After 13 years, I finally bought a new car. After trying to hold out for Honda to lease me a Fit EV, I finally gave up and bought a new Nissan Leaf. With an EPA estimated range of 84 miles, it should be a perfect car for my commute to Towson. My first experimental trip was done …
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the “Riot Act”
With all the evictions of the Occupy movement lately, I was thinking about the Riot Act. While I have occasionally been “read the Riot Act”, I had never actually read the Riot Act. To wit: Our Sovereign Lord the King chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart …
Christmas Day 2010
Now that the orgy of torn wrapping paper and discarded cardboard is over. The gifts I gave seem to have been mostly duds. Kim doesn’t like the sheets for the bed, and the girls don’t seem interested in building any of their projects. I had planned on spending the afternoon busily assembling the minor DIY …
The Importance of Mathematics in Education
Dr. Robert H. Lewis of Fordham University has written a great article on the importance of mathematics in education. Here’s a quick excerpt, Education is not about any particular machine, system, skill, or job. Education is both broader and deeper than training. An education is a deep, complex, and organic representation of reality in the …
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Hey, I won something!
You know those Internet sweepstakes that just about every website seems to host. The ones that end up getting you spam every couple of days, and that no one seems to win. I won one of them. OK, it was the Esquire Augmented Reality give-away, and I only won one of the fifty webcams (Blue …