Monthly Archives: February 2006

A public service message

Posted on February 27, 2006 by Travis

I was attacked by winter the other day. Last week it was exceedingly (or, perhaps more meteorologically appropriate, bitterly) cold in South Dakota. Despite having January temperatures in the high fifties, last week winter reasserted its existence, plummeting the state … Continue reading →

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Journal reader's mind stays in the gutter

Posted on February 25, 2006 by Travis

My waking ritual each morning is to stumble my way to the kitchen, sleepily pour myslef a bowl of Raison Bran Crunch, and blurrily proceed to read my morning paper, the Rapid City Journal, partly to stay abreast of local, … Continue reading →

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Math humor: the uses of fallacy

Posted on February 18, 2006 by Travis

Here’s something hilarious I read by Paul Dunmore in A Random Walk Through Science.  It was originally published in The New Zealand Mathematics Magazine, 7, 15 (1970). The Uses of Fallacy, by Paul V. Dunmore In the last hundred years or … Continue reading →

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Specificity

Posted on February 17, 2006 by Travis

This morning I checked out weather.com to get an idea of today’s temperature. This is what it told me: It was followed by the statement that Friday is to be “bitterly cold,” a phrase for weather I had never heard … Continue reading →

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So just how cold are those South Dakota winters?

Posted on February 16, 2006 by Travis
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