Fuzzy Integers

In math today, we learned that quantum mechanists have determined that integers do not exist. They are simply numbers "close" to what we know as integers - they vary with Heisenberg uncertainty. I'm not sure if this is from the same group of Russian mathematicians who experience a high frequency of kayaking "accidents" during Russian winters. Apparently, a high number of Russian scientists die from accidents while kayaking down this one Russian river in the winter. Lee and I figure these accidents involve said scientist and a KGB bullet, or at the very least lots and lots of vodka. It seems math is going to be a good mix of people who don't know how to do everything. Canadian Air Force Spy, I mean Guy, was having trouble with vectors and angles between them. The matrix proofs have been killing me. The math major girl just laughs at us, probably deservedly so.

I moved my computer from the main building back to the bullpen in the lab. Thanks to Lee for the hand with it. "Somehow" my wireless keyboard got broken, and neither it nor the wireless mouse seem to work. It appeared to be a software problem - yeah, that's it - a software problem.

Inviscid Flow was as confusing as Dr. Vakili gets. He was deriving the force balance on a fluid element, and he'd apparently lost his book. Just his notes was not enough. I knew what he was trying to do (which is more than I can usually say), and I got lost following the derivation. It'd be nice if professors would just assume we take things on faith and not derive every formula. Teach the material, don't rederive all the formulas from the book. And in that class, the tables are turned as the math major has never had fluids or thermo before, so she's a little lost. We don't laugh at her, though. Because we're nicer than she is.

After class, Lee's office went from single to double occupancy. A new GRA on Dr. Vakili's carbon fiber project. And me, whenever I feel like it, since I still have my key. Or I'll just use the library, an empty classroom, my assigned office, or a chair in the hall. The whole school is wired for wireless.

Early to bed, late to rise makes a man well-rested. More tomorrow.