed to wear a colour combo that even my colourblind eyes find offensive

@standupmaths as ever, there's a Dinosaur Comic on that subject: http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=669

@aperfect they're doing WHAT

going to say something rude in binary through the medium of socks over the course of the next year. Matching = 1, different = 0.

@standupmaths Two Dots by Lusine

@brittneybean it's just like a civic centre. Don't get your hopes up

@brittneybean looks like a regular maths seminar to me

the estate agent claims this street is "predestionised"

@ColinTheMathmo but are they recursively enumerable?

@ColinTheMathmo can you send me a link to the paper? It is, outrageously, missing from my Interesting Esoterica collection

@ColinTheMathmo don't worry about it. I assumed there'd be something to go with all that press however many years ago

Arrived early for a conference, so trying to take as long as possible to find maths building without leaving the campus. Algorithms please.

Durham have art on their walls! That's it, I'm going to pester the head of school

@peterrowlett @Gelada i'd love to, but it's a matter of funding!

What a pleasant day! Do I have time for a trip to the seaside OH WAIT I'M ALREADY THERE MY LIFE IS PERFECT

This dude can barely walk, how does he intend to tennis? Tennising is for runalarks and jumpscotches, not fogular old men

@Gelada I'll try, but I think even getting a tenner out of a UK maths department for anything discretionary would be difficult at the moment

@Gelada do you have a complete portfolio with, for example, the thing you did for Imperial?

@Gelada I've considered a maths art competition for us postgrads just to get *something* on the walls, but I don't think it would succeed

today I vastly overestimated the number of Germans

@Bishnavitch @HoeJodgkiss the rise and fall and rise again of reginald perrin

@Bishnavitch does reggie perrin count as highbrow?

@Bishnavitch @HoeJodgkiss I know what you did to the likely lads

@divbyzero and now neither can I! Time to start a geocities page about how that face is proof of the lizardmen or something

@divbyzero or the arrow in the fedex logo.

is the theory of tensegrity structures changed much by replacing the string with something which can only expand?

what does this even mean? it looks like maths words placed at random http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Pask#Interactions_of_Actors_Theory

@HoeJodgkiss moustaches normally signal an intent to start digging for oil. Watch him like a hawk; the Marines can't be far behind

@brittneybean but BE broadband already exists, so why bother?

@brittneybean you're getting into Cryptonomicon territory now.

@brittneybean GOOD DECISION

@peterrowlett I'm still available. Might be a couple of minutes late, depending on how quickly I can get rid of my tutee

I've decided I need to whittle this stick of chalk. Am I doing it wrong, or is Crayola?

@Electrokittie outrage!

mathetists, students who use maths, etcetera: I'm going to record lots of short "how-to" videos soon for maths-aid. What topics should I do?

Not sure I've got the energy. Taking solace in my beard, it's nice and fluffy today

Posh lady on the metro is fascinated by the middle distance to avoid making eye contact with plebs. Herculean effort, she hasn't blinked yet

Resent twitter truncating my thoughts. We didn't fight a string of Louis and Napoleons so froggy 'wit' could win out over anglo-saxon jokery

this girl is flouncing in bursts towards her destination. Where is it, and why is it intermittently important that she gets there quickly?

@standupmaths @skhxs I'd go one better and say category theory

@standupmaths specific in that it applies to everything, yes! I'm not one of those category nuts, but it's def the most abstract you can get

does anyone know of a tool that will detect a big black quadrilateral in an image and transform it to a rectangle? Note: OpenCV hates me

@standupmaths in the category of maths topics under 'pureness' order, category theory is a limit

I love soft mud. I think it's the best. I think it's tops. Tops soil.

@brittneybean because dollars are green?

@CutTheKnotMath simon singh did the same sort of thingh with katie melua's "nine million bicycles": http://bit.ly/22o4v1

I've wasted the last couple of hours uploading a video to flickr, because I forgot they can only be 90 seconds long. Whoops.

I've gazumped @Gelada and recorded a video for @elinoroberts explaining the Slinky klein bottle http://vimeo.com/nclmaths/kleinslinky

@Gelada no I hadn't heard of it before, and it seems Google hasn't either. It's a very good idea!

arco.sh is available and would be the ultimate cool maths domain name, but is it worth £60?

@peterrowlett that page gives me a 403 forbidden message

@Gelada I'll add you to the description on the vimeo page as well

FANTASTIC game: http://www.foddy.net/GIRP.html

who do I know along this route? http://bit.ly/albionmyway I'm planning my summer holiday

@CutTheKnotMath Dare I make a pedantic correction? It's "a priori"

@divbyzero I tried my hardest, but I couldn't resist using wolfram: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LambertW-Function.html

@divbyzero I'm not saying that's the shape of the curve, it clearly isn't, but it's involved

music people: what's the point of putting songs on the radio before the album's out? I'll have forgotten about it by the time I can buy it

@brittneybean well then, clearly the radio I am listening to is too avant-garde. I suppose with "Radio Nova" the clue's in the name

@ColinTheMathmo *observations* of random variables aren't random or variable.

@aperfect I can't either

Having great fun watching builders put a scaffoldy ladder together

Now playing: g-swing - cement mixer

@badmachinery I've had mine for a good while with no case and I haven't scratched it yet.

This girl's guide dog is so over quiet study time

It's always a nice day in Bhitley Way.

When it rains in Bhitley Way, the mayor reimburses visitors for lost time.

Bhitley Way fact: Bhitley Way has produced more Nobel laureates than any other seaside town

@peterrowlett thanks for mentioning my video. I have a budget for producing more (properly made) videos, so suggestions for topics welcome

@jcoglan please do

@jcoglan interpreting, I reckon

charver girls dressing in gilets and ugg boots, following a cargo cult look book which is a grotesque reflection of last year's fashions

@peterrowlett one of our techy lecturers has been using one for a while. He says it's OK, but you obviously miss out all the handwaving etc.

Zizzi's caesar salad is a slap in the face

Royal Mail, it's 7.30! Why are all your vans still at the depot?

@CutTheKnotMath would you consider moving to jsxgraph for your geometry interactives? It's all HTML, so you wouldn't need a java plugin

@alexbellos oh no! Now I'm aware of it but only in a superficial way. Tweet a Mathematics Awareness Month information tweet

@peterrowlett I'm sure you can have fun with www.gaussfacts.com

@mattybeardsmith it's a fixy?

@JSlayerUK go get 'em, champ!

@JSlayerUK I wish to see this video blog please

@badmachinery I think it would go well on some classy stationery.

does anyone want to live with me in Tynemouth? Finding a singleton flat is hard

Dog looks like a goat. Goat looks like a dog. Doat gog.

@gingerbeardman it looks much less friendly than before. What's the thinking?

@peterrowlett should I repeat my comments?

in the video for "Lights", we are asked to contemplate a universe where a hip-shaking Ellie Goulding is all that exists, raising ...

... questions about how much of the world we as humans are trying to create is truly necessary for us to enjoy our lives

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poor show, National Trust!

This toddler is wearing some extremely stylish glasses. Classiest person in Eldon square by far

@My_Metro what on earth is that smell hanging around monument platform 3/4?

@MarcusduSautoy @mathsinthecity isn't it more cylindrical? I assume you mean the roof; the inside is complicated.

I like attending meetings where everyone tells me how brilliant I am

@elinoroberts then the first thing you'll want to do is install an app like SMS Backup, if it's that kind of phone

@mathpunk @busynessgirl this is fantastic, if a bit flakey: http://remember2015.info/labs/chalkboard/page/Geometry.html

Geordie Dave is brushing up on his Euclid before going looking for some @mathsinthecity in Newcastle twitpic.com/4h9si0

@aperfect it's awfully clever though

@mathsinthecity I can't see how to post in that thread. I'm logged in, but there's no link or input box.

@DrMathS did your maths walk with Robin visit the Quayside? I'm going to do something on the bridge and sage for @mathsinthecity, any ideas?

@aperfect THUNDERBOLT!

@brittneybean you think that's bad? As a mathematician, I can enumerate an infinite amount of maths I'll never be able to prove.

First rule of Commuter Club: don't bring toast on to the train unless you have enough for everyone

well, I have literally nothing else to do; time to type up those corollaries, then

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah wordpress backup lost all the backslashes in my LaTeX! This is going to take ages!

@JSlayerUK because the Exchequer is so resolutely fair.

