The other kind are the people I care about. More like, idolize. They don’t care about whether everybody else is lame or not. Because their coolness is self-sufficient for them. They never had to rely on believing others are, or ought to be cool.
The coolness of others, is up to themselves, and it would not really influence me. It is probably arguable, but if there are not enough people around em to learn from, there is always the internet. And my head. And when I look for them, there are cool seniors, and teachers to learn from, as well.

Thing is, I had mostly stopped hoping to find cool batchmates. I had probably thought that (near ly all) my batchmates are lame, quite some time ago. Lately I decided, to bind more to the ‘fact’, that I, am superbly cool. Doesn’t matter, to me at the very least, how lame the others are. As is almost always the case, when I stopped looking, I have not only found multiple cool people in my batch, I have discovered ever more, how I am (existent) in my own universe, and independent of everything else, unless I idiotically bind myself to it. People, surroundings, noise, time (waste), everything. I make my own stuff, and control it.

[A thing which helped… establish this for me, was the Stanford ML and AI class. And how I managed to find lots of time to focus and do it, and almost rather well. They’re pretty cool. You should do them too. ]

And I wasn’t going to write even now, except when I thought about posting one of the numerous things I’ve written in so long a time but not posted, and saw my blog, and saw the last post to be announcing my ownership of a macbook. And I felt… weirdly overwhelmed.

He, a person so far away from me, influenced my life in such a significant, and uniquely lasting manner. A majority of my friends have an opinion of a Mac, without having owned one. And I’m no fanboy, but after having used my mac with regularity, I have a vague feeling of that abstract notion — that Apple, makes beautiful products. And even if he’s not the only one, he must’ve been an integral part of Apple becoming what it is.

And nothing bothered me, as thinking how nobody else would’ve made OS X Lion what it is. And how, with almost annoying foresight, he died right after everything has reached an almost unarguable saturation point. Why was there no iPhone 5? I believe, because there is really nothing right now, that can make the next iPhone, the iPhone 5. Like Hitler says in this video: “I want magic!” That is perhaps what was pulled off in every new iPhone, not that I kept track or remember. And he pulled the Air up to (a potentially magical) speed, beyond which lies only magic. And the same for the iPad. He’s really not left things to do, which make me feel annoyed, in a frustrated elbows-and-knees kind of mood, if you get what I mean. What will Apple make next? Did he, before dying, leave a tiny note saying how OS X and the iOS are really going to meet? Because I think that’s the magical future Apple is on the verge of creating in a much more brilliant manner than Windows 8 tries to forcibly push in on us. And what to release in the next WWDC, or iPhone event, because people are going to cry so much if they don’t. And. oh, the very worst would have been, if Jobs had died before appointing a CEO instead of him. That, I believe, would have led to a spontaneous collapse of Apple. People didn’t like the appointment of Tim Cook officially by Jobs. I have no idea of the work culture at Apple, but it would require unfathomable solidarity I imagine, for Apple to have managed to survive an in-office death of Jobs, due to lack of any person being able to be chosen to replace him. Imagining that, feels scary. And I feel happy that Jobs was awesome enough to do all those things before he went away. I think it’s redundant to wish him to rest in peace. I am almost definitely sure he will. I hope Apple somehow, remains as wonderful as it was so far. The one company, which felt less like a company before this, and more like a maker. I own an Apple computer, a Mac, is something a lot of people can say, without the impersonation of their computer sounding weird. I own a Dell, definitely sounds pathetic.

So, I am happy that Jobs died this late, at least, and not earlier. And he’s definitely done more than enough awesome in his life. Cool memories he leaves behind for a lot of people. {awkward sign off which tries to say bye in an appropriate manner of not really knowing the guy, but pretending to.}

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From this point onward, this post could be a 100 pages long with some fanboy bullshit or it could end right here.

- Copied from Abi

Cause it couldn’t be truer.

