Tim Hsu

@timhsu.net

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SJSU math prof living in SF. Too old to spend this much time on comic books and music. He/him

Doom Patrol #29, "The Painting That Ate Paris", art by Richard Case, showing a painting within a painting within a painting and the Doom Patrol (Cliff/Robotman, Crazy Jane, Rebis) in the foreground
Chase Center lit up a sinister red during DJ set before Nine Inch Nails show
Movie poster for Stephen King's IT, child in the foreground, Pennywise and a red balloon in the background
Lion dancers in lobby before the opera
Two woks: on left, mapo tofu, on right, pea shoots with garlic
Stage of the Crazy Ex Girlfriend reunion show in San Francisco, right before the show
... Think even of the longest lasting fascist or authoritarian dictatorships. Franco? About 35 years. Pinochet? 16 years, ousted by a referendum. I don’t imagine this will last for even a tiny fraction of that length of time. My point is simply to demonstrate the incontestable point: no one remains in the saddle forever.
I hear all these people telling me how there won’t be a 2026 election, or that it won’t be free and fair or a bunch of other things. My question to them or maybe to you is what are you going to do about it? History is long. No one is in the saddle forever.
“That’s why censorship is the authoritarian’s dream,” Carr wrote at the time. He knows what he’s doing. I want lawmakers to be telling people like Carr and his ilk not that they’ll have regrets but that they’ll face consequences.
from Romy and Michele's High School Reunion: Romy, Michele, and Sandy Frink dancing to "Time After Time"
And then there’s a sequel fans have been clamoring for: Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion with Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino. Cumming confirms he’ll reprise Sandy Frink. “It’s so great. The script is really exciting. We were supposed to do it this year, but Lisa was shooting The Comeback. I think we’re shooting next year. I’m so excited,” he says.
MathFest attendees playing with puppies
Original TRS-80, 4K RAM, storage system a RadioShack cassette player, monitor a black-and-white TV set
The multplication table for the field of nimbers {*0,...,*15}, aka the multiplication table for GF(16)
Asawa's looped-wire sculptures of multiply-connected (mostly) negatively curved surfaces
Asawa tied-wire sculpture that resembles an infinitely branching tree
Asawa's looped-wire sculptures that look like spheres connected by thin tubes
Protest sign with cartoon of Trump wearing a crown, with a "no" symbol superimposed on it, captioned NO KINGS
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Selfie of me sitting on spiffy new Caltrain
Ms. Shipman wrote that Columbia would “reject heavy-handed orchestration from the government that could potentially damage our institution and undermine useful reforms.” She said that any agreement in which federal officials dictated “what we teach, research, or who we hire” would be unacceptable.
My two books and a bunch of articles of mine, verified as being pirated by Meta's LibGen
Lafer-Sousa said her goal is to amplify the stories of early-career scholars and help the average American understand the erosion of scientific research. “I want her on a news channel in Missouri, on a local news channel where people are like,‘Oh, she went to my high school, she went to go pursue her dreams,’” Lafer-Sousa said of the Pitt applicant, who is from St. Louis. “I want them to hear her story, because they’re not reading The New York Times, they’re not watching Rachel Maddow. We need to reach them.”
Mood board asking "How are you feeling today on a scale of (gestures at everything)?" with 8 options, except all 8 options are Munch's _The Scream_
Cover of cartoonist Roz Chast's book, "Can't we talk about something more PLEASANT?"
Carrie Preston playing Elsbeth Tascioni on Elsbeth
Plastic and foam versions of aperiodic monotiles (shirt/hat and spectre), available at mathartfun.com
Starbuck and Tyrol watch as the Cylons take over New Caprica. TYROL (to STARBUCK): What do you want to do now, Captain?
Email from Nancy Simone at AMS: Dear Tim, Thank you for your email. We are running a little late on our new app. It is not “live” yet. We hope to release it on Tuesday. Your email credentials should work then.
Meme of Hank Hill saying: "I do not want to save to onedrive. I want to save to the documents folder... On my computer... That I own... In my house."
Dento Piano Cafe and Bar, woman playing jazz piano, customers hanging out on couches
AI output after 4 generations: "To cook a turkey for Thanksgiving, you need to know what you are going to do with your life if you don't know what you are going to do with your life if you don't know what you are going to do with your life if you don't know what you are going to do with your life if you don't know what"
Pictures of: * a cat, labelled FURRY * a fluffy cat, labelled FURRIER * the fluffy cat, repeated, and labelled FURRIER SERIES * the fluffy cat in a Transformers-ish mecha suit, labelled FURRIER TRANSFORM
FRESH DURIAN, 9.99/lb NO EXCHANGE! NO RETURN!
Certificate of first 10%-ness
Hotdish assembled in a casserole
Jerk chicken in a rack in a broiler pan
Pan of Chicken Parm
Chicken Parmesan, just before top layer of sauce and cheese goes on
Diagram of quality issues with Boeing 787, which are basically in every part of the plane
38 across in NYT crossword has clue "Mathematical subgroup" and answer COSET
A lot of Szechuan boiled beef in a blue bowl
Jonathan Richman on stage asking us to turn off our cell phones once the show starts
Two books: the Milk and Cheese collection from Evan Dorkin, and How Democracies Die from Levitsky and Ziblatt
My sister and me on the Writer's Guild picket line
Selfie looking up Lombard St with the famous flowers in the background