Nicolas Addington
@naddington.bsky.social
Mathematician, University of Oregon.
On a Sunday no less!
November 17, 2025 at 1:18 AM
On a Sunday no less!
I wonder of the medical school wants them. Or at least has advice…
November 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I wonder of the medical school wants them. Or at least has advice…
My dad had a skeleton that used to belong to the high school where he worked, and when they moved to a new building they were going to throw it out which he thought was too disrespectful. I should ask him if he ever figured out what to do with it.
November 16, 2025 at 7:45 AM
My dad had a skeleton that used to belong to the high school where he worked, and when they moved to a new building they were going to throw it out which he thought was too disrespectful. I should ask him if he ever figured out what to do with it.
If you give it to St. Vinnie’s does that that get you off the hook, or curse you the same, or like split the curse 50/50 with the guy who’s taking donations that day, or split equally among all the people who walk past it in the store, or… the mind reels.
November 16, 2025 at 7:42 AM
If you give it to St. Vinnie’s does that that get you off the hook, or curse you the same, or like split the curse 50/50 with the guy who’s taking donations that day, or split equally among all the people who walk past it in the store, or… the mind reels.
I’ve fried turkey bacon in regular bacon fat, yours sounds better.
November 16, 2025 at 7:37 AM
I’ve fried turkey bacon in regular bacon fat, yours sounds better.
This American Life just did a good episode on this topic:
www.thisamericanlife.org/871/the-thin...
www.thisamericanlife.org/871/the-thin...
The Thing About Things - This American Life
Three stories about the strange power inanimate objects can hold over us.
www.thisamericanlife.org
November 16, 2025 at 7:34 AM
This American Life just did a good episode on this topic:
www.thisamericanlife.org/871/the-thin...
www.thisamericanlife.org/871/the-thin...
The real quote is good enough, no need to fake it up with an anachronism like narcissistic.
www.amestrib.com/story/opinio...
www.amestrib.com/story/opinio...
Letter: The correct Mencken quote
Long before the advent of fake news, there was a thriving “fake quotes” industry that invented quotations, always attributed to great persons, to lend authority to the author’s opinion. Jefferson and…
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November 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The real quote is good enough, no need to fake it up with an anachronism like narcissistic.
www.amestrib.com/story/opinio...
www.amestrib.com/story/opinio...
Tantalus catering.
November 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Tantalus catering.
And of course I should say at some point that it was LibreOffice Calc rather than literally Excel.
November 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
And of course I should say at some point that it was LibreOffice Calc rather than literally Excel.
It was just a bit too big to keep it lined up on the black board.
November 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
It was just a bit too big to keep it lined up on the black board.
Totally feel this, I just wish my Prius hybrid wasn’t constantly trying to charge the battery on the way up.
November 13, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Totally feel this, I just wish my Prius hybrid wasn’t constantly trying to charge the battery on the way up.
Not quite as many zeroes we were was hoping for.
November 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Not quite as many zeroes we were was hoping for.
Once I was boiling a batch of home brew on the porch and a frog jumped out of a bush into the pot. It did not jump back out.
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Once I was boiling a batch of home brew on the porch and a frog jumped out of a bush into the pot. It did not jump back out.
November 8, 2025 at 5:27 AM
When people say "Nick" to get my attention I've taken to answering "Here am I," but no one picks up the reference.
November 8, 2025 at 5:27 AM
When people say "Nick" to get my attention I've taken to answering "Here am I," but no one picks up the reference.
This has been posted on the bulletin board near my office since before I got there, so at least 10 years.
theonion.com/nation-s-mat...
theonion.com/nation-s-mat...
Nation’s Math Teachers Introduce 27 New Trig Functions
All Graduating Students Must Master Gamsin, Negtan, Cosvnx, 24 Others
theonion.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:45 AM
This has been posted on the bulletin board near my office since before I got there, so at least 10 years.
theonion.com/nation-s-mat...
theonion.com/nation-s-mat...
Sasha Polishchuk and I read through two of movements of her Three Romances for Violin and Piano recently. Some wonderfully rich and strange harmonic stuff going on.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=G2yV...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=G2yV...
C. Schumann: Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22 - Janine Jansen /Denis Kozhukhin
YouTube video by Violin Express
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November 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Sasha Polishchuk and I read through two of movements of her Three Romances for Violin and Piano recently. Some wonderfully rich and strange harmonic stuff going on.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=G2yV...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=G2yV...
Haha Robert not Rebecca. Although she’s ok too.
November 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Haha Robert not Rebecca. Although she’s ok too.
And a friend turned me on to the a minor string quartet recently, which is also really good.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=hf56...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=hf56...
Castalian Quartet Schumann String Quartet in A minor Op 41 No 1
YouTube video by Young Classical Artists Trust
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November 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
And a friend turned me on to the a minor string quartet recently, which is also really good.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=hf56...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=hf56...
Second symphony was on the radio driving into work — I played it in youth symphony and listened to it a lot as a teenager but not in a long time, and it’s just really good.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=YD-d...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=YD-d...
Schumann: 2. Sinfonie ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Marek Janowski
YouTube video by hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony
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November 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Second symphony was on the radio driving into work — I played it in youth symphony and listened to it a lot as a teenager but not in a long time, and it’s just really good.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=YD-d...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=YD-d...