(Selected by the author: Owen Thomas. The rest was mostly links.)
2007
june
06/07/07 First Post hello, world
06/08/07 Why I Teach Such Good Classes (2003) short zine piece
06/12/07 Eliminating The Middle, Man “and” versus
06/22/07 {X:X is full of baloney} abuse of notation
06/28/07 Contradictions of Ed Reform (1999) presented at joint meetings
06/28/07 Tutors and Teachers (1998) tale of two reforms
july
07/13/07 Tom Lehrer great songwriter
07/20/07 Con Report (2001) t-cubed calculator show
august
08/02/07 Learning Center easy money
08/08/07 Carnival of Mathematics XIV no “facts about 14”
08/15/07 The Pencil Rant why make things harder?
08/16/07 Jazz Math Ed go man go
08/23/07 Please Lie More Carefully impossible conditions
september
09/28/07 Maybe If I Ignore It… the statistics coup
october
10/11/07 ZBox Considered Harmful calculator (FTI)
10/12/07 Fisking Fennell NCTM
10/16/07 JAWOPPA just another way…
10/31/07 On Finally Teaching Calc II at long last
november
11/27/07 LEGO® Links very popular post
december
12/04/07 Open Letter To A Course Co-ordinator more calc ii stuff
12/06/07 I’ve Been Saying This For Years and i plan to go right on
2008
february
02/01/08 Fractions and Student Incredulity trust no one
02/07/08 “Clearing Fractions” Clarified move your pencil
02/19/08 Radical Notations don’t overgeneralize
april
04/22/08 On Teaching Math Ed At Long Last boy it was great
june
06/05/08 Last Day Of Classes the beginning of the end?
06/06/08 188th Post one year old
july
07/16/08Section 1.1: Natural Numbers (1995) much my most-read post
07/17/08 Section 1.2: Modular Equivalences (1995) more from the same lecture notes
september
09/25/08 Wheee! back to work; textbook grumble
november
11/20/08 They Are Standing Still calculator code
11/24/08 Trust The Code. annuities
december
12/02/08 Fear And Trembling scheduling; politics
12/18/08 Why Live (x^4 + x^2 + 1) tricky factoring
12/24/08 Jeremiah 6:14 peace, peace
2009
january
01/02/09 Introductory Remarks math 148 precalc
01/06/09 {(0,0),(0,1),(1,0),(1,1)} graph transformations
01/08/09 Capital-Script-D-of-f domain & range
01/13/09 What The Heck, Some Math piecewise functions
01/22/09 Big Day For Former Math Professor self-publishing
01/22/09 Message: I Care notation for transformations
01/23/09 It’s Not The Cheat, It’s The Futility needless case-divisions
01/27/09 Quadratic Formula Lore “complete the square” etcetera
01/28/09 Our Story So Far summarizing 148
february
02/09/09 Section 5.5: A Manifesto textbook rant
02/18/09 Bricks Without Straw compositions
02/20/09 And Into The Black rational functions
02/23/09 One Must Imagine Vlorbik Happy moebius transformations
02/24/09 I Quit: A Clarification mathblogging considered harmful
Math 148: Precalc too late to stop now
Community College Calculus (Spring ’09)
MATHY (BUT POST-VME/CCC)
august
08/09/09 Open Letter At Random e-mail reprint
08/20/09 nobody writes to the kernel ramble of ex-math-teacher
08/20/09 this will all make sense later pedagogical content knowledge
08/23/09 the equality meaning of the equal sign try it you’ll like it
08/27/09 why we fight definitions are hard
september
09/21/09 look over there our medium is handwriting
november
11/09/09 notes for chapter zero blahblahs
11/12/09 classes, laws, and associations associativity
11/12/09 And Left Me In Reputeless Banishment “A” and “a”; page layout
11/13/09 testing testing boolean functions
11/14/09 in media’s rays ) cross-products
11/15/09 use the source luke permutations
11/16/09 never get outta the boat four 4’s
11/17/09 there is no frigate like a boat trees
11/18/09 the chinese room more permos
december
12/03/09 exercises at random S^ := S \cup {S}
2010
january
01/27/10 Photo 96 MEdZ #0.1
may
05/07/10 pascal’s triangle (so-called) drawing
05/20/10 it said there’d be some thunder at the well i ching & binary
05/20/10 stop me if you’ve heard this more binary
november
11/23/10 trying again dammit P_2(Z_5)
11/23/10 perhaps *this* will refresh your memory P_2(Z_2)*
11/23/10 now here’s something you’ll *really* like more P_2(Z_2)
so far so good. now this.
argh.