I can't get to sleep. I have things to do early tomorrow; this is not the right time for my head to start worrying about the universe

@badmachinery I'm telling you, stationery's the way forward. I'd love a whimsical lever arch, and some groovy document wallets to go with it

@gingerbeardman the singer is now recording as A Camp

oh no, the designers have discovered group theory! http://bit.ly/gKJWz1 shot not on writing the pop-math book

@charliesgames BRILL

@aperfect you retweeted that to annoy me, didn't you?

@brittneybean I just bought a pair of Sennheiser MM100. Very good sound quality, so those must be at least as good

@brittneybean yeah, the ones I got are bluetooth

Jetzt fuehle ich Lieblingspullitragenzufriedenheit

Train will arrive in 2 minutes. Song is 2 minutes long. Problem: train is taking too long. Solution: skip song. Doyyyy

Eccentric man doing his stretches on the train. Middle-aged man with Down's syndrome highly amused. #lifesrichtapestry

Just answered the phone to a very excited nana who realised today's date is a palindrome. Blew her mind with 12/3/21. Something to aim for!

@jefferickson and my supervisor takes such a stern line against frivolous language in papers...

@mathsinthecity today isn't 12/3/21, it's 11/4/11!

@aperfect oh don't you start

@My_Metro if I wanted to get on the metro at St James and stay on until it got back to St James again, would I need a single or a daysaver?

@mathsinthecity it wouldn't be much work for you to implement MathJax for nice LaTeX display: http://www.mathjax.org

@mathsinthecity (it's screen-readable, cross-browser, scales, is the best thing to happen to mathematical typesetting since knuth himself)

@My_Metro it's for the @mathsinthecity compo, if you travel st james-coast-south shields-coast-st james you pass through monument four times

@My_Metro which is an interesting fact if you're a mathematician - T&W metro is unique in the world, topologically speaking

@DrMathS before I add a separate site on maths in the city about the millennium bridge, would you consider letting me help on your one?

calculator fans: Casio's keisan might be easier to use than wolfram alpha if you just want to compute something: http://keisan.casio.com/

@My_Metro thanks!

@aperfect first google suggestion for "tea room in " is "tea room in richmond"

@aperfect anyway: get thee to one of the many many tea rooms

@mathsinthecity I just listened! Like most NUFC stars, Geordie Dave has been linked with many transfer rumours, and you're not helping!

do I know any spoddy model railway enthusiasts? Is curved track an arc, or does it include transitions? Sorry for calling you spoddy, btw

video: trying out a gimmicky visual aid for the normal PDF: http://checkmyworking.com/?p=377

@HilariousCow that's probably pretty much how I would describe a unicorn, if asked

OH SNAP I just posted on a Name of the Year post with my real name. I've never felt this much regret, but deleting it would be cowardly.

@GreyAlien how are you doing these translations? Machine, or outsourced?

@Amy1306 how weird that we had the same idea at the same time

It's so windy I think my ears might fall off

it is minimilk time

@divbyzero @RichardWiseman Scheme 2 is only better if the pay rises apply to different intervals.

@divbyzero @RichardWiseman by which I mean, I interpreted the $5 pay rise as paying $50, $52.50, $55, $57.50, ...

it's 19:24. My hour-long reenactment of the 20th C isn't going well. I spent most of Jazz Age writing this tweet. Will eat dinner during WW2

@mathpunk have you been recommended that ahead of Mac Lane/Saunders?

@mathpunk I of course mean Mac Lane, whose first name is Saunders. Sheesh, what's the deal with last-name first-names?

@fio_mo look where I was at the weekend twitpic.com/4k91um

On my way to an MMU Sigma Maths event. No idea what that entails.

Have there been any more advances in the topic of whether I exist or not since 'Cogito ergo sum'?

PS: is it bad that my existential crisis was resolved by going to twitter and talking about it?

@brittneybean yes! this is what I've been waiting for! 90s revival!! brb, off to buy super soakers

The author can't stop finding maths in this picture! twitpic.com/4l2scg

@RANIELDANSON I am, how do they say, 'stoked' to be first on your FFs.

Matilda is a lovely film

Being unexpectedly edified by BBC Four

I am a hobbit yes I yam twitpic.com/4m3gpg

Decided I'm going to chuck in the maths and open a furniture shop called Ah Divan Knaa

@pianomaths what are you trying to prove?

today I did 200g of chocolate and a bowl of chilli's worth of work. I know this because after eating I now feel like I did in the morning.

@Gelada but 1,936 was the year Hitler reoccupied the Rhineland! So computers *must* be evil

@Gelada well, a matter close to my heart is the death of King Edwin of Northumbria in that year. I don't think we ever recovered.

@Gelada I'm now trying in vain to find that page which can link any number either to Hitler's birthday or the number of the Beast

Today I learned about the awful world of proprietary bog roll spindles

@trackinthebox I really like today's track.

On my way to Leeds to talk about our #hestem project and promote Numbas

@RANIELDANSON yeah! At least we had the decency to have our terror attacks on a palindromic date

@plusmathsorg it's important to note that the contrapositive is not true, and that's the issue under discussion

@Electrokittie retch. #yourtwittercopyeditor

@mathsinthecity I've suddenly got loads of real work to do, so can't spend much time finishing my Maths in the City entries. Frustrating!

@aperfect London? More like LAMEdon amirite

I'm on metrocar no. 4077. I think it's a completely uninteresting number; can anyone Ramanujan me? Difficulty: i've checked numbergossip.

@Electrokittie so many FFs!

@peterrowlett @fumbleweeds @_TheGeoff ok, I'm going to have to specify I want a *maths* fact.

@JamesHowe1729 is there something more to that than it being slightly less than a power of two?

Britain's weather Karma is being balanced out at Tynemouth twitpic.com/4o2a5d

@watfordpete that's my favourite one so far, thanks!

@pianomaths I like the dog

Because I can never say no to a good palindrome, I'm going to have to open a taxidermy shop called Animal Lamina

Radio 4's collection of programmes about mathematics: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/collections/mathematics/

my online maths testing/learning system, Numbas, is now free and open source on github: https://github.com/numbas/Numbas

@trackinthebox some would say today's email mistakenly links to yesterday's track; others say it's karma highlighting how played out ELO are

@brittneybean get an android phone and there is one!

Can't believe JJ has never seen a western. I honestly can't believe it.

is there a website I can go to to click a button every time I decide not to respond to somebody trolling on the internet?

@MarrsioFootball @alexbellos that system featured in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. It must be based on some theory; what's it called?

I recommend Sunday Format - The Sunday Format http://bbc.in/jyNbUb

this side of the street is definitely posher than the other one: there's an enormous German art delivery lorry rolling past my window

It's Kurt Godel's birthday! A day to either do things badly or leave them unfinished. Thanks @mathshistory

The Isoscelosaurus made many pointy reptiles extinct, which is why we are left only with bendy snakes twitpic.com/4qkwil

a few of these would look nice in a maths department: http://www.grahamcaldwell.com/work_1.html HINT HINT HEAD OF SCHOOL

@mathshistory Godel, Poincare and Gauss born on consecutive days? I nominate this week to be International Hypergenius Week

@mathshistory and Euler was born in April too! International Hypergenius Month! Must make a note to conceive any children in July...

@standupmaths I just wait until the end and they show me the back of my head. Infinite reflections!

This might be the single healthiest meal I've ever cooked myself twitpic.com/4rjq6b

simultaneously a brilliant game and a good argument for quaternion rotations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wohFfpLU7s

May Day! Are we keeping the red flag flying today, or is it still Union Jacks?

Tesco houmous tastes like sick

@TeXtip but it only produces images, not @MathJax. Frustrating!

@Electrokittie no _cool_ people are straight edge now it's not cool. My uncool straight edge lifestyle persists yet.

@Electrokittie oh snap! I could've made a BRILLIANT compass and straight-edge quip!

@mathsinthecity my video man has failed to upload the video we recorded a month ago, so we won't meet the deadline. What a shame!

@mathsinthecity http://www.vimeo.com/23210477 though now I've seen it, I think it would be unfair to say I have "natural screen presence"...

@alexbellos gosh! I'm more impressed that there are marketing professors who know what prime numbers are, given the students I teach

@alexbellos not totally convinced people don't just prefer even numbers, and "numbers that are sums" is everything except 1.

@nulibsage "Numbers Rule : The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy" is very apropos. Thanks for that link, I didn't know it existed

@nulibsage would it be at all possible to have an RSS feed of that page?