And what I write here might very well be covered in the next part of the history of the ampersand, that dude is writing. But when I read what he wrote today, it hit me so hard, I though I had to mention it here. So, here goes.

There are lots of variations of the ampersand. It does, happen to be one of the the characters typographers love playing around with, a lot. Because it has a lot of scope for beautifying, and it has perhaps the most character, for any character on the keyboard. Except for, maybe, ∞. But that isn’t played around much with, because it isn’t easily available on many keyboards (though, very delightingly, it is a simple ⌥ + 5 on a pretty Mac keyboard. Apples are awesome! ) And also, because it has an inherent symmetry that can’t be played much around with. It’s just a pretty serene character.

Back to the topic, ampersands, have a lot of charisma, by themselves, and hence a topic of great interest, for typographers, designers, and particularly typography designers. So people messed around with them, since time immemorial. Though that is not quite the case, which one’d learn from that other post I referred to in the start.

Now I always wrote the ampersand as &. (I don’t really plan to elaborate on the grammatical specifications of the ampersand, which is so crudely “banned” in illiterate environments like primary schools, and amongst my family members who try to correct my english. Sure I suck at everything, but knowing rules, is something I try my best to do. So, I just said that I’m not going to tell you, that an ampersand is used when one wants to say and, but not as a conjunction (loosely describing). XYZ & co., could not be broken into two sentences, unless one wanted to go to lengths of inconvenience and nonsense. There, and ampersand is used. It is also used when I’m completing a list of related objects. “In the morning, we do this, that & that too, and in the evening, we can sleep off because we’ve done everything in the morning.” Disclaiming note: There is no reference or requirement that my explanation have any accuracy whatsoever. If you really want to trust things, go to wikipedia, or something, and make sure the references aren’t random non-existent links. Don’t trust me. Ever. )

Back to the history of the ampersand, I always wrote it as &. And since that’s what the computer keyboard has, and most places have that, people who used to write an alternative — I used to believe were unnecessarily trying to intervene casual handwriting with calligraphy. And I used to think of that as corny. How you care for your characters, to me, says a lot about you. Also, I could never understand what they’re trying to write, and if it made any sense. It often looked like a hindi ‘ka’ to me. And a misture of stuf. Sometimes, only a few times though, it looked like an E to me. With some beautification. I could see the e much more pronouncedly in the rare typefaces which’d use the alternate ampersand. What always puzzled me, is which is ‘correct’, and how in hell they are used for the same thing. They don’t look a bit similar to me. I mean, in retrospect I can see how they come about. That’s the main point of this post.

In the other post I referred, the guy describes how ‘et’, was the derived shorthand for and, during some ancient Romans’ times (Cicero, the dude, go read that for specific info). And, etymologically (historically, perhaps) speaking, the ‘correct’ (original, actually) ampersand, is a ligature of the letters E and t. I’ll definitely not diverge so much as to tell you all about ligatures (that guys does cover… Once again, I’m not so distracted as to tell you that ligatures are pretty-looking sticking-togethers of two (and rarely, as in the case of ffi and ffl, more than two) characters, originated for greater flow in writing/reading, for prettier stuff (when people have to spend their lives writing thousand page books again and again, in a faultless beautiful handwriting, I’d only appreciate them not dying of creativity and making new typographic thingies, some of them also exhibiting a laziness of completing formations), and lately, with a more purposeful aim, of trying to avoid inconsistent printing, and letter overlaps, such as in the case of not-specifically kerned fs and is, which causes the terminal curve of the f to overlap with the dot of i. Notice a majority of serif-font headlines in your newspaper — unless it’s some awesome newspaper (and if it is, do tell me. I’d actually try to switch my subscription :O ), if a small f and i are consecutive letters, there’s be a small overlap in the i’s dot — which is maybe called a tittle — and the curve of the letter f, which is called a terminal. If it’s an unimaginably awesome newspaper (like the New York Times — and that comparison is not arbitrary — I’ve seen ligatures in it), the f and i would actually be combined with a ligature. It’s slightly less pronounced in Hindustan Times as far as I’ve seen, because all their headlines have arbitrarily changing fonts. An ffi ligature looks like ffi. And again, I wasn’t supposed to be telling that to you at all.

