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Jansen captured a praying mantis at Fazoli’s today at lunch.
Madness!

I just completed a midterm. The professor provided no study guide for the 800 pages, 30+ authors, 5 weeks of lectures, and two videos that were covered. However, he did tell us, “There will be no questions like “According to So-and-So, what are the {requested enumerated list}”
On the 31 question short answer exam, […]

Praise be to God, who is good and worthy to be praised.
I don’t say this enough. I am reminded today that we praise God not for what he does, but we praise him for who he is. Normally I praise him when things are going good (this instance included), but I should be […]

We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
-Robert Wilensky
Madness.

spam is slamming this site. It’s keeping me from posting. 5000 requests per hour and the database shuts down and I can’t post for an hour.
FYI on the light posting.
madness

Prompted by the Lawrence Summers affair, Charles Murry, of The Bell Curve fame, opts out of his self-imposed silence to rock the establishment - arguing for an open dialog about group differences in The Inequality Taboo (a fully annotated article in Commentary magazine).
One such premise is that the distribution of innate abilities and propensities […]

Today, Oct. 14, is the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Yes, it does affect your life.
Yesterday was the US Navy’s birthday, I think.
Madness?

I’m working on closing out the trackback feature (not removing it, but keeping the MT structure intact and disabling it manually) and closing old comments. I am close to a low-tech solution to the spam. Due to (appropriate) limitations on my server, I can only close out about 30 entries in an hour. From […]

Slashdot has an intersting thread called “Your favorite Math/Logic riddles?” There’s some fun in there somewhere ;) (Caution: like most internet threads, it contains profanity and stupidity. Moderate yourself.)
Madness!

If yesterday’s post about math being fun was too BiMonSciFiCon for you, try this Chocotastic exercise: wikipedia has an article on made-up Simpsons’ words.
Sacrilicious Madness!