Tweets from 2013

The Tyne tunnel kiosk made me pay with coins like a peasant last night but I just checked and I have two trips on my pass. #personaloutrage

first day back at work, I'm making rude gestures at MSXML because of its mental attitude to importing nodes. #hateIE #hateIE #hateIE

Quoth the raven, "{...}" #hateIE

Excellent! Google music has a labs feature to give tracks ratings out of 5, which it imports properly from WMP!

Help I've written a strongly-typed DSL in javascript and now I wish I hadn't. I wish I could use Haskell :(

@Htbaa yeah, but it wouldn't be appropriate for what I'm doing

I have no idea why our library has just bought a copy of a GCSE maths textbook from 1987. It's in the "new accessions" list. Weird

Is listening to the same radio 4 programme every night for the whole 7 days it's available because you fall asleep 5 minutes in a thing?

@missradders fantastic! I think it might be time to start the most middle-class petition in history

is it possible to dislike a beard so much it falls off your face? I've been putting off shaving it but it's so terribly itchy now.

@Htbaa it's been there 2 months! Hair is interfering with both eating and nose-breathing

@aperfect I wonder if I can make a profit selling compost to designers as Lorem Gypsum

I've just found the world's most ambivalent mathematical symbol: \gtreqless - checkmyworking.com/misc/makebigma…

.@jjaron it's used when you wish to rule out the case where a is not greater than, equal to, or less than b. Such as when b is a banana.

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN RECORDED HISTORY, Springer LaTeX Search is useful: latexsearch.com/latexFacets.do…. Surprise surprise, it's used in economics

@jjaron =/= excludes the case where they're equal

@panlepan it was a good one!

Cor! I hadn't realised quite how long my beard had grown. All gone now. #beardnews

@Bishnavitch I totally was

I remain not understanding the concept of promoting an album months before releasing it for sale.

@stevenstrogatz @MAA oh no, I thought the Hacker thing had finally died down!

I've written about some of my old BlitzMax games on my blog - checkmyworking.com/2013/01/some-o…

@jcoglan tonight on the news at 10: man has trouble with new system, claims nobody anywhere could use it better than he

@stecks I was Mjolnirly right.

@Bishnavitch will it really tie the room together?

@mathpuzzle did you notice your site's hit counter recently went over five million?

@jcoglan also, the government plans to reintroduce 10,000 grey wolves to northern towns, to encourage more risk-taking

I love the shape of seagulls as they glide, little grey Deloreans cutting a path towards something tasty

By joining the pavement in front of me, this vicar is making bold claims about our relative walking paces

@divbyzero cor, well done for knowing 'apothem'.

Teehee! youtube.com/watch?v=_iSzgi…

@jcoglan oxforddictionaries.com/words/a-histor…

nff! It's only 4:30! What am I supposed to do with the rest of today? I've already cleaned the flat, done a big shop and walked on the beach

I love triple town!

Alas, the dream was too beautiful for this world. Palindromic number of turns though, so it ended well.

The size of the unit of measurement changing doesn't make your weight change, John Humphrys!

Apologies to Humphrys. I changed my weighing scales from stones to kg and now I'm stuck in the floor. Someone get the Jerry Springer winch

Hmm, how do I feel today?

Only a week until Christiansmas! Keep an eye on @Christiansmas for info throughout the happy day.

@standupmaths I see you've upgrade yourself from Prof Matt Parks to Sir Matt Parker

I don't want to get sued for libel, so I'll say this definitely doesn't look like a front for academic espionage

"Hm, this unsolicited ad asking me to send them my research looks like a good idea. And that stock photo of a plane makes it legit"

@standupmaths Windows doesn't have cal.

@standupmaths doesn't look like it. And the calendar in the taskbar only goes back to 1900

Came in to work early. Have fiddled about with widget placement for two hours. Productive day.

is there a point at which I can legitimately claim to be offended by the "singles in your area" ads on the side of facebook?

because there are five in a row at the moment. Am I supposed to feel lonely after Christmas?

@arowx ??

@MathsJam NCL -> DC: look at my recaps for ideas - checkmyworking.com/category/maths… - and get a good puzzle book, like The Moscow Puzzles

@GhostMutt everything's @Outlook.com now.

Not a single student has come into Maths-Aid all day. They've got exams next week! What's going on?

So @stecks and I got a bit carried away: The Aperiodical’s Possibly Annual Awards for Mathematical Achievement wp.me/p2cimT-1NM

In today's news: computers now less autistic than I am spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/comput…

@Samuel_Hansen what did I say?

@Samuel_Hansen wow. Clearly the British mind can't conceive of a series of anything more than six episodes

@erik_kwakkel do you know how that background was made? Is it ebru?

WHAT bbc.co.uk/news/uk-204039…

@jcoglan why not have normal CSS in <script type="jcoglan/css"> tags and JS that acts on those?

Just discovered you can reorder HTML tags in Chrome's developer tools by pressing ctrl+up/down

IE keeps finding new ways to be more helpful. #hateIE

Oh, it looks like this error is related to the one where objects' constructors are called before they have their prototypes attached.

whiteninjacomics.com/comics/1293.sh… #teampositivementalattitude

@aperfect fairly sure that's already a thing

Dinner tonight: cream of bad idea "à la mexicaine"

Wow. Emscripten! developer.cdn.mozilla.net/media/uploads/…

Tried putting sliced banana on my shredded wheat like the adverts say. It just made the shredded wheat taste like sawdust.

It has just, *just*, occurred to me that $\frac 1 2$, or even $\frac12$. is valid LaTeX instead of $\frac{1}{2}$. Bad idea?

So the consensus is that $\frac 1 2$ is an abomination.

I'm surprised about the unanimity concerning $\frac 1 2$, considering the amount of bad LaTeX I've seen in my time.

Do none of those people use Twitter?

Manual written entirely in the first-person plural: do we find this annoying?

The southern rahs smoking in front of both the library doors and several huge no smoking signs are offending me in every possible way

At 18:42 the Duchess of Cambridge can simultaneously tell the time and describe how much she had for dinner

@Bishnavitch it would be like King Canute against the waves

Today, IE is crashing so comprehensively on page load that I can't even look at the script console to see an error message. #hateIE #hateIE!

@aperfect I haven't yet forgiven you for teaching me to slouch

@aperfect yes, when we were at Brat

@jcoglan fun fact: I'm currently battling an IE bug where the constructor gets called before the prototype is attached.

@jcoglan even better: the error dialogue is crashing so hard that either a) it throws its own error dialogue, or b) all of IE crashes

@jcoglan I tried the old delete-stuff-until-what's-left-doesn't-crash tactic, but after enough errors IE10 just refuses to load *any* page

When you have not enough dust on your screen to interfere with work, but enough to make smilies look like winkies

WOW. Just wow. The cause of my IE mega-crash was mismatched tag names. That's, like, a 1995-style crash bug.

@CardColm @mathhombre yeah, we're pretty open with our contempt for marking

@HELIUM_HEED yes, you are the only person

Uh oh, Shpongle has come on the music shuffle. Might not feel like accepting consensus reality when I get off the train. #radcommute

.@TweetsofCushing has confused me

@jjsanderson where?

@jjsanderson is that the spot that used to be the awful grill place?

@jjsanderson the art bar has always been called "Barca", and I think they expanded upstairs when the rubbish grill closed

@jjsanderson while we're talking Tynemouth eateries - have you tried the new restaurant next to Marshall's yet?

Proof by induction until you have enough values to put into the OEIS

@jjsanderson no idea. I could've gone yesterday but I panicked and went to Lui's instead. (belly pork was mmmmm!)

@jjsanderson I still haven't been in Allard's. I was put off by the people I saw with half-litre wine glasses sat outside last summer

@jjsanderson none, sorry. I'm sure I can remember seeing a sign once, but I've completely forgotten what it said. Some sort of club?

gnuplot compiled to javascript with Emscripten! gnuplot.respawned.com O frabjous day!

@jjaron mmm, smelly books

Advanced mental gymnastics: minimising the time between deciding to get fish and chips, and when you get fish and chips.

Man, that's good fish! Man, those are good chips!

@stecks you've *ordered* fish and chips? What crazy world do you live in?

@stecks O brave new world that has such wonders in it

@vickytnz and you've just reminded me that I seem to have lost it in the upgrade to windows 8!

Looking for a drummer for my new death metal/witch house band, "Internet Explorer 8's Developer Tools"

A spambot called "Pimbley Carithers" with an image of a statue weeping blood as its avatar is offering me 100 RTs. #megacreepy

@vickytnz thanks for the warning. I'm turning my heating on so by the time it gets here I will be cosy warm

@moynihaj you are the last person I expected to see on twitter!

Oh my god is Britain's Brightest even a joke?

"The customer is always right." That's something we strongly believe in at my new pest extermination company, Sick Of Ants

Good news, everyone! I've remembered the password for @Christiansmas just in time

@matheknitician ooooooh!

@stecks @peterrowlett either of you around for a podcast tonight?

@ColinTheMathmo hah! No it isn't. And the scripts that you put in your page are hosted on a CDN which is very reliable

@ColinTheMathmo the docs at mathjax.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ are up, so you could read through those

@ColinTheMathmo the HTML on that page is very odd - lots of unclosed and mismatched tags

@ColinTheMathmo ahhh, you've got parentheses set as delimiters! Instead of ['\(','\)'], you should have ['\\(','\\)'] to escape the slashes

@ColinTheMathmo don't have the second bit with the parentheses. The page on mathjax.org has two slashes. Should we switch to email?

@ColinTheMathmo yes, that's right. Yes, you'll need quad slashes if it's going through python, or put an r character before the string

@ColinTheMathmo (the python string, that is)

@ColinTheMathmo there's a <p> inside the last <ul> tag. Not closing <p>s is a rubbish thing to get stickly about, really.

@ColinTheMathmo what's the other browser? It should work on everything back to IE6.

@ColinTheMathmo I couldn't commit any time to it, but I'm happy to answer questions

@ColinTheMathmo yes, I didn't look too closely. Apart from all the unclosed <p>s, but whatever.

@stecks @peterrowlett super. We'll cast pods like it's going out of fashion

@pkrautz not for me. It's always had DNS problems; I need to move it to a different server. I'll prod my hosting provider (my brother)

IF ONLY WE WERE THIS CLEVER! RT @bcpslallen3: @aperiodical article could be improved by the inclusion of a nonsense eqn

@jcoglan umm... lambda calculus?

