I’m enjoying the Apple TV+ thriller “Prime Target”, about a mathematical genius who is apparently on the verge of some breakthrough about prime numbers and somebody wants to take him down because he’s going to break all known crypto or something - and it’s kind of silly and fun, but it make me wonder:

Hollywood should make a biopic about legendary, and extremely quirky, mathematician Paul Erdös. That’d be fun.

Erdös got an honourary degree from Waterloo and spoke at my graduation in 1981. I remember how he started, something like …. “I flew from Hungary, to the USA, to Waterloo, and after this I’m going to California, then Japan, then back to Hungary … so I’m going 360 degrees around the world to get one degree.

361 degrees.

Now that’s an interesting number. 361 is 19 squared. I remember when I was 19, and …”

This “I’m a Canadian” song by Tom Green is by far not the dumbest thing he’s ever done.

Musk cheating at video games - shouldn’t surprise anybody seeing as how he’s pals with Trump, who cheats at golf.

let’s make a collection

please forgive the noise. Migrating my blog over to microblog.hayman.net - soon to be “blog.hayman.net” - and I’m testing this ability to crosspost from micro.blog to mastodon/bluesky/threads.

but if you feel like replying, it would be fun to see if that shows up back on the blog.