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Clown Joke

There once was a little kid named Billy who loved clowns. I mean LOVED them. He had posters of them all over his wall and pictures of them everywhere. One day his parents took him to the Circus to see all of the clowns. He was so excited! He never saw one up close before! In the middle of the show, a tiny little car came out and out came 20 clowns! He was cheering so loud he couldn't speak for a couple minutes. Just then, the Leader of the Clowns took a microphone and asked for a volunteer. Billy raised his hand and shouted "Me! Me!" The clown looked around and said "You!" as he pointed at Billy. He was so happy!

Billy joined the clown on the floor. The clown looked down at him and asked, "Are you the horse's nose?" Billy said "No..." "Are you the horse's ears?" "No..." Then the clown got an evil look in his eye as he said "Then you must be the horse's ass!" The whole tent shook with laughter, and Billy cried his eyes out. He couldn't believe a clown made fun of him like that! He swore revenge!

Billy grew up, he went to college, got a job, got married, and had a few kids, but still never forgot what that clown did to him. One morning he saw an ad in the paper for the same circus, and decided to go. He knew the PERFECT insult to get him back! When he told his wife and kids he was going his kids asked if they could goto the circus with him. He calmly said "No. Daddy has something he needs to do there." In the middle of the show, a little car came out and out came about 20 clowns. The crowd cheered, except for Billy. The Leader of the Clowns took a microphone. It was the same Clown! Billy was so excited that he could now get revenge!

The clown asked for a volunteer. Billy calmly raised his hand. The clown picked him! Billy joined the clown on the floor. The clown said "Are you the horse's nose?" Billy stayed calm and said "No." The clown asked "Are you the horse's ears?" Billy replied "No." Then the clown said "Then you must be the horse's ass!" Billy knew his time had come. As the crowd laughed and everyone cheered, his anger grew. Now was the time for revenge. He looked deep into the clown's eyes and said... "Fuck you, Clown."

Taken from here.

So the combination is: 1-2-3-4-5

This morning, I woke up extra early to go see Nathalie at the Austin airport when she got here. Her parents arrived soon after (from College Station, where her mom gave some chemistry lecture on Thursday), and then we waited for her luggage to arrive for about 45 minutes (it was on the next flight). After that, we went to see some cave about an hour outside of Austin, and we had an absolute blast there. After much looking around and picture-taking, we left to go to some natural park outside of Austin which had a wonderful area of large, smooth, exposed rocks that you could jump on in the middle of a river. We later found a place in the river that you can swim in which we'll probably go to later on (perhaps on Sunday). Coming back, we decided to eat (much more uneventfully than the rest of the day) at Applebee's. After dinner, I went pretty much straight back here to my dorm to write this up and fall asleep. I know, it's only 12:30, but I woke up early and have been hiking all day long.

Looking back, this post may seem largely boring and stupid without the pictures. But rest assured, beautiful pictures are coming. Her brother has some huge badass digital camera that he gave to her to take down here, and I think Nathalie actually takes good pictures. And I can take a few good pictures if given the right scenery, too.

Little Dorm on the Draggie

I've been meaning to actually get working comments on here, so that's all done.

For those of you not already knowing what I'm up to this summer, I'm doing some math research at UT (in Austin) until July 8th. It's basically about testing numbers for primality, but everybody can choose a different, more specific, topic on which to work. I have been pretty much set working on Fermat Numbers since we came across them. It is known that F_0 - F_4 are all prime, and it is proved that for 5<=n<=32 (and many other n), F_n is composite (not prime). It is generally conjectured that only the first 5 Fermat numbers are prime. I started trying to prove that F_n composite would force all the Fermat numbers above it to be composite, but this has proved to be rather difficult, so (while still keeping in mind my original plan) I have now started to search for more heuristic reasoning as to why there should be no more Fermat primes.

I have been having much difficulty trying to decide on my classes for the fall semester. I will be graduating in spring, but I need to get all the core classes out of the way before I can do that. It seems that I put them off too long and am now being "forced" to take a minimal number of math classes for the next two semesters. My choices are: 1) taking 19 hours (Spanish I, intro to architecture of ancient Eqypt, literature and science, acting I, grad. abstract algebra II [which I'll also hopefully be doing my honors thesis in], and grad. matricies and linear algebra), 2) scrapping architecture of ancient Eqypt (but it's an honors class, and I need the honors credit), 3) scrapping literature and science (but it's a bunch of cool books and probably won't be offered again the next semester), or 4) scrapping the matricies and linear algebra (but then I'll be left with only 1 math class, and it may be a reading class if it doesn't make). Anyone have an opinion? Will anybody even read this?