Nathan Heller

Found a Johnny Rockets in the Bali airport of all places. Didn't have time to stop and check for a jukebox, so I'll just tell myself it's there somewhere.

I finished Fermat's Enigma last night and was surprised how much I enjoyed a book about math.I've always seen myself as a liberal arts guy, but in the last couple years I've been reading a lot of computer history books that each have some flavor of mathematics. I struggled so much with math in school that it's hard to disassociate with that feeling and appreciate numbers as a cool thing.Coming back to these topics in adulthood is a much different experience, especially when there's no pressure…

Found some suspicious quotation marks in Chiang Mai. Not sure I'm ready for whatever they're offering.

If I spend more than a few days in a new town, I start to poke around for a breakfast diner. It's a sort of greasy time bubble where everyone sets aside their differences to gorge on eggs and coffee.Eggs, coffee, bacon, pancakes. Notes to a song that we (and our physicians) know by heart. I take comfort in the knowledge that I can walk into almost any diner and order the same exact meal.However strange and unfamiliar a town might be, the diner is neutral territory where we all know the rules.…