@vickytnz the first episode was too much for me. I decided I don't need to watch Grim Things on a Sunday evening

@vickytnz I don't even have that consolation. The girl in that episode was nice but she got killed! Double sad :(

youtube.com/watch?v=ZGhVXg… !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111

@Plattsc thanks. I didn't have deer, I had the single worst mexican of my entire life. Never trust Whitley Bay.

My stomach just jazzed a most incredible bebop beat. Last night's dinner has inspired it.

@DanielColquitt that's the worst!

I hate it when a plan comes together at the last minute. I like leeway! #antihannibal

@jcoglan are you aware of brooklynintegers.com ?

@jcoglan gaussian integers

@icecolbeveridge it's there, but I've had a busy few days and I don't think @stecks has looked at it

@bluecombats yep! The MathJax bookmarklet might help: dzejkej.github.com/mathjax-bookma…

Living the paperless office dream, but it just looks like I haven't prepared for this meeting and I'm playing on my phone (I am now)

@bluecombats @peterrowlett @aperiodical can't do that in RSS,for obvious reasons

@bluecombats @aperiodical @peterrowlett because rss readers filter out scripts.

@bluecombats @christianp @peterrowlett is this really a problem?

@Bishnavitch @AdamJackzon cafe 21 has been unimpressive the last couple of times. For dinner: Blackfriars; lunch: garden kitchen/21 fenwicks

@alexbellos ooh that's nice! But it doesn't show off the circle's almost-unique topological feature - one roundtrip visits paddington 4x

@alexbellos in fact, the labels for Paddington and Bayswater are completely missing. Map-making must be hard!

@EngageNe that's a nice big blackboard! Where is it? They're very scarce in the school of maths, which I think is a crime

The problem I have with food festivals is that, while one can happily listen to music all day, trying the same with food leads to bad things

The next Newcastle @MathsJam is next Tuesday, the 22nd. 7pm, Charles Grey pub. I have some new puzzle books, and a lot of origami paper.

People who think that fish/crabs/whatever-small-animals don't feel pain: why on earth would you think that?

Have accidentally written the word 'aceademic'. Now have a burning desire to use it, preferably on radio 4's Go4It circa 2002. #ace

How long have you been able to use shift+left/right to move a text selection in chrome, in a non-editable element? Mind blown.

@walkingrandomly but the sandwiches on British Rail were rubbish!

@jcoglan people sending you correspondence retain copyright on that correspondence. It's a terrible thing to insist on, but legal

@walkingrandomly I may be too young to remember what British Rail sandwiches were like.

@walkingrandomly ... but I'm old enough to know that East Coast got loads better after they nationalised it

@jcoglan however you can 'criticise, review, and report', with appropriate excerpts as necessary

@jcoglan I think that's fine but now is an excellent time to say IANAL, I just took a workshop once

Oddly, ISS's response to students maxing out the wifi in the library is not "we should've prepared more capacity", but "students broke it!"

I will concede that goobers who use 3g dongles that clash with channels already in use constitute the worst kind of goober

@peterrowlett Information Systems and Services. Except, I'm sure they rebranded themselves last summer but they seem not to have noticed

@peterrowlett @aperiodical aww, I sneakily de-Oxford-comma-lated it after publication!

@JanvierUK your name isn't Jan Vier-Palmer? I always assumed you were a Flemish man.

Fie! Why fie? Wifi!

That tweet was excellent for two reasons: 1) phonetic palindrome; 2) palindromic number of spare characters

@hornmaths @loch_b is a "peach Melbourne" a thing?

@hornmaths @loch_b I was making a pun?

This is a lovely tumblr - gofindmomo.com - there's a border collie hiding in each picture

@M1ke @ben_nuttall it's like a random walk but one of the directions is disallowed?

Nooooo! "@BoraZ: Elsevier In Advanced Talks To Buy Mendeley For Around $100M To Beef Up In Social, Open Education Data techcrunch.com/2013/01/17/els…"

@vickytnz in Newcastle?!

@vickytnz where is there? Zapatista, and does Las Iguanas count?

@jcoglan @tunixman that's nice, but what problem does it solve? If you can write malformed latex, you can write malformed hatex

@jcoglan never mind, I realised immediately after posting that that it's for programmatically generating latex.

Still waiting for someone to remake Netstorm. Even just reusing the sound effects in something else would do, actually.

just looked up the name of the main character in Good Will Hunting. Going to hand my degree back now.

@vickytnz @ebuie jolly good! See you both on Tuesday?

Acquiring a PRS licence for my new cellar bar under the Newton Institute, "Fermat's Last Beer-Room"

@MarcusduSautoy will one of the twins be shot into space?

Does anyone know how to make a gif from a video easily? I assume there must be a simple way these days

Proofreading Barbarella's new book on woodland conservation in Northern England, "Humber Lumber Number Theory: Yonder Fonda Ponders"

@Andrew_Taylor there's a bisphenol with that phenylalanene. What if they use ascorbic stabilisers to bump Colouring Bs up the glutamates?

Man that was a good sandwich. Good job, past times CP! High fives through time!

@JanvierUK a) the habits make them look like penguins; b) they could be hiding anything under there!; c) nun of the above

@pkrautz what happened to the virtual Kaffeehaus? No spare time?

@Gelada or from another perspective: we're asking to create life in our own image

Busy day in Maths-Aid. I don't miss revising at all!

@Bishnavitch because it reminds you you're not a vampire?

@Bishnavitch yeah, keep telling yourself that

@divbyzero the polynom package might be overkill but it should do it. Can't test because I'm on the metro home

@divbyzero must be possible with normal tex. I'll fiddle when I get home

@divbyzero why is your editor trying to spellcheck command names?

@outofthenorm2 go on then. What do we need to do?

@outofthenorm2 what recreational maths journals are there at the moment?

IT WAS MY BIRTHDAY AND NONE OF YOU GOT ME ONE OF THESE odlco.com/catalog/alpacas I HATE YOU ALL I'M LEAVING TWITTER

This beauty costs about the same as my life's deepest desire, a Curta calculator. I'm conflicted now ioffer.com/i/giant-alpaca…

@vickytnz I am now!

@outofthenorm2 well googled, that's the one I was thinking of

@outofthenorm2 my dissatisfaction with the mathematical gazette is 90% of the reason the aperiodical exists

@outofthenorm2 ... both?

@aperfect !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@aperfect twitter wouldn't let me send enough exclamations. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@peterrowlett @stecks @outofthenorm2 already in progress, big bear. Ten four, over and out.

"Jump NHS queues with private medical insurance". "Jump literal queues by stepping on the heads of the poor". One of these is a real advert.

Although, if you pay for NI *and* private insurance, I suppose all your NI goes to help other people.

@outofthenorm2 yeah, probably nothing good exists yet, or we would've seen it.

@Samuel_Hansen have you removed the first few aperiodical round ups from acmescience? If so, can I have them?

Is there an HTML tag for "do you see what I did there?"

@Samuel_Hansen what's the URL of the category containing them all?

@Samuel_Hansen yeah, I couldn't find the search box. No hurry.

@Samuel_Hansen nope, can't see it

@peterrowlett @Samuel_Hansen aha! Thanks

After four months! Another round up! RT @aperiodical: Post: Aperiodical Round Up 8: if a bird heard the word 'surd' wp.me/p2cimT-1kk

Hah. Guess which blog is hit number 2 on google for "episciences project".

How do we have stronger google-fu than Nature?

@HilariousCow do you think? I didn't like it

@jcoglan I have! It's ok though, he didn't know I made it at the time. And he was wrong

Having the focus to install Java without also installing a million junko toolbars should be part of the test to be a brain surgeon

Don't watch this, arachnophobes. Everyone else: cutest spider ever! youtube.com/watch?v=rLw-9d…

Oh yeah, twitter embeds video thumbnails. Sorry, arachnophobes!

I just want a PDF of this article, ScienceDirect. Is that too much to ask?

I think I'll leave my hair like this today

bums! Big ole bum sandwiches. My xbox is dead.

I've got a box of miniature dairy milks, I've got a bag of 2p coins, but I don't have a little postbox to put them in! O calamity!

Trying to install Moodle and STACK on Ubuntu under Wubi might have been a terrible idea. I hope my hard disk forgives me.

I have STACK running! Victory!

Meanwhile, @NclNumbas is considerably less of a faff to use

@jcoglan I can think of a different all-white shower that's more deserving of the blame

The best dinosaur comic in a long time qwantz.com/index.php?comi…

Pineapple juice, my old friend! It's been too long! Come, sit down over here, in my belly.

A message for the snow: youtube.com/watch?v=yHV04e…

This was supposed to be a quick game of civ!

And I'll never forget how to type ö again now I've noticed its windows character code is an arithmetic sequence

@dmh10 Civ Rev on the xbox is both a quick and a very good game of civ. I think it's the tightest design of any of them.

@dmh10 but today I was playing civ 5 because my xbox is dead. And getting anything other than military victory needs the patience of a saint

Thought I'd make a javascript version of the up-goer five editor that doesn't need server calls. Turns out, conjugating verbs takes AGES

Since I can't think of anything else to do, I'm going to have a hot chocolate. Right after sending this tweet because that'll pass more time

@HELIUM_HEED that's already a strong contender for Best Grim Tweet of 2013

@HELIUM_HEED this is you: images.angusrobertson.com.au/images/ar/9781…

@InnerRhythm2012 a what now?

@jcoglan the top line of a commit message is only meant to be max. 50 chars. Short description, then two newlines and expand at length

@jcoglan (but don't be mistaken: I don't know anyone who sticks to that. Certainly not me! So maybe github should be less prescriptivist)

the catalogue number for this OEIS entry about palindromes was just 6 off being a palindrome itself :( oeis.org/A086862

@jcoglan first thing I found on google is stackoverflow.com/questions/2290…, and the vim syntax highlighting has opinions about it too

Does anyone know how to use NAN-DOS? I'm getting this error: "No peri peri in Drive A: Abort/Retry/Fail?"

Spectacular: TeX Live ported to javascript manuels.github.com/texlive.js/web…

Quod Erat Remonstrandum: proof by heated argument. #proofmethods

I've finally done it. 144 sticks of white chalk are being delivered to my local corner shop by Amazon, whom I have paid £2.97.

I can't see how anyone is turning a profit at any stage of that transaction.

Newcastle @MathsJam is tomorrow! 7pm at the Charles Grey pub. I have a few new puzzle books and lots of origami paper. Join me!

Imagine if snowflakes popped when they hit the ground! We don't live in the best of all possible worlds :(

I thought I had excellent taste in music until I realised I was having a mood swing

@kirkpatricke I've done that before, but it was for a job interview. Didn't get it.