- There are 4 quarts to a gallon, 2 pints to a quart, and 16 ounces to a pint. There are 4 ounces to a gill. There are (about) 26.4 gallons in a hectoliter. How many gills are in a hectoliter? Display the unit fractions for your calculation.
- Write as a single number in scientific notation: ( 1.5 * 10^{-17} ) / ( 7.5 * 10^8 ).
3. Consider sets X, Y, and Z in a universal set U, where
U = {b, i, g, f, a, t, c, o, d, e}
X = {e, g, b, d, f}
Y = {f, a, c, e}
Z = {b, e, a, t}.
Use the operations \prime, \cap, \cup—complement, intersection, and union—to find the sets represented by the given expressions.
X \cap Y = { f, e}
Y \cup Z =
Z’ =
(Y \cup Z)’ =
(X \cap Y) \cup Z’ =
X \cap (Y \cup Z)’ =
4. Sum the sequence: 88 + 99 +110 + . . . + 462.
5. Expand the expression (x-3)^4.
6. 250 beverages are tested for Purity, Body, and Flavor.
65 pass the Purity test.
95 pass the Body test.
90 pass the Flavor test.
20 pass on both Purity and Body.
25 pass on both Purity and Flavor.
40 pass on both Body and Flavor.
5 pass all three of the tests.
How many of the beverages pass *none* of the tests?
@#$%!
i mean it this time.
this is only a test. had i really known how to this,
that would’ve been an ordinary carriage-return-
-line feed the way boole intended. but *no*! instead we get this crazy horse-shit where the editor puts in the c-r-l’s like it knows better than one’s own living self where the damn things are supposed to go. so the whole thing’s off. it is impossible to work under these conditions.
below the asterisks, cut-&-pasted stuff. somehow this still works. not for long i bet. anyway none of my concern now. at long last i can drag-and-drop JPGs (or what have you) from web to mac-book to web & have it work pretty much (instead of driving me around the bend trying to figure out what they want me to do with that g-d d-mn mouse). no good to me now that i can’t enter copy in any of the interfaces without wrestling robots. just another lost blog-slash-soundcloud-slash-photothingum. fuck this forever.
stuff by me. go read some.
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2007
june
06/07/07 First Post hello, world
06/08/07 Why I Teach Such Good Classes (2003) short zine piece
06/12/07 Eliminating The Middle, Man “and” versus
06/22/07 {X:X is full of baloney} abuse of notation
06/28/07 Contradictions of Ed Reform (1999) presented at joint meetings
06/28/07 Tutors and Teachers (1998) tale of two reforms
july
07/13/07 Tom Lehrer great songwriter
07/20/07 Con Report (2001) t-cubed calculator show
august
08/02/07 Learning Center easy money
08/08/07 Carnival of Mathematics XIV no “facts about 14”
08/15/07 The Pencil Rant why make things harder?
08/16/07 Jazz Math Ed go man go
08/23/07 Please Lie More Carefully impossible conditions
september
09/28/07 Maybe If I Ignore It… the statistics coup
october
10/11/07 ZBox Considered Harmful calculator (FTI)
10/12/07 Fisking Fennell NCTM
10/16/07 JAWOPPA just another way…
10/31/07 On Finally Teaching Calc II at long last
november
11/27/07 LEGO® Links very popular post
december
12/04/07 Open Letter To A Course Co-ordinator more calc ii stuff
12/06/07 I’ve Been Saying This For Years and i plan to go right on
2008
february
02/01/08 Fractions and Student Incredulity trust no one
02/07/08 “Clearing Fractions” Clarified move your pencil
02/19/08 Radical Notations don’t overgeneralize
april
04/22/08 On Teaching Math Ed At Long Last boy it was great
june
06/05/08 Last Day Of Classes the beginning of the end?
