It was entirely predictable that the day I decided to explain to Annabel about how many innings are in a baseball game and how long it would be till the game was over and she could watch Little Bear, there would be an extra-inning game, huh?

ETA...and we go to the 11th!

That's a good thing , Laga.

I'm not sure what I would have been when I was younger, but hardass is not a problem now. Maybe too much of one, but I'm not so sure you can be too much of one with pre-teens and teens. Mostly I deal with large groups at the library that don't necessarily know me. I tend to bark/snap when a rule is being broken, even in the midst of a pleasant conversation. I suspect some people think I am possessed.

T called tonight to tell me that the younger nephew got his finger caught in the car door today. He fractured the tip of his finger. Poor little guy.

It was entirely predictable that the day I decided to explain to Annabel about how many innings are in a baseball game and how long it would be till the game was over and she could watch Little Bear, there would be an extra-inning game, huh?

Baseball can be weird and unpredictable. Everyone thought the Red Sox game was over tonight, including the players, until the ump decided the pitcher for the other team had balked and they had to get one more out.

Hil, what do you make of this site?

Mathworld? Incredibly useful quick reference. I use it all the time for when I can't remember an exact formula or definition and don't feel like trying to figure out which book it would be in.

I had a long day today. Two hours of getting up to Baltimore, then trapeze (yay!), then asthma attack (boo!). Then two hours of getting back to DC, then nap.

I use it all the time for when I can't remember an exact formula or definition and don't feel like trying to figure out which book it would be in.

Any opinion on their software? I don't know enough about the profession, but I just can't work out what the Mathematics software does. Or how it does it.

My nephew got a job! We now have three people in my family who have worked or are working at PF Changs.

I tend to use Maple rather than Mathematica, though I need to learn Mathematica -- Maple is way easier to work with, which is why I've stuck with it, but Mathematica is more powerful. Basically, it's kind of a mini programming environment for the types of programs you'd tend to use in math. All the common math functions are built in, and it'll easily graph stuff. I don't use it as much in my work as some other people do, because what I'm doing doesn't involve so many calculations, but I do use it sometimes. The place where I usually use it is when I have some formula and want to see what the value is for, say, all the numbers from 1 to 20.

Hey Hil, do you know anything about Matlab? Some of the models from head office have started using it, we're looking at getting a licence here.

Hey Hil, do you know anything about Matlab?

I've used it a few times. Seems like it's most popular for people doing statistics.

Welcome home, Kristin! Take care of yourself...