@MathsJam You southern wusses. Newcastle is on! Cold only makes Geordies stronger.

When a clementine looks this much like a boob, you know it's gone bad

@CardColm turned out it was fine, the sole good clementine in a bad box.

In the grim dark future of the 41st millennium there is only work. #stressederic

My form tutor and art teacher from school just walked into my office with a group theory question, not knowing I was here. Surreal 2013!

Definitely going to share it at MathsJam tonight to see if everyone agrees with my proof, or if they can cite a relevant theorem

@divbyzero is there maybe a colon in the middle, like "It's -10: below zero."

Draw the same symbol on six faces of a cube such that you don't break these rules

@JamesMoosh that has two faces on an edge pointing the same way.

@JamesMoosh that has threefold symmetry round a vertex. They all point outwards - that's disallowed too

NCL -> MAN what's unclear?

@MathsJam ahhh, tweet error! Starts at 1000, then goes down when you press a button

@JamesMoosh threefold symmetry

@jcoglan you should make it, and call it the Great Internet Password Kolmogor-Off. With a graph.

People who walk up to the platform edge 2 minutes before the trains due: who are you racing?

People who walk up 3 minutes before: what you're doing there is unsustainable.

I DEFINITELY PUT AN APOSTROPHE IN THAT PREVIOUS PREVIOUS TWEET RRR

Ridiculous chalk order update: delivery estimate 16th-25th February. I paid nearly three whole pounds for this! Unacceptable!

Teachers and lecturers: my day job is to make an e-assessment system for maths. It's called Numbas, and you might like to follow @NclNumbas

@eAssess thanks for the RT!

@Bishnavitch @Electrokittie Sorry, already got plans tonight

`v.v.value = value`. I am bad at choosing variable names

Now @TweetsofCushing is trying the Good Will Hunting method to cure me of colourblindness. I think it might actually be my fault.

Lovely! youtube.com/watch?v=lvtT8i…

Identifying wallpaper groups in the Jesmond Holiday Inn. Fun times at the school of maths and stats away day

In other news, I was on the metro with Café 21's maître de. He didn't show me to a seat. Disappointed.

Ridiculous chalk order update: it's in the post! Almost three pounds well-spent

@stecks to python!

Colourblind-proof version of @haggismaths's edge-5-colouring of the dodecahedron, prepared by @TweetsofCushing ...

.... and the finished product! After going off-piste yesterday and getting it wrong, today it's a dodecahedright!

Here's a change: for once I'm filling up the @aperiodical news queue, instead of emptying it.

@MarcusduSautoy Interesting choice of identity. "I am not a number: I am a matrix!"

The new Shugo Tokumaru album is ecstatic

I read the comments on the internet. I'm going to have to take the rest of the day off.

In other good music news, The Staves are lovely.

facebook is showing me adverts for Vans shoes, tiaras for ballet dancers, and Lacoste polo shirts. Just missing some goth leather

@jjaron our Taiwanese visitor asked me to explain the s on the end of 'maths'. He couldn't get his tongue round it. Dude had a point.

@jjaron yeah, and people who want us to say "maths are" all say "mathematics is". My opinion: I don't care!

@jjaron no, they say that to be consistent, we who say "maths" should say "maths are" instead of "maths is"

I am on the page for a figure from a paper. First to find the link to go back to the paper wins a shout-out in my post pnas.org/content/104/40…

I'm sure I saw a really good HTML paper page layout earlier this week. I don't think they *need* to be as bad as they all are, do they?

Science magazine: thanks for making me RAS into Uni instead of using Shibboleth. It made me rethink how much I want to read this paper

@rmehigan it is, but what link did you use to get it? I of course had the full article already, but it's a terrible page design

@makerfaire_uk not me. I've been collecting arty maths for a while: aperiodical.com/category/colum…

@peterrowlett yeah, that's the only link I found. Crazy. Why doesn't the paper title link back to the paper?

Ridiculous chalk order update: it has arrived! The lady in the shop was very enthusiastic about Collect+.

Apparentheses: punctuation delimiting a supplementary statement casting doubt on the preceding one

hooray, hits from reddit! I like getting hits from reddit. There are usually lots of them

no, edge.org, "ten¹⁴" is not an acceptable way to write a number.

I HAVE DISCOVERED HOW TO TYPE ACCENTED CHARACTERS IN WINDOWS 8 WITH SENSIBLE KEY COMBOS! NOTHING CAN STOP ME NOW! ÁÉÍÓÚáéíóúáááááá

@sxpmaths Alt+Gr (the right Alt key) plus a vowel gets you an acute accent. Sadly, it doesn't seem to extend to other accents

Nobody else, when linked to a mobile-only "m.domain.com" page, starts singing "emm dot" to the tune of "mmm bop", right?

Who knows some mathematical eggcorns? I have "Klein bottle" and the "Witch of Agnesi". Any others?

@ColinTheMathmo "Kleinsche Fläche" (Klein surface) was misspelt "Kleinsche Flasche" (Klein bottle) once...

@ColinTheMathmo and Maria Agnesi miswrote "versoria" (curve) as "versiera", which looks like a truncation of "aversiera" (witch)

@quirkycookies @cherrymakes @Frans_facts @giagia go! You'll have loads of fun.

SNAND! If I can just work out how to get rid of the S, it'll be Turing-complete

Walking on the snow! Walking on the sand! Everybody knows! That I love der Strand!

The dream is over. Flooded my shoes being a bit too adventurous with the North Sea

So apparently a good way to keep your feet warm is to fill your boots with seawater? Or are my feet dead?

@rmehigan didn't think of that! I might return with gloves later

@jcoglan you can link to a particular time in iplayer by using the "link to this" button

@stecks Reader, I did not start paradoxically stripping.

@haggismaths Chip Chipperson, News Gazette Courant. What is this rumour? Are you starting it?

accidentally discovered a really cheap fake tilt-shift method: move your phone camera away just as it's finishing taking an HDR photo

@jcoglan I've had to spend the last month convincing a committee of maths PhDs and Profs that javascript crypto is a bad idea.

@haggismaths I don't think that's a millennium problem, is it?

@haggismaths PR at the RSME about the invariant subspace problem solution rsme.es/content/view/1….

@aperfect Romain Duris! Audrey Tautou! Michel Gondry! youtube.com/watch?feature=… !!!!

A _wobbling map_ on a metric space matches every point with another one a bounded distance away - points wobble under repeated applications

@aperfect ahhh so you have the DVD? Did I give it to you as a present?

@aperfect I remember now! It came in a fantastic envelope from Thailand.

@CardColm any juicy gossip? Was my post acccurate?

@S_A_Thomson à ton avis

Google Reader zero! That's it, I've read the whole internet. I know all of it.

@Tegglington I don't do spoilers

I've done too much today! I'm ready for bed.

Here it is, the World's Most Pretend Car: handlewithfun.com/lot-details.cf…

@vickytnz I draw comfort from the fact that I am that loathsomely young person to many other people

@vickytnz aren't we roughly the same age?

Watched a flock of pigeons take off vertically in a high wind, then hover backwards to land in a tree. It amused me

@vickytnz really? That's mad: both Tynemouth and the city centre are really quiet

I've updated the power law story with Mason Porter's excellent Batman & Robin meme aperiodical.com/2013/01/log-lo…

@stevenstrogatz 12 pages in to that document, I've decided to remain confused

It's so badly written! They're all like "OLDE WORDES!" and I'm all like "That's not period-appropriate!"

@vickytnz it's Ripper Street. Everything about the script is terrible.

@ben_nuttall I just embed github gists.

It's just occurred to me that I haven't done any loci since year 9 maths. That's a shame

@C_J_Smith oh I suppose, but it isn't the same: it's all algebra

yep yep yep kamdhenudham.wordpress.com/2011/08/20/ind…

@Tony_Mann @peterrowlett do you mean blundre? #hamburger

Man why does anybody drive into work? That traffic was rubbish.

It also confirmed my opinion that Byker is non-euclidean

@jcoglan was it about a horse?

Help us make a decent maths news source! RT @aperiodical: Call for volunteers to join the Aperiodical News Team wp.me/p2cimT-1CV

"Sebastian, for the ads in The North, they all use the tram up there, yah?" "Yah I think so, Belvedere"

Other southern names: Bunty, Armeendo, Trabimbaline, Corky.

@vickytnz good American accent?! It was dire

Feature branch. Feature branch? Feature branch! Say it enough and it sounds like the name of a new Hollywood starlet, Fietscha Branch.

@profkeithdevlin or far more pedantic government

@standupmaths it behooves you to gawk at an original copy of Byrne's Euclid

Does anyone fancy giving this scrabble-with-numbers game a go with me? numbered.es My username's "christianp"

In single-player number game news, Quento for android is diverting, and pleasing on the eye: play.google.com/store/apps/det…..

Getting security clearance for my new spa strictly for defence officials, Intercontinental Holistic Missile.

@LynnBowie @MathsJam the MathsJams map (maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=2…) says that someone else is interested in a Joburg jam. Suggest you start one!

@naomzzb cor, that looks nice!

Aaaarrgggg what is the point in releasing a single for radio play only, months before the album?

@brittneybean but if I haven't forgotten about a track by the time it's out, I've usually grown sick of hearing it so much.

@standupmaths but the way you write the infinity symbol, it looks like you've divided zero (at what point does this become cyberbullying?)

@vickytnz YESSSSS. If you can get hold of it, that is

An afternoon very well spent.

Now it's safely ensconced in its dual

Before I poison myself: pasta doesn't go off. That's pasta's deal, right?

Well, this doesn't really know *what* it wants to be

Pasta con tutto verdict: surprisingly tasty, though I could've just let the chilli go off rather than use it

@reflectivemaths I do not. The Aperiodical has a podcast, but we just chat about the site. There is a gap at the moment

Pretty! thisiscolossal.com/2013/01/sand-a…

@jcoglan you share more thoughts than you actually have?

This government's single-minded dedication to ruining every aspect of society, to the detriment of any other policy, is quite remarkable

Man, open source is such a good thing. I can quickly make a single-line change to this program to suit my incredibly tiny niche requirement

Fairly sure the head of school has a love/hate relationship with me now. My software: good! My communication ability: not good!

@sxpmaths I see your 72 point move and raise you... one point!

Why does the Windows 8 task manager take so long to appear? It's ridiculous!

I also have opinions about flash adverts using up all of my CPU. I have a newsletter you can subscribe to.

Oh goddddddd, C++ is hard!

