I took a fundamental concepts of math course in Boston. It dealt a lot with proofs and how to formally write a proof and different ways of proving different statements. One of the things I found most interesting was when we covered what are called distance functions. In 95% of mathematics only one distance function…
I happened upon an audiophile thought during an anthropology lecture in the auditorium. I imagined a high end recording device that primarily recorded audio but also had a 360 degree camera lens affixed to it, enabling it to gauge its position in the auditorium with respect to surrounding objects. the user would record for the…
Countless DJs across the country go on air and read off the most recent titles from the play-list, introducing each with “before that”. You can be sure that DJs around the world are doing the same thing, in whatever language it may be. For example, French: “avant ça”. And this tends to get boring and…
What I’m writing about here are these kinds of things: Chevy: like a rock Taco Bell: think outside the bun State Farm Insurance: like a good neighbor, state farm is there My favorite: Hilton: it happens at the Hilton The board of directors at Hilton Inc. have managed to insinuate, in an extremely innocent manner,…
The majority of Americans have little or no money put away for retirement. This, coupled with personal debts that complement the national debt, leads me to wonder if, in the near future, an increasing number of senior citizens will have to consider retirement to be unattainable. Retiring will be a long lost social status, a…
The world of academia. Two things: 1. You have likely been in the following situation: the prof poses a question to the class. Some discussion ensues. A student raises their hand as an indication they have something worthwhile to add, and is called on. Their opening is “Oh, I was just gonna say” followed by…
The couples that form, the people who get married, this pairing up often occurs as a consequence of circumstance. After numerous girlfriends, he may say that the one he is currently dating is the one, when really, the reason he’s going to marry her is more because he’s almost 30 and time is running out…
Weather patterns tend not to change for at least a few days. Consequently, there is not much day to day excitement in the skies, with the exception of hurricanes, tornadoes and the like. And so the weatherman is faced with a dilemma. They have two choices: speak of the weather the way it is (stable…
I feel like curling up into a ball and dying when I think about what the pilgrims and the first few generations of settlers thereafter did to native Americans. Providing them with diseased blankets and president Lincoln breaking countless land treaties. And then, once they learned the painful truth that the white settlers wanted to…
One issue condom advocates tactfully avoid is how people are born. If you ever want to have kids, you have to remove the rubber. I very much would like to talk with the people in safe sex advertisements. I would tell them calmly that, by definition of their existence, their parents had {brace yourself} unprotected…