brenda, I was reading here, so not paying as much attention as one might, but I'd guess that was a mom watching little girls in a school play and suddenly doubling over in agony with some CSI-cam stomach issue.
I'm thinking that the whole "editor" concept is kind of key to LTE -- otherwise, you have wanky blog comments instead.
This is what I'm thinking.
There's just no freaking point to spending a year learning needlessly complicated ways of almost solving problems that calculus, a mere school year later, will solve in three or four beautifully elegant steps. No point, I say!
This is related to my big issue with the way my stats class was taught last year. It was all this calculation and formulas and bullshit, when what we really need to know is how to use statistical software, and how to interpret all the zillions of research papers we read. @@
TiVo is giving me yesterday's Colbert Reporr, which had Brian Greene on it. My god, the man is such a complete superstring-y hottie.
It was weird seeing that right after watching last week's Criminal Minds, because that had string theory, too. In a crazy nutjob kind of way.