Monthly Archives: October 2008

Quickies

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Travis

The Rapid City Journal recently ran an article about the various dress codes for Halloween costumes at area schools, in particular noting how many schools have eliminated any observance of Halloween on campus at all.   Early on, the article … Continue reading →

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I'd like to buy a clue, please, Pat

Posted on October 22, 2008 by Travis

I’m not a big game show fan; indeed, I actively despise almost every new game show that’s appear since the nadir of televised trivia that is Who Wants to be a Millionaire debuted.   (Except Wipeout.   I loves me … Continue reading →

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Newsletter: month thirty-one

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Travis

Dear Ladybug, Yesterday you became thirty-one months old, which in some sense was actually quite anti-climactic, in that you’ve been spending most of this month becoming, as you put it, A. BIG. GIRL. We started this month out with a … Continue reading →

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Things to do in Denver when you're Dedekind

Posted on October 19, 2008 by Travis

This weekend I was in Denver as an invited speaker at the University of Colorado’s Denver campus.   Some of the UCD Math faculty attended a talk I gave at the regional MAA meetings in April and invited me to … Continue reading →

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Ambition, distraction, uglification and derision

Posted on October 16, 2008 by Travis

While grading homework for my Dynamical Systems class — an assignment that admittedly involved quite  a number of involved calculations involving complex-matrix eliminations and the computation of Jordan bases — I found this hastily inscribed on the back of one … Continue reading →

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