Search engine terms & less frequent posting

All right, this post is about 2 things: (1) The search engine terms that have led to my blog so far and (2) the fact that I am not going to be posting quite as frequently for a little while, and why.

(1) Okay, so nothing lewd has led to my blog yet, which I guess I should be proud of. But some funny searches have led people here. I wonder if they found what they were looking for? Numbers mean frequency. I am putting these in order of hilarity (in my opinion):

“credit card debt”
credit
coins (2)
quotes from the perfect woman: jokes
transhumanism
technology (2)
things a person can do before they die
curiosity short story
mental math
“identifying natural images from”
can learn chinese casually
awesome
he sits at my table
cultural awkward situations
— and, to me, the most bizarre and hilarious…
awkward asian cultural situations

It’s quite possible that the last two were the same person. I didn’t check, and I don’t know if it’s possible to check. Also, I’m quite proud that I was high enough up in page rank for the word “awesome” that someone found my blog by searching for that. Sweet!

Now for the other point: I won’t be posting quite as often anymore. I came to a sudden realization today that I’ve been dicking around way too much this semester. I’ve been reading about news, reading about AI, playing silly games, reading random blogs, etc. I’ve been avoiding my research and my coursework and I haven’t been exercising. This is causing me to be unhealthy and it’s risking bad grades and missing out on the learning opportunities that I’ll never have again in my life. So I’m going to have to stop messing around and get back to work.

I’ll still post here, of course. Probably, I’ll be more stressed, and therefore be inclined to write more of my short story posts. I’ll probably not post about technology or transhumanism for a while. We’ll see. But I’m probably not going to keep up the ~1 post per day average that I’ve had going lately. If there’s actually anyone who was interested in my posts and already a regular reader, I’m quite sorry to disappoint. At least, if my content is less frequent, it will hopefully be of higher quality!

Now it’s time to create a web page, arrange a meeting with my research advisor, talk to another professor about research next year, do some other research for a final project, write to the guy I’m working with for that project, go through 50 unread emails that are actually important, attempt to cancel or rescue an event I was planning, actually do some work so I have something to say to my advisor when I meet him, and then try to remember what else I have been putting off for the past month! (I just remembered going to the bank, and sending 4 letters including tax returns, and filing another document for next year’s grant from the university.)

Also:  Bernard Host & Bryna Kra, if either of you happen to Google your names and find this page, your paper Nonconventional Ergodic Averages and Nilmanifolds is hard to read! It’s taking me forever to get used to the notation! If you found this page looking for that paper, you can email me. I have a PDF of it. I also have lots of other related literature. But that stuff is mostly easily available online…