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The thinking is...: 2007-04-15
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007. I am about to leave for the airport - no posts today or tomorrow, I suspect. Let us trust that the plane is more robustly constructed than the vehicle in the picture. Links to this post. Tuesday, April 17, 2007. But then, after the despair of finding them gone, after the stages of grief, and after the denial, the anger, the guit, the growing acceptance. how nice to find them stuck in the crack of your bum, there all along. Links to this post. Check out the little guy under the ...
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The thinking is...: 2007-05-27
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007. I have nothing to add to this picture, I just love the picture. Links to this post. Monday, May 28, 2007. I am reaching zo-lofty heights. I saw my surfer-dude doc and started on zoloft. Today is May 28, and I am feeling so much more alive than I was only two weeks ago. That's pretty cool - better living through modern chemistry, no irony intended. I think of the people I see who are obviously ill, living on the streets. (See Zoot's post. But enough of that for now. The tree in ...
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The thinking is...: On the Utility of Mathematics
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Friday, May 23, 2008. On the Utility of Mathematics. I just had an interesting exchange with the grandmother of one of my PreCalculus students. She came into the classroom and looked at all the symbols and whatnot on the board. Then she said, "So tell me, how does all this math help you in your life? I said, How does music help you in yours? They are the same thing. And what did she say to that? May 28, 2008 at 9:53 PM. Nothing. I shoved her out of my classroom and down the stairs. May 29, 2008 at 1:10 PM.
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The thinking is...: 2007-06-10
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007. I cannot explain it, but I've always been fond of birds. I am not an actual birdwatcher with a tally-sheet, but I can identify birds by sight, by sound and by flight pattern. On my last birthday I received a number of books about birds from my children. That pretty much makes the point. While I have from time to time owned canaries I have always felt badly about putting birds in cages. It don't seem right and it don't seem necessary. And bad plans have hatched from the situation.
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The thinking is...: 2010-10-17
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Saturday, October 23, 2010. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Books that make me think. Godel Escher Bach by Douglas Hofstader. The Poincare Conjecture by Donal O'Shea. Zero - The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife. Glo's blog about Obama. Lanikai bath and body blog. Now a word from my sponsor. Roq La Rue - art for the unusual.
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The thinking is...: Alex-less thinking
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007. Alex the African Grey parrot is dead. I like ideas. I love math and teach it because it is the study of the interplay of pure ideas stripped of the mundane reality of specific meaning. (My interest is evidently in what is called pure. Mathematics rather than applied. So Alex enthralled me and I bought and studied Dr. Pepperberg's very scholarly book, The Alex Studies. It is wonderful, although it ain't casual reading. September 15, 2007 at 7:20 AM. Books that make me think.
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The thinking is...: Math thinking
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008. You got me all excited for a moment! March 3, 2008 at 7:05 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Books that make me think. Godel Escher Bach by Douglas Hofstader. The Poincare Conjecture by Donal O'Shea. Zero - The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife. Glo's blog about Obama. Lanikai bath and body blog. Now a word from my sponsor. Roq La Rue - art for the unusual.
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The thinking is...: 2007-04-29
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Thursday, May 3, 2007. Sort of a surprise for him. But I didn't do that. He drove up while I was considering how to do it. I didn't do this," I promised him. We scratched our heads together, admired the bees a great deal, made jokes about bees, all pretty predictable. He called a bee keeper who came over a couple of nights later and, for $400, removed the bees. I didn't think about it again until this morning. Speculation is rife.What could account for this? I don't know but the consequences are important.
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The thinking is...: 2008-05-18
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Friday, May 23, 2008. On the Utility of Mathematics. I just had an interesting exchange with the grandmother of one of my PreCalculus students. She came into the classroom and looked at all the symbols and whatnot on the board. Then she said, "So tell me, how does all this math help you in your life? I said, How does music help you in yours? They are the same thing. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). On the Utility of Mathematics. Books that make me think. Glo's blog about Obama.
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The thinking is...: 2007-07-22
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Saturday, July 28, 2007. I'm on vacation. Sleep, eat, surf (the web), sleep, eat, surf (the web.). Links to this post. Fin de Siecle Thinking. Alright, fin de siecle is an exaggeration. It might be fairer to say simply "turning a page" but somehow it feels a bit more consequential than that. So I have 3 weeks off and then back into the classroom. Here's the kicker. I will be teaching pre-calculus, and I haven't looked at that stuff in 40 years. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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