The Badb just had a couple of weeks of reviewing ratios. This was a good limbering-up exercise, since the problem sets were all about converting between different units and manipulating fractions. After all, ratios are just a different way of writing fractions. The general form of the problems wound up being, “Given that the ratioContinue reading “Next Homework Program: Ratio Exercise”
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I’m Worried about Truth
This morning I saw this headline: “Samaras advierte de que la situación de Grecia es similar a la que permitió el triunfo del nazismo en Alemania.” Hard on the heels of the presidential circus wherein Mitt Romney lied his way to “victory”, this has got me thinking about style versus substance. One of my friendsContinue reading “I’m Worried about Truth”
Miscellany
A lot of things have been going on, but I don’t have a lot to say about any one of them. On Saturday I played at the Dixon highland games. Dixon is about two hours away from Boulder Creek, so rather than driving out the night before and getting a hotel room, I figured I’dContinue reading “Miscellany”
Vacation Hallucination
We are vacationing in Phoenix. Nutjob politics, crazy heat and humidity, reminiscences of years past, and hidden object games are all giving me these weird waking dreams without even having to take drugs. Junglemonkey remembered a feature on a kids radio show where the youthful host tried to explain the lyrics of pop songs. ThisContinue reading “Vacation Hallucination”
Trust Your Kid
Earlier today I tweeted this gem: “I don’t worry about my girls’ future boyfriends. I trust my daughters to be smart and capable.” I’d like to expand on that a little. This was inspired by a quote I read on the Freakonomics blog: “I want my girls’ potential boyfriends to think I’m a crazy lunatic,”HaleyContinue reading “Trust Your Kid”
Doomed by History
I’ve probably mentioned this before somewhere, but from about five years after I got out of college I’ve felt acutely my lack of education. I got four years of Catholic school (an important four years, too) but otherwise I went to public schools in California. As a result of my time in private school, IContinue reading “Doomed by History”
Sometimes Continuity Sucks
Facetime stopped working on my laptop sometime this year. I don’t know anyone far away with whom I actually want to chat, so I only use it when Junglemonkey goes out of town. She’s out for a few days and today the Badb came back from camp and of course we all want to seeContinue reading “Sometimes Continuity Sucks”
Fallacies Everywhere
The thing that has got me motivated enough to write this as a post is this article on the BBC website. It’s got a provocative title, “Green food report favours home-grown curry,” so of course I checked it out. The real meat of the story is that a commission in the UK has just turnedContinue reading “Fallacies Everywhere”
I Didn’t Geddit
I just got an email from Yammer announcing that Yammer has been acquired by Microsoft. I had a couple of Yammer accounts because some people I wanted to play nice with have Yammer accounts, but I confess: I just don’t get why Yammer is something I should want. It doesn’t solve any problems I have.Continue reading “I Didn’t Geddit”
New Project
This seems to happen to me all the time. I’m wrapping up whatever I’m working on and I have a plan for what comes next. Then, before I have finished the current project but after all the real decisions have been made, I start coming up with all sorts of new projects. I haven’t reallyContinue reading “New Project”