Comment on A random walk gem by: Sariel Har-Peled

Probably. It does sound like the suitcases are having the real fun of traveling. Heck, the suitcase I parted with last year in the airport, with a pray on my lips, unrealistic expectations in my heart, and tears in my eyes, might have spent all this time, tanning in a beach in Brazil. And who knows, if the suitcase would ever get to an airport again, it just might randomly walk back home, who knows?

URL: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/blog/index.php/archives/2005/10/16/a-random-walk-gem/#comment-167

The butterfly effect - a field study

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(Taken in Clinton lake.)

One of the nice things about the big flat (the new nickname of shampoo-banana with regard to New Orleans [did you know that [shampoo][2] comes from Hindi?],) is that we have a lot of nice parks around here. For example, there are two small pars less then five minutes walk from my home, there is very nice park ten minutes walk from my home, and so on. So, here is a partial list of nice parks (sorted by distance):

1. [Japan house][3]
2. [Crystal lake park][4]
3. [Middlebrook park][5] (with a [picture][6] of a lady guarding the corn fields)
4. [Lake in the woods][7]
5. [Forest Glen Preserve][8]
6. [Kickapoo Park][9]
7. [Clinton lake][10]
8. [Turkey run][11]

[1]: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/misc/blog/05/09/18/butterfly.gif

[2]: http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/s/s0315800.html

[3]: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/pictures/people/05/06/14/

[4]: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/pictures/people/05/07/16/

[5]: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/pictures/people/05/04/10/

[6]: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/pictures/thumb/h/people/05/04/10/4195.html

[7]: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/pictures/people/05/07/19/

[8]: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/pictures/people/04/11/14/

[9]: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/pictures/people/04/10/17/

[10]: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/pictures/people/05/09/17/

[11]: http://www.turkeyrunstatepark.com/

URL: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/blog/index.php/archives/2005/09/18/the-butterfly-effect-a-field-study/

Clockwork Doll

by **Dalia Ravikovitch**

I was a clockwork doll that night,
and I turned left and I turned right
and when I fell and broke to bits,
they recomposed my wax and wits.

I was a proper doll once more,
my manner carefully demure;
and yet a doll of another kind—
an injured twig that tendrils bind.

And when they asked me to a ball—
although my steps were rhythmical,
they partnered me with dog and cat.

My hair was gold, my eyes were blue.
I wore a dress where flowers grew.
Cherries blazed on my straw hat.

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[Sic transit gloria mundi][1]…

[1]: http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/615257.html

URL: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/blog/index.php/archives/2005/08/21/clockwork-doll/

by: Rafi

Reminds me that I have to send you a T shirt saying "You don't get older, you get better." ![;)][1] After all, how can you go backwards from a place called Kadima ? (Hebrew pun)

[1]: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/blog/wp-images/smilies/icon_wink.gif

URL: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/blog/index.php/archives/2005/07/26/my-days-of-greatness-now-gone-forever/#comment-110

by: Anonymous

Well, well. Now I know who is that strange individual who is loitering in my garden.

URL: http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/~sariel/blog/index.php/archives/2005/06/14/the-secret-garden/#comment-96

[Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity] Comment: "Frustration of a subreferee"

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One of the stranger things I've noticed about theoretical CS (which astonishes my friends in the physical sciences) is that it is often easier to get a paper published in a top-notch theory journal than accepted at a second-rate theory conference. Would you agree that the soundest advice you could give to the authors of the rejected paper is, "consider my comments and then submit it to DCG, IJCGA, or Algorithmica"?

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Quote

In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not that I'd become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
My pathway led by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
- My back pages, by Bob Dylan.

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