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well, I originally thought school began today, but it turns out that courses don't start until Wednesday. Perfect opportunity! Alas, I have utterly failed in hitching a ride down to "the city" (which, east of the Mississippi, actually doesn't mean "San Francisco" anymore).. I had daydreamed of packing up a lemon and a bandanna and heading down to the riots, but $200 airfare or $120 railfare is just a bit excessive...

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Well, I found a car to buy, and I offered to buy it.. but then the guy realized that the car was worth a lot more than his asking price, and backed out on the deal.. boo!

I got bored today and bought another quantum mechanics textbook: "Principles of Quantum Mechanics" by R. Shankar. It looks like a great book. (I guess it's a pretty standard textbook.) In the preface, the author writes "In writing [this book], I addressed students who are trying to learn the subject by themselves; that is to say, I made it as self-contained as possible." There are nice reviews of relevant math and of classical mechanics in the first chapters, too.

I also made a dumb little web page on the physics server here.

blaaah. Could someone please install a Naan & Curry here?