@jcoglan gives "a fractal of bad design" a whole new meaning

@Bishnavitch @Electrokittie go on then

@sxpmaths you knacked me with that bonus. How do you do it?

My life for the past 10 minutes. What have I become?

@Bishnavitch oi Bish! Sort your life out. Are we seeing this film? Can't get hold of you

@jjsanderson hah, that's excellent! I will try it on the next southerner to visit and see if it's more convincing

Lincoln compares favourably with Ripper Street as a historical drama: many more appropriate moustaches and fewer Americanisms

I'm going to start calling revolving doors cylindoors. I think this is a good life decision.

resisting-the-urge-to-say-that's-a-weight-off-my-mind-after-a-haircut-stress. #germanemotions

Almost got a full house in Tweetdeck Bingo (when a single tweet appears in every single column for all my accounts)

Sad cat poem spencermadsen.tumblr.com/image/41304837…

@aperfect do you think? They've got stupid noses.

I have a spreadsheet of module assignments and their due dates. Any sensible grading system would let you import that as CSV. Not ours!

Does the use of dropdown boxes to solve every UI problem correlate with, like, support of the Green Party or Baha'i or something?

I'M ENTERING NUMBERS! GIVE ME A NUMBER ENTRY BOX I CAN TYPE IN!

@jcoglan oh but of course, that goes without saying.

@vickytnz "a fluid series of multi-device encounters" #websitedesignorwildnightout

@vickytnz wasn't that one of the old b3ta quizzes?

So do birds just stay where they are when it's this windy? I haven't seen any all day

Somebody please tell me something interesting about the number 1246. It's driving me mad.

@samholloway hrmm, they're all pretty lukewarm

I agree, but why is that? RT @sann0638: if the question is what is the next number in the sequence 1,2,4, lots of people would answer 6?

Buying a PRS licence for my new musical instruments shop, "If you've got it: flautist."

Today's algebra seminar, first slide: enumerate words of length N which don't contain a subword SEX. #hotmathematicians

Now we don't want either of the subwords SEX or EXPERT. I think I can see where this is going...

@profkeithdevlin you're in Newcastle?! I'd love to meet

@profkeithdevlin ohh, Newcastle Australia. That makes more sense. Whoops.

What a nice day! Is the universe high-fiveable?

Having a summery morning in the office with @TweetsofCushing, with Glenn Miller on the youtubeophone

It's 12:46 again and still no satisfactory numerical facts about it. Is it the fabled smallest uninteresting number?

@Bishnavitch ahh, I answered the first time and it went beep, so I assumed you'd accidentally called me

@Bishnavitch but yes, kharma

@elinoroberts not to me it isn't.

@elinoroberts so apparently my department is doing a maths festival at Life tomorrow? I wonder why I'm not involved...

@elinoroberts we are. I'm more surprised I wasn't asked by people here. Maybe I was and I've forgotten?

@stecks TURBOWEAK

@Bishnavitch nooooope

@edbradshaw wow, you're really getting into the British spirit! Waiting for the BT man is an integral activity of our culture.

@jcoglan you have single-handedly invented the concept of doggerel complexity classes. I hope you're proud

The people upstairs have decided to become the kind of people upstairs who play rubbish music until 3 in the morning. Hmph.

Things just got serious: I want answers on the Aperiodical's Mathematical Survey telling me why 1246 is interesting. survey.aperiodical.com/question/510cd…

@icecolbeveridge A: no it wouldn't. B: that's proof by contradiction

@monsoon0 yes. It was one of the better ones, but not completely satisfying

@icecolbeveridge oh, I don't like that formulation, though it does justify my objection to "not interesting => interesting" more

What happens when fantasy worlds with orcs and elves and so on leave the middle ages?

@vickytnz steampunk orcs?

@vickytnz I want elves in precarious beehive wigs and I want them now

@vickytnz oh, I thought of a name for a modern setting one yesterday: Miss LARPle

@edbradshaw that has most of the right ingredients, but it's clinically clean. The secret of good fry-up is grease.

@HilariousCow filenames starting with a dot are hidden in unix

Does anyone know how you buy Gap trousers with a 36 or 38" leg online? I own some, but their site denies all knowledge.

oh I give up. shopstyle will reveal the location of the big troos

and now I discover that shopstyle won't let you filter by leg length. That's it, I'm learning how to make my own trousers.

Forget it all, I'm wearing a dress from now on.

@mathblogging is the "user activity" stream on the front page a good idea? Most of my tweets aren't maths-related

OK, it wouldn't make an interesting ad campaign, but how is comparetheparquet.com not even registered?

First day of full-time work, it's ten to twelve, and I'm still trying to work out how to get Visual Studio to work. #highproductivity

Either a hyphen is missing, or the Metro's in trouble. MT @My_Metro: Calling all 4 weekly MetroSaver holders...

@jcoglan that isn't even a valid question. You write your own cryptographically secure certificate of neckbearditude.

Phew! Two and a half hours later, I'm home. #rushhour!

Blew on samosa to cool it down. Hot air came out the opposite corner and burnt my finger :(

The 20th century really was violent: dance cards went out of fashion, replaced by punch cards.

@jcoglan are you aware of Python's dict.items() ?

The fact that it's physically possible to be awake while the schools programmes are on radio 4 is evidence this isn't the best of all worlds

@evelynjlamb isn't that #ProjectiveRunway?

awhh, "The Testimony of Patience Kershaw" by the Unthanks just destroys me every time it comes on. Such a sad song.

Phases 1 and 2 of @TweetsofCushing's attempt to make an equilateral triangle

@standupmaths that's really quite lovely!

@haggismaths how should we credit you at the @aperiodical? As Haggis, or your real name?

The dude whose computer discovered the new big prime was given $3000 by GIMPS. It's like a lottery with useful side-effects!

@Tegglington @TweetsofCushing already on it, Staggcoach

Unholy! Couscous, chickpeas, mushrooms and bacon, with leftover parsnip and carrot mash on the side.

Wow, green is actually a mental colour for bedsheets! I feel like I'm on the set of a Star Wars porno.

Uh oh, Today is tackling the Mersenne prime. No John Humphrys in sight though, so no reason to be afraid

And, has thou slain the EBac? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He Gove way!

Yo Gove, I'm real happy for you and I'ma let you finish, but Cambridge's IGCSE is one of the best maths syllabuses of all time. OF ALL TIME!

Just got into work and this masterpiece was on my desk. @TweetsofCushing is very talented.

@ebuie and it doesn't catch 90% of CC-licensed material

@ebuie it doesn't show them.

@mathsinthecity yep, going to look at it when my boring work day is over

@mathsinthecity I think you might have missed @icecolbeveridge's pun

@sxpmaths Wolfram alpha reckons the same as water, which can't be right

@evelynjlamb it looks like it's getting headlines and author names from RSS feeds. There are no names attached to the SciAm podcast feed

@EngageNe I haven't decided, but I can make a pretty firm bet: it'll be my usual comfortable mathmo-wear

Back in the green screen bed. Challenge: name a Star Wars scene that couldn't be reshot for a porno spoof.

@standupmaths describing our relation to that requires replacing the tally-based great-great-...-grandma system with a place-value system

@standupmaths ... so a binary system of 'great-' and 'grand-' would mean my grand-great-great-grandmother was 1001 ~= 9 generations back

Going a bit Office Space. Both my sellotape and stapler are missing. Don't make me go to the basement.

@vickytnz Python plus Pancakes is a thing that could happen

@Harsimrat__Kaur like so:

@vickytnz it's right next to central station! Just get the metro.

@vickytnz I reckon it's between 5 and 10 minutes. I always switch to the shorter line, but it doesn't really matter

@KSCMaths that's pretty common, and been in use for a long time

@KSCMaths I don't get your complaint. It's valid but old-fashioned, which suits the torygraph perfectly

Like British colonialism, the effects of last night's curry can still be felt today. #delicatetweets

My friends took me to Brew Dog last night and I drank hipster cola and now I'm addicted but it's £2.50 a bottle :( :( :(

@rmathematicus @peterrowlett @aPaulTaylor @stecks @aperiodical well, if you read the article, @BBCRadio4 didn't do too badly.

@Harsimrat__Kaur @C_J_Smith p starts with the downstroke then comes up to do the loop. \rho is a single anti-clockwise loop stroke

@C_J_Smith @Harsimrat__Kaur burn him!

Currently annoyed that LaTeX's j wears its hat at a jaunty angle: checkmyworking.com/misc/makebigma…

@Thalesdisciple I want the hat on top of the dot. \jmath looks horrible to me!

Reminds me that Droid Sans has a ligature for 'fi' that omits the dot on the i. So annoying. RT @Thalesdisciple: have you tried \hat\jmath?

@Thalesdisciple it's the default font on Android phones. I've only noticed the ligature since Android 4.1

Slides and a recording of a seminar presentation using @MathJax, deck.js and computer modern fonts in HTML: checkmyworking.com/2013/02/talk-c…

@vickytnz the link to "making a handcoded one-page site" needs an http:// or a / in front of it

Buying cages for my new exotic birds shop, "Super Mario Plovers"

@JanvierUK am I going to have to start a pro-your-nose faction? You've got a lovely nose!

@JanvierUK unless it's currently full of gunk, in which case I resign to spend more time with my imaginary family

@DanielColquitt @Harsimrat__Kaur @C_J_Smith we were discussing this yesterday: does *anyone* prefer \epsilon to \varepsilon?

Clearing out my room at my mum's house. The teacher who made me keep these randomly appeared in my office last week.

My little brother's lifelong strategy of never putting a CD back in its case has paid off: I no longer own any of the things I own.

Classic cp, circa 2004. Ouais, je parle muy gern il French. T'avais raison d'être impressed, Madame prof.

♪ One of these things is not like the others / One of these is somebody's god♪

@vickytnz you'll be glad to hear that the school now tentatively accepts the existence of New Zealand.

@vickytnz milk+lemon juice+5 minutes = buttermilk

#neverforget

How much hipster cola do you think I can get for these vintage game manuals? They are into vintage, the hipsters?

Beginning to wonder if I had a sex change in sixth form...

This looks like an algorithm for an AI to play Nulac. I ended up writing an MSN messenger bot which would host games

Challenge: reconstruct the Nulac game.

Man, what is the point in skimmed milk? It's like shy milk that doesn't want to inconvenience you by absorbing light or containing nutrients

I've just found a d30. Along with a d6 and a coin, I can generate any whole number of degrees. Might try a random walk...

@GreyAlien I said nothing about how far I would travel.