06/06/08 188th Post one year old
july
07/16/08Section 1.1: Natural Numbers (1995) much my most-read post
07/17/08 Section 1.2: Modular Equivalences (1995) more from the same lecture notes
september
09/25/08 Wheee! back to work; textbook grumble
november
11/20/08 They Are Standing Still calculator code
11/24/08 Trust The Code. annuities
december
12/02/08 Fear And Trembling scheduling; politics
12/18/08 Why Live (x^4 + x^2 + 1) tricky factoring
12/24/08 Jeremiah 6:14 peace, peace
2009
january
01/02/09 Introductory Remarks math 148 precalc
01/06/09 {(0,0),(0,1),(1,0),(1,1)} graph transformations
01/08/09 Capital-Script-D-of-f domain & range
01/13/09 What The Heck, Some Math piecewise functions
01/22/09 Big Day For Former Math Professor self-publishing
01/22/09 Message: I Care notation for transformations
01/23/09 It’s Not The Cheat, It’s The Futility needless case-divisions
01/27/09 Quadratic Formula Lore “complete the square” etcetera
01/28/09 Our Story So Far summarizing 148
february
02/09/09 Section 5.5: A Manifesto textbook rant
02/18/09 Bricks Without Straw compositions
02/20/09 And Into The Black rational functions
02/23/09 One Must Imagine Vlorbik Happy moebius transformations
02/24/09 I Quit: A Clarification mathblogging considered harmful
Math 148: Precalc too late to stop now
Community College Calculus (Spring ’09)
MATHY (BUT POST-VME/CCC)
august
08/09/09 Open Letter At Random e-mail reprint
08/20/09 nobody writes to the kernel ramble of ex-math-teacher
08/20/09 this will all make sense later pedagogical content knowledge
08/23/09 the equality meaning of the equal sign try it you’ll like it
08/27/09 why we fight definitions are hard
september
09/21/09 look over there our medium is handwriting
november
11/09/09 notes for chapter zero blahblahs
11/12/09 classes, laws, and associations associativity
11/12/09 And Left Me In Reputeless Banishment “A” and “a”; page layout
11/13/09 testing testing boolean functions
11/14/09 in media’s rays ) cross-products
11/15/09 use the source luke permutations
11/16/09 never get outta the boat four 4’s
11/17/09 there is no frigate like a boat trees
11/18/09 the chinese room more permos
december
12/03/09 exercises at random S^ := S \cup {S}
2010
january
01/27/10 Photo 96 MEdZ #0.1
may
05/07/10 pascal’s triangle (so-called) drawing
05/20/10 it said there’d be some thunder at the well i ching & binary
05/20/10 stop me if you’ve heard this more binary
november
11/23/10 trying again dammit P_2(Z_5)
11/23/10 perhaps *this* will refresh your memory P_2(Z_2)*
11/23/10 now here’s something you’ll *really* like more P_2(Z_2)
here it is in code.
