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Gregory

utilitarian

About Me

I do math in Canada. I used to be fun, but not anymore. You missed out.

My Interests

Spices, alphabets, Robespierre, bar olives, earl grey, building bicycles, and the great vowel shift.

I'd like to meet:

People who fall down.

Music:

T.Rex, Modern Lovers, Wire, Velvets, Clash, Devendra, Blonde Redhead, Spinto Band, Beirut, Spoon, Can, Sunset Rubdown, CYHSY, the Pipettes, James Brown, Stones, Hot Chip, etc.

Movies:

Annie Hall, The Graduate, Memento, Eternal Sunshine. Duel, Fight Club, Searching for Bobby Fisher, City of Lost Children, Delicatessen, Trainspotting, and Robocop.

Books:

Brothers Karamazov, Ask the Dust, The Sun Also Rises, Ecclesiastes, Borges, The Return of Depression Economics, and anything about linguistics and financial apocolypses.

Heroes:

Bertrand Russell & Cyrus the Great.

My Blog

We gotta go over before we go under

That title is from the song, "The Funky President (People  It's Bad)".  Its my favorite song by the hardest working man in show business.My big brother and I used to blast the album "James B...
Posted by Gregory on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 09:57:00 PST

The misadventures of Greg on a drunken Friday night.

I spent my Friday night getting drunk and writing this code replicating some of the results of an old economics paper.Yup. This is what I gave up New York nightlife for. Crazy times.clear all;format...
Posted by Gregory on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 09:42:00 PST

My enemy of the day is math

This is my life.  It actually goes on for another 20 or so pages.   ...
Posted by Gregory on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:11:00 PST

Drunken Email Mistakes

So I came home the other night very drunk and turned on the news to watch the election results come in. I was so happy with the results that I decided to write an email of celebration to my friend Ca...
Posted by Gregory on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 06:47:00 PST

Right back where we started from

The fantastic song by Maxine Nightingale that is now my profile song has become the official anthem of Gregory. It follows me everywhere. It is always playing. I hear it in the deli, in the superma...
Posted by Gregory on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:41:00 PST

Molding Youths

I had two free tickets to a Jays game and no one would go with my because they were playing the Tampa Bay Devil Rays who are one of the worst teams in baseball. While in the line for the box office, ...
Posted by Gregory on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 09:13:00 PST