After all the recent talk I’ve been doing around here about homework, math, and work hours (and with the release of “Primes” in Asimov’s), I guess I’m just in a numbers frame of mind. I ran across this one earlier today and enjoyed the heck out of it just because it’s been awhile since I […]
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Math, Work Hours, Failure, and Engagement
Yesterday, Lisa and several other Facebook friends of mine linked to this very interesting article, the title of which suggests that it’s about math, and the content of which gets clouded by its use of math as its front-and-center example. I read it yesterday, and said that I had to think about it more before […]
Read More ...Steps: Revisited
Some of you may remember all those many months ago, that among my New Year’s Resolutions was to average 20,000 steps a day. It’s been awhile since I reported out, so here goes. Average Steps/Day: (all data, courtesy of my company’s Health Miles program counter) January – 22,515 February – 25,390 March – 22,933 April […]
Read More ...Closer to the Endgame
Okay, I admit it, I’m sore. This weekend marked Lisa’s first trips back to the health club. We’re getting closer to the endgame with Lisa and her surgery, and this weekend represented her first trips back to the health club. We went both Saturday and Sunday–the first day she mostly hung out on the elliptical, […]
Read More ...Roger Would Have Loved It
“I forgot Roger Ebert died,” Lisa said Saturday night. “I think I’m going to cry.” We had just gotten back from seeing Gravity at the IMAX 3D theater up in Indy, and we were beginning our traditional pass at reading reviews–something we always do after seeing a film. It’s been quite a while since our […]
Read More ...The Present
“I hear you are an F1 fan?” I was not expecting this question at this time. We were, after all, at my daughter’s first signing, and she was seated before a stack of her books. She had read the prologue and first chapter of Singer, and there was lots of various talk going on. People […]
Read More ...Holy Anglo, Batman! There’s a World Outside Gotham!
The world is getting bigger. By that I mean, of course, that the ability we have as people to learn more and understand more about other people of other cultures and other mindsets is growing massively more prevalent every year. Perhaps this is the root of so much of our polarization in the US and […]
Read More ...Dr. Seuss and Some Lessons at Lunch
I learned something at lunch today. Like most lessons, it was not what it first appeared to be, and then it was more than it appeared, and then … well … just watch this unfold and see what you think. It was well past noon and I had a 1:00 session scheduled, so I stopped […]
Read More ...Do People Actually Know You?
Now that the news of my impending freelancerdom is filtering its way around work, I’m getting an interesting collection of comments and questions. This is because there are two kinds of people at work–those who have been around long enough to remember that I write and those that are newer. I really don’t talk about […]
Read More ...Pain
As you may remember from a couple of my earlier posts (here, and here), Lisa has been working her way through a somewhat difficult foot surgery. This has caused us to speak about pain with relative frequency. As the usual practice of Monte Carlo random Interwebs linkage following would have it, I ran into this […]
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