Black and White and Red All Over

Reading right now:

The Heresiarch and Co. - Apollinaire

The Blaster Omnibus - Ackerman

Scrolling Forward - Levy

The Future of Ideas - Lessig

Recently Finished:

The Broom of the System - Wallace

Things Fall Apart - Achebe

The Second Coming of Steve Jobs - Deutschman

Pirate Utopias - Wilson

CD Obsessions:

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Amon Tobin

Thursday, April 4, 2002 - 06:16 p.m. -
I don't know if anyone reading this can take it, but I'd feel remiss not including the link. It's a nursing message board thread on things that gross them (professional nurses!) out. You can't imagine. Honestly. I had to remind myself that I'm eating dinner in an hour, now I'm reading about birders to clear my mind before the enchiladas come.

Thursday, April 4, 2002 - 12:06 p.m. -
Who killed MLK?

Wednesday, April 3, 2002 - 12:44 p.m. -
Sounds like the set-up for a dumb joke: So this lady wants to trade her kid for a chihuahua...

Monday, April 1, 2002 - 05:42 p.m. -
Christian mimes who are also identical twins. They work with a bazillion black ministries. Why wasn't I informed sooner?

Thursday, March 28, 2002 - 12:39 p.m. -
From today's Progressive Review and related to my math education question of a few weeks ago:

Teaching Math in 1950: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit?

Teaching Math in 1960: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit?

Teaching Math in 1970: A logger exchanges a set L of lumber for a set M of money. The cardinality of set M is 100. Each element is worth one dollar. Make 100 dots representing the elements of the set M. The set C, the cost of production contains 20 fewer points than set M. Represent the set C as a subset of set M and answer the following question: What is the cardinality of the set P of profits?

Teaching Math in 1980: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20. Your assignment: Underline the number 20.

Teaching Math in 1990: By cutting down beautiful forest of trees, the logger makes $20. What do you think of this way of making a living? Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the forest birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down the trees? There are no wrong answers.

Teaching Math in 2002: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $120. How does Arthur Andersen determine that his profit margin is $60?

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