Christian Lawson-Perfect<p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>introduction</span></a></p><p>I'm CLP, one of the admins of mathstodon.xyz.</p><p>I'm a mathematician of sorts, working in a university <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>maths</span></a> department, spending most of my time making the mathematical e-assessment system <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@numbas" class="u-url mention">@<span>numbas</span></a></span>.</p><p>Outside work I'm always making little things online, which I collect on my homepage at <a href="https://somethingorotherwhatever.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">somethingorotherwhatever.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>I have a bot, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@esoterica" class="u-url mention">@<span>esoterica</span></a></span>, which posts entries from my collection of interesting and unusual maths references once a day.</p><p>I'm one of the editors of <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@aperiodical" class="u-url mention">@<span>aperiodical</span></a></span>, a maths news/magazine blog. You can follow <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aperiodical.com/activitypub/account/mathnews" class="u-url mention">@<span>mathnews</span></a></span> for breaking maths news.</p><p>I'm involved with <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@MathsJam" class="u-url mention">@<span>MathsJam</span></a></span> and the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@TMiP" class="u-url mention">@<span>TMiP</span></a></span> conference, which I'm hosting in <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Newcastle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Newcastle</span></a> this summer.</p><p>I'm disabled in a few ways: I'm <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a>, dyspraxic, I have hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/hEDS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hEDS</span></a>, and protanopia colour vision deficiency. I'm interested in <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>accessibility</span></a>, particularly digital accessibility things that come up at work.</p><p>I live in <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/WhitleyBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhitleyBay</span></a> in the North-East of England.</p><p>I ride my bike a lot, really as a mobility aid.</p>
Recent searches
No recent searches
Search options
Only available when logged in.
mathstodon.xyz is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A Mastodon instance for maths people. We have LaTeX rendering in the web interface!
Administered by:
Server stats:
3Kactive users
mathstodon.xyz: About · Status · Profiles directory · Privacy policy
Mastodon: About · Get the app · Keyboard shortcuts · View source code · v4.3.6
Christian Lawson-Perfect@christianp@mathstodon.xyz
Ownermathstodon.xyz
Mathematician, koala fan, mathstodon.xyz admin,
⅓ of https://aperiodical.com. He/him
- Joined
- Apr 12, 2017
- Homepage
- http://somethingorotherwhatever.com
- Location
- Whitley Bay, UK
- Pronouns
- he/him
- Favourite number
- 3435
Christian Lawson-Perfect<p>OK, you can now buy a t-shirt with this drawing on it: <a href="https://aperiodical.teemill.com/product/mathstodonxyz/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aperiodical.teemill.com/produc</span><span class="invisible">t/mathstodonxyz/</span></a></p>
Christian Lawson-Perfect<p>You, a tech startup with millions in angel finance: made an app to turn handwritten maths into TeX.</p><p>Me, just the worst kind of smart alec: convinced a pen <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/plotter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>plotter</span></a> to turn TeX into handwritten maths</p>
Christian Lawson-Perfect
Christian Lawson-Perfect
Christian Lawson-Perfect
Christian Lawson-Perfect<p>a little bit ashamed of how much Hair-O-Dynamics made me laugh</p><p>(<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/406865720#map=19/51.638064/-2.350210" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">openstreetmap.org/way/40686572</span><span class="invisible">0#map=19/51.638064/-2.350210</span></a>)</p><p>Absolutely gratuitous punning</p>
Christian Lawson-Perfect<p>"Nail Diamond", Perth: <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/12709433529#map=19/56.395344/-3.431850" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">openstreetmap.org/node/1270943</span><span class="invisible">3529#map=19/56.395344/-3.431850</span></a><br />Solid, middle-ranking effort. </p><p>And absolutely no acknowledgement of the pun on their website: 😎</p>
Christian Lawson-Perfect<p>scrolling through 17,000 business names that aren't puns really makes me appreciate the ones that are, however weak.</p><p>"Let's Blow Your Top", Bristol: <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/338067612#map=19/51.509128/-2.621897" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">openstreetmap.org/way/33806761</span><span class="invisible">2#map=19/51.509128/-2.621897</span></a></p>
Christian Lawson-Perfect<p>No points to Tanique in Worksop, missing a vital component: <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1220220839#map=19/53.302235/-1.124540" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">openstreetmap.org/way/12202208</span><span class="invisible">39#map=19/53.302235/-1.124540</span></a></p>
Christian Lawson-Perfect<p>I've always been a huge fan of the tanning parlour Tanfastic in Peterlee (<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/842772777" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">openstreetmap.org/way/84277277</span><span class="invisible">7</span></a>)</p><p>but I see that Wakefield has the significantly classier Tanfastique: <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/67832179#map=19/53.713383/-1.506081" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">openstreetmap.org/way/67832179</span><span class="invisible">#map=19/53.713383/-1.506081</span></a></p>
Christian Lawson-Perfect
Christian Lawson-Perfect<p>I expected to find: businesses with funny names.</p><p>I actually found: a lot of fronts for organised crime!</p>
Christian Lawson-Perfect<p>Just the 160 emails to read this morning after a week on strike 😅</p>
Christian Lawson-Perfect<p>On a related note: what kind of business would you say would be most likely to have a pun name?<br />It looks like my first guess of beauty salons was not correct.</p>
Christian Lawson-Perfect<p>I'm scrolling through a shuffled list of every beauty salon in the country, for A Thing.</p><p>Within the first few dozen, I spot the one that's just across the street from me. What a coincidence!</p>
Christian Lawson-Perfect<p>It turned out that that server couldn't cope with running Puma - I think that it was spending a lot of time waiting for the DB across the network - so I moved Puma to the same server as the DB, and I've moved Elasticsearch to the former one instead.</p><p>That means all the Vultr servers are gone now! Hooray!</p>
Christian Lawson-Perfect
Christian Lawson-Perfect
Christian Lawson-Perfect<p>That's no circle!</p><p>(but it is a moon)</p>
Christian Lawson-Perfect<p>We're waiting for this cloud to move</p>
Christian Lawson-Perfect<p>Partial eclipse very soon! At 10:07 in the UK.</p><p>It's quite cloudy here so I don't think we'll see it, but I'll have my colander at the ready.</p>
Christian Lawson-Perfect<p>Little mathstodon.xyz admin note: I've moved the server that runs Puma to OVH, saving us about $30/month. <br />The last server on Vultr is the one that runs Elasticsearch. I'll try to move that tomorrow.</p>
SearchLive feeds
Mastodon is the best way to keep up with what's happening.
Follow anyone across the fediverse and see it all in chronological order. No algorithms, ads, or clickbait in sight.
Create accountLoginChristian Lawson-Perfect's featured hashtags
#mathLast post on Feb 10
43
#BigMathOffLast post on Jan 28
16
#cargobikeLast post on Mar 11
10
Drag & drop to upload