Natural Blogarithms

I cannot take credit for this but found it downright hilarious. I hope it is appreciated.
There’ve been a lot of tropical storms/hurricanes this season–so many that they used up the standard names and had to begin using letters of the Greek alphabet as names. We’re up to Epsilon, now. The other day, an [...]

I am short on time with preparing to give and grade finals. (Aww, poor professor. . .) But, I’d thought I’d share with each of you my favorite limerick of all time:

TRANSLATION:
The integral z-squared dz
From one to the cube root of 3
Times the cosine
Of three pi over 9
Is the log of the cube [...]

List the tools you can’t live without:

The Internet, Google, in particular. There is a motto in our family: “No question goes unanswered.” Especially not with a wireless network at 4 computers under our roof.
Precision screwdriver kit: the best for digging into the inner workings of a broken down cpu.
Thumb drives: How [...]

How many times can you watch “Finding Nemo” before you lose your mind? I don’t know for sure but I know that 5 times in as many days must be close. This entry’s title is one of my most quoted lines of the film (as the flounder hunts for those hooligans playing in [...]

I guess there are worse mistakes I could make than on the previous post. This is an answer given to a quiz in a general math course (not one of mine):

Ha!
(HT: jonboy, thanks for the email)

So, the rest of my day is now shot. For the rest of the day, I will do nothing but think about a mistake I made this morning. Here’s the story:
Background: I love it when people come to me with questions, especially if it is from someone besides my students, like a friend [...]

The downside to the first world series coming to Texas (other than the Astros’ losing) has been the late nights. Being only an occasional sports fan, I usually watch only the big games and usually only when they involve one of my teams. So, at least one nice thing can come [...]

I took this quiz and recognized by inner yoda.

I don’t know if anyone ever noticed or cared for that matter, but I don’t use blogger for my blogging. I actually host mine and my wife’s blog on a server at our house. No one ever has asked why, but that’s never stopped me from giving an answer. I implemented it so [...]