My Song....

Hey look - somebody wrote me a song! (All except the bubblewrap part...)

HAHAHAHA!

OK - so it has been noted that mathematicians should never try to be funny. However...

What part of

do you not understand?

A deeper kind of funny

1. 2+2=5 - For extremely large values of 2
   
   This is on a shirt I own. It is funnier to a person who has taken Numerical Analysis than it is to the rest of the world.
   
   
2. Why did Mozart get rid of all of his chickens?
   Because they kept saying "Bach, Bach, Bach"
   
   This is from the Baby Bach video in the Baby Einstein collection. It is funnier to a person who has taken second year music theory than to the rest of the world.
   
   
3. (Integral of) 1/(cabin)
   
   This is from my title bar at the top of my blog. It is funnier to a person who has taken second semester calculus than to the rest of the world.
   
   
4. 
   
   
   This is yesterday's Foxtrot. It is funnier to a computer scientist than to the rest of the world. I had to email Mr. Amend personally to thank him for this one. Obviously he wrote it for me.

You're in America - speak American!

So, since you're on the Internet, are you planning to learn Chinese?

This post was prompted by a comment in the NSBA T+L2 final keynote address this morning by Guy Garcia, author of The New Mainstream : How the Multicultural Consumer Is Transforming American Business.

The value of email...

So, for today's NSBA T+L2 quote, we go once again to the keynote speaker, Tiffany Shlain, founder and chairperson of The Webby Awards and the on-air Internet expert for ABC's Good Morning America. Tiffany relayed a story of a conversation that she had with a friend:

"So, I told him that I love him... I decided to do it in an e-mail... I Cc'd his family... And I Bcc'd his ex-girlfriend..."

Did he just say what I think he said?!?!!

I am currently attending the National School Board Association's Technology, Learning and Leadership Conference here in Denver. (I know it sounds so exciting to EVERYBODY that reads my blog - whatever - but keep reading....)

Today's keynote speaker was Prof. Neil Gershenfeld from MIT and the director of The Center for Bits and Atoms. He talked today about his Fab Lab project (http://fab.cba.mit.edu/). His presentation contained a video that had a student (showing a bike he built in the Fab Lab) that actually said:

"I love this bike! So, I emailed it [the bike] to my sister - and now it's the bike that she rides too!"

Moving to functional technology...

There are benefits for not jumping at brand new technologies. Two and a half years ago, I bought a Tablet PC - they had just come out two months prior. The Toshiba model that I had, had a bad digitizer on it -which I got replaced twice. So, what's a digitizer? Let's just say that it was like having a MagnaDoodle with the eraser bar not pushed all the way to the edge. Well, two weeks ago, I got a new Tablet - an HP TC1100. It is 100% functional. Last week's paper for my master's class - I wrote by hand, just because I could. (I'm also handwriting this post - ICYC.) (Also a great graduation gift idea for those seniors out there...)

Now, today I went and bought a new SPOT watch. I've had one for about two years - again it was very new technology when I bought it the first time. The old one was an Abacus - and the battery was loose enough that it would disconnect if the watch was jostled, and so a couple of times a day it would lose its time. (A cool watch, but I couldn't trust it for the time.) It generally reset the time between 15 minutes and 3 hours after it reset - it's an "atomic" watch, so it sets itself. My new watch is a Suunto n3. It's already much better that the Abacus! (So, now you can IM my watch with MSN IM. My IM is set up with my school email address - available here. I'm smarter than to publish an email address directly on a blog.)

So, question: What should I do with the XBox360?

Another good year....

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