Landlady is ten minutes late for the flat inspection. Not impressed

There's no hope for me now, have fallen in love with a girl in a call centre. So helpful! That is 100% attractive to me.

@kenfodder @aperfect no!! You can't have faster internet than me!

@JSlayerUK what are your reasons for voting No?

Inspired by @alexbellos, here's my maths music: http://bit.ly/la1enp + "Mathematics" by Mos Def not on spotify. I was sure I had more!

I just glanced across the street and, for the first time in my life, thought "that's a cool bike!"

My new bed is so good! I love bed.

Is this one of those days? Just got into the office to correct my paper, 30 minutes before my supervision, and TeX has decided to crash.

@peterrowlett could I possibly get a plug for now properly open-source e-learning system Numbas? http://ncl.ac.uk/math/numbas

I recommend Special 1 TV http://bbc.in/lsOi6l

Alan Turing passes the canine Turing test from beyond the grave: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8DiOthAKek

@pianomaths it wasn't me, but I'd like it now I know about it

@peterrowlett thanks for the plug! A++++ would ask to shill for me again. Next week you can post this, it's BRILL http://bit.ly/mCjgSj

emusic thinks I only listen to trad jazz; last.fm is sure I only want to hear willowy female folk. Someone recommend me some real music!

@elinoroberts why do you keep needing to spell ptolemy?

New career choice. Going to open a home decorations shop in Barnsley called "It's Prim Up North"

@maximusweb what do I do there? The modules page is empty

@Electrokittie calf-foal now, you'll be looking at other hoof-ful animals next, and then you colt be in veal trouble!

Parampara curry mix is very tasty!

where do people buy nice tall lamps from that isn't ikea?

@mathsinthecity a bit too sylvan for Casa CP. I have more of a 'soft soft soft' motif going on. Nothing too shiny, lots of warm upholstery

@mathsinthecity are you my personal shopper now?! Thanks for the suggestion. I think our BHS has closed, will have to wander round town.

NO WAY a springer journal we actually have access to! Need to lie down.

The new art in the tynemouth station footbridge is really good

@DrMathS think so, but in French there are three - cinq, dix, cent.

@GreyAlien well I could guess that much

aaaaaaaaaaaaa BT! Don't just cancel my order without asking!

@peterrowlett what are your favourite numbers or number facts? As you're so keen on number gossip

@peterrowlett also, your nomination for least interesting number. I put forward 4077, most interesting fact: 4077=(5^3+3^3-1^3) *3^3

@mathsinthecity not sure you've parsed that correctly. I'm imagining preserves being strained through a sierpinski gasket

TIL my landlady's real surname is not the one on my lease

@peterrowlett also, just been told our department is only taking TWO new PhD students next year. Your thoughts on swingeing cuts?

UK uni web admins: would it kill you to make /math and /maths point to the same place? @peterrowlett @Samuel_Hansen

@Gelada what do you mean by "geometry code"?

@standupmaths I just tried it and it didn't work! (possibly related: next year I invented time travel)

@standupmaths as you've been so pedantic lately, I will too: I make it 35.03%, based on these birthday frequency data: http://bit.ly/lsJrRb

@brittneybean are they error-correcting codes? There's maths to assign codes so that typos can be automatically corrected. I can help if not

@standupmaths so could this be an "only guaranteed to be true once every 365.25 days" fact?

@brittneybean suppose assign 10 codes. Instead of 1,2,3,etc use several digits, so if user mistypes, can work out correct code automatically

@brittneybean the maths to show why it works is quite involved, but to implement is just a couple of lines of code

Dear man who is clearly from the south: up here, it is not cool to walk out in front of traffic while talking on your phone. "Cheers, mate!"

@Gelada there's www.gispython.org but I don't think I can do any better than CGAL. Maybe eukleides? There must be an API somewhere for that

@Gelada it's probably best to ask @jefferickson

@Gelada last one: http://www.partow.net/projects/fastgeo/index.html

@jamesgrime @ColinTheMathmo @standupmaths http://on.fb.me/lheMHX a mutual friend of ours thinks the answer is 1

@ColinTheMathmo oh, it isn't important. I just wanted to spare her blushes as @jamesgrime feels so strongly equivocal about it all

I have no fruit juice. I feel like I should be able to make some from things I have lying around the house

@jcoglan edit the source and recompile gnome-do to not do that. #unhelpfulneckbeardadvice

@jcoglan easy! use markov chains to generate advice, and solve captcha to post to twitter automatically #unhelpfulneckbeardadvice

@MarcusduSautoy did you skip zero digits? When you mentioned this last night, I thought maybe you'd memorised pi in ternary!

sun glaring off laptop, but want to maximise light in room. Fix: arduino-controlled bayesian motorised blinds. #unhelpfulneckbeardadvice

@standupmaths alternative medicine's most awkward run-in with race issues since the arrest of radovan karadzic?

This mallard is operating as a spotter for the chip-stealing seagulls. What does he get out of it?

@jcoglan actually, I'd say the first fact would be good evidence for the second.

@kyeotv NINE years ago! And as we all know now, it turns out the Beatles trump all of Newcastle's cultural endeavours

@pianomaths don't worry, I once tutored a student for an entire year without knowing his name

@jcoglan I think I could take care of it. The reason I found you was I needed a Javascript maths library for my online maths exam system.

BT's least enthusiastic engineer has come to fix my phone line. Will update if he tries to resign or run away before finishing

@peterrowlett @Samuel_Hansen when will math/maths have a comments section? I have more than 140 characters of opinions!

@aperfect sometimes I think I was the only person who could do more damage with the chaingun than the discgun+grenades

@dickinsonjade @standupmaths so blowing a raspberry after inhaling helium shouldn't sound any more silly than it already does?

someone just posted a graph theory text on svpply. I don't know what to think. Is maths cool now?

deeply regret telling my boss how to file issues on our github repository.

@Electrokittie or, that Tumblr is an excellent medium for seeing more of them

dear last.fm: I don't want to hear any more music with ouds in or anything by italian film composers for a while. What makes you think I do?

Sheila Sheen seeing what she can see on the sea; each o' Misha Nietzsche's shisha creature features reaches 'er teacher's beaches in pieces

@brittneybean bon iver's voice sounds too much like what beaker from the muppets thinks he's saying. Bonus points for Gregory Euclide though

I'm not just reacting badly to new things, am I? Ubuntu Unity really is awful and less than a tiny fraction complete, isn't it?

@alexbellos that is an ace cover! I hope one day to be surfing an abacus floating in a space populated by groovy polyhedra

@kenfodder that must be Art!

@brittneybean was my email about error-correcting codes any use?

All hail Chunamayo, king of the sandwiches!

my stomach is doing laps of the Hungeroring. Can't wait until my co-pizzaist gets here so I can order

@aperfect AAAA CRUMBS I NEED TO SEND YOU A BIRTHDAY CARD STAT

I love knights. All saving fair maidens and bedecking their horses with crenellated linens. Excellent.

windows-using mathmos: what do you write your TeX in? TeXnicCenter is bloated; Vim is fiddly and doesn't SyncTeX; TexWorks is awful to use.

@ColinTGraham but miktex uses texworks? I'm talking about editors. I already use miktex to provide the command-line tools

A real rag-and-bone man just drove up the street playing the Steptoe and Son theme. There is a man not ashamed of what he does.

@ColinTGraham I've been using texmaker recently. It's not very good as an editor, but it does do synctex properly

@ColinTheMathmo I don't know, but you should enable MathJax - http://www.mathjax.org

@rockhyrax if that's the case, this dude had gone beyond the call of duty - he was driving a pickup full of scrap metal

@peterrowlett @jamesgrime @stecks there's a woman with the right ideas! It's perfectly acceptable to have a favourite number.

Could anyone who finds themselves at chilly road metro going towards town please take a picture of the sums on the wall next to the stairs?

@RANIELDANSON those are competing aims - if we were less polite to each other, we'd be more self conscious!

@duncanmaciver was yesterday's Numbas presentation helpful?

@duncanmaciver yeah, I have to concentrate most of my efforts on maths assessment. What subjects are you interested in?

The tk maxx in team valley only has like two racks of men's clothes. I can't even waste time amongst such a paucity

@duncanmaciver ok. We've done some stuff for our business school in the past. Mainly numerical stuff, obviously, but Numbas does do MCQs...

Just had an inception dream because I'm so tired I fell asleep while I was asleep

Just got this in the post. Not going to open it. twitpic.com/50znod

@peterrowlett happy birthday, whenever it was! The video amused me

has anyone ever written a limerick in the first-person?