So, back to the ampersand, the original ampersand, is the one shown above. Though it’s not the very original one either! It’s just one in which the original meaning is rather preserved. Unlike the terribly modified one we now use. This image shows the ampersand in different typefaces, almost in a chronological order, which is pretty much the entire aim of this article, in a rather embarassingly small size (an image is more worth than a thousand words preceding it? I hope not. ).

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I don’t know if Fago was the original et ligature used, but excepting that, one can see the laziness, along with the joining of curves, going from Palatino (2,2) -> Flux (1,2) -> Lithos (4,3) (this being the most significant jump/connect I never noticed until I knew the et-origin) -> Trajan (2,3) -> Helvetica Neue. Very cool, I thought.

I may make some references to what John Gruber says here too, so you might want to read that beforehand.

I love innovative design. Like love it. I think one would die without that. That was one of the reasons Windows 7 never really burned my soul up so much. Doesn’t it look much better? Yes, it does. But it doesn’t look different. It’s just the same boring piece of shit we’re all bleeding bored with. At least I am. And that there, is an opinion, and I know it. But I’ll still state it as a fact, for the fun of it. The windows (98 too, actually, to) xp to vista to 7 has been pretty much zero progress in terms of design. When I’m saying design here, I’m not referring to the quality of visual elements at all. I’m referring to how it looks. Which might be tough to explain. You might think you get it, after you’ve seen the windows 8 video, thinking oh yeah, windows 8 looks a lot different. But I’ll give an example of what kind of slow and soft modifications too, I would count as changed design. What feature makes me drool the most, about the Mac OS X Lion? The Launchpad. That’s the kind of change I give merit to. We’re making progress in user interaction here, which in my opinion, one of the rate determining factors in the speed at which we can operate a computer.

So, around the beginning, what Microsoft has done seemed absolutely awesome. For once, they did something that is close to game-changing. And then the dude never stopped using his finger. And everything crashed when he opened Excel, and it went back to the same boring 7 layout. So they’re making an interaction layout that works independently and alongside the normal Windows. But obviously. They wouldn’t be standing up to their name if they entirely abandoned windows, would they?

In my opinion, they’re trying hard to please everyone, and yet bring a darned big jump. One, as Gruber says, I don’t think one should try to make touch-friendly software that is common for touch interfaces as well as mouse usage. Those are two different kinds of devices. And until one of them entirely phases out, one needs to develop for both, separately. I feel arrogant and like one of those know-it-all actors I talked about in the start, because I can’t haven’t really develop(ed) for either. But I’ll still plod on, because… well, it’s my blog.

Now I can see that making the entirety of windows 8, based on those panels layout, would possibly have such a sharp learning curve for not much enthusiastic people who need to deal with computers. So there will be a significant entry barrier for it’s usage, restricting the kind of people who buy it, to only tech-enthused people. But developing just an alternative layout, in a desktop OS, which is made with a high point of tactile interaction imagined, wouldn’t work much too well, so I believe. There might be a huge difference between what ends up being in our hands, but hopefully not for the worse. And not having made important work apps like Excel and Word, have a consistency in user interaction, with the rest of the interface, would be just a terrible thing to do. So I believe.

You know what that video makes me want to do? Be able to make an entire version of Linux, that works just on those panels kind of interaction. And everything within, and along it. It would be so awesome to try and make a word processor that works with a UI like that. *drools*

You want to help me? =)

But the realization that there is a poor distinction in those ideas, made me understand the logic behind those apocryphal (read: densely shitty) stories which try to disprove the existence of God by showing the futility of prayer, or prove the existence of God by “He made you to do that work. You are the hand of God” kind of crap.

