The House

The gossip of the moment seems to be the recent room ballot, and so it should be; the process was suitably mathematical involving coin tossing and the mention of dice. The downstairs rooms were simple and did not require a diagram; Sparky took the largest room downstairs and Eden the back extension room as his study. So, the upstairs rooms were left to fight over. The diagram to the left shows the final solution, and at this stage I should note that this diagram is not to scale.

The summer is ahead of us, and for all of us that means an excessive amount of money will be leaving our bank accounts every month. We will all return in October for the next academic year to begin, filled with hardcore library sessions, project supervisions and naked Thursdays, but I'm sure there'll be more about that later!

Signing out...

Chapter 1: Introduction

Definition 1.1:
i) Let Armstrong be me.
ii) Let {Armstrong} be the set containing me.

Proposition 1.2:
P({Armstrong})={{},{Armstrong}}

Remark: I like to think of myself as an element of my own power set... It's less lonely with the empty set for company.

Definition 1.3:
i) Let Eden be Eden.
ii) Let Chuck be Chuck.
iii) Let Brutal Snake be Brutal Snake.
iv) Let Boozy be Boozy.
v) Let Sparky be Sparky.
vi) Let Number Six be Number Six.

Lemma 1.4:
Number Six is not a number.

Proof: c.f. The Prisoner.

Proposition 1.5:
The integers do not exist.

Proof: Assume that there is an integer with the existence property, (i.e. the integer exists), let's call this integer x. Either x=6 or x is greater than 6 or x is less than 6.
In the first case we immediately have a contradiction, since x is not a number, (Lemma 1.4).
Consider the case that x is greater than 6, we show first that 7 is not an integer, for if it were, then 7 - 1 would also be an integer, yet we have already demonstrated that this is not the case.
Furthermore, we observe that if k is not an integer then neither is k+1, and we invoke the principal of mathematical induction to show that no integers greater than 6 can exist.
The case of x less than 6 is left as an exercise

Remark: If the integers do not exist, then my degree may prove to be pretty worthless. We must therefore conclude that our definitions are not self-consistent, and reluctantly abandon all rigour in future blogs.

The adventure begins!

These are the rules of the blog:

Rule #1: There is no blog.
Rule #2: No poofters!
Rule #3: No names.
Rule #4: No poofters!
Rule #5: There is no rule 5
Rule #6: No poofters!

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We selected rooms today. I did surprisingly well. Number 6 did less well having been relegated to the sheds. There were rumours of some argy-bargy between Chuck and Boozy about the room ballot, but these were swiftly quashed. After an emergency negotiation session (in the bar) all was well. Unfortunately the Engineer was too busy getting his yearly dose of culture, but he was probably too drunk to remember what it was.

In other news, project choices are in with me and Armstrong on the same project! Unfortunately Supervisors #1 and #2 were not present for this joyous occasion; hopefully not a trend that will continue.

And finally, Eden is graduating at the end of this year marking the end of an era. Fortunately, Durham will be graced with his presence next year; although whether the Inland Revenue is aware of this fact is a different matter.

One small thing the reader may want to be aware of is that we are limiting the number of posts* we are making in order to avoid the inevitable "post war".

*Actual numbers may vary.