Advert: "the new home kit is black and white." Yes, that's just about all you can say for it.

@JSlayerUK that order

@aperfect happy birthday! PS stamps cost twice as much as I thought they did

@ColinTheMathmo if I were to attend only for one day, which day should it be?

@ColinTheMathmo well, I'd better make it both days then

"How can I get people to stop using vuvuzelas?" this scientist thought. This is what she came up with: http://bbc.in/iCMPmP

@trackinthebox today's track is ace! If only she was on emusic, then I could use up some of these worthless credits...

@elinoroberts that's what I had just before I got Bell's palsy. Not to scare you or anything...

I'm having a day off, but now I'm going a bit mad from cabin fever.

@alexbellos because there will always be someone who tries to argue that if there's no sign forbidding it, then they can do it

have just registered toplology.tumblr.com . It will be the i can haz cheezburger of maths blogs if you send me funny maths pictures!

@stecks or able to stand out from any crowd

Before I go out for dinner: write maths see maths! http://checkmyworking.com/misc/writemaths/ I'm going to try doing a screencast with this.

@RANIELDANSON ahh, the good old Banach-Tarski paradox!

@GreyAlien change the width and height of the object tag to 800px and 600px

@standupmaths the end of the tyne&wear metro spells PUMPS - Park Lane, University, Millfield, Pallion, South Hylton

@standupmaths or I suppose you could also get PLUMP out of that. Both reasonable descriptors of the residents of Sunderland.

@standupmaths I'm having trouble finding a computer-usable description of the network, but there's this map: http://bit.ly/iM9ofV

@Buster_Bear are you suggesting I should go?

@nulibsage it should be made public on the 18th of June

@JSlayerUK aaarg! that makes me massively more angry than that silly EDM

@ColinTheMathmo shouldn't that be on mathoverflow or the maths stackexchange?

@nulibsage super! To even better hone it, can you tell me what range of shelfmarks is just maths?

further to @peterrowlett's problem, would a crowdsourced directory of which unis have which journals, tied to your fb friend list, be wrong?

new mathem-o-blog post: I attempt a screencast of instant maths typesetting. http://checkmyworking.com/?p=388 (interesting, @peterrowlett ?)

@nulibsage thanks!

@duncanmaciver interesting. But I don't think I'd be a real mathmo if I was in the habit of keeping track of things like what time it is

Haha, someone's painted trollface on the wall of the tunnel coming into manors metro

ok, so I think I'm cool just signing my emails 'cp', but @peterrowlett classes up any inbox with a stark, minimalist 'P.'

@Bishnavitch a classic of the genre!

man I am finding some TRIVIAL mistakes in important parts of my code

new mathem-o-blog post: an infinite series problem http://checkmyworking.com/?p=396 written v quickly with my write maths, see maths thing

@gingerbeardman they've switched to a chrome-like version numbering scheme.

@stecks I don't know, but if you buy one you're a cubic rube

@peterrowlett I've been stumped by a worrying number of undergrads' problems. How much of your undergrad course can you still do?

The gcse maths revision questions on BBC Bitesize's mobile site are really good bbc.co.uk/mobile/learnin…

@aperfect or you could get the train

@rockhyrax charmed robbery?

@JRMarlow for purposes of counting, no, I'd say 7 isn't round. It isn't a multiple of anything. I think the original guy was being sarcastic

lovely laser-cut cell-complexes: http://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=1637 (PS: is there a word like onomatopoeia for how domain names look?)

Not sure if chicken, chips and peas bathed in piri piri counts as cooking, or if I enjoyed eating it. At least I can say I've eaten tonight

Man, those are good eggs! twitpic.com/55cuvv

I've put my wirte maths, see maths code on github: https://github.com/christianp/writemaths

this book was just acquired by @nulibsage : http://bit.ly/iAR8M6 . Claims Godel is accessible to ambitious high school students!

@ColinTheMathmo mmm, but does this book do that? It's translated from russian and 300+ pp, but looks OK. If only I had someone to try it on.

@ColinTheMathmo godel can certainly be *explained* to anybody, sans proof, with my fave bit of maths exposition ever: http://bit.ly/jc4VBi

my fave tumblog today http://goatsonthings.tumblr.com/ reminded me of my fave farm restaurant http://goatsontheroofcoffeeshop.blogspot.com/

I feel like sitting in the sea for a bit to cool down. If only Tynemouth's lido was in use!

@aperfect http://www.notcot.org/post/40719

@witnessgame why did that use so much CPU? And why implement in a canvas? Finally struggled through in firefox, but seriously!

Man, why do the well-dressed people always ruin it by being hipsters with a million groady tattoos?

@aperfect incubus seem to have sold out already amirite!!!!

@aperfect aw man, it looks like one of those publicity stunts that only existed long enough to take pictures for the paper

@rockhyrax well-dressed is a subjective judgement, and groady means exactly what it sounds like

can't go to the co-op just to buy a single potato. What else should I get?

"Welcome to Teesside, it's worse than you remember!" No kidding, that's what the sign says, and it's always right.

I'll tell you how trendy and cutting-edge mima is: they're playing Athlete's first album in the cafe

Mum: "Middlesbrough is like Sunderland without the hope"

can anyone recommend a really good (book) version of the Arthurian tales?

@elinoroberts is that what that was? I was just nodding off to sleep when it started

Collatz thought all hailstone sequences _collapse_ to 1. Any other onomatopoeic theorems/conjectures?

I'm not sure if I'm watching this film ironically or not http://www.youtube.com/movie/mussa I just wanted to test my tablet's HDMI out

@brittneybean halcali! @aperfect can probably supply more sensible recommendations

it's amazing how much weird crackpot spam you get just for having an academic email address

I've never been less satisfied with food that I made. And I made so much! The leftovers were meant to last for days. Double sad face.

Oh my god, burger king is bad. Why did I think i wanted one? If all my food is cold, what did I wait five minutes for?

@mattybeardsmith single rainbow? Are my colourblind eyes lying to me again?

there's a new version of JSXGraph out hooray! http://jsxgraph.uni-bayreuth.de/wp/2011/06/08/release-of-version-0-90/

@Gelada just had to send someone a link to my klein/slinky video and I noticed I'd abbreviated you to "Ed Harris"! Corrected to Edmund.

@stecks gosh, that is a proper question! I think their maths boffin either had contempt for the quiz or misjudged his audience badly

The new Sainsbury's in tynemouth doesn't stock Sainsbury's mayonnaise. #mayomaynotbeahugeproblem

@HoeJodgkiss Battles?

@brittneybean what was that you were saying before about not watching reality tv?

today's javascript lesson: don't try to pretend objects are immutable, even if you're sure you're taking copies of them. cp no clever man :(

I'm going to open a standing-desk shop called Not A Chair In The World

@kenfodder I won't stand for that level of punnery.

@aperfect so is it a thing now? very odd

Teaching myself to write proper. I've been writing a lot of gibberish for students lately twitpic.com/595thj

@standupmaths I once had to use something like that fact to explain to someone why their random number generator wasn't producing random nos

yeah! let's relive the hot hot summer of 2009, when swiss alphorn funk took the world by storm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyTu5Nhb7jg

@brittneybean yes. listen to track => album release date saved to my google calendar.

Good mathematics should be a joy to write. Hence, any proof involving the word "minimum" is good maths. #whatsacontrapositivebytheway

@stecks Benford's Law and Orthographic Practice - Theory and Applications, Perfect/Steckles, Proc. Int. Soc. Theories & Applications 2011

@mickybullock @ColinTheMathmo or you could use JSXGraph, which doesn't use java

@aperfect http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/66109/productions/its-always-right-now-until-its-later.html

@aperfect apparently the funniest comedian ever

http://toplology.tumblr.com . Your funnier maths jokes, please.

does the concept of looseness apply to plants? Today alone I've watched this flower outside my window being pollinated at least four times.

@JSlayerUK that's where my brother lives! he's probably responsible!

@JSlayerUK no, but I like to blame him for bad things

Lost a favourite mallard recently? Then come down to my new duck cloning service, Quacksimile!

The Silver Seas' "High Society" is an underrated album. I think it's lovely.

