Sunday goofing when I should be grading...

I did an easy ride to Fisherman's Terminal today. They got big boats there. It was my first ride in weeks; I've been sick with some serious lung thing, but I think I'm better now. It was helpful that I wanted to get 1000 km YTD by the end of the month, and […] [Original post on mathstodon.xyz]

Currently listening. Do you know Ed's? At one point, I had their album More Hard Times on cassette, vinyl, and CD. No air at all... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7PTGmj2-98

My win for this Tuesday. How are you doing today?

In a dream, Roy Rogers gave me his gun. It looked like it had been under the sea for decades, and was much lighter than I expected. [I am not a fan of Roy Rogers or guns. Or the ocean, especially, for that matter. Just kidding: oceans are badass. I do like rust, though.] #dream

I'm sick with a rather intense cold and I don't feel like doing much so I made another animation from a stereograph. This one is of a pool at Eldorado Springs, Colorado. The pool was built in 1905 using spring water. I remember it was there when I was in grad school in Boulder in the 1990s, and […]

WIP. Revisiting an algorithm I wrote a long time ago. #WIP #art #blackandwhite

I don't, as a rule, read much so-called juvenile fiction, but it's a weird world and I find myself doing things unlike my usual self more often than usual these days. Today I read Whistle Down the Wind, by Mary Hayley Bell. Just coincidentally the day before Easter. Somehow I got the phrase […]

Oh, gosh, I just saw Et j’aime à la fureur (Flickering Ghosts of Loves Gone By) by André Bonzel and loved it very, very much. Gah! I watched it on the Criterion Channel. I hope you have a good weekend! https://www.janusfilms.com/films/2247 #film #andrebonzel

I ask my students to fill out a get-to-know-you survey at the start of the quarter. This is one student's answer to one question. I don't know what it means but I love it.

I'm halfway through The Poetry of Survival : Post-War Poets of Central and Eastern Europe and wanted to share this poem by Miroslav Holub with you. Wings We have a map of the universe for microbes, we have a map of a microbe for the universe. We have a Grand Master of chess made of electronic […]

I've updated my dice problem collection with a new problem (#29 of the now 83 problems). The question is: how many times, on average, do we need to roll a die, multiplying the results, until we reach a perfect square? So we might roll a 1 or 4 and be immediately square. Or we might roll […]

[bloody lip, open mouth] My lip not infrequently splits. zine permission granted #photography #monochromeMarch #monochrome #blackandwhite

I just finished reading Selected Writings: The Space Within by Henri Michaux. I didn't like it overall too well; it is rather too "one note". But here is a lovely bit. ATHLETE IN BED It's certainly odd that I, who don't care a rap for skating, no sooner shut my eyes than I see an immense […]

I've done exactly the same 10km walk for the past ten Sundays. I'm rarely this consistent with anything. It's not getting any easier (or faster), though. Hmmm. #walking

A good day for a ride. #cycling

Cherry blossoms on the University of Washington campus in Seattle. As much as I like the trees, I love that so many other people like the trees and come to campus each spring just to see them. Hand-made panorama. #photography #panorama #cherryblossoms

A very funny, apparently-not-spam email subject line I just got: Certificated - Frontline Education Form: Puyallup School District's Form "Certificated" is ready for "Someone fills out the form" That is literally the subject line. I laughed hard, so I thought I'd share it.

[food] Having a horseradish and peanut butter sandwich again. It's nice!

I've been making plots of the sets of roots of some polynomials. They look more interesting than I'd expected! And I've been making sounds from them, too. I have a bunch on this page of my website (I'll probably be adding more). Click on the images to embiggen them, and if you're in a hurry, the […]

We haven't had any snow this winter in Seattle until today. It was nice to see. I always like how the view out my back window makes it look like I live in a forest (with a neighbor or two). Trees are great!

A dried rose that's been helping me wash the dishes for over a year. #flower #bloomscrolling #rose #photography

We planted plum trees on my street many years ago, thanks to a neighbor who spearheaded the idea. Now they bloom every spring. I usually try to get an image of, essentially, the whole street of trees, but I failed to get a decent one this year. I fall back on […] [Original post on mathstodon.xyz]

March the Fifth be with you!