@HilariousCow hah! That's amazing. I can't think how what would get in print

@HoeJodgkiss or, imagine getting loads of tattoos because you want to be alternative and then all of a sudden tattoos are trendy

Lucy Worsley made a new series and nobody told me? Outrage! bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

Hang on... I've seen this one before. iPlayer's "first broadcast" bit lied to me!

That's it. I'm actually actually cancelling my emusic subscription now. They just keep breaking things on the site.

@treasa yep. Since they switched from credits to money prices so many good labels have left. Most stuff I get is from bandcamp or amazon now

@treasa bandcamp is like a service for bands to set up their own shops. Usually expensive, but you're paying the artists (almost) directly

@vickytnz it wasn't one of her best ones, but it was interesting and new to me

@TeXtip much much better: unicodeit.net

@vickytnz such a good song!

Carlo Vega's lovely animation inspired by geometrydaily.tumblr.com now complete: vimeo.com/59125130#

"why are all my egg-related utensils yellow and white?" - idiot me, thirty seconds ago

@vickytnz I am grumbling too. I have many many punning business names that I want to collect

@edbradshaw the number of times I've pressed ctrl+w while editing something on a web page...

@vickytnz pancake pancake pancake pancake. I'm having trouble concentrating on anything else

@walkingrandomly people's unwillingness to move from svn to git is baffling

@vickytnz what are your pancake plans? Coming to mine after PyNE?

I think I need to go on a salad-arranging course. Picking ingredients is hard!

The number of people who have booked non-pancake activities on pancake day is astonishing

@phillord you mean like eprint.ncl.ac.uk ?

@Bishnavitch that's why you should stick to CP brand pancakes.

@Bishnavitch let them cook for longer. And more oil never hurts

@phillord sounds like a job for a summer student!

Someone please come into maths-aid so I can warm myself up by speaking. #socold

@rmehigan @aoibhinn_ni_s positive quadratic function: distance travelled by a dragster or rocket with constant acceleration

@ebuie ... what else would you say?

@ebuie yuck. I'll stick with fortnightly!

@ebuie hey, at least we can count - the French call it a quinzaine

Booked a quiet room to record some @NclNumbas screencasts. An hour in, I'm still writing code for new features I just thought of.

@aoibhinn_ni_s @rmehigan you sure? Fairly sure it increases. I'm assuming the rocket keeps accelerating

@aoibhinn_ni_s s = ut + (1/2)*a*t^2. If acceleration is upwards or forwards, the t^2 term is positive.

@aoibhinn_ni_s you can make time a space axis, like the cameras for photo-finishes in races. Yes, finding visual examples is hard!

@aoibhinn_ni_s it's called "slit-scan photography" - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slit-scan…. Flatbed scanners do the same thing, so easy demo :)

@peterrowlett @aperiodical @stecks it was really that loud. I didn't do any volume fiddling this time

@DanaKazim even if you're not planning on doing numerics, being able to program is useful no matter what you do. Consider it a life skill

Forgot to push my commits from my laptop yesterday. Replicate them today, or do something else until tomorrow?

@Bishnavitch youtube.com/watch?feature=…

Poonikins the magic warrior princess youtube.com/watch?v=rt4p9A…

@JanvierUK ANGRY MURALS

This banana tastes green :(

White Range Rover with a single occupant driving the wrong way up a one-way street. #brokenbritain

@vickytnz now I too have a cold. Somebody on pancake day was harbouring DISEASE!

@C_J_Smith @peterrowlett dare to believe! (oddly, I just remembered they hadn't been sent this morning)

I vi. He whacks him vim in emacs. "Fie!" cry I, him dim put vim in emacs. He wax re VAX etc. I deny: Emacs be whack. developers.slashdot.org/story/13/02/16…

@evelynjlamb @CardColm you missed 0!

@vickytnz imagine if captain Kirk had a fazer!

Just had to explain The Game to my ENTIRE family. Unbelievable! And sorry for making you lose

eeeeee! cuteoverload.com/2013/02/13/you…

Because I think I'm brilliant, the first thing I did with my Twitter archive was find all my pun business names: checkmyworking.com/2013/02/all-my…

@haggismaths that actually looks a lot more like a 3d print by n-e-r-v-o-u-s

Scribblenauts knows 'rightwing' but not 'leftwing'. #classwar!

I was expecting that summoning a "helpful wizard" would solve every puzzle in Scribblenauts. Disappointed.

Hah!

@vickytnz that is some expert-level lunching! Is that the place on Brentwood Avenue that used to be Stewart and Co?

Reading the latest arXiv additions is a great way to let new words osmose into your brain, even if you don't understand the papers

Buying tiger balm for my new physiotherapy practice in Gosforth, "Knee Bother"

@ben_nuttall @Andrew_Taylor that's also how windows 8 works! Just remove most of the icons

How much harder would it be to solve a Rubik's cube if you could only see one face? @MathsJam

@stecks of course! Silly me

@vickytnz are you mathsjamming tonight?

Yikes! @MathsJam "@TobiasTeo: Here's to screw your brain for the day: twitpic.com/c4ubbp"

@vickytnz @TobiasTeo that's what maths is!

Some relevant material for that puzzle: 'Knowable' as 'known after an announcement' journals.cambridge.org/action/display… ...

... and "The Muddy Children: a logic for public announcement" phiwumbda.org/~jesse/slides/…

@monsoon0 much more readable, assuming you're not fluent in scholarly Latin, are his notebooks: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/ne…

@vickytnz sounds awful! I think I've got away with only having a bunged up head for the weekend.

Tiny reminder: Newcastle @MathsJam tonight, 7pm, the Charles Grey pub. This month I have puzzles and origami paper. mathsjam.com/index.php?cont…

@stecks @icecolbeveridge @peterrowlett MathsJam is an organisation? I thought we were at most a loose federation

@icecolbeveridge @edbradshaw @stecks @peterrowlett this is quite possibly the most tedious Twitter conversation I've ever been involved in

@DanielColquitt do you live near a black hole or other nonstationary supermassive object?

Locating premises for my new Newcastle-based cutlery steam-cleaning service, "Fog on the Tine"

Can someone point an infrared camera at me and tell me how well my beard insulates my face? Reluctant to shave until I know

The light covers on the new @My_Metro trains cover the top line of stations on the network maps. Such attention to every design detail!

@standupmaths yeah, so max( d(a,b), d(b,a)) <= 19

@standupmaths to be a dead-end a page would have to have absolutely no links. I'm happy for "anywhere" to mean "practically anywhere"

@Nathan1123 I get "Sorry, downloading went wrong" when I search

yes!!!! cuteoverload.com/2013/02/19/koa…

@Nathan1123 yeah, every time

@vickytnz but look at their happy little faces! ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ

When I leave my car, my seatbelt hangs limply out of the doorway like an automotive hernia.

@MarcusduSautoy @sciencemuseum fantastic! The maths room contains loads of fascinating stuff, but it's all so old!

@aperfect graphics card drivers?

@peterrowlett @icecolbeveridge @aperiodical yes, I'm listening... don't have any real internet this weekend though

@hornmaths my least favourite one of those is when they recommend a brand of completely artificial cheese

Monkey seems happy enough in the wardrobe

Outstanding: Outrun by Kavinsky grooveshark.com/#!/album/Outru…

@Harsimrat__Kaur LaTeX on android? Don't do it, your fingers will die!

@rmathematicus do you know any more about the format of those Bologna maths competitions, or where to look?

@Harsimrat__Kaur have you tried writelatex.com?

I think my parting and my barber are stuck in a feedback loop. Eventually all my hair will point sideways

I don't even want a parting! Yet every time it seems to get more and more parted.

@Electrokittie more food for thought: 'gandalf' backwards is 'fladnag', which could be a note taking during speed nating ("F: lad (nag)")

Shaved off all my beard except my moustache and took a photo. Nobody must ever see it.

@mathsinthecity @OxUniConnect more strictly: by stretching and squeezing topologists, you can turn them into crazy people

Having interesting maths on the blackboard is a work hazard. Zoned out of listening to a PhD's worries when I glimpsed a curious diagram

@ThomasEWoolley are you aware of the patent and mathematical formality controversies to do with the Gömböc?

@ThomasEWoolley I seem to have lost the stuff I collected about it, but the description here discusses it: thingiverse.com/thing:10190

@ThomasEWoolley so that's uncool from an open-access viewpoint (though they got the patent years before OA was a concern)

@ThomasEWoolley and there's still no rigorous proof that their particular shape is mono-monostatic - there's just an existence proof

@elinoroberts "Deadline" immediately leaps out

@woodwormcreates @mathsinthecity is there one?

Sublime. vimeo.com/18821259

A particularly auspicious exchange rate

@stecks IT'S A SIGN metafilter.com/125224/Coming-…

@aPaulTaylor or anti-cheese?

@stecks hahaha

ARXIV.ORG IS DOWN AAAAAAAAAA

and now it's back. Phew.

@for_the_winn the IE 10 one obeys the rule that all pages on the web referring to a specific version of IE must be out of date

STOP. Jammy time!

@ninjaSiham someone RTd one of your tweets and I just *have* to tell you your avatar pic is fantastic. Is that a real blackboard hat?

@hornmaths @monsoon0 if it helps, I don't do it

Hey! What happened to the Turing pardon? services.parliament.uk/bills/2012-13/…

Open Notepad. Type 0. Ctrl-A Ctrl-C Ctrl-V Ctrl-V. Repeat.

@JanvierUK achewood.com/index.php?date…

Endless Amusement, a collection of nearly 400 entertaining experiments in various branches of science publicdomainreview.org/2013/02/19/end…

We find the overuse of the first-person plural in mathematical literature highly annoying.

@JanvierUK that's OK.

Good morning, spider friend! Don't mind if I take my shower, do you? ...... Now where did you go? Spider friend? #aaaaaaaaaaaa

10am. Still nobody else in the office. Eat my lunch and pretend I didn't bring one in? Maybe.

Well, I was already planning on going for a walk, so it isn't too bad that @My_Metro is stopped after North Shields

But I do wish I hadn't brought quite so much stuff into work today

Lots of boats parked outside the Tyne today

Buying jangly things for my new sensory stimulation and meditation chamber, "We have nothing to hear but here itself"

Who else is going to @streetspice_ncl tonight?

It's finally done. I've cancelled my emusic account. What a catastrophe of a site.

@peterrowlett I'm trying to leave a comment but the reCAPTCHA isn't loading :(

@peterrowlett Yeah. And it seems I can't access google.com, so probably a CP's ISP thing

@dr__bag Top-notch paper-pointing there.

