When I was in the tenth grade, Mr. Bennett, my geometry teacher, made the entire class memorize the squares of 1 through 25. That’s how I know off the top of my head that 19² is 361. And it’s amazing how often knowing those squares by heart has come in handy. “Is it bigger than … Read more
Star Wars! Hope I can avoid spoilers for a week or ten days, because… …my need to interact with the outside world has begun to fade for 2015. Terrible or wonderful that such is one of my favorite things about Christmas? Deep Purple finally goes into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame next year, … Read more
I have a friend who got a DNA profile for her dog from two different services. One said German shepherd-Staffordshire terrier-border collie. The other said Shetland sheepdog-Australian cattle dog-Akita. Wouldn’t you think the two would be substantially similar? I think this is excellent evidence, anecdotal though it may be, that these “tests” are of limited … Read more