@matthen2 JSXGraph provides a good framework for doing geometry/graphs in html5.

my stomach is now in the Receive position

@matthen2 another good tool for realtime html5 is http://monkeycoder.co.nz . See something vaguely mathsy I made at http://bit.ly/mH6iQM

@Samuel_Hansen @peterrowlett just listened to latest m/ms. I reckon I could give a robust defence of the favourite no., if you'll have me on

Watching the terns catch the fish and the waves hit the sea. I wish I'd brought my binoculars

know of any fairly easily computable series representing an interesting property of numbers and roughly as common as the primes?

@aperfect creepiest tweet award!

@gingerbeardman thanks! Maybe you can help me: do you know how to get the screen position of the input caret?

@gingerbeardman I tried that, but then you have to do text metrics to get the rest of the way, and it wasn't working for me.

@gingerbeardman if the cursor is inside maths delimiters, I want to show an instant preview of what they're typing above the cursor

@gingerbeardman are you on google talk or anything like that?

I've updated my write maths, see maths thing with even more instant maths preview! checkmyworking.com/misc/writemath…

@gingerbeardman try a very short line - I realised I need to get the input's scroll if it overflows, and haven't fixed that yet

@aperfect <C-w>v ? That was like no.1 thing I wanted to know.

@brittneybean adult, or... TERRIFIC BORE

@gingerbeardman preview box should work now. the scrollLeft property of input elements is what I wanted!

I can always waste a good while watching Wetten, Dass...? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlzBcgnQ56M&feature=youtube_gdata_player

@matthen2 I'm getting the baader-meinhof effect so much with catenary curves at the moment. They're being mentioned everywhere!

Meadowhall centre has 5 coloured zones, metro centre has 4. Gentlemen! We must not allow a colour-coordinated shopping zone gap!

About to set off for the @mathsinthecity thing. Hopefully Indinana Jones and google navigation can get me there.

I had a lovely day with @mathsinthecity and @MarcusduSautoy. Now it's back up to God's Own Northumberland for the Eat! Festival. Good times

@MarcusduSautoy I've been wondering why nobody had done that yet

@standupmaths I'm going to give my degree back tomorrow. I sat there for a good 30 seconds thinking, "but it's not inside!". doyyy...

@badmachinery not Tricky Tomlinson?

Today I'm wearing clothes made of purest Blandulon. I think these trousers are some high-concept colour, like "iniquity" or "steady decline"

Oh man! I've just thought of a brilliant name for a company offering donkey rides to Tynemouth, but I have a reputation to maintain. Tragic!

@mathsinthecity think of them as opposite ends of a spectrum

competition: fewest keystrokes to get 140 characters on one line in notepad. Start with blank doc, mouse can only interact with notepad

@brittneybean I can only assume that's the introduction to the most interesting band blurb ever written

imagine you're a french child in the 60s. If you weren't already dyscalculic, you would be after reading this book: flickr.com/photos/taffeta…

@MathsJam EDI: you've got that it's to do with equilateral triangles?

@JSlayerUK he does. It's called Cameron Direct

I'm so straight edge I can't construct a heptagon without assistance

@mathsinthecity wore my t-shirt today and, whaddyaknow, several people asked me for examples of maths in the city, and I obliged with gusto!

write maths, see maths now does server-side saving and loading, so you can share pages with people! checkmyworking.com/misc/writemath…

@divbyzero re your applet not working in safari: jsxgraph is pure javascript and loads geogebra files. Maybe it'll work?

@mathsinthecity top tennis top tip: your player going 30-15 up is the perfect moment to shout "come on, Tim!" viz. solipsys.co.uk/new/AnOddityIn…

@ColinTheMathmo yes, though it would be more convincing if backed up by empirical data... Sorry I couldn't fit a mention of you in 140 chars

@ColinTheMathmo I wonder if there's somewhere I can get my hands on per-point tennis data

@mathsinthecity I want to add a snapshot to the site, but mathsinthecity.com/snapshots/crea… says "You are not authorized to access this page"

@mathsinthecity that did it!

@mathsinthecity next request: is there an RSS feed of the Sites? I'd like to keep up with new ones that appear

I'm going to open a shop that sells jardine's kettle chilli. No pun this time, it's just really good chilli

Lots of cheese on top of lots of chilli on top of lots of rice. Missing Friday lunch in uni isn't so bad twitpic.com/5g1r61

@aperfect bounce rate?

@pianomaths you have to write *essays*?!

google scholar says it has 'about 891,000' titles of the form "X: Theory and applications". I intend one day to make that 'about 891,001'.

@peterrowlett that would make a nice snapshot on @mathsinthecity

@DrMathS not sure about that one. Should each line have one letter fewer than the one above?

@DrMathS ok, so what's interesting about that? I can pick so any letter can be on the last line

I might actually die from curry-needs-to-leave-my-body disease. My eyes were bigger than my bumhole!

I need to appoint like a Secretary of State for Sugar. 'Parlous' doesn't begin to describe the state of the Strategic Chocolate Reserve

@brittneybean is it US only? I managed to get in fine. It isn't very good

@brittneybean better execution: listeningroom.net

@peterrowlett wow, I sound like Brian Cox at the start of that! What's that all about?

@peterrowlett I wish I'd seen this two hours ago! mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs… really clever ads telling parents to get involved with kids' learning

magic chocolate sauce no longer hardens when you put it on ice cream. What makes it magic now? Certainly not the taste sheesh

@ColinTheMathmo which school? and the north east is a mathematical desert. I'd host a mathsjam if I had any energy...

@pianomaths Bachematics! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6de…

@peterrowlett @Samuel_Hansen I agree with the gentleman from Nottingham.

@aperfect get thyself on gtalk

@matthen2 tesseract?

@MarcusduSautoy "18/3" = 6 seems more perfect to me

@Electrokittie well done!

@peterrowlett I'm sure I've asked you this before but do you know of any case studies of making maths tutorial videos available to students?

@Gelada nice post. Similar to my recent defence of favourite numbers on #mathmaths

@JSlayerUK my cake recipe: 1. bake sponge; 2. add buttercream; 3. GOTO 2

@Gelada I was prepared for rigorous inquisition.

@ColinTheMathmo that's very vague! do you mean the guy who rediscovered the trapezoidal rule? fliptomato.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/med…

@pianomaths bad textbook! What are you studying?

@pianomaths I have a complete set of handwritten notes on PC from the Formal Logic course I took in second year, if you'd like

@pianomaths that's mad! Which book is it?

someone was talking about the different ways of thinking about multiplication. This page shows what they are very well: naturalmath.com/multmodels/3.h…

@mathsinthecity the forums on the MitC site are being spammed

@brittneybean my summer playlist is basically, "the works of Yukimi Nagano"

just merged basically the Nikolai Tesla and Thomas Edison of git branches together. They got on fine! I feel like programmer-Jesus

I just got sent this hilariously enthusiastic scam link by a spambot after I mentioned Tesla: teslasecret.com/indexn.php?hop…

@peterrowlett any chance you could change the link for me in your post to my maths site checkmyworking.com ?

@JSlayerUK pictures!

I've already spilled blue and red foods on myself. Now I just need something green and I'll have a chest-mounted basis set for visible light

@kenfodder do you know anything about dynamically adding nested forms in rails?

@eelhovercraft it would be the image of some cubes painted on a table

ninety/ten + twelve - three = twenty + eleven - thirteen. What a winner of an anagram by Mike Keith cadaeic.net

my nice and quick maths note-taking tool is now at one of those clever domain names you keep seeing: http://takenot.es

going to find a Ms Settunmacz, marry her, insist on a double-barrelled name. Our child will be the most successful tennis player in history.

@stecks if that had proper jigsaw teeth it could embody the noncommutativity of matrices.

Starting a new version of The Game for when you feel the Baader-Meinhof effect. Clearly, you can get stuck in a big losing streak quickly.

because I have no shame: a blog post asking you please to try my rather clever maths note-taking tool: checkmyworking.com/?p=425

going to open an art supplies shop in Somerset called Draw à Bath

It might be time to buy a better straw hat. Does anyone have any good advice?

@matthen2 that's genius!

@arowx site's ok, but you've got 'arwox' at the top of arowx.com/bfm/oonagh/

it's nearly time for Christian's Quixotic Coast Quest! If you're a person or place in the west of Britain that I should visit, please say so

happy 04/07! The royal rebuttal to the declaration of independence: archive.org/stream/cihm_20…

@rockhyrax test authoring software? I'm very interested! What is it?

I'm very tired of hearing my landlady argue with her husband every morning

@mathsinthecity That's a terrible thing to do! Additionally, they're not entertaining arguments, just sad ones.