Right Guard has changed its "Clean" flavour to smell like BO. I'm not smell-blind as well as colour-blind, am I?

Sat in a seminar given by a speaker who writes his mathematical x as a simple cross. He might be an American spy!

Diarrhoesis: Mötörhead

Best Puzzlebomb yet. RT @aperiodical: It's that time again! Puzzlebomb - March 2013 wp.me/p2cimT-1Zj

@ben_nuttall indeed!

@Bishnavitch @aperfect @Electrokittie if I can chip in, my spider friend in my bathroom has been steadily growing for a few months now

Challenge: think up most ridiculous "misogynist X", where X is a profession or activity. Misogynist accountancy?

@noneatnamesleft it was alright. Good food, but very crowded and nothing mind-blowing spicewise

The fridge cow is a sad casualty of the house move

"Imagine... if you could laser renew your skin". Yes, just imagine... if you could laser file your taxes.

@peterrowlett @aperiodical ahh you can get tae heck with the capitalisation-of-units nonsense. I've never had any patience for that.

@vickytnz it's grim! So grim!

@vickytnz stick with it, but it gets nasty (but not graphic)

@DrSaraSantos @drkenfarquhar @NUStreetScience @MathsBusking before you know it you'll be taking logs

@stecks I ordered a pack of 100 googly eyes from amazon for £1.60 delivered. That's got to cost them money, right?

@brittneybean you, and the nation of Australia, have made my life worse. No thanks.

Wow, @stecks and I have discovered the most addictive number game ever. To be revealed in number 3 of the All Squared podcast

@darrenjw the bus moves slower, so the radio waves can keep up

Excellent. jimllpaintit.tumblr.com

oh, this is very good indeed. I wonder if I can get away with downloading the entire database over the uni connection bigprimes.net

@vickytnz any attempt to get any sort of internet-based computation to happen while Wimbledon is on is always doomed to failure

@vickytnz @semiBad what for?

The opposite of a shibboleth is a 'Frisco' metafilter.com/125607/occurs-…

Goddamn Victorians can't pick an architectural style and stick with it. Just noticed the mix of Roman and Gothic arches at Tynemouth metro

Nice little stories about maths told with animation, in French: voyage-mathematique.com/vid%C3%A9os/pe…

You know when a paper has a title this short that it contains a decent result. arxiv.org/abs/1303.0760

Because I thrive on disappointment, I'm having another look at Moodle's SCORM code.

Finally finally, my recaps of the last two Newcastle @MathsJam meetings: checkmyworking.com/2013/03/newcas…

@vickytnz I didn't write it down! I'll work it out again.

@ben_nuttall what are they? I miss my g-u-username from normal twitter

@vickytnz 1/9?

@vickytnz public announcement logic is a thriving field of study! Some fun slides at phiwumbda.org/~jesse/slides/…

Penne pasta, pesto, pepper, pomodoro, and... if these had been portobellos, that would've been amazing. #mushroomsarentteamplayers

oh wow! The list of all primes was 14gb, not 1.4! Extra bonus fun!

@MrHonner all primes (explicitly discovered so far)

@stecks which one? The next one, or the next next one?

Weighing up whether to double our total expenditure to date on The Aperiodical in order to license the world's greatest stock photo

Never mind, it turns out licensing stock photos is ridiculously expensive. For reference, here it is: corbisimages.com/stock-photo/ri…

I haven't listened to arte radio in ages. The site is really nice now: arteradio.com

Nice minimalist scientist logos by Kapil Bhagat. bhagatkapil.tumblr.com/post/442129491…

You're not spider friend! In fact, what *are* you? Spider friend, you had ONE JOB

@charliesgames oh no! That ain't good! Time for a food hygiene purge

@TwentyThree bummer! I don't use iTunes so I don't know what to do. What happens?

@TwentyThree an iPhone-having friend has just downloaded it successfully. Try again?

@vickytnz yeah, I think that one's lacking some unhinged element the corbis one had. And they're American pancakes!

@vickytnz yes

How did I manage not to notice the metroline hordes until I got off the train?

What they've done is morally wrong, but it's beautiful. Zeroless arithmetic: arxiv.org/abs/1303.0885v1 (via @Gelada)

Is Zeilberger the greatest troll in contemporary mathematics? Viewed as satire, I almost respect his output.

Thanks to some judicious amazon ordering, @TweetsofCushing and I are going loopy with boggly eyes

@vickytnz yes indeed

Trying out @songdropapp now it's a proper real thing. songdrop.com/christianp/goo…

Stoker was very good, but this was me on several occasions imgur.com/gallery/Gw6zf

@evelynjlamb @aperiodical is the fake formula made up for PR purposes not a thing in the US? Our papers are lousy with them.

@ColinTheMathmo ooh! Can we meet tomorrow for coffee?

@ColinTheMathmo but...?

@monsoon0 that's a great name! Like a character from a series of kids' books

A problem with living alone: no sanity check on your appearance before leaving the house.

@My_Metro why do announcements say "no trains in both directions" instead of "no trains in either direction"? Is the first less ambiguous?

Indulging in a bit of industrial espionage -slash- walking through the Northumbria campus for some exercise

Since everyone's tweeting their female maths heroes, here's mine: Hazel Perfect, my only mathematical relative and a group theorist like me!

@C_J_Smith @peterrowlett to Google Docs!

@nulibrs oh, I get it! Very clever

@peterrowlett @NoelAnn can I talk to you at some point about Maths Arcade? I think we're going to set up something similar here

@ColinTheMathmo @stecks @helenarney is this a "hung/hanged" type situation? Should we say 'drinked' to refer to when a drink is consumed?

@pkrautz there is not, and I hadn't heard of it before! Thanks!

@pkrautz @MathJax @fgdorais I don't know. I could find out...

@pkrautz @MathJax @fgdorais do you have a blog somewhere that uses jetpack comments?

@pkrautz @fgdorais it won't work because the comments are in an iframe. There are plugins to allow social login on normal wordpress though

Form says go to direct.gov.uk/taxdisc. Redirects to gov.uk/tax-disc, then a link goes to taxdisc.direct.gov.uk. #joinedupIT

I really need to get round to presenting the results to the @aperiodical survey. Some people have given great answers survey.aperiodical.com

@brittneybean that's the second one of those I've seen in two days! What's happening? Is this the 90s revival I've heard so much about?

I'm pretty sure there's money to be made in making man-sized household cleaning appliances. My back hurts!

@standupmaths A chum freezer-burnt his hand with an extinguisher during fire warden training. The irony was more delicious than any icecream

@helenarney @jjsanderson Lor' that was a terrible film! If only they had been bloggers, that might have improved it.

In a jigsaw, you apply rotations and translations to the pieces until they fit. Could you make a puzzle with other affine transformations?

@Thalesdisciple I'm thinking of either a computer puzzle, or you could do something with optics

@Thalesdisciple so: start with 2d image; chop into pieces; apply different combinations of affine transforms to each piece

@hornmaths the exact opposite of my current feeling

Christ I just decided I need a spice rack why didn't any of you kill me before this happened

WHAT IS THE POINT IN ONLY RELEASING YOUR MUSIC ON ITUNES AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I stalled a yawn! Now I'm stuck in a half-yawn state and I think I might die.

Wow, explorer has just blocked the entire shell, even window-switching. Windows 8, ladies and gents!

@elinoroberts definitely snow at this end of the street.

@standupmaths hUSBris

Successful salad. Succalad.

@DanaKazim oh, you definitely can fail at salad. My last one was a complete nightmare

If ONE more person pronounces it EYEdillic I'm going to TURN this planet round and NOBODY gets ice cream.

This is the best snow we've had all year! It's like icing sugar. Mmmmmm

@DanaKazim it is?

As usual, @TweetsofCushing and I are spending our Monday morning well

@vickytnz well, it's getting warmer. What are you complaining about?

@SherriBurroughs @MathsJam Have a look at my Newcastle MathsJam recaps - checkmyworking.com/category/maths… - we've done loads of different things

@SherriBurroughs particular favourites: the princess in a castle puzzle and the card game Mad Abel

@vickytnz I haven't read it, but it's very very highly recommended by mathematicians. It's like the classic text

I've woken up with a strong desire to see a linotype machine running. The printing museum in Lyon was great

@nulibrs it's the last week of term?! We should have a huge laser display board counting down the academic weeks somewhere on campus.

@nulibrs I don't know why it bothers me, I don't get to stop working when the students go home, anyway

@nulibrs what a coincidence! I've just recorded a thing for my maths podcast about my favourite book, an arithmetic textbook from 1811...

@nulibrs ... it's a lot more interesting than it sounds!

Is there such a thing as an Oxford semi-colon?

I think I might be a chatbot

This might be the best I'll ever do at triple town.

What's worse than biting into an apple and finding half a worm?

@vickytnz I mentioned that, and other film maths, in the last aperiodical round up: aperiodical.com/2013/01/aperio…

@vickytnz but you always keep your house clean, even when your family aren't visiting, don't you? ;)

@amermathsoc The King and Pi: in the vein of Lincoln, George III's attempt to get a bill defining pi = 3 through Parliament #pimoviepitches

Resisting the temptation to make purchases from this catalogue of blackboard drawing instruments wissner-germany.com/pdf/Drawing%20…

@BenTormey that'll be you in a few years, watch out

Pi Light: sparkly vampires do... something. I have no idea what even the basics of the plot are. #pimoviepitches

if you say so! RT @evelynjlamb: @christianp I think they get married? And there are lots of circles there. Cakes and rings and so on.

@HilariousCow there?

@jjaron I was shocked to discover when I got my nexus 4 that Listen had been discontinued in the middle of last year

Glorious! Knitted taxidermy heads. jessicadance.com/THE-KNIT-HEADS

@OxUniConnect your mission control people are just downstairs from me! I feel an urge to go and interrupt their activities with custard pies

@ProfKinyon except I'm likely to misremember that as "how I wish I could remember pi"

@jjaron @aperiodical well, factoring in peer review...

@jjaron @aperiodical "the chicken wanted to find a vector normal to the road"

@kirkpatricke Are you still doing your PhD or have you finished? One of the mathematicians is transferring to neuroscience and wants advice

@kirkpatricke is it ok if I give her your email address so she can ask herself? Twitter is too terse

@kirkpatricke I do.

@evelynjlamb thanks for the link to All Squared!

@MarcusduSautoy umm... universal computation is definitely maths, and in my opinion a much bigger innovation

@MarcusduSautoy aha! Anyway, my vote, even though I'm a computational group theorist, would go to calculus.

