Coffee stains and the Simpsons in your LaTeX document

A few weeks ago John D. Cook posted a tweet asking for suggestions for his @TeXtip Twitter feed. Usually @TeXtip posts are useful tips or factual tidbits about the typesetting program. I decided to send him a humorous suggestion instead. He posted the tip on Twitter yesterday. I sent him a link to Hanno Rein’s coffee.sty package…

Secrets of my success

Here are the five things I need to be a productive mathematician. 1. Time to think 2. Time to think 3. LATEX (I find most of my errors while typing my work) 4. Someone to talk to (it is great having a collaborator) 5. Coffee (I have no memory of not liking the taste of…