@drew-lewis.com I meant to ask this on Twitter but never did: what made you choose affine algebraic geometry as a special interest? What led up to that and what other directions might you have gone?

Several years ago, I was feeling lazy after making gumbo and did not fish out the bay leaf before serving. So when it ended up in my bowl, I expressed delight at my good fortune.

Ever since, the now 10yo has delighted in determining which lucky family member gets the bay leaf.

Democrats' constant references to a middle class are not only ahistorical*, they're counterproductive. The "middle" metaphor accepts that there will be a bitch class beneath, doing bland work for shitty pay.

Given the opportunity to do it all over again, @jack still would display "number of followers" prominently: the one design choice that most made odeo feel like self-promotion instead of human relations.

I only need 10 more math books in my library and then my intellectual life will be complete. this is true because I have not specified the base