Posts Tagged ‘mathematics’

Mathematical integral Gravatar image: What’s the rating?

Monday, June 9th, 2008 by Agro Rachmatullah

I just added an image to Gravatar so that it will appear as my avatar when I comment on blogs. It’s just exactly my old WordPress.com avatar, the mathematical integral image. When adding, I met this amusing screen midway:

Adding an integral image to Gravatar

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Language ramblings and stuffs

Sunday, June 8th, 2008 by Agro Rachmatullah

Cloth with the Thai alphabet

This shirt contains the Thailand alphabet. I lived in Thailand for around 4 years, but couldn’t read anything at all. What’s interesting is that the Wikipedia articled states that space is generally not used in writing because most words are monosyllabic. Never realized that also.

I sadly couldn’t speak Thai. Well, I probably can speak the two most important expressions for a man: “khong nam ti nai?” (where is the toilet?) and “pom rak kun” (I (male) love you). I’m of course using the never-before-heard Agronesian romanization.

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