I was terrified when they zoomed in on the whiteboard on Medium last night -- I was just sure the stuff on their was gibberish, and I wished they hadn't gotten quite so close.

I am fairly calm, but I would not say phlegmatic. HOWEVER, in a group that includes BOTH David and msbelle, I am MORE THAN WILLING to let them use up the available energy.

Okay, that time I ran up to her unannonced on the street in Manhattan? She flapped a little. But that's just because I'd broken just about every covenant of proper behavior in NYC.

You neglect to point out that you assaulted me! By surprise! On the street!

(Oh, but I do think it's funny that my posting style is pretty high-energy seeming. What with the !!!! and the ASSCAPS. Since that's really not so much me.)

They're supposed to have them in the mail on 1/31. So if you call, you can harass them safely.

I suspect the post office is to blame. The temporary change-of-address from the summer turned out to be quite the clusterfuck. I'll call the employers, but I probably won't need to harass.

I have a bad cold or flu or something. My whole body aches way more than it ever has before. I think I need all my bones removed, like that guy in the Ray Bradburry story.

Or maybe a hot bath.

I have no idea if it would really work, I flunked algebra all three times I was trying to take it.

Dude, it totally would, or at least should. I think a good part of Math Fear is that people aren't taught to connect it to real-world stuff, so if they don't have a grasp of and taste for playing with abstract things, they get left behind.

Mind you, this is exactly what word problems are meant to do, and those are many students' least favorite bits.

Any other Perl people around? I seem to be having trouble matching a '?' within the phrase, even when I remember that it's a metacharacter and make it '/?' instead.

I'd start with the bath and work up to the bones, tommy.

Mind you, this is exactly what word problems are meant to do, and those are many students' least favorite bits.

I think the problem with typical textbook word problems is that they aren't real-world ENOUGH. The ones in my stats text book were just right -- because it was a book for social science students, the illustrations were numbers I'd really be looking at in real life, not trains passing in Iowa or whatever.

I'm feeling really bleh, too. I'm not sure what it is, but I'm kind of headachy, and kind of nauseous, and I've been sleeping 10 hours a night and still feel exhausted. Really not fun.

also forgot to mention that the Skywalk mention twinged me, too. It actually happened before I moved here but I did date a guy for a short time, who'd lost his parents in the accident. I always get a funny feeling whenever i'm in that lobby.

Actuary hubby vacillates on Numb3rs. On one hand, he's thrilled mathematician are the heros. On the other, he realizes they're not going to get every detail right on the nose and there is some fudging and tweaking to be expected.

But this is coming from a guy who thinks the world would be a better place if mathematicians were treated like rock stars.

Me, I think Krumholtz is a hottie.

Wasn't he Wednesday Addams geeky boyfriend at camp in Addams Family Values?

Not sure. I thought he was in 10 Things I Hate About You, though.

He was in Ray too, much to my startlement.