Me

I am a graduate student studying mathematics at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. I hold the degree of bachelor of science in math and computer science, with minors in Czech and physics.

For four years I lived in Kauffman as I slogged my way through the J.D. Edwards Honors Program (motto: "Represented by the Worst Font in Existence"). I served in hall government for a while: I found myself as Kauffman's Residence Hall Association senator my sophomore year, and then I figured out how things worked and became the vice president of the Kauffman Residents' Association my junior and senior years. My responsibilities as VP consisted of attending two meetings a week and sitting there—much less work than being the RHA senator. When I finished JDE, I spent a year finishing up my undergraduate requirements.

My current schedule is available online. I also have my schedules for previous semesters available (fall 2003, spring 2004, fall 2004, spring 2005, fall 2005, spring 2006, fall 2006, spring 2007, fall 2007, spring 2008), mostly because I've been too lazy to take them down, but also because I believe that URIs should be permanent. These schedules look pretty good in any browser that doesn't suck at CSS, which excludes Internet Explorer. You really should try viewing it in Opera or Mozilla or something else nice. It works in IE, but you lose the lines that help you match up the boxes with the times on the left. (At some point I think it would be neat to write a little Perl script or something to generate these schedules automatically. Currently I edit them by hand, which is rather obnoxious, as you can verify by looking at their source.)

Sometimes exciting things happen to me. On the other hand, occasionally I become annoyed at things.

I spend quite a bit of time editing Wikipedia. My username over there is Bkell.

The most beautiful word I know in any language is pšenice, the Czech word for wheat.

You can e-mail me at abodeman@yahoo.com.

People I know

I know a few people. Some of these people have pages of their own. A number of these pages are worth visiting.

• Azule.info (Henry Schimke): Henry likes triangles and ducks.
• ~csteven (Clay Stevens): Clay ponders a lot of really crazy ideas. This is appropriate, because he is a "cognitive science" major here at UNL (some make-believe course of study). Add some enlightening comments to his blog. Be sure to use the terms mind-body interface, pseudo-existential, and id.
• Kauffman Movie Database (Luke Lackrone): Now written in Perl.
• Luke Waltman's Website: "A comprehensive online presentation of the academic and professional works of Luke Waltman."
• Omega (Lincoln DeMaris): Something interesting appeared.
• Nebraska Roads (Jesse Whidden): Jesse has a really amazingly outstanding page about Nebraska roads. Hopefully I'll get a pet project running on this site eventually which will rival his roads listing. That would be a high achievement.
• Prlak (Josh Helzer): Um.
• ReverseFluxx (my brother): Here you'll find some gfx, pics, and files. You can also peek inside his room via his webcam.
• Sleepless in the Seattle Metro area (Travis Spomer): Travis works for Microsoft on the FrontPage team. He rides a Segway. He makes some interesting software under the name Green Eclipse Software. He's also the guy behind the highly addictive and slightly elitist IvoryTower, with which I waste at least an hour of my life every day. Now he has a blog.
• wavecrash (Brian Holley): This guy was my roommate two years ago. He always freaked me out when he said something like "I think I'll write a gravitational particle engine in DirectX tonight" and then went and did it.
• Zif Yoip (Brian Kell): This is an example of recursion. It's a good thing my page doesn't compute the Fibonacci sequence, or it would be horribly inefficient.

People I don't know

Every once in a while I'll come across someone's page on the Web and find it tremendously fascinating. For some reason, these people usually share the common interests of mathematics, computers, and woodworking. Maybe I should take up woodworking.

• Bof: Unfortunately, it appears that Bof's page is now just a part of Internet history. In a stroke of luck, however, the Internet Archive happened to save a bunch of his site. If you're looking for a good way to waste a few hours, get lost in his pages. (On a side note, if anyone knows that Bof's page has simply moved somewhere else, I would be absolutely delighted to learn where.)
• Markus Wandel's Home Page: Like his brother, Matthias (see below), Markus Wandel is a pretty amazing guy. I would classify both Markus and Matthias as hackers (in the original, complimentary sense) even if they weren't adept at computers.
• Matthias Wandel's home page: I'm not sure how I first found this page; maybe it was the wooden CD changer thing he made. Also very impressive is his collection of marble machines that he built.
• The Published Data of Robert Munafo: Google led me to Robert's pages about numbers, from which I found the rest of his site. I think the numbers are still the best, but he also has some Perl scripts (including a calculator that never overflows) and a bunch of other interesting little pages.
• Theodore Gray: I stumbled across Theodore's page describing the wooden Periodic Table table he made, and was immediately absorbed. It wasn't until later that I found out he is the co-founder of Wolfram Research, Inc., which made his page all the more interesting.

Comics I read

This really arbitrary section lists some comic strips I read sometimes. They're in alphabetical order, because I'm far too lazy to try and rank them. Strangely enough, I have given them ratings. Hmm.

Andy Capp (good) · Blondie (good) · Calvin and Hobbes (excellent) · Dilbert (excellent) · Doonesbury (good) · FoxTrot (excellent) · Frank and Ernest (very good) · Garfield (good) · Natural Selection (good) · Peanuts (good) · Pearls Before Swine (excellent) · Pickles (very good) · Shoe (excellent) · Tom the Dancing Bug (interesting) · Wizard of Id (excellent) · Zits (excellent)

Zif Yoip