Wed, 03 Aug 2005
After math.
The most literal interpretation of this would be that my courses are done for the term. Whatever will I do with all my free time? Why sign up for another course, of course!
So I'm enrolled in C&O 355, Mathematical Optimizations, for the Fall term. For you keeners, here's the course description as listed in the course catalogue:
Linear optimization: feasibility theorems, duality, the simplex algorithm. Discrete optimization: integer linear programming, cutting planes, network flows. Continuous optimization: local and global optima, feasible directions, convexity, necessary optimality conditions.
Don't ask me what all that means.
So my birthday was quite nice. I had a reasonably productive day at work, then went out for a fabu dinner at Charbrie's Four Seasons. It's an excellent place, if you're ever looking for something a bit upscale when you're in town.
Also tangentially birthday related. My iBook isn't here yet. There's a deal
for academics (students, mostly, but it seems that staff and faculty would
also qualify) where one gets an iPod mini for free, or the equivalent discount
on a more expensive iPod. So I got that, plus the Apple Care. (A must for
laptops.) And can you believe it, they shipped it all as three separate
shipments. I received the Apple Care box today. Great.
And on with the tangents. I went to the Waterloo Public Library today,
because I wanted light and fluffy reading, and didn't feel like buying a new
book. I think this is the first time in approximately fifteen years that I've
checked a book out of a public library, if you can believe it. A Discworld
book. I'm probably going to go to bed soon and enjoy it.
G'night.
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