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I have recently noticed signs that I may be identifying reality with my mathematics coursework a bit too much. A few signs (I'll post more as life goes on)

1. A friend and I talk about Christ's coming (both into our lives and physically into this world) changes and redefines everything, or redeems everything. I make the analogy: just like the way our understanding of R^n is changed completely and fleshed out by general topology.
   
2. I see a picture of 3 Taco Bell hot sauce packages, one hot, one fire, one hot, in that order. HFH if you might. For some odd reason, this strikes me as a finite-dimensional projection of Fire onto the Hot (I guess I assumed the second H was transposed by mistake).
3. There is a joke going around the office (related to me somehow) about "compact support" girl. Support in this case has to do with the idea of a woman's chest support. Compact support is a mathematical concept describing basis functions.
   

And on and on. A lot of these happened tonight, where I attended an Episcopalean friend's church event - Theology on Tap. The topic of the evening - some very excellent Pinot Noir and the Advent. It was neat to see into a whole different world - I'm slowly learning of the differences between American evangelicals and other world churches.

In other words, I have now had an (almost) complete home recording studio set up in my room.
Here's a little glimpse of the whole thing (minus the studio monitors that are on my desk). I never imaged home studios would be such a mess. However, I have gotten some good recording done...so just you wait! The next CD will be coming out soon. And it will (God willing I finish recording this song by December) the most romantic Christmas song you've ever heard in your entire life.

Yes, I also may have a few too many guitars lying around.


I'd also like to welcome the newest members of the Chan guitar family - meet PRS and Danelectro (who have yet to recieve actual names).

On the left here is PRS - recently acquired on my last trip down to Houston. I started recording with it, and it does great both for pop-rock (Things about you) and jazz (that romantic Christmas song I mentioned). It's a semi-hollowbody, but with a smaller cavity than most guitars, so it proves very versatile.



On the right is a much more interesting case. I actually had a friend in high school give this guitar to me after finding it at a garage sale. He had gotten it for free. I'd like to say it's a priceless relic, but it turns out it's a fairly cheap guitar pricewise (only $300ish). What's odd about it is that it's made out of masonite and cheap particle board. However, it has somewhat of a cult following because it sounds amazing and nobody knew why! Turns out, it's also a semi-hollowbody, and the pickups are unique, but the great sound is still somewhat of a mystery. Ladies and gentlemen, the Danelectro U2 Reissue

More to come later. Last day of classes tomorrow means I hopefully have some more time to reflect and post on more enriching topics.