So I’ll abruptly end here, by saying it’s odd how few people seem to innately that God and religion can be entirely different and inconsistent thought processes. But perhaps that’s because I’m not using the same dictionary at all.

Apart from that wisdom thing I’ve read. No failures, only lessons. So, for at least two to five days, I was very upset. I might mention here that the results were that of the boards and the JEE. I was upset, not so much because of the poorness of the result, as much as the reason, the lesson I expected to exist behind it. I had been kind of failing in school throughout the year (the last two years, in fact) anyways. But I was still surprised to have failed in something like the Boards. Especially when everybody around me, at the very least, got at least 5 percent above me. It was kind of interesting to see my mother ask — “Your friend topped the whole state. Don’t you feel ashamed?” The thought of feeling ashamed at that seemed incredulous to me. But then again, I rarely ever got what my mother means when she expects me to be ashamed at a trillion different things. That’s a story for some other time.

But at that question, it was clear to myself, that I had no problem with a good friend of mine topping the state. I had a problem with my own abysmal performance. Of course a standard of expectation was defined only by how my friends performed, but not individual instances like that. I got less than 85. And I scored the least in Math. Things like that, independent of any index, for me are appalling things. However little I cared about the boards, at least I looked down on it enough to assume I’d do decently, if not well. But I didn’t. And then I performed terribly in the JEE. By my standards, that is. Again, of course. the only index of my performance is my rank here, and that is defined by the performance of everybody else. But it’s still a disappointing result. By some ambiguously self-held expectations. There was an unflattering enough ambition, as to what department I want. It’s painfully sad, that the odds of my getting that are incredibly low. And for at least four days, I have a constant headache/feeling of intense sorrow/feeling of being ridden over by how lame I am, and how presumptious I am about whatever I can manage, aise hi. And primarily because, I can’t figure out why I failed. I failed for the last two years. One and a half actually — mostly after I broke my head. But that couldn’t be the reason. I’m not that lame to blame something like a road accident and an entirely insignificant, ephemeral mastoid fracture on persistent failures of mine.

And day before yesterday, I worked real hard in the night, for Phi. I had wasted most of the day, like I waste most days anyways. But near the night, I started panicking, because I really wanted to ‘launch’ on June 1. And somewhat because of missing the SUMaC deadline twice, I have taken to doing stuff as if the deadline was one day before it is. Oh oh, I forgot to tell you the parts where I have not failed. So, I jump one para back, but not really.

Of course I could give up on myself as if I was a trademark loser. I can’t do anything in my life, and will fail in whatever I try, especially studies. But I ‘succeeded’ last year, in this thing called the KVPY. A bit more background to why the lack of lesson of those failures disturbed me so. I’m a lot into philosophy anyways. Not the real studied, metaphysics, epistemology, etc, hard-core philosophy. The Richard Bach and Paulo Coelho kind popular philosophy. Not that they’re entirely distinct, but the latter is much less focussed and tangible. But still, so much into philosophy that I cooked up some of own, around which I actually plan (planned in class 12 actually, but failed again) to write a book upon. The line, summarily, says “You will not get anything unless and until you stop wanting to”. I would add a terms and conditions applied with an asterisk too, but since it’s so mellow-core, I wouldn’t much care to. So, over the two years I tried to apply thoughts like those into things I tried to do. It worked, to quite an extent. Except for the fact that making it work, is not entirely in my hand unless I become a much more spiritually advanced soul. That discussion for later too, but here, I want a tangible statement as to why ‘m working. Or something I can consciously do to make perhaps my own philosophy work.
So, KVPY was a quite a success. I’ll write a full length post sometime later on what I did, but I remember that I didn’t prepare anything. There was no scope to. They had given two sample papers. I did those papers again and again — like three or four times. And I remember that while giving the exam, I had this weird kind of boost that I had worked a lot, and enough. That fit in with Physics Bhaiya’s philosophy — “One does not require to study to succeed in exams. Beyond a certain point which nearly all of us are nearly always beyond. But one does need to be confident while giving the exam. By studying, one prepares one mind to believe it is prepared, giving it a sense of confidence.” Thankfully I didn’t overthink philosophy and bullshit during the KVPY exam, I just gave it, and came out grinning. Both the rounds. Both were equally fictitious, random, and done with. That was/is one memorable success I’m kind of proud of — mainly for the experience and learning it brought about, than the little knowledge of mine it really tested. {This test too, could be pushed away on grounds of having a subjective interview, at which my family tells me, rather encouragingly, how I may still be the dimwit I most probably am, I’m just a clever pretender and good interviewee. Bringing this to my consciousness obviously guarantees all future interviews are nearly always screwed, but bleh.}