@brittneybean that sounds like exactly the sort of ridiculous proposition you encounter all the time in math.

@mathsinthecity I'm about to set off on a jaunt around the west UK but MitC map is sparse there. Could you RT this to prompt some additions?

@mathsinthecity and I have no real itinerary so if anyone knows about somewhere but can't get out to take a picture of it, let me know!

@mathsinthecity as a geordie, I had to restrict my use of language lest it get too colourful. Thanks for the RTs

@rockhyrax ah, fetlar, qti and java. My interest has dissipated. Tried it out though, and am I meant to already have some QTI questions?

@rockhyrax clunktacular UI, slow start-up lots of the time, not as ubiquitously available as a plain old browser. Mainly the UI though.

@rockhyrax to your UI? I haven't spent enough time to say! I was commenting on java apps in general

@JSlayerUK yes! I was just thinking that half an hour ago!

@peterrowlett I've recently inherited some money, and it's been a struggle not to spend it on a curta

can you believe that how my site looks now is better than how it looked 15 minutes ago? somethingorotherwhatever.com

booked my first B&B for my holiday, which begins in two days. I belong to one of the two ends of the planning genius spectrum.

@MarcusduSautoy @bbccode when will the challenge be running? I'm away for all of July

@Gelada isn't that to do with the uni's subscriptions? Or was that just a general anti-paywalled-journals complaint?

I've just discovered that travel insurance will cover the cost of a round of drinks if you score a hole-in-one on your golfing holiday

13^2 = 169 followers! minus*minus = plus, so unlucky*unlucky = lucky, right?

I don't know how many kids there are on my street. They're all the same blonde 5-year-old girl. Low bound: I've seen three together at once

I'm in the most high tech mcdonalds in the world! Every wall has a kinect origami game thing, and laser display boards announce orders. Mad!

I'm at Bletchley Park, hooray!

Bletchley Park is great! Absolutely loads to see, made very accessible, and a really interesting story.

I have no idea where my nana gets these cardboard pizzas. Maybe she stockpiled them decades ago; the recipe hasn't changed in my lifetime.

At stonehenge all on my lonehenge. No tall Dutch tour groups I can blend into. All tiny Iberians.

Interesting generation of pictures by context-free grammars contextfreeart.org/index.html

I've just had a curry with carrots in it. They've convinced me: it is the way of the future

Dunster castle: excellent in every way, except the river garden walk is non-eulerian

@brittneybean already being done at a hippy festival they're advertising on the metro.

@peterrowlett google+ would be a good medium for sending "what's happened in your maths week" things - more space for explanation thn twtr

I wish I could do my eight-year-old me trick on twitter and just squash the final letters together so they fit

@pianomaths I believe the collective noun for gnomes is "a polygnomial"

@aperfect very well. Currently in bristol, did loads this morning

I think I've caught a cold :(

Retreating back to Slough because of the plague. Wales and the NFL hall of fame: things I will never get into

@elinoroberts colds are terrible things! At least you only had to get back from work; I medevaced myself out of bristol to my nana in slough

Found a wasp snoozing on my blanket. You wouldn't catch an honest hardworking honeybee slacking off like that!

@peterrowlett I'm tempted to play devil's advocate and see if sturgeon's law applies to maths - how much maths never becomes useful?

@peterrowlett you don't, but you can ask questions like: does the proportion of good maths go up or down with the number of mathematicians?

my nana has the heating on! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I'm melllltiiiinnnnnnng

wherein Chaitin advertises his book, nevertheless giving an entertaining exposition of unsolvable/uncomputable things: cs.auckland.ac.nz/~chaitin/olymp…

@peterrowlett @IMAmaths some context? what's the IMA e-student community?

@peterrowlett there are no plans, because I have negative stamina points. Send them my email though, maybe something can be worked out

when playing wolf3d with the sound off, there is basically no reason to pick up the treasure

@ColinTheMathmo I'd love it if that project resulted in a bot that alternates between tweeting "throw a ball" and "catch a ball"

they're making a movie of Gideon Defoe's pirates! hooray! youtube.com/watch?v=iiQNvc… but it doesn't really look much like I imagined

oh, good! there's a much better, less American, trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=laIHcJ…

@peterrowlett did you get my thing on google+? It was a hassle to persaude it to go to the right version of you!

@jcoglan bethere.co.uk , if you can get them

my nana has just shown me a photo she took of the penshaw monument being built. Wikipedia says it was built in 1844. #therecanonlybeone

hipsters: I've learned to tolerate your bad 80s hairdos and your bad 80s clothes, but please don't bring back bad 80s dancing. Please.

@ColinTheMathmo that doesn't work, unless I'm missing something - tyres will leave the same rain shadow no matter what the pressure

@ColinTheMathmo hmmm, that's definitely true on something like a Caterham...

@AdamClery that isn't how our constitution works!

@brittneybean a massive (d | bj)ork

@AdamClery normally, PM stays on until a successor is chosen from the party, or parliament is dissolved and an election called

a mathoverflow thread of proofs without words: mathoverflow.net/questions/8846…

AAAAG! Boiler no. 2 has died!

@Bishnavitch yes. Caught a cold, have spent the last four days dead at my nana's, now back in tynemouth

@HoeJodgkiss very <<allo matelot!>>

@Bishnavitch did you get the email about pay? I'll have to ask Sam what the situation is

@Bishnavitch just hung up on you. Far too ill to talk

@Bishnavitch then you got an email I didn't! I just got one from payroll

squajiliions of short videos explaining topics <= A-Level maths: patrickjmt.com

@brittneybean bjorkrazy (you're crazy)

@brittneybean ah no, could've done much better than that because of your initials. bjorkrazy -- B: you're crazy

@alexbellos there is an extremely nice buffalo restaurant in Denver. The rest of the city's a bit boring, though

@alexbellos turns out there's also one in Boulder - Ted's Montana Grill. Basically, unless you're veggie, you must go

I've written a javascript Textile implementation that isn't awful: plus.google.com/11130061692066…

ok, so my landlord and his wife are both at home, but he's just texted me asking me to take the bins out. Lazy? Taken hostage by the dog??

symmetry groups and beaded beads myweb.lmu.edu/bmellor/beaded… (those frieze pattern footsteps make an appearance, @mathsinthecity)

@brittneybean is this like how all US food packaging looks like it's from 15 years ago (also: most US food is still edible after 15 years)

@aperfect looking up train prices now...

@haggismaths that is a lovely blog! Can't follow the colourings because I'm colourblind though.

@plusmathsorg it's good to have a roll model

@brittneybean worth it just for the opportunity to say "Woolwich" on a regular basis

Pi approximation day is an excellent time to add me to your google+ circles plus.google.com/11130061692066…

I've been saying 'plenoply' forever. Turns out it's 'panoply'.

@pianomaths 90% is pretty ruddy good for final year!

@Samuel_Hansen your entire thesis is shorter than my introduction! And I'm doing computability, so no pretty drawings. I regret my choices.

I think this cold might be permanent.

@badmachinery EXCELLENT twist today

ACTION BLACKBIRD is pouncing and prancing around my lawn like a true winner. It's practically going "HIYYAAAA!" every time it catches a worm

WAHEY!!! Blackboard finally supports SCORM objects properly! And no Java! Exclamation marks!!!!

Just noticed the house opposite has a 60-30-90 triangle roof shape. What was the architect thinking?

ACTION BLACKBIRD is *still* dashing about the garden with a beakful of conquered worms. This is some top-class foraging from the little man!

@standupmaths implying the total bill itself was zenzizenzic!

@standupmaths ah boo! That's where the thought started, but zenzizenzic is a really really good word!

Just looked at somethingorotherwhatever.com/primebirthday/ and found a fortnight-long gap between prime birthdays coinciding with my flu. Could say I feel subprime!

@brittneybean one for DeliberatelyAccidentallyInShotPoketoWallets.com

@peterrowlett @Samuel_Hansen fine, I've just increased mine too, to (my favourite number)//100.

@RANIELDANSON I thought exactly the same thing! But I think it's just because he's working class, not a race thing

Drove down to the fish quay to drop something off, ended up parking further from my destination than my house is

@peterrowlett mathematics is just about everything from science to art to interpretive dance, but not numerology

@haggismaths a while ago the Cayley graph of the free group F_2 spontaneously grew on my blackboard: flickr.com/photos/christi…

@aperfect never mind verbing, I read a blog post yesterday where the author gerunded 'sciencing'

@haggismaths certainly

helping my nana use her chip+pin machine over the phone. So insecure.

