August 15

Wednesday August 15, 2007 6:15 am Edmonton

I do not have internet access this morning.

A. Morning Musings

6:30 am

I am not totally sure what we will be doing today.

I have just realized that without internet access, I will not be able to conduct google searches for my mathematics notes. Not a big problem. I can add those later when we return to Lethbridge. However I do have Mathematica working and this may be an opportunity to create a few Mathematica notebook files. I am not satisfied with those I have created so far for my calculus notes.

I should also find time to finish reading "Number 9 Dream".

Finally, time willing, I may visit a stationery shop downtown that specialized in fountain pens and paper. I am curious to see what they provide and how it compares with the one in Calgary.

Immediate	Description	Time
Literature	Continue reading "Number 9 Dream" by	1 hr
Mathematics	Begin Mathematica notebook for week 1a	1 hr
Mathematics	Complete notes for week 4b of "The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems"	1 hr

C. Actual Learning Activities

7:00 PM

My adventure with fountain pens continues. I visited the Stylus Fine Pens shop in Edmonton this morning and purchased a Lamy 2000 with a Fine nib. I love it. I also bought a bottle of Pelikan Blue-Black ink. The Waterman Phileas was a nice pen but the nib was a medium and it wrote too wide for my style of writing. Then when we went over to Craig & Sandra's she gave me a Schaeffer Prelude fountain pen that she had never used. It is also a very nice pen and writes very thin as well. I now have enough to keep me satisfied for a very long time to come. I did imagine owning two pens but did not really envisage the number being higher. I love this new hobby.

I also bought 5 books at Audrey's Bookstore which was only a block from the Stylus Fine Pens store.

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside. (1986). Doris Lessing. CBC Massey Lectures.
The Real World of Technology. (1990). Ursula M. Franklin. CBC Massey Lectures.
A Short History of Progress. (2004). Ronald Wright. CBC Massey Lectures.
The Ethical Imagination. (2006). Margaret Somerville. CBC Massey Lectures.
A Thousand Barrels a Second. (2007). Peter Tertzakian. (The coming oil break point and the challenges facing an energy dependent world.)