$latex ii =
\begin{pmatrix}
\begin{pmatrix} 0 & 2 \\ 1 & 2\end{pmatrix}&
\begin{pmatrix} 1 & 1 \\ 0 & 1\end{pmatrix}&
\\
\begin{pmatrix} 1 & 0 \\ 2 & 1\end{pmatrix}&
\begin{pmatrix} 2 & 2 \\ 1 & 0\end{pmatrix}
\end{pmatrix}
$
$latex i =
\begin{pmatrix}
\begin{pmatrix} 1 & 2 \\ 1 & 0\end{pmatrix}&
\begin{pmatrix} 2 & 1 \\ 0 & 2\end{pmatrix}&
\\
\begin{pmatrix} 2 & 0 \\ 2 & 2\end{pmatrix}&
\begin{pmatrix} 0 & 2 \\ 1 & 1\end{pmatrix}
\end{pmatrix}
$
$latex iii =
\begin{pmatrix}
\begin{pmatrix} 0 & 1 \\ 2 & 2\end{pmatrix}&
\begin{pmatrix} 1 & 0 \\ 1 & 1\end{pmatrix}&
\\
\begin{pmatrix} 1 & 2 \\ 0 & 1\end{pmatrix}&
\begin{pmatrix} 2 & 1 \\ 2 & 0\end{pmatrix}
\end{pmatrix}
$
$latex iv =
\begin{pmatrix}
\begin{pmatrix} 1 & 1 \\ 2 & 0\end{pmatrix}&
\begin{pmatrix} 2 & 0 \\ 1 & 2\end{pmatrix}&
\\
\begin{pmatrix} 2 & 2 \\ 0 & 2\end{pmatrix}&
\begin{pmatrix} 0 & 1 \\ 2 & 1\end{pmatrix}
\end{pmatrix}
$
$latex II=
\begin{pmatrix}
(mgy) (nrp) &
(ybr) (pog) &
\\
(mro) (ngb) &
(mpb) (nyo)
\end{pmatrix}
$
$latex I=
\begin{pmatrix}
(bo) (mpgnyr) &
(mn) (ygbpro) &
\\
(yp) (mbrnog)&
(rg) (mopnby)
\end{pmatrix}
$
$latex III =
\begin{pmatrix}
(mbp) (nor) &
(mor) (nbg) &
\\
(yrb) (pgo) &
(myg) (npr)
\end{pmatrix}
$
$latex IV =
\begin{pmatrix}
(rg)(mybnpo) &
(yp)(mgonrb) &
\\
(mn)(yorpbg) &
(bo) (mryngp)
\end{pmatrix}
$
$latex jj=
\begin{pmatrix}
hk &
g &
\\
gk &
hi
\end{pmatrix}
$
$latex j=
\begin{pmatrix}
-gi &
h &
\\
-hj &
-gj
\end{pmatrix}
$
$latex jjj =
\begin{pmatrix}
gj &
hj &
\\
-h &
gi
\end{pmatrix}
$
$latex jw =
\begin{pmatrix}
-hi &
-gh &
\\
-g &
-hk
\end{pmatrix}
$
trying one more time.
uh-oh. carriage-return has been given a weird function.
*now* what? i clicked a +-sign button &c. supposedly
something about a block. nothing happened. trying again.
okay. putting in a graphics block works like that.
this is allegedly "preformatted". which, okay, at least doesn't punish you with the carriage-return-line-feed misfeature, but, still, won't even let me write "preformatted" without touching the mouse to tell the damn thing i actually mean what i actually type. over and over. and this is a word i *copied* from *this ghastly format itself*, which would make it even funnier if it were funny at all instead of inspiring of rage & despair.
another block now. okay. maybe i’ll be back.
so here’s the thing i’ve been in the process
of memorizing ever since i worked it out.
i *almost* know it now. this interface sucks.
bye now.
an awesome work of scholarship. by a great musician and lay leader. but not my real subject. (bait-and switch.) UUUE.me . (the editor hates plain-text and wants me to learn about "block"s. not today. dates & titles; formatting not my fault.) 1/19/14 m.l. king. 6/13/14 gospel exegesis. 10/19/14 uu &uuce. 5/24/15 number mysticism. 11/15/15 schools & churches. 1/24/16 arts & sciences. 3/13/16 self-publishing. 6/12/16 how to be interesting. 3/3/19 vonnegut, uu, & me. 3/24/19 library lore. 5/5/19 maps of the world. 7/7/19 philosophy & nonsense. 8/18/19 the art of teaching. 11/3/19 notes from the hymnal. 12/18/19 uu & me. 11/12/20 2020 vision. 2/16/20 chinese philosophy. 3/15/20 confucius, lao tzu, & me.
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