Comments on: iPhone Madness http://asymptotia.com/2007/06/30/iphone-madness/ Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:04:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Carl Brannen http://asymptotia.com/2007/06/30/iphone-madness/#comment-60279 Carl Brannen Mon, 02 Jul 2007 02:01:57 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/06/30/iphone-madness/#comment-60279 Thanks Clifford. My name gets spelled all kinds of wrong all the time, but it doesn't bother me. I just finished reading a biography of Murray Gell-Mann, "Strange Beauty". He has the obnoxious habit of correcting people's pronunciation. He also analyzes everybody's last name and tells them what it means and how to pronounce it. (His own last name had its pronunciation and spelling changed by his dad. It was originally Gellman, a fairly common German / Jewish name. So people teased him by using similar names, for example, John-Son.) In tribute to Gell-Mann, "Brannen" is English. It means Bran's kin. The Bran is the bird now known as the raven. I've got another mass formulas planned for release this year having to do with the baryon resonances. The mesons are very difficult to classify. The iPhone madness on eBay, which saw prices around double the list price of $600 for the larger memory unit, has collapsed. The company illustrator is planning on taking his units back to the store for a refund. He's quite depressed though he's trying not to show it, given that the event is a source of great laughter at the company. He should have known that it was an iffy proposition when there wasn't a line at the store to buy them. The company I work at specializes in heavy industrial machinery (i.e. 10,000 to a few million kg). These sometimes can be bought very cheaply at auction because few people can move them. iPhones are a commodity and quite easy to transport. Thanks Clifford. My name gets spelled all kinds of wrong all the time, but it doesn’t bother me. I just finished reading a biography of Murray Gell-Mann, “Strange Beauty”. He has the obnoxious habit of correcting people’s pronunciation. He also analyzes everybody’s last name and tells them what it means and how to pronounce it. (His own last name had its pronunciation and spelling changed by his dad. It was originally Gellman, a fairly common German / Jewish name. So people teased him by using similar names, for example, John-Son.) In tribute to Gell-Mann, “Brannen” is English. It means Bran’s kin. The Bran is the bird now known as the raven.

I’ve got another mass formulas planned for release this year having to do with the baryon resonances. The mesons are very difficult to classify.

The iPhone madness on eBay, which saw prices around double the list price of $600 for the larger memory unit, has collapsed. The company illustrator is planning on taking his units back to the store for a refund. He’s quite depressed though he’s trying not to show it, given that the event is a source of great laughter at the company.

He should have known that it was an iffy proposition when there wasn’t a line at the store to buy them. The company I work at specializes in heavy industrial machinery (i.e. 10,000 to a few million kg). These sometimes can be bought very cheaply at auction because few people can move them. iPhones are a commodity and quite easy to transport.

]]> By: Clifford http://asymptotia.com/2007/06/30/iphone-madness/#comment-60009 Clifford Sun, 01 Jul 2007 01:27:27 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/06/30/iphone-madness/#comment-60009 Congratulations! (Correction done, btw) -cvj Congratulations! (Correction done, btw)

-cvj

]]> By: Carl Brannen http://asymptotia.com/2007/06/30/iphone-madness/#comment-60005 Carl Brannen Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:42:36 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/06/30/iphone-madness/#comment-60005 The crazy company I work at makes a living by buying and selling things. The company illustrator dropped by the mall and bought two iPhones. He's planning on selling them on eBay for a quick profit. The rest of us are a little worried, but right now it looks like he's in the black. Also, remember the "Star of David" I did using your LaTex <a href="http://asymptotia.com/2006/12/25/have-a-good-one/" rel="nofollow">last Christmas?</a> The math behind it was apparently attractive. I self published the original article back in May 2006 and it already has <a href="http://carlbrannen.wordpress.com/2007/06/29/to-help-miss-cite-reb-eretics-simple-hot/" rel="nofollow">4 citations in the journals.</a> I think this may be a record for a 50-year old guy with no PhD who wears a hard hat at work. Which reminds me, my last name actually is spelt "Brannen". The crazy company I work at makes a living by buying and selling things. The company illustrator dropped by the mall and bought two iPhones. He’s planning on selling them on eBay for a quick profit. The rest of us are a little worried, but right now it looks like he’s in the black.

Also, remember the “Star of David” I did using your LaTex last Christmas? The math behind it was apparently attractive. I self published the original article back in May 2006 and it already has 4 citations in the journals. I think this may be a record for a 50-year old guy with no PhD who wears a hard hat at work. Which reminds me, my last name actually is spelt “Brannen”.

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