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[ursula]

A meme:

Ask me three questions. Ask me anything you want. Then post these instructions in your own journal, editing for style if necessary.

I am thinking about goblins, Morrowind, lentils, and algebraic topology vs. differential geometry, and not thinking about algebra.

Comments

[hankshiny.livejournal.com]

1.) Describe your mental picture of a goblin. Include specific details concerning size, shape, color, and apparel where possible.
2.) Refute or support: Differential geometry is, like, way lamer than algebraic topology because you have to do calculus, and calculus is hard.
3.) Rank the following categories of people from "sexiest" to "least sexy": mathematicians, livejournalers, D&D dwarves, classicists, Weasleys.

[ursula]

1. Smallish, perhaps a shade under five feet tall if standing upright, which they never do (possibly their spines don't bend that way); around four feet with ordinary slanted posture, maybe shorter. Very thin and angular all round, grayish skin, nocturnal, cat-eyes, pointed ears, sparse and stringy hair, teeth tending to points. Apparel dark and often in rags, though both sexes are fond of jewelry when they can get it, including long strings of animal teeth.

2. Answering this statement would probably net me a thesis advisor. Points against algebraic topology include the molasses-like feeling of trying to compute anything involving a long exact sequence, and the coolness of manifolds.

3. livejournalers (glasseye, though journal does not reflect this fact), mathematicians (literate), livejournalers (people I know), classicists (don't sound like Garrison Keillor), Weasleys (sane and not mushy), D&D dwarves (male), mathematicians (illiterate), livejournalers (people I don't know), D&D dwarves (female), Weasleys (insane or mushy), classicists (sound like Garrison Keillor)