Wow, first meta-post. I hope I don’t do this too often. So I added a link to this blog on my Facebook profile recently, and the views shot way up. Thanks for the support, guys! Please do comment, as I appreciate any feedback on what is interesting, what is not, and what is worth posting about more. Ideally, this would be a conversation, and not just me talking at empty space.

I’ve added two more links to my blogroll: J’s and my Tumblr accounts. It’s a more convenient way to post the shorter things like a link or a photo. J also found a way to enable comments on Tumblr, so it’s even more awesome.

And just to keep this post a little non-meta, B came to visit today (he’s a classmate who is the same year as me). Five of us went to P. F. Chang’s today for dinner. It’s not authentic Chinese food, but very good anyways (try the lettuce wraps!).

Anyway, it was amusing to observe the different conversations that people have, depending on the group that is present. For example, the average intelligence level of our conversation was about that of a herd of chinchillas (i.e. nonexistent), whereas every once in a while, it would spike to some rather lofty value. Examples include when someone mentioned that the yellow stripes in the parking lot made a triangle if you projected it from hyperbolic space to normal Euclidean space; and, ironically, when we were talking about how dumb our banter was.

On a related note, I read somewhere a long time ago that the amount of meta-discussion increases with intelligence level. I think B got to 5 or 6 levels of meta-ness before we all collapsed back into chinchillas. Does this make me a level 7 meta-rodent?