Archive for September, 2006

Partial Fraction Expansion

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
    If anyone out there can explain how to perform partial fraction expansion of a couple polynomials, please call me! I’ve got a problem that’s giving me fits!

AOL

Monday, September 4th, 2006
    Question of the Day:  If AOL service is basically free now, why do they keep requiring me to give them my credit card information in order to sign on?

Crime and Punishment

Monday, September 4th, 2006
    I finished reading Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment.  The villain went to jail, did his time, and married the woman who waited for him.      Did Raskolnikov think he had a Napoleon complex?     Next up:  Real Estate Investing for Dummies.      On deck:  Don Quixote

Fiber-Optic Internet

Monday, September 4th, 2006
     I keep mentioning ‘firsts,’ since this is my first time living in Japan, it just seems to be the thing to do.  That, and being in my mid-30s doesn’t leave a whole lot of new experiences, so perhaps I cherish them a bit more than normal.  Today my wife and I got an Internet [...]