And then, rather recently, was Mathcamp. Now I failed to qualify INMO both the time I gave it. I failed to qualify INOI, despite having tried very hard to qualify it the second time I gave it. And I failed to get through Mathcamp last year. It pains me to feel that I am not even half as aptitudinally skilled as I believe myself to be. That was mainly caused due to Mathcamp. So this year, I did Mathcamp, but mostly with a kind of presumed abandon that I am too lame to get through anyways. And I first go waitlisted. But then, I got through.

After getting through Mathcamp, even if it was two months of effort, and even if I (kinda dishonestly) got many of my thoughts because I kept running them through my brother, I thought gives me some index of intellect. And then I fail at the board math and the JEE. The latter being something I had worked hard for (or so I liked to believe. At least somewhat.) So, I was extremely concerned that it’s not a matter of lack of brains, and I’m not the loser to say I suck at three-hour sitting exams. KVPY was one in itself (including RMO and some other shit), hence.

Another thing that delayed my realization was the statement that my performance is nearly a function of only my performance on exam day. It’s obviously true, because my time waste of all the other days is seen by no one. But one of the things my brother had told me, that something he realized and found critical, after failing (to his expectations) in his JEE (just the examination — without knowing the results. o.O He was that … cool. ), was that an essential ingredient to doing well, was seriousness. Now, that’s not easy to get. I didn’t particularly remember being serious in getting KVPY or anything.

And day before yesterday, when I was working on Phi (yes we’re back to continuing what I wrote five paras ago), in the night, after having wasted the day, and a frantic settling down on me, and my brother making his usual snide remarks on my having wasted time and refusing to help me, I sat and worked for three hours. At that time, I only appreciated what a tough thing it is to run a site off, as well as one wants to. But yesterday, while bathing or some other chore, I realized what seriousness was. After that night’s work, after a long time, I had slept off instantly, out of sleepiness. Not out of boredom of lying on the bed for so long. And I realized that for everything I had managed and was happy about, I had spent days working so hard, that I slept after the work, not played and/or wasted time. That was some index of seriousness for me. And all of a sudden every other thing fit. I did not want the KVPY thing. I didn’t even know what I was going to get. But I worked real hard. And though I did seemingly pointless shit, I did it hard. The interview, okay, was random.

And I sure wanted Mathcamp. But I wanted the result much lesser this time. And I worked much harder at the problems. For the first time do I remember doing questions from the paper that, I know for a given, from my reasoning, are compellingly correct. Rarely before have I done good math questions that deeply. I learnt shit (the valuable kind). And I have had sound sleeps after those questions.

And I can definitely say that I have done nothing remotely like that for any school exam of mine. Not in a good spirit, at least. And mostly not for the JEE, either. Not at least as far as I remember.

I think I learnt my lesson from this failure. I look forward to what’s to come next. Ciao now, from this 1753 words long post you just read. Or, by most chances, that you didn’t.