@icecolbeveridge @standupmaths bravo

Very nice! RT @panlepan: Fr!endly numbers.
RT @wilderlab: About 871 and 45361: 8!+7!+1! = 45361
and 4!+5!+3+6!+1! = 871

@standupmaths @wilderlab the next one is very easy to find, but after that...

A lovely little poem fouragesofsand.com/2008/11/the-or…

Those CGI disaster bits in the BBC's F1 intro sequence were a terrible idea

Having top fun mishearing "rookie" as "wookiee" while watching the qualifying.

@vickytnz trying very hard, but I don't have the ready access to Star Wars quotes that is required of a true nerd

@vickytnz oh, that is an EXCELLENT t-shirt

@vickytnz are you planning on taking your family to Cragside?

@vickytnz it's a whole day visit on its own. Not that far to drive - about 40 minutes. Absolutely worth seeing

@DanielColquitt *really*? What's to like?

Knitting and watching the rugby. #mansman #ladiesman... #notantonyms

@helenarney as if that's a bad thing? Quite a few machines give fivers now.

So far this year: Google killed Reader, Sky bought Be, Elsevier in talks to buy Mendeley. Next up: everyone has kidney failure.

@Htbaa oh I'm fine with that. Depending on your choice of axioms, anything can be false.

This dude's facial hair looks like it cane with a free SEGA Dreamcast and a copy of Spaced on VHS

@haggismaths typo: "a 'one-dimensional binary cellular automata'" should be "a 'one-dimensional binary cellular automatON'".

@numberphile yeesh, I'm so tired of all these people saying they did a bit of French at school and loudly declaring how bad they are at it

@numberphile we need more high-profile French speakers who can communicate the beauty of French for its own sake. Maybe in a YouTube channel

@numberphile sorry, I was being ironic. Replace French with maths

@hellobuglers wow, I decided I'd had just about enough of that, and then I noticed I was only twelve minutes into over an hour of punning!

@nulibsage is it ironic that that's published in a closed access journal?

I don't understand wordpress user registration spam. What's the point?

@Andrew_Taylor @mathsfeedback @ColinTheMathmo my ears are burning. Can I add a question to my survey? My vote says 10% = 0.1. It's a ratio!

@helen_keen @scienceatlife oh no! I was planning on going to see you tomorrow but you're on at the same time as @MathsJam!

@Htbaa :set expandtab

@helen_keen if only that were the case! You'll be missing a single-digit number of geeks, most likely

Incredible. A 22-minute rock opera about milk. youtube.com/watch?v=FkCOiH…

Newcastle @MathsJam is tonight! 7pm at the Charles Grey pub. All welcome. This month I have rational tangles and a permutations machine.

@stecks what is the stuff from the internet?

Where is everybody? I've been in work for an hour and haven't seen anyone other than the cleaner.

People who use correct, and correctly delimited, TeX in their arXiv abstracts are good people.

@Andrew_Taylor Push it to the limit! youtube.com/watch?v=ttKRX1…

@Andrew_Taylor @ColinTheMathmo now I need to find that page with the many many different ways people think of multiplication, don't I?

@Andrew_Taylor @ColinTheMathmo I can't find it! It was beautiful. It laid out each way of modelling multiplication (and numbers) so clearly

@C_J_Smith @peterrowlett @jan_e_grabowski more fair might be to say every time someone asks what's on the test, what's on the test changes

@ColinTheMathmo yikes. Twitter is not the correct medium for this.

@Jackg00de @LeedsMathsJam I don't know about Leeds, but I write up each Newcastle MathsJam on my blog: checkmyworking.com/category/maths…

@ColinTheMathmo it was by something like nRich, but not nRich. Maybe Australian?

@peterrowlett @ColinTheMathmo close, but it was a webpage and had like 12 or 16 models of multiplication

I'm forced to use Powerpoint for this presentation I'm giving over Blackboard Collaborate. How do I make a non-terrible set of slides?

Got a blister from scrubbing pans. It hurts a bit. #edwardianproblems

@Bishnavitch sorry, got a mega-cool LAN party planned already

@ColinTheMathmo I can't remember! That's why I needed to look it up! Everything about this is frustrating.

@Tegglington but I'll know. I'll know. And I'm not convinced Collaborate won't interpolate the bejeezu out of the screenshots.

@peterrowlett where did you do that Numbas worksheet theme homework? Was it Keele?

@ColinTheMathmo YES! You are a winner!

@ColinTheMathmo and the better web-page version at naturalmath.com/multmodels/ind…

The do it yourself till at waitrose worked with my own bag for the first time ever. 21st century living!

@Andrew_Taylor my phone's been having trouble too. Maybe twitpic is broken

Another day, another proof of the Goldbach conjecture uploaded by an engineer to the arXiv. arxiv.org/abs/1303.4649

You know those famously hard Microsoft interview questions? Where did the people who answered those well go? Certainly not the IE team.

(Currently waiting for IE's developer tools to display a few-thousand-line javascript file) #hateIE

@JamesMoosh but the best at what?

Wow, this is a terrible idea. github.com/tinymce/tinymc…

@tinymce oh good. The reason I was looking is that IE crashes due to dom.get('mce_marker') returning null here: github.com/tinymce/tinymc…

@tinymce the editor doesn't have focus because I'm doing things with a modal dialogue. Any ideas?

If Fermat were alive today: "I have discovered a truly marvellous proof of this, but I can't be bothered to LaTeX it."

@tinymce OK.. tried to register for the forum, didn't get a confirmation email, I've emailed the spam@ address.

@tinymce thanks. I've just submitted my bug report.

@ZaltzCricket as a real mathematician, that line has served me very well over the years when talking to the statisticians next door

@stecks took me a while to parse that as anything other than you telling your cohabiting boyfriend you've moved house.

@stecks it's the dot before @aPaulTaylor that made it right.

@stecks not authentic: it looks more ergonomic than the original

can anyone think of a good symbol to denote "partially correct"? I currently have a percent symbol, which is bad cause it's next to a number

@EliotBall a bit too small. I'd prefer something the same height as a tick or cross

ah! I could use a hollow tick. That would work, wouldn't it?

@stevieb not immediately obvious, though

What I went for was a grey cross instead of a green one. Sorry, monochromats!

@madcaptenor wrong northeast, wrong parmo. You should be eating one of these: guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/w…

A+++ would agree with again RT @sciSteve: These things! Anyone around 24+ should recall? They were so much fun. pic.twitter.com/7gHsESsn9o

@Rosalot no way! I don't know what happened to mine. Lost a couple of house
moves ago, maybe.

I'd love Saturday Kitchen if it didn't have all these insufferable chefs on it.

@DanaKazim that is incredible! Scan them all! Where are they from?

I am currently playing A World of Keflings on the xbox. It's lovely. Does anyone want to join me?

"Tip: female keflings are better than males at some tasks, and vice versa"... umm... Why did that need to be part of the game?

@standupmaths and you know he's keeping statistics on how people react to meeting him

Windows keyboard shortcut mind-blown moment: Windows key+<0-9> switches to or opens the item at that position on your taskbar. #kabloom

@ben_nuttall I too have wondered this.

The Holden ratio ♌ arises often in nature, most famously as the proportion of the volume of a real sensible car that an Australian ute fills

An interactive 7-set Venn diagram RT @notemates: Hoy en esquemat.es/algebra/diagra… dos genios del diseño de datos @infobeautiful y @moebio

WHAT? youtube.com/watch?v=sdSJ1-…

@jcoglan a tensor.

People who use the Interrobang are glory-seekers. I'm more of an ACrobang person. #forreals‽

Spider friend update: I hadn't seen her for a week. Yesterday I looked under the bath mat where I step out of the shower. RIP spider friend

Somebody brought hot chocolate on the train! #require

@peterrowlett how does your post-tweeting script work? I have a python thing which replaces HTML escapes with unicode if you want it

Best tragedy in a while tragedyseries.tumblr.com/post/462768988…

I'm a huge fan of how long it takes Outlook to import my emails from my old student account. I'm getting so much work done!

@MadeleineS which is why I put the IPA!

@MadeleineS it's that down here too.

@DeucharsIPA that's alright, I'm teetotal. The other IPA is an alphabet to help people from different countries understand each other

@maanow please use the double-acute ő for Erdős - see aperiodical.com/2013/03/porl-a…

@ColinTheMathmo this one looks a bit physics-oriented math.stackexchange.com/questions/1247…

@ColinTheMathmo this is almost definitely not what you saw, but it's interesting math-atlas.org

@EulerLeonhard Some places should subdivide time into more or fewer parts - e.g. it could be 4/11/101/4 in Paris.

Tonight: pheasant-hunting.com/web/index.php?…

@stecks on pheasant-hunting.com, pheasant is always an ingredient. It's like nobody lists oxygen for the gas to combust with.

@DrMathS if you're going to use the #MathsJam tag, at least come to one!

Oh wow. schemaverse.com

I thought I had a new sequence! I didn't! oeis.org/A037008

that previous tweet was an excerpt from my forthcoming memoir, "How I Fought the OEIS... and Lost"

@vickytnz you're going to be in London? Me too! Museums will be open. I'm going to the British Museum!

@newdiorama do you have any press images for "The Universal Machine"? I'm writing a plug for it on a maths blog

@vickytnz Primark is very much an aspirational shop

I just lost the best minecraft hardcore mode world I've ever had. I might cry.

@ebuie always followed by "O'Reilly", I hope

@DanielColquitt haha. Whoever wrote that didn't do a PhD

@standupmaths

@JessWardman @standupmaths we rescued a blackboard as it was being thrown out and put it in our office. It's the Lonesome George of the dept

@ICMS_Edinburgh I love that paper. A member in good standing of my Interesting Esoterica collection

@standupmaths

@standupmaths

@pkrautz @fgdorais and how would that help with mathjax?

@fgdorais oh right, yes

@pkrautz what's the latest with blackboard and mathjax? A lecturer wants to get students to write TeX in group assignments

@pkrautz BB currently seems to let the script tag through and it's loaded, but seemingly not executed. Any idea?

@standupmaths (don't blame me, blame @TweetsofCushing)

@scienceatlife could you use the Tesla coil as a PC speaker for some old DOS games? Maybe the Monkey Island theme? youtube.com/watch?v=a324yk…

@outofthenorm2 Winkler's book is a masterpiece. Very much a dipping-into book though. My brain overheats otherwise.

