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Here's my Halloween pumpkin that i'm very proud of:


Sadly it encountered no trick-or-treaters. I carved it on halloween, way post-trick or treat time.

This was my mom's first Halloween in her new house. She LOVES Halloween. She dresses up the dogs. They used to sit in the driveway and watch the world series and drink wine with the neighbors and hand out candy to about a hundred kids.

But this year was a disaster. She only got 5 trick-or-treaters and started looking for a different house to buy on the internet since her current neighborhood was clearly lacking. She used to live in a rich neighborhood across the freeway from a really poor neighborhood so all those kids would come over. I think next year, she might just have to put up a little halloween hut on a street corner in a prime neighborhood.

Here is the one photo in which I do not look like a dwarf compared to jared:


The baby is his cousin's....one of TWO! The other was sucking her poor mom dry at the moment. New babies are awesome...pretty much all they do is sleep and eat. You can hold them and poke them and they are little portable heaters that stay still way better than kitties. unfortunaly, you cannot leave them at home alone for the week. thats the kicker with the whole baby thing.

back to math world....i have to use some silly taylor expansion to find the maximum likelihood estimator for a vector of parameters. its so isolating to know that the vast majority of my friends and family have no idea what i do all day, and worse, don't want to know. i feel like chandler.