I don’t know when the idea came — I don’t even remember if it’s my brother’s idea or mine. It was some time after I made that math magazine in class X, in which I just copy-pasted wikipedia like the most pathetic doofus I’m aware of being. Sometime after that, when I grew a bit to look back and feel ashamed that I’d contributed to such a buttload of pointless crap (and that ‘magazine’ was distributed to random sixthies and seventhies too — poor kids), I think my brother said to me that we should make a math magazine, national at the least; there is none that we know of — yeah, mathematics today is a magazine for entrance aspirants. Not much mathematically inclined people – especially in India. We went through numerous ideas; the closest of the kind of popular non-fiction we wanted to make — was plus. I even thought of simply printing and selling plus articles. And the like. We went through an infinitude of lame names as well, for a math magazine. Mostly far too embarassing to even mention. Most of this thinking and name-searching happened about August-September 2009. At the same time, the idea of what our magazine was supposed to be, significantly matured as well. One of the prominent inspirations for what we want as our company, or at least somewhat similar, was envato — the psdtuts guys (the point being, they have good content, with a substantial aim of user-generated content.) So, the aim became such — unlike plus, the specialty of our magazine was supposed to be, that it’s aimed to be based on user contributions. At that time, I would also claim a significant difference to be that we’d have a prettier site, and commenting facilities. But plus recently upgraded and does have comments, as well as article pdfs, something I’d imagined. The other ‘specialty’, was that considering mathematicians wrote the articles on plus, though they try to be friendly, nice and not presume our knowledge about anything, I barely found articles on plus that were adequately engaging as well as provided scope for understanding and learning stuff. There was (is) no fun content. And so on. I don’t know how much I can “ensure” that I myself can write engaging math articles on Phi, let alone anybody else. Although, slightly like Plus, our “target audience” so to say, is pretty much anybody who likes math; but the primary target right now, who’d gain from, or engage in phi, our magazine (or the entirety of qount-it for that matter), is currently supposed to be school students. Because I can’t see how we can ‘influence’, or be of any outstanding purpose for non-school (home-school counts as school. School is basically a period when our minds are happy, creative, fertile, and generally by default eager to learn new stuff) people. And exposure to awesome math in school, I believe, would be real helpful/cool/fun to lots of people – those who like math, and even those who would potentially like math if they saw the cool, self-thinking, creative side of it, rather than the monotonous school stuff.

Everybody, all around the math… oops, world, is concerned with math education. It is valued, and considered essential. Also, when you start looking for something real earnestly, it starts popping up everywhere doesn’t it? So, we chanced upon Lockhart’s lament — some piece of awesomeness. It was already a year and a half old when I landed on it, but in most cases, until something radical (like qount-it, yeah right! ) happens, it’s going to be timeless. That essay also gave me a much more mature perspective of math, art, and the stuff, than what I had then. Also, it gave us a much better definable purview as to what we want to present in our math magazine. Around the same time, for other reasons I’ll hopefully disclose later, we also got obsessed with the letter q. And we started thrusting it in all places there is a ‘k’ pronunciation in a word. And we’d also realized that the magazine wasn’t going to be the only thing we’ll be doing. A magazine by itself, would be far too ephemeral. In the infinitude of blogs, and also numerous magazines, few people (apart from involved mathematicians, or jobless people like me), know about the many niche math blogs, and magazines there actually are; and barely any in/from India. And magazines fail to stick around, and/or make a difference – or so is my opinion. The name qount-it happened (sometime around Jan 2010, I guess — I should check the domain registration, which we did within two weeks of landing on it, but bleh), with random, vague, and mixed up plans of doing lots of things. The other comparison, of a much more involved site – became AoPS. We planned of doing lots of things, online classes, online group problem solving sessions, contests, forum discussions, and more than one thing which we later saw that AoPS is/has already done. I’ll tell you the details of the numerous plans for qount-it, for a trade that you write for phi.

We picked the name phi, sometime in January 2010, along with lots of other names, for the lots of other things. Why qount-it is still the upper thing (primary domain), is because we still plan to do the numerous other things.

