What I've Been Up To, as of October 2005
There are blogs where I've strained the blogmasters' patience with overenthusiastic postings, yet after I've severely cut back on blog-addiction, some have actually asked "What's become of JVP?"

The main thing that's kept me busy, although I still am without full-time employment, is the death of my
father, at age 82, of cancer. There's a thread about this, further down on this LJ. I'm the eldest of his 5 children, so I've been deeply involved in complications of wrapping up legal, financial, personal, and correspondence details. Since he was a rather influential book editor and publisher, of literary trade books (such as by Winston Churchill and Pearl S. Buck) and genre books (Science Fiction, Mystery, Sports & Entertainment), I've had to write obituaries for various writers' groups and the like. I also attended Intersection, the World Science Fiction Convention in August, which this year was in Glasgow, Scotland, next year will be in L.A., and 2007 will be in Yokohama. I was on one panel at Intersection, and then blocked from others by defamation from a panelist plus assault and battery by a high-ranking con staffer. I'd rather not air this dirty laundry in public.

I've written 100+ pages of "Complexity in the Paradox of Simplicity". This book of Mathematical Philosophy begins with a comprehensive review of the literature on Occam's razor, and concludes with some very recent, obscure, counterintuitive works of mathematical information theory which shed new light on, for instance, the long-lost Hilbert's 24th problem (about shortest possible proofs). The essence of the paradox is, given a range of differences in the definitions, usages, and justifications for simplicity (in the senses of ontological parsimony and quantitative parsimony), by what meta-criteria can one select the "simplest version of simplest?"

I also sold a screenplay, for a low-budget short feature about murder at a science fiction convention, entitled "FIAWOL" (an acronym for Fandom Is A Way Of Life), with coauthor Joel Davis. This should give him and me $10,000 (the Hollywood agent is trying to ink the oral deal) by about June 2006, and get me a step closer to membership in Writers Guild of America West.

I've been networking heavily through grad school alumni (U.Mass./Amherst) and high school alumni (Stuyvesant High School, New York) for job leads, and am preparing a 3rd round of tenure-track professorship applications. I also hang out at Caltech, where I got my first 2 degrees.

I've continued my hyperproductivity in Math, still averaging 2 "publications" per day in reputable online
edited websites. For example, I rank #5 among the most prolific contributors through 168 contributions out of a total of 6779 Prime Curios by 703 submitters contributing. Plus I've gotten one more coauthored paper in a normal Math journal:
Noe, T. D. and Post, J. V. "Primes in Fibonacci n-step and Lucas n-Step Sequences." J. Integer Seq. 8, Article
05.4.4, 2005. I am approaching 600 web pages edited and published on the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences." I have now published more about semiprimes than anyone else alive.

My wife is till working more than full-time as a Physics professor at Woodbury University; my
16-year-old son is in his senior year at Cal State University at Los Angeles, double majoring in Computer Science and Applied Math. My wife and son and I are writing a book-length collection of science fiction short stories entitled "Oh, And Another Thing About the Universe, and Other Stories." One story is about my high school, for example, entitled "Fast Times at Stuyvesant High." This school, in fact, was the first high school in the world to have its own cyclotron (1956). So what if that had thrown some teenagers into an alternate world where Nazis were winning WW II, having continued the V-2 program to the 2-stage transatlantic A-10, with a nuclear warhead?

Life goes on.