@stecks I use precious. Nice and clean for putting maths in the middle of wordpress.org/extend/themes/…

@haggismaths certainly!

@haggismaths whoops, I resent that tweet because I couldn't remember sending it the first time!

@Bishnavitch @Electrokittie tofugu.com/2010/11/09/cat…

magic palindrome acrostic latin square metafilter.com/105914/Farmer-…

@standupmaths Imma let Marcus finish, but David Malone made the best docu. about the maths behind our world OF ALL TIME http://bit.ly/pm7LJj

Quick survey: what letters can you type on an upside-down calculator?

all the words you can write on an upside-down calculator: somethingorotherwhatever.com/?thing=calcula…

I've seen loads of maths art lately. I need to start collecting it somewhere. "Views of the Tesseract" etsy.com/listing/782049…

@standupmaths so the sticker breaks the social contract by making promises re the jug's contents it can't keep? Like egyptian tomb curses?

this speaker has brought a laser pointer that I can actually see! Best talk of the day!

I said I would do it and I've done it -- a collection of arty maths: artymaths.tumblr.com

Piniest tinecones! twitpic.com/5xkmhv

@aperfect STOP SPENDING MONEY

hah! I *think* I'm using @MathJax queues properly now. At least, everything typesets properly, which satisfies some definitions of "proper"

Tynemouth seems to be a bit of a mathmo/sciencist colony - I know of me, @elinoroberts and @Cloudoid . Any more?

talking of which, @elinoroberts - would you or anyone else at Life be interested in a Newcastle MathsJam?

@elinoroberts @peterrowlett has kicked me into action, and someone else is interested but away until October. Haven't decided a location yet

@CloudoidLtd do you know your website's broken?

yeeeaaahhh the beach!!! notcot.org/post/42060/

@aperfect that's graph theory!

you're watching itv3: the Martin Clunes channel

I've got sock stigmata! twitpic.com/5ys6wg

so Newcastle @MathsJam is a thing now. First one will be 23rd of August, location to be decided. Pass it on.

@standupmaths phew, glad you corrected that. I started doubting some fundamental things

@standupmaths and now you've got the statement right, add this caveat: works only for numbers with prime factorisation 2^x . 5^y

@haggismaths oof that animated gif is huge, but it's very nice. Thanks!

@haggismaths it would probably be bandwidth-cheaper to use the original images and a bit of javascript magic

javascript magic: var directions = [-1,0,1].reduce(function(l,a,i,arr){l.push(arr.map(function(b){return [a,b];}));return l},[]);

EXCELLENT myreckonings.com/wordpress/

@mathsinthecity we should set up a @mathslamps account

oh no, I've got the bad kind of hiccups! People die from this! Not even God's messenger on earth was safe: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_…

tiny computer people: your nominations for above-average tex mex restaurants anywhere in the world. First to say Blue Coyote gets unfriended

I've started making progress on my quest to photo every blue plaque in Newcastle: plus.google.com/11130061692066… (I need help with some, @NewcastleCC)

@standupmaths trid to be clever in my email; forgot exactly how RSA works; feel silly.

@standupmaths compounded mistake by misspelling 'tried'...

Mathmo is hours from missing his modest fundraising target for ambitious project to tell math stories. Please consider bit.ly/relprime

@Electrokittie are you not on google+ yet? circles are a complainer's panacea

@ColinTheMathmo @Tony_Mann and it's interesting to see the number of people who were waiting for someone else to pay instead of them

@standupmaths @MrCMaths @Annie_Beez that's an excellent candidate for @mathsinthecity !

@Samuel_Hansen well done, sir! You have definitely earned my money already.

@alexbellos my mum has just emailed to say a man being interviewed on newsnight about phone hacking had your book in clear view behind him

hah, radio nova have realised they've got lots of english listeners and have put a union flag-bestrewn column down the middle of their page

@haggismaths several people have recreated it, and the top answer explains how it works. What more do you want?

@matthen2 or there should be a locals-only skyway

@mathsinthecity the PIN one tickled me. In the same vein: I made a page to work out when your next prime birthday is somethingorotherwhatever.com/primebirthday/

@mathsinthecity oh boo! That's what I get for letting my brother set up my server. I'll try to find an alternative.

@mathsinthecity can you access takenot.es ?

@mathsinthecity brother is in that London down there, so would need to be online to receive a beating. Try takenot.es/primebirthday/

@mathsinthecity no way! Mine too! Are we prime twins?

@mathsinthecity an even number of days after that

@mathsinthecity ratso! OK, one more bit of information: you'd send me one before I sent you one

@alexbellos wouldn't pretty blonde traders appear during a boom?

@TimandraHarknes I'd have to travel to get to the party. That's right: I'll have to commute. It's what he would've wanted.

has anyone else noticed Chrome developer tools suddenly using loads of CPU and blocking the whole browser lately?

interesting maths videos made with a blackboardy tablet PC: rootmath.org

@aperfect yeah... I'm gonna need you to come in on the weekend to fix my DNS, OK buddy?

@standupmaths did you ever send me that password?

Newcastle @MathsJam 23rd August 7pm Bodega, Westgate Road, near the Tyne Theatre. Email newcastle@mathsjam.com or me if you're interested

@Gelada do you own "sacred mathematics: Japanese temple geometry"? I've just got a copy. It's a wonderful combination of art and geometry.

@Electrokittie where is this posh burger king?

@peterrowlett it was watchable - 3 of us phds were hooked! (it was a very VERY slow day)

Cockney rhyming slang has its genesis in a performance of 'Oranges and Lemons' that got out of hand

@Gelada minus points for rhyming 'Euler' with 'ruler'

@ColinTheMathmo is there a reason there are no outside links in your blog posts? For example, the MO/ME thread about dissecting a square

@Electrokittie ah! I wondered why there was a queue last time I walked past

it's my 1155th prime birthday today! And happy prime birthday to @mathsinthecity too. Anybody else celebrating today? takenot.es/primebirthday/

@elinoroberts inconceivable. You're eating the wrong sandwiches.

@elinoroberts will you be coming to Newcastle @MathsJam, do you think? I'm having trouble finding takers so far

@jjsanderson 23rd August, the Bodega on Westgate Road

@plusmathsorg see also amazon.co.uk/Making-Mathema…

about to burn down my flat, but not as part of a riot. There are loads of spindly spiders hanging around the skirting boards. What are they?

@jcoglan if you're registered with nickserv, yes

@GhostMutt famously nobody: zeboyd.com/2011/07/18/zeb…

@nulibsage could you please RT this? Newcastle MathsJam first meeting 23rd August, The Bodega, Westgate Road. mathsjam.com/index.php?cont…

@jcoglan you can write a cron script to send that tweet every time your cron script fails #unhelpfulneckbeardadvice

@jcoglan it's woefully underused.

is there no way to stop skype opening Skype Home when it connects any more?

@peterrowlett complicated topic, long report, maybe the report is sufficiently bland or agreeable not to provoke comment

@HilariousCow that's a case of deliberateja-vu

javascript top tip: save valuable space in your programs and confuse your colleagues by writing '!0' and '!1' instead of 'true' and 'false'.

this moth is flying in a manner suggesting it has only just learned to perform the feat

@ColinTheMathmo great article, but wow NYT editing has slipped: "Like others, I was moved and donated."

@qikipedia the tyne and wear metro has a unique topology mathsinthecity.com/sites/topology…

@Samuel_Hansen I had been meaning to send you pics when I had the book handy, but my fave maths shapes are in Byrne's Euclid (also sangaku)

.@matthen2 are there any mathematical sights I should see in Edinburgh while I'm here?

@Bishnavitch tomorrow. Film on Tuesday? Still no more from Sam

@Bishnavitch I'm back late tomorrow. Friday it is, then.

Pancho Villa's in Edinburgh does very nice Mexican food

@RANIELDANSON WHAT DID I JUST SEE?

Petrol is £1.31 in Byker! God bless you beautiful Libyan freedom fighters! Or are we not meant to talk about that part?

Man that last tweet was unacceptably sarcastic. I hereby resign my post to spend more time with my stuffed animals

@JSlayerUK did she have an Excellent Irish Nun Name?

why can't I do a simple box-circle collision? What has happened to me? I resign for a second time today to spend more time with my textbooks

@stecks that was world record Most Contentedly Lonely Dude attempt. Trying to beat man who watched all Friends dvds in one sitting last year

@peterrowlett @Samuel_Hansen only hard math is patentable arst.ch/qlf

@Bishnavitch no!! I'm at maths-aid until 4

@Bishnavitch can we not get a couple of hours in? I can give you a lift back into town

@Bishnavitch 4.30, it takes me time to get home!