Valentine’s day, February 2010, we had such brilliant plans to launch with a valentine’s day card (I made a video too, which we’ll by most chances use the next valentine’s day now) declaring math as our love. But the plan was thwarted, among other reason, due to the pathetic VM tests, and my continuing underperformance in all of them.

1 month later came pi day, but we left that too due to my class XI exams. All remarkably pathetic reasons, but considering the incredibly stupid and poor-mark-fetching guy that I am, and the family, brother that I live with, it was kind of a compulsion that I pretend to care about those, and not waste my time doing extra-curricular things when I can’t keep up with my own curriculum.

Then postponing stuff, failing exams, we saw 22/7 as the next chance. We didn’t even know that had any known significance, so we thought we’d do it with the aim of popularizing that! But, everybody did; even Wikipedia knew about July 22, the pi approximation day. And we still failed to launch on that due to exams and repetitive lameness. Everytime the plans to launch things kept changing. The things we’d simultaneously start off with, were different every time, the theme of our launch site, the theme of our blogs, and the other things. Everything. And it was a continuing struggle of desperation, because more often than not, we were only downhill in the scale of our plans, from Feb 2010 onwards. Primarily because of how I kept on failing in all my school exams and tests, missing out on SUMaC, and a plethora of similar reasons that can only be attributed to my very own lameness.

Finally, we missed Valentine’s day ‘11, pi day ’11 too. I [submitted the mathcamp app ], gave the JEE, and didn’t fail I like to believe, but was far from any success in any way. And then I gave the AIEEE. And then began to feel immensely bored, and sad with life, and how I have only failed so far.

And on 4th May, we were thinking of cheap ways to stick it into dates, and just launch. Everybody (Seth Godin and the likes), keeps going on and on about the most crucial things being shipping it – we’d planned so much, we’ve forgotten nearly all of them by now. So many. It feels lame in a stage like that. I came up with 6th may, 6+5=11. Pathetic, eh?

We thought a bit more, and came up with 8th May, 8/5=1.6≈φ. And we decided to make our own Phi day, and celebrate it off. We did. There’s phi, with extremely little content at this instant, and lots of big dreams. I want you to help me. If you’re here, by most chances you’re a friend anyways, and like math. So write me a nice fun article, about something simple, but something at the end of which, one does learn something. And if you don’t [yet] like math, subscribe to phi. At this instant, we’re so disorganized, we don’t even have a feed set up. You could put the link phi.qount-it.com/feed into your google reader, or the sort. You could like our Facebook page, or follow us on twitter, if you want to try and somewhat follow phi, qount-it, and the growths and new content as well.

 
If you actually read this far, I commend you immensely. Because I just realized that I forgot to answer the question I posted on the top entirely. The prezi was not a formal sidestepping, only a momentary distraction to show you how pretty things I design. The aim of qount-it, as I like to believe, is surmised very well in the tag line, which you can barely see anywhere, because the qount-it individual homepage is still due.

The aim of qount-it, is to “Make Math Marvelous”. Not necessarily with alliteration, but that always helps now, doesn’t it? So, we make math look cool. Not that it/she isn’t, already. We just try and make it more evident, and accessible – basically trying to counteract the mind numbing evilness the school does on all of us, and making math look much more unattractive than “reality” suggests.

I’ll try and write lots of opinionated articles on my beliefs about math, which are basically repetitions or kiddish attempts at presenting my vastly immature and inexperienced perspective. But it’s also my magazine. I also welcome you to do the same. If you manage to pull in enough subscribers, and if we ever make the magazine (or anything of qount-it) paid and you also help me get money out of it, I’d have the least problem in sharing some of the money with you. 

Save the tree, save the bees
Save the whales, save those snails

And the greatest arrogance of all,

“Save the planet”. What?! Are the fucking people kidding me? Save the planet, we don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. …