Busy? Oh yes...

Hey...do you still remember me? I guess not, I was really busy all the time and when I was not busy, I was too lazy to do a new journal thingey. So here's a little abridged version of what happened the last few weeks...


Of course, a new semester at the university and it's almost over again! I was so foolish to believe that I could try to do courses on Biology besides the lectures and courses I do on mathematics.
But let me tell you, maths is like a very jealous lover (or something like that, not that I have too many experiences with that ) - she does not let you go, occupies you all the time, wants to be played with and is always in your head. And therefore I can only do some elementary but important lectures on Chemistry, Physics, Statistics (all of them necessary for working in a laboratory next semester) and on Genetics and Molecular Cellbiology. I do the latter ones mostly for, ah, fun...but they are interesting and I'll need them one day, when I try to tackle the big mystery sitting in our own head - the human brain

But well, Maths is not only a jealous, but also a wonderful lover (yeah, I am weird >XD [don't take it too seriously, though ]).
Analysis of Algorithms is FUN!
Eventually we learn methods to bring down the most monstrous beasts of finite and infinite Sums I have faced in my study of advanced mathematics. Or to count the things you have never dreamed of (remember - you can count just about everything...).
Might seem strange to you but honestly, some of the methods we learn there are extremely powerful...
Number Theory is FUN!
Because the Professor is just a cool guy, some sort of "priest of mathematics". You should see him when he speaks of the beauty of mathematical proofs and theorems, it's like he he glows from within with joy...
Forcing is FUN!
But also extremely hard and strange and abstract and...just wow. Cohen, who thought of all that stuff, must have been crazy, honestly. But a genius (like many others in the field of mathematical Logic).



Enough of that stuff - other than that:
Would like to play Mahjong more regularly, especially now that a Tournament is coming up in Vienna. I want to play my best there but without Training it's going to be hard...

Artwise I'm playing a bit with photorealism. Some new piece is already more or less done, I'm just not sure what to do with it - it's a bit of an experimental piece, testing the unbiased rendering engine Indigo - again. But this time with a new kind of setting, you shall see...
I'm quite inspired to do new things at the moment, but again...so little time...

On a side note:
Netbook or Subnotebook (up to a 13 inches display)? Your opinion is asked for! Help me decide...is a netbook enough for your small, daily office needs? Is it too slow or just right for little programming stuff and writing documents in Tex? I guess so but...I'm not sure...


So, that's it for now. Not enough space or time or patience to write about everything but the most important thing is probably, that life is hard, but not bad. I shall be content