Gull. #monochromeMarch #monochrome #birds #blackandwhite

I recently read two biographies. One was Peter Webb's biography of Hans Bellmer. The other was Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller, by Kim Nielsen. Both were quite good. I really like Hans Bellmer drawing style […]

Monochrome. Thumb. Monochromethumbday. #monochromeMarch #monochromeMonday #photography

A little longer ride today. It was so windy coming across the 520 bridge (across Lake Washington) that I stopped to take a picture. #seabikes #cycling

A windy ride today. Crossed the Sammamish river twice, as I often do. #cycling

More escalator+brass, this time with gulls! https://soundcloud.com/matthew-m-conroy/tuba-and-escalator-3 #sound #fieldRecording #tuba #escalator

The plum trees are just starting to bloom again. #plum #flower #tree #bloomscrolling #photography

Two nights of dreams involving my wallet. In one, I couldn't get it out of my back pocket: my hand/arm was not functioning correctly (some kind of neurological problem). In the one last night, someone pickpocketed it but handed it back to me when they couldn't figure out how to get any cash out […]

Easy ride down to the waterfront again after a rough week. #seabikes #cycling

It continues to amaze me that I have this thing in my chest. It's a stent keeping my aorta nice and open; I have congenital heart defects, and the stent is helping out with that. (X-ray from Monday: it's been a week...).

I may be just a wanna-be randonneur, but I like my kit. #randonneur #sir #cycling

Yesterday, near the back of the bus, just me and this one guy sitting behind me, and this guy was going on and on talking to himself or someone imagined or no one about how if everyone would use Irish. Spring. Soap. (he said it just like that, slowly, a separation between each word like he was […]

Unintentional transfer of text to some concrete. #photography

In a dream, a cute person said to me, "If I didn't have a cold, I'd kiss you." That was nice.

Another field recording on the escalators I take on the way to my office. This time, a practicing trombonist and, I imagine, some practicing crows. https://soundcloud.com/matthew-m-conroy/escalator-and-trombone-jan-2026 #sound #fieldrecording #escalator #trombone

Today's field recording. Once again in the parking garage that I walk through on my way to my office. This time, someone is practicing their tuba. https://soundcloud.com/matthew-m-conroy/field-recording-escalator-with-tuba #fieldRecording #tuba #sound

Feeling very sad today.

I walked 10k today and saw some Seattle frost. #photography

First ride to the waterfront in a while today. #bike #cycling

Bike parts replacement time! My old rear derailleur guide pulley on the right and its brand-new replacement on the left (with the cute little twist-tie to hold its guts in). Sixteen years of wear, but it was shifting fine... Still, it's nice to replace worn […] [Original post on mathstodon.xyz]

My top-rated (favorite-ish) books read this year. I'd love to see your list! Orlando, Virginia Woolf Mister Skylight, Ed Skoog The Lagoon, Janet Frame The Reservoir: Stories and Sketches, Janet Frame The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett Cat, Theodore Isaac Rubin Kenneth Koch, Selected […]

My annual contribution to nonsense data visualization: km ridden plus book pages read, by year. #nonsense #dataVisualization #reading

Scrooge was better than his word.

Merry Christmas! In keeping with the season, I present to you my latest chapbook, All the Words of the Reindeer. It is all the words I found (2078, it turns out) I could create with one letter from each of the reindeer names in Twas The Night Before Christmas […] [Original post on mathstodon.xyz]

The number of letters in this sentence, with which I wish you a Merry Christmas, raised to the sixth power, is one hundred twenty two trillion nine hundred seventy eight billion four hundred ninety six million two hundred forty seven thousand four hundred and eighty nine. #christmas #wordplay

[unclothed skin, scar, surgery mention] In December, 1975, at the age of nine, I had one of the most significant experiences of my life: I spent a week at Boston Children's Hospital to have one of my congenital heart defects, a coarctation of the aorta […] [Original post on mathstodon.xyz]