Posted in Nonsense, Technology, Twitter on January 8th, 2009 1 Comment »
Just a short post here to let you know that I am discontinuing the “Twitter Updates of the Week”. For the last few weeks, I have had a plug-in for this blog post all of my Twitter posts, aka “tweets”, for the previous week. Since I have Twitter piped into my facebook status, most of [...]
Posted in LaTEX, Mathematics, Nonsense on October 21st, 2008 No Comments »
This post is simply a test of the LaTEX plugin that I supposedly have installed on this blog. I haven’t used it in conjunction with Windows Live Writer Beta, my preferred blog writing software.
Feel free to sing along to the tune of “Pop Goes the Weasel” as you read the quadratic formula below:
Speaking of which, [...]
Posted in Nonsense on November 18th, 2007 No Comments »
During the summer, a friend of mine and colleague at Texas Tech appeared on “Who wants to be a Millionnaire?” I recorded it and have been meaning to post it, so here it is (finally).
Posted in Nonsense on April 3rd, 2007 3 Comments »
This was fascinating: A photographic list of all the bodies in our solar system that are larger than 200 mi in diameter. By the way, I particularly like the name of the objects beyond Neptune: “Trans-Neptunion Object (TNOs)” [...]
Posted in Nonsense on February 27th, 2007 2 Comments »
You swing from wires to try to go as far as you can. You fling them by click on the screen and the wire shoots towards the direction of the click. It will stick to the brightly colored regions for a few seconds but then release. Very Tarzan-like, AHH-ahh-ahha-haahhha![...]
Posted in Nonsense on February 18th, 2007 No Comments »
Mistakes: Your life . . .
Posted in Math is Everywhere, Nonsense on February 15th, 2007 2 Comments »
Are you flush with free time or procrastinating on some big important project? Try out the Bulbous Blob Puzzle.
Posted in Nonsense on February 1st, 2007 2 Comments »
What a good lookin’ kid!
Posted in Nonsense on November 10th, 2006 No Comments »
You may have noticed this but there are some changes in the works here at my blog. If you experience some problems such as broken links, I apologize.
Although it was fun while it lasted, I decided that maintaining my own server with my limited knowledge of such things was just something I didn’t have [...]
Posted in Math is Everywhere, Mathematics, Nonsense on March 5th, 2006 1 Comment »
Very cool demo
I’ve seen this in a video on Google video before but this Java Applet version is well done and worth another look.
I’ve heard often people wonder at how BIG God must have been to create a such an expanse as the Universe and yet, as this demonstrates, he must be incredibly [...]