Comments on: I should be fired! http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2005/11/17/i-should-be-fired/ Ramblings of a Christian Mathematician and Bioinformaticist Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:38:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: natural blogarithms » Blog Archive » Mathematical Blunder #2: A math blog by a Christian Mathematician http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2005/11/17/i-should-be-fired/comment-page-1/#comment-70 natural blogarithms » Blog Archive » Mathematical Blunder #2: A math blog by a Christian Mathematician Tue, 06 Dec 2005 22:14:42 +0000 http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2005/11/17/i-should-be-fired/#comment-70 [...] The title of this blog seems to imply that this is the second in a series of blogging my mathematical blunders and in a way it is. The first blunder went untitled as such and I am almost afraid to bring attention to it again but was placed in the entry, “I should be fired!”. As I have pondered the content of this blog, I have decided that Monday is Blunder Day. (Yeah, I know it’s Tuesday, but I was sick yesterday, boohoo). It just seems appropriate that the hardest day to get through with out making dumb mistakes at the board should be a day honored by blogging about the careless errors I have made over the last week. The hope is that by doing so, I identify where my tend to make most of my mistakes and rectify that problem. I had in mind the blogging of some great ones, but realized that most of the mistakes I make are rather uninteresting. So, lucky for you, I decided to blog them anyway. [...] [...] The title of this blog seems to imply that this is the second in a series of blogging my mathematical blunders and in a way it is. The first blunder went untitled as such and I am almost afraid to bring attention to it again but was placed in the entry, “I should be fired!”. As I have pondered the content of this blog, I have decided that Monday is Blunder Day. (Yeah, I know it’s Tuesday, but I was sick yesterday, boohoo). It just seems appropriate that the hardest day to get through with out making dumb mistakes at the board should be a day honored by blogging about the careless errors I have made over the last week. The hope is that by doing so, I identify where my tend to make most of my mistakes and rectify that problem. I had in mind the blogging of some great ones, but realized that most of the mistakes I make are rather uninteresting. So, lucky for you, I decided to blog them anyway. [...]

]]> By: SpookyRach http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2005/11/17/i-should-be-fired/comment-page-1/#comment-69 SpookyRach Fri, 18 Nov 2005 18:43:34 +0000 http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2005/11/17/i-should-be-fired/#comment-69 I'm planning on calling you with all my math questions from now on! Be Forewarned!! I’m planning on calling you with all my math questions from now on!

Be Forewarned!!

]]> By: SplineGuy http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2005/11/17/i-should-be-fired/comment-page-1/#comment-68 SplineGuy Fri, 18 Nov 2005 02:21:25 +0000 http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2005/11/17/i-should-be-fired/#comment-68 I guess that is a good thing that I only made a fool of myself in front of one person and not 20,000. Is it wrong to take pleasure in jonboy's misfortunes? Thanks to Mom, too. I know you're right. Plus, I'll be even more careful to double and triple check my work in the future, remembering the fool I once made of myself. I guess that is a good thing that I only made a fool of myself in front of one person and not 20,000. Is it wrong to take pleasure in jonboy’s misfortunes?

Thanks to Mom, too. I know you’re right. Plus, I’ll be even more careful to double and triple check my work in the future, remembering the fool I once made of myself.

]]> By: jonboy http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2005/11/17/i-should-be-fired/comment-page-1/#comment-67 jonboy Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:02:39 +0000 http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2005/11/17/i-should-be-fired/#comment-67 I've had those days ... only they usually don't involve math problems, but something along the lines of misspelled names or faulty facts that find their way into the newspaper. People have asked me why I feel so terribly sick after making a mistake. It is then that I point out that when I make mistakes 20,000 people are likely to know about it. By the way, I started reading your sermon but didn't have time to finish it. I hope you had a good day. I’ve had those days … only they usually don’t involve math problems, but something along the lines of misspelled names or faulty facts that find their way into the newspaper. People have asked me why I feel so terribly sick after making a mistake. It is then that I point out that when I make mistakes 20,000 people are likely to know about it.

By the way, I started reading your sermon but didn’t have time to finish it. I hope you had a good day.

]]> By: Mom http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2005/11/17/i-should-be-fired/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Mom Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:58:16 +0000 http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2005/11/17/i-should-be-fired/#comment-66 I hope you called him back......Tell him you were just testing him. If you never make mistakes, you're not doing anything! I hope you called him back……Tell him you were just testing him.

If you never make mistakes, you’re not doing anything!

]]> By: mommyfranklin http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2005/11/17/i-should-be-fired/comment-page-1/#comment-65 mommyfranklin Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:27:04 +0000 http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2005/11/17/i-should-be-fired/#comment-65 Doesn't he know that math professors can't be bothered with such simple computation. You have people who do your computation for you..... right? Doesn’t he know that math professors can’t be bothered with such simple computation. You have people who do your computation for you….. right?

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