That's the mnemonic device I made up when I was in thrird grade

You know, I'd never considered it a mnemonic. I thought that was why they were chosen.

You know, I'd never considered it a mnemonic. I thought that was why they were chosen.

Actually, I have no idea why they were chosen. So maybe you're right.

Sleep-deprived and busy. This will continue for the next three weeks.

Interesting. I'm sleepy and frazzled myself. Maybe it's a thing. And by "thing" I mean: "a syndrome or possibly a virus mayhap even a meme if memes are still happening. They may be nineties or something."

I feel a little better now, though I still question the importance of publishing this.

Can you take your concerns to anyone? Or is the decision set in stone?

Eh, people with many more academic degrees than I have are the people who made the decision, and that makes it pretty well set in stone. No big; just seems like a waste of time to edit and paper to print.

I have a whole new respect for your job, Tep. I hate line-editing *me,* and I *care* about "Model Citizen", but I'm bored already. If it was something truly boring/hard to understand? ugh.

Hey P-C - you're gonna come with us when we drive to Gus's house for the 4th of July, right?

Is that for real? I'd have to see what my job situation is like at that time (I hope to be working long before then). My parents want me to take those two weeks off to go to Europe, but I seriously doubt I can do that in like the first month of my employment.

Erika has a new tag.

It's like you took the equal sign (both ends equal, because both values are equivalent) and squished it.

Ooh, I like that, too. But then you don't get to cut out construction paper alligators in math class, and that's just no fun.

Yeah, go read Natter. We're all playing the world's smallest violins for her.

It appears that > and < were "invented" by Thomas Harriot. I have yet to discover how he came up with them. About a century after the introduction of =, for what that's worth. Before that they used something much harder to decipher. Or words. Usually in Latin, because that's what scholars wrote in.

= was used to mean "equals" because it's two equal, parallel line segments and "noe 2 thynges can be moare equalle", according to Robert Recorde.

people with many more academic degrees than I have are the people who made the decision

But they are nowhere near as Tep-alicious as you are. So you should prevail.