Yellow Typophile

22 year old Indian male mathematics student who loves yellow and math. Milind. I post random stuff which interests me or makes me laugh, mostly for my own amusement. To the left is my face.

[furbearingbrick]

DEPLOY THE BOY

[loafinglizards]

This is so cute I died

[gelana78]

@markscherz tell us about this smol dragon, please.

[markscherz]

This is Correlophus ciliatus, about to do one HECKIN’ big bellyflop.

But that’s just how geckos jump. Even the best ones, like Ptychozoon kuhli, jump like this.

[yellowtypophile]

A breakup is a declaration that hope is unfit for office.

[dailyoverview]

The Golden Gate Bridge is a 1.7 mile long suspension bridge in San Francisco, California that spans the Golden Gate Strait, the mile-wide channel between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The bridge’s signature color, known as “international orange”, was selected to complement its natural surroundings and enhance its visibility in fog.

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Source imagery: Nearmap

[parksandfluff]

[yellowtypophile]

Feeling background things about valentine’s day and other’s romantic successes. There is no reason to this, I remind myself.

Said something stupid today.

Felt confused about a woman’s tweet that her view is now that all women merely tolerate the men in their life, and are generally more evolved (not sure what sense she means). Also says that all the amazing women in her life are more amazing than the amazing men (what does this mean?). I think I understand where she’s coming from, but somehow it upsets me. I don’t know why. It troubles me that this is how all men are viewed by some. I also realized that if a man had said something like this about women, I would have brushed him off as being ignorant or not having seen enough; but with a women saying it about men, somehow it does not seriously occur to me to do this. I don’t know what that says about anything. Is this an example of my man’s ego being so fragile and easily bruised? Is this my ego which is the problem here? Isn’t it a good thing that I am troubled by this? Is it unreasonable for me to be troubled by this? After all, a statement that all women merely tolerate their men is also implicitly a statement about me, right?

(these are just late night thoughts I’m putting down to hopefully organize and get some sense from)

I’m tired of trying to think about things from other’s perspective. It is necessary, but when I do it too much I think I sometimes stop giving myself the opportunity to think in the way I am best at, in which I am most comfortable with, which is my own, because I think it is imposing on other’s problems a viewpoint that is not theirs.

It would be nice to have a friend to ask me how I am, like I used to. More attention, you know.

[yellowtypophile]

Had a wonderful 3-hour long conversation with my favorite professor - I think we can perhaps almost be called friends apart from student-teacher. And he gave me a copy of his book as a gift (even before I gave him the book I’d gotten for him)!

[archatlas]

Really Big Coin Skrekkøgle

This is our Really Big Coin. It is big because it makes other things look small when photographed next to it. Actually, it is a 20:1 replica of the EUR 50-cent, you see it being milled out here. We needed to do quite a bit of sanding, lacquering and smudging to obtain the desired look and some climbing to get into required shooting position (you need to get up real high to take good pictures). The result is a short series of photographs, attempting to visually scale down real-sized objects.

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[aberrantkenosis]

what the fuck

[tr-apstar]

I am constantly overwhelmed by the amount of information out there that exists and feeling extremely defeated by the fact that there is literally not enough time to absorb it all before I die.

[alexyar]

What quotes do you put at the top of your syllabi?

i don’t but if I did it would probably be

“You know, people think mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit. It’s the stuff we can understand. It’s cats that are complicated. I mean, what is it in those little molecules and stuff that make one cat behave differently than another, or that make a cat? And how do you define a cat? I have no idea” - John Conway

[tastefullyoffensive]

(via forthemame)

[fageleh]

tumblr is such a bizarre kind of social interaction. like. the rules are so different here. I once unfollowed someone because they said prime numbers were ugly and that was simply the last straw for me. imagine hanging out with a friend and getting up from the table and never talking to them again because they told you they hated prime numbers. that’s what I did.

[kalkinikorra-blog]

@yellowtypophile you would do this irl tho

[yellowtypophile]

What are you saying I don’t value prime numbers that much. I would be very interested to know why someone would hate them though :P

[yellowtypophile]

Goals/things I want to do in the next 5 years in the US/grad school etc.

In no particular order

Have sex - I want to know what it’s like. Hearing a friend talk about it has not helped. Needs no further reasoning I think.

Get into a serious relationship which I’m able to enjoy.

Study stuff:

Economics

Linguistics - some aspects, not everything

Statistics - and how it’s actually used

Some constitutional law (of India)

Quantum mechanics

Learn tabla? Depends on how much time I have

In math

Study dynamical systems, pdes, probability. Stochastic calculus. Calculus of variations.

Try exploring some algebra again, maybe some algebraic geometry.

Anything that interests me. It’s a PhD in math after all.

Gain weight. I am tired of being stick thin. The eventual goal is to gain 10 kg, and at least 2 kg by the end of this year. I’m hoping that finally having complete control over what I eat will help make a difference, along with a nutritionist maybe.

Develop some fashion sense? Will be much easier if I gain a little weight, of course.

Learn to dance?

Rock climbing.

Get to know India better in an academic sense - history mainly, I think. Learning Sanskrit seems like a very far away possibility.

I think this will be a good list to come back to in the next few years and see how much I manage. I think most of it is doable in so much time.

[gold-kushkloudz]

[yellowtypophile]

Relieved to learn that a friend is in fact not romantically interested in me.

[yellowtypophile]

The God Who Loves You

It must be troubling for the god who loves you To ponder how much happier you'd be today Had you been able to glimpse your many futures. It must be painful for him to watch you on Friday evenings Driving home from the office, content with your week --- Three fine houses sold to deserving families --- Knowing as he does exactly what would have happened Had you gone to your second choice for college, Knowing the roommate you'd have been allotted Whose ardent opinions on painting and music Would have kindled in you a lifelong passion. A life thirty points above the life you're living On any scale of satisfaction. And every point A thorn in the side of the god who loves you. You don't want that, a large-souled man like you Who tries to withhold from your wife the day's disappointments So she can save her empathy for the children. And would you want this god to compare your wife With the woman you were destined to meet on the other campus? It hurts you to think of him rating the conversation You'd have enjoyed over there higher in insight Than the conversation you're used to. And think how this loving god would feel Knowing that the man next in line for you wife Would have pleased her more than you ever will Even on your best days, when you really try. Can you sleep at night believing a god like that Is pacing his cloudy bedroom, harassed by alternatives You're spared by ignorance? The difference between what is And what could have been will remain alive for him Even after you cease existing, after you catch a chill Running out in the snow for the morning paper, Losing eleven years that the god who loves you Will feel compelled to imagine scene by scene Unless you come to the rescue by imagining him No wiser than you are, no god at all, only a friend No closer than the actual friend you made at college, The one you haven't written in months. Sit down tonight And write him about the life that you can talk about With a claim to authority, the life you've witnessed, Which for all you know is the life you've chosen.

-- Carl Dennis

[yellowtypophile]

[thebsdboys]