Race against time: will my jumper be dry before I get my train? It's properly tense, the Run Lola Run music is playing and everything

Londoners! Would anyone like to meet for a drink or whatever tomorrow or Sunday?

I should just throw away my colourblind-unfriendly socks, shouldn't I?

"Cod Is Dead" would be a terrible name for a chippy, wouldn't it?

Why is it that whenever I need to get a real train, the metro breaks down? Something to do with the time of day?

Have decided from now on to consider trips to London as taking place a year in the future and spend the extra £10 on first class. #legroom!

@DanielColquitt if they try some guesses, algorithms which don't work are not the ones used by ants.

@ColinTheMathmo the pigeonhole chapter in "Proofs from the BOOK" contains some beauties, and is a particularly accessible chapter

I hope this plane photographed above Russell Square on google maps isn't a permanent fixture maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.52208,-…

Any recommendations for good midprice dinner within 10 mind walk of Euston station? Pulled pork, Mexican or curry preferable

@MatPaterson @JoVanEvery @icecolbeveridge all the reviews say the staff are enormously rude. When did you last go?

Google maps on my phone is showing me floor plans of buildings! So clever!

@Bishnavitch how on earth did that happen?

Adam Goucher is busy proving that 3d chess is Turing-complete on his blog. My inferiority complex grows. cp4space.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/thr…

GOATS ON THE ROOF IS OPEN AGAIN! I AM THE HAPPIEST I HAVE EVER BEEN!

@ajk_44 ooh, that's a good coincidence! And happy 2^5th birthday for tomorrow

@cbokhove I originally had "quad error demonstrandum" but thought that was too far. Interesting that's the one mistake you picked up on...

Still haven't had any easter eggs. My desire for chocolate has become a gnawing, animal need. I may start howling at the moon

Hey @ColinTheMathmo, somebody else is doing @ProofinaTweet: @tinyproof

@peterrowlett "overly" -> "overtly"?

Blackboard still uses framesets... not sure how to feel. Am I disappointed? Was I not expecting it to be that awful?

@vickytnz all of the links to posts on vickyteinaki.com/blog are broken.

@vickytnz ahah, I've worked it out! vickyteinaki.com/blog is stripping prepositions out of the URLs

For posterity in case anyone sees my Riemann "proof" from yesterday outside an April 1st context: I haven't gone *that* crazy yet.

@haggismaths it's "Wicks form"

@peterrowlett @johndavidread hey! We have no way so far of knowing if my result was wrong as well!

@MarcusduSautoy I was quite worried for a moment until I realised it was the other North-East. I thought we'd been invaded!

Just realised my webinar tomorrow is 7am GMT, which is 8am BST, so I get another hour in bed!

@standupmaths @MissJKDarcy Hey, you forgot these: ⌊ ⌋

@MadeleineS Buckfast in the 25th Century?

Many moons have passed since I played this game.

@peterrowlett thanks! Who were you hiding as? I didn't see your name.

@peterrowlett haha. I was almost the same: Collaborate doesn't work with Windows 8, so I booted to Ubuntu. Had my telly PC on standby...

"Jassology is a global theory on orientable maps which results from artistic experiments." I can't compete. arxiv.org/abs/1304.0719

@peterrowlett you need the Oracle jvm instead of openjdk to start with, and then I think I had to do a bit more fiddling.

@haggismaths is that following the polyhedra with beaded beads paper?

@haggismaths certainly! It's tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

@haggismaths @wundalous better than infringing copyright, the authors have a preprint on their site myweb.lmu.edu/bmellor/Beaded…

Dear Middle English, what happened to the infinitive of 'can'? It seems to have gone missing at this end. Yours sincerely, Modern English

@nulibrs ohh, the things I'd carry in mine... if I had one

@stecks @standupmaths @icecolbeveridge name a discipline it might find a use in... Correct, it's economics! latexsearch.com/latexFacets.do…

@sxpmaths according to etymonline, 'cunnan'. etymonline.com/index.php?allo… Same root as modern German können/kennen

@vickytnz I'd like to, but I haven't had an invitation to Editorially yet

@vickytnz @MikePress it works! I'm writing in your document now. Can't see how to add comments or see versions though.

@vickytnz @MikePress we're not writing on the same thing at the same time, are we? I can't see your cursor or a way to add notes on sections

@vickytnz @MikePress ok, but I need to drive my nana to the airport in half an hour

@byrichardpowell I've written a computer algebra system in JS (plus an entire e-assessment system) that does some fun things.

@MrHonner hurrah for equal access to opportunity! That's why I don't do private tuition - I feel I should be helping those who can't pay

Windows 8: Press Ctrl-Shift-Esc. Start doing something else. Maybe browse a few sites. A while later, the task manager appears.

The stock android calendar widget scares me so often by putting things which won't happen for a week right at the top.

@MathsJam "taust" is what Brummies eat, isn't it?

The difference between ignorance and stupidity: while configuring Apache, I'm ignorant, and everyone on StackOverflow is stupid.

Does anyone know what this symbol is called? ⋜ It's like an upside-down \leq, but it isn't in detexify!

@nillie_kj @standupmaths because Matt is Australian, and every now and then he holds his phone like he would back home

@Nathan1123 yeah, I know that. But how is it different to "less than or equal to"? And more importantly: what's its LaTeX command?

@standupmaths as someone with a ridiculous name, I exercise with relish my right to pun on arbitrary properties of other people

@cawhitworth @alexcreid @YoshiDota2 UP HIGH! DOWN LOW! Aww @standupmaths, you got it the wrong way up again!

@Nathan1123 @rockhyrax \eqslantless isn't quite right. If I was taking approximations, I'd go with \bar\lt

@Nathan1123 @rockhyrax spooky! It's in the Computer Modern fonts - I spotted it on my cm webfonts demo page checkmyworking.com/cm-web-fonts/

Font rendering on Ubuntu is so nice, but so tiny! Am I doing something wrong, or is that just how it is?

aha! As I suspected, it's subpixel rendering plus funky fonts sams0n.blog.com/2012/01/23/mak…

so "Don't Repeat Yourself" doesn't really work with Wordpress, does it? Such a massive hassle to abstract out repeated bits of this theme!

@icecolbeveridge there's no link to Tanya Khovanova's posts

@robeastaway I feel that a contest to find the worst model which correctly predicts the winner of the Grand National would be fun.

@aPaulTaylor I saw that! What terrible things science has wrought. Can't remember if I bought it as part of the 2-for-1 or not.

@aPaulTaylor @stecks wot no black pudding?

@icecolbeveridge and who comes out as winner with that model?

@Electrokittie don't they teach you to do research on a journalism degree? jest.com/embed/199439/p…

To whoever's job it is to sift the crank submissions to the arXiv into math.GM: I salute you.

@icecolbeveridge incredible! I think you've earned your prize

@BenTormey yeah, that's basically consent.

@nulibrs IT'S WHAT?! I've had more than enough of this now.

@RGS_maths just noticed you followed my maths blog @aperiodical. You should think about coming to Newcastle @MathsJam!

"Hi!" almost has a horizontal axis of symmetry. Not sure whether that's interesting or not, so I am putting it to twitter vote.

Not doing a great job. MT @mathbabbler: I wasn't aware of this until today, but April is Mathematics Awareness Month. mathaware.org/index.html

@RGS_maths second-last Tuesday of the month, at the Charles Grey pub - mathsjam.com/index.php?cont… (I am inviting you the teacher, not the kids)

Want to touch the mammoth! Need to touch the mammoth! Booking tickets to Japan brb ksnowart.com/2010/12/07/the…

Talking of Thatcher, there is a cutlery Pinochet at work in the office. My spoons have been disappearing, with no explanation.

@vickytnz nope! There's MIMA, which is mediocre, and a big wire funnel thing, and the transporter bridge

@vickytnz compare with the £200 my department just paid for a peaktime return to Birmingham on Thursday

@josephdancey @vickytnz @refreshteesside it's a t-shirt! And it's from the Durham Miners' Gala!

@josephdancey insulting people on twitter is a cool thing to do now?

@josephdancey nah, no truce. Boro is a hole and I stand by that.

About to shave my rather too long beard off. This is going to hurt.

Late for work. Boss is also late, and on the opposite platform to go the long way round the metro line. Think I'll get away with it.

Adventures in Flexible Working Hours

@TimandraHarknes @jamesgrime turtles swim in the sea. At least, that's what my teacher tortoise.

Oh wow, the National Rail Enquiries android app is so much better than Train Times UK

Just realised that redbrick buildings must have a completely different meaning for people who can see the colour red!

Like, is red brick noticeably red? Like how whitewashed buildings are noticeably white? My mind is blown.

British trains! Does being a daddy long legs count as a special need? Yes, my bum's as far back as it'll go.

Gott in Himmel that's a bad hot chocolate!

Could we kickstart a tunnel through the Pennines? I think it would work; carrying on to Ireland could be a stretch goal.

Very very disappointed that koalarentals.com.au does not do what it says on the tin.

@jgrahamc depends on if you count proper names as words

@vickytnz faint?!

@vickytnz there's probably enough heavy metals in the air to induce a charge if you run around fast enough

@vickytnz so, good day in Middlesbrough then?

@ColinTheMathmo Aww, I'd noticed that too and was going to do an Aperiodical post! Still possible, I suppose

Turns out @TweetsofCushing and I are allergic to Baby Elephant Walk

It's a thing of beauty. RT @TweetsofCushing: My latest failure to find a new integer sequence: oeis.org/A016026

All the cool kids are Sloanewhacking. RT @TweetsofCushing: But that has not deterred me in my integer seqeunce quest! #sloanewhacking

After listening to The Cure for a while, we don't seem to be allergic to Baby Elephant Walk any more.

@wilderlab oeis.org/A085305 !

@ICMS_Edinburgh @elinoroberts I second that vote.

@vickytnz What One-Shot Joke Websites Can Teach You About Career Progression

Clearing out the filing cabinets, we found this. Does it say "CP feeding study"? Was I the subject of an experiment?

@jarofgreen If you don't mind ordering online, I just get mine from walktall.co.uk

@JusSumChick I like that possibility less

@peterrowlett the documents are MYSTERIOUSLY MISSING

@stecks TEACHER USING #mathsjam FOR EDUCATION PURPOSES KLAXON

I am 100% with him. RT @maanow: Mathematician Objects to Platonist Patent System bit.ly/YvBvfq #mathnews

Having read the article, I retract my support of the patents dude. I thought he was going to argue maths shouldn't be patented!

@icecolbeveridge @stecks @standupmaths oh, that's a beautiful idea!