"the man who annoyed Adolf Hitler" - understatement from BBC News. As history shows, rather a lot of men annoyed Adolf Hitler

@mathsinthecity that *is* a nice jumper! I have no nice jumper and my maths explanation videos are a shambles. :( :(

@mathsinthecity sadly, finding jumpers able to enclose my considerable length is v hard. I might never be an eligible mathmo :(

@brittneybean @aperfect Crayola's colour names are almost definitely copyrighted/trademarked. Look here: code.google.com/p/color-js/

@aperfect @brittneybean yeesh! code.google.com/p/color-js/sou… code.google.com/p/color-js/sou… code.google.com/p/color-js/sou…

@Electrokittie if you send me your email address I will invite you to google+

somebody please do this: git log --oneline --graph as a level for California Games BMX. More collaboration => bumpier level

@CloudoidLtd there's a bit. The way I'll be doing it is, I will sit in the pub until people turn up, then we talk maths!

@standupmaths dude, that band has holes in it. Not mobius.

I've finally got round to putting on the t-shirt I bought at Bletchley Park, and it's a *women's* XL! So annoying!

@MathsJam can anyone coming to Newcastle MathsJam please please make sure to email, because I've got no idea how many people will be there

@peterrowlett @Samuel_Hansen which one of you is responsible for how quiet this week's #mathmaths is? Resign!

a note you don't want to see from your supervisor: "yes (as long as 0^0=1, which it seems to here)"

@peterrowlett a survey answering that question should also establish the belligerence of those who don't like pizza.

@CloudoidLtd will you be coming to mathsjam tonight?

@CloudoidLtd go on!

Newcastle #mathsjam is go! Starting with @peterrowlett's 16 dots puzzle. What else should we do?

Trying to find equivalence classes of solns to the 16 dots puzzle. My group theory failing me, @E_I_W breaking out some graph theory

@MathsJam to your question. You need to follow me so I can dm you!

@MathsJam @peterrowlett talking of fields: why can't you grow wheat in Z/6Z? Because it's not a field!!!

today on my arty maths blog: etsy finds, with a prime number counting chart for the baby you hope is cleverer than you artymaths.tumblr.com

@plusmathsorg if you had the conventional selection of 'share this article' buttons, I would use them for this article.

seems librarian is explaining the concept of the book to these people. One is staring at a page but sort of past it like a magic eye picture

if I didn't know Green's theorem before, I defo know it now. I've explained it to a bajillion students today before the resit this afternoon

@jamesgrime your local dude with a laser-cutter should be able to do it

I ate a very spicy pizza last night so I would wake up in time. That worked, but there were... side effects

ok guys, I'm going to spend some time horse fishing in Flanders, going to sort some things out about myself youtube.com/watch?v=ZT7WBt…

@brittneybean That is a pretty silly picture. And is the article about foreign firms hiring Koreans?

@brittneybean there you go! I can see no problem with the caption

There is a lot of yellow happening on me today, apparel-wise. Gotta beat those rainy day blues

@peterrowlett unexpected satire from local podcasting hero

@Electrokittie if Stalin had stayed that thin would history have judged him so severely?

@standupmaths haven't you seen those before? Seems to be based on what this guy did in '96 graficaobscura.com/lasercut/surf.… graficaobscura.com/surf/index.html

I've made a career decision! I'm going to start a blog of videos of children being told old jokes for the first time and just losing it

Golden guernsey goats on countryfile! Jesmond dene has one and it is the best goat.

rubik's cube in minecraft youtube.com/watch?v=TFKwCe…

@ThomasEWoolley every time I see that second shell with the triangles I am amazed. Have you seen this? sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@ColinTheMathmo about Q7: what if I'm not too keen on the given Star Wars characters? Can I write in Chewbacca somewhere?

@ColinTheMathmo I went with Lando, the closest match (old friend of Han, alright with a blaster) but I'm not happy: I still got Apologiser

@matthen2 is that a tautology, or have you got an example in mind which looks like it should give a different answer?

from now on I will be using prettycolors.tumblr.com whenever I need to pick a colour

@plusmathsorg I thought you were a maths magazine?

@aperfect hardly the coding rockstar lifestyle. More like coding support act with like two fans at the back who half know one of the songs

Man, there's something unusual I meant to put on my shopping list but all I can think is 'reticulated splines'. Curse you, SimCity!

@trackinthebox oh no, double grammar mistake today! practise - verb; practice - noun. Practice makes perfect; practised group.

@peterrowlett *ahem*...

@peterrowlett yes. what does it involve?

@Gelada when you said facial topology I thought of this page.mi.fu-berlin.de/polthier/artic… in the Hilbert room at Goettingen

@HoeJodgkiss how long would it take for a new Newcastle club to work its way up to the EPL? Less than for NUFC to sort itself out, no doubt

the slides I presented at @eassessscotland about Numbas are now on the web: inishmore.ncl.ac.uk/eas-presentati… #eas11

hooray! my Gauss Fact got put on the site! gaussfacts.com/view/Mathemati… but boo, I *just* missed having fact #500

@standupmaths thing that annoys me about glasgow's map is that they have "inner" and "outer" lines - why not clockwise and anti-clockwise?

@standupmaths because many cities are laid out along a river, so a tablet shape means less squishing at the sides

@brittneybean @aperfect there's so much bad maths in that poster I don't know where to begin.

@brittneybean @aperfect also, it's so badly designed I literally don't know where on the page to begin

I've bought a rotring tikky graphic pen. Using it is like writing lullabies for baby rabbits on softest vellum. Best pen ever.

the best science video I've watched in ages sciencefriday.com/videos/watch/1… It's about hidden cephalopods

@NoelAnn I think your twitter account's been hacked

suppose you open a clementine and it's all shrivelled up inside. Do you still eat it? Is it worth powering through the awful texture?

never mind, twitter, I just answered my own question. The answer is definitely no.

@enoFsamohT @Electrokittie well that's put me off my lunch, dinner and tomorrow's breakfast

Imagine being a boiler repair man. Everyone you meet all day is unwashed and smelly. Yeesh.

@brittneybean Jimmy Fingers and the Fingerbowls! Cholera Squad! No, it must be The Reappraisals! #mightaswellbeforallicare

Does anywhere in Tynemouth sell freshly made doughnuts?

@haggismaths so you need to post the link

@CloudoidLtd ah man, I just walked past there!

@Electrokittie it goes the other way too, viz Oswald Mosley

phew, didn't completely ruin @peterrowlett and @Samuel_Hansen's podcast through technical ineptitude. They make it sound so easy, and it is!

@standupmaths I spy an opportunity for an extremely tedious google maps mashup cataloguing the arithmetic road signs of Great Britain.

@peterrowlett forgot to mention most interesting thing about my week! Every single student doing resits needed Green's Theorem explaining!

@peterrowlett ... if I didn't know it before, I certainly do now

@NoelAnn what does that mean? Support increases as deadlines approach, or having deadlines at all increases use of maths support?

@NoelAnn ok, that matches my experience. In fact, students turning up not just before a deadline is a notable event

@jcoglan man I thought I was so cool registering a legible .es domain a few months ago, but now everyone's got one!

Living the VIP lifestyle twitpic.com/6gugns

@brittneybean be totally cliche and implement the boids algorithm

@brittneybean harry.me/2011/02/17/nea…

aaarg vim-latex-suite, why do you rebind the way line deletion works? That has nothing to do with LaTeX, that's just your preference!

@aperfect that's worse than those french dudes!

@RANIELDANSON chin up, young man!

@kenfodder fairly often

ligatures count as single-letter variable names, right?

@mathsinthecity much worse: set theorists ruin your day in uncountably many ways at once.

@aperfect but I'm writing LaTeX!!

ok twitter: BLT pizza or piri-piri chicken pizza?

ok guys, time to get serious and do some blue-sky thinking outside the box: tuna mayo pizza. What do we think?

@elinoroberts Jeera. North Shields. They deliver. Nobody needs to know.

@Bishnavitch I used too much piri-piri spice and now I am blind. I blame youuuuuuuuuuu!!!

what's it called when you decide that the correct use of semi-colons *does* matter and then taking part in society becomes unbearable?