A Few Thoughts…

Time for my ‘worst airline trip ever’ story:
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A while ago (Sat 09 Oct 2004 07:15:52 PM EDT according to the EXIF data) I snapped the picture below in Chicago, at night, handheld, with my digital rebel and the rather crummy 18-55mm EF-S lens.

I was quite pleased with the shot, even though the tones are a bit off, and there is a bit of fuzz in the image (not to mention the noise from the 1600 ISO).

Imagine my surprise when I see the following picture on LifeHacker:

At first I thought it was my picture – but I hadn’t looked at mine in quite some time. Clearly they are different, and it makes me want to go try and redo the shot with the new camera, a better lens, and possibly a tripod!

So a few people have apparently created user accounts on my blog – listed as subscribers, and one of my posts was edited. Interesting. Any wordpress users who read this might want to check their accordingly.

The last user registered with the following information:
Username: ToinccerFlien
E-mail: sfdgjkku56@mail333.com

I’ve been struggling with this problem from my recent homework set: Prove that the number of triangles t in any triangulation of a fixed point set s is constant. This is something that after trying a few examples and thinking about it makes perfect sense to me. And indeed it is provable. However, everyone who references this says it is obvious and can be proven by induction – yet no one has actually shown the proof.

This is where I have a problem: I’m not so good at writing proofs, which is why I was terrible at algorithms 1. So while something seems obvious to me (at least now that I’ve thought about the problem for a while), and everyone else seems to be able to put down “it’s obvious, go prove it yourself” in their publications, I’m still stuck on getting this proven. Perhaps when I finally get the answer, I’ll post it here so that future me can find it…not that I’ll probably have much use for it in the future.