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Monday, June 08, 2009

Since I don't have a whole lot else to do right now, I figure I might as well write a new update.

At this moment I'm sitting at Gate D16 at Washington Dulles Airport. I should be on my way home from Indy right now. "Why are you not?" you might ask. I blame Orbitz. You see, in their latest confirmation email regarding my flight home from Margo's graduation, they said that I was supposed to leave Hartford at 10:03 for Dulles, and then be in Indy around 2. When I got to the airport around 9, they said that I'd missed my flight to Chicago at 8:50. They ended up putting me standby on a flight to Dulles. Once I got there (and after a good deal of work), I managed to get a ticket confirmed to leave for Indy at 9:30 (tonight) and high-priority standby on a 5:00 flight. So here I sit, hoping that I can get on that earlier flight. Otherwise, I'm not sure how I'm gonna make it home from Indy--I'll be really tired if I have to wait for that later flight. The one benefit to all of this is that I got lunch with Tristan out of it. I'd been a little disappointed that I only had a 1-hour layover at the airpoint that's so close to his apartment. So this way, I got to see him after all.

In general, I'm doing pretty well. Working at the library for one last summer, helping process the new books we're getting from Fort Wayne. I'm not sure what I'm doing in the fall, but my current plan is to try to get a job for a year or so (if you know of someone who might hire me, please let me know) and then get my MLS--I figure that way I'll have a marketable degree, and then I can worry about studying what I really want to study (which is much less marketable). I'm working my way through a massive reading list and trying to continue my language study.

I have finally read Twilight, by the way. I'm not sure exactly what I think of it, but I don't think it's really as bad as people make it out to be. It's certainly not the best writing I've ever seen, and I got tired of hearing about how "godlike" Edward is, but the author had a few decent ideas in there. I just wish she had spent more time developing those themes and less time discussing how perfect Edward is and how much Bella loves him.


Sunday, May 24, 2009

So now I'm all graduated.

It's kinda weird. To some extent, it doesn't feel any different. But when I think about it, and when I think about next fall, and when I think about all the people I may never see again (some of whom I don't want to see again, and some of whom I do), well, I'm just trying to stay away from such thinking.


Tuesday, May 19, 2009

From the last Investigations test I'll ever grade...

What polygon do you get if you slice off a single vertex of an icosahedron?

Podecahedron

pentagram


At the Hotel Cardinality, there are as many rooms as natural numbers and they are all full for tonight. If Ryan wanted to spend the night, show how the manager could make room for him.

Ryan could stay with one of the natural numbers because they would correspond according to cardinality.

Give him a room with a rational number.


Compare the cardinality of the natural numbers and the rational numbers and show why.

The cardinality is the relation between the numbers so for the rational numbers there is a fraction as to where natural numbers just have 1.

[1,2,3,4,5,...]

[1.1,1.2,1.3,1.4,1.5,...]

Rational numbers make up natural numbers.

The cardinality will be 1-1 with corresponding pairs.

Both have the same cardinality since infinity is taking place.


Consider a 100x100 grid. What rectangle can you make on the grid (using whole number lengths) that is the closest to a Golden Rectangle?

Because each rectangle gets bigger as you add on.

161.803 x 100


Show mathematically why this construction gives us a Golden Rectangle.


Because of the curve, that is what is adding the extra .618 to the square, thus creating the Golden Rectangle.

b/c in a golden rec the sides have to match up so it being 1+1=2 and the other side is 2 knowing this the other two sides will be two

The first shape is a reg polygon-a square-by adding the angle the correct amount of length is added to the next side-creating a Golden Rectangle.

Because the curve is the mathematical curve and when the rectangle is attached to the square, it makes a golden rectangle.

1/1, 1/2, 2/2=1.64

Because it gives us the lengths and all that match up with that of a golden rectangle.

Because there is a golden spiral forming and the proportions look correct, when you take a square out you get the same dimension proportion.

You keep adding on to the area you started with and it gets bigger and bigger.

2/2=1

3.3/2=1.65

You need to add on the cube to make it a Golden Rectangle.


Use a tetrahedron to show how Euler's Formula works comparing faces, edges, and vertices.

5-4=3 which equals a triangle.

Because the triangle fits inside it evenly and creates a right angle.




Monday, May 11, 2009

http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/the-star-trek-apartment.html

For all those who think I'm over-the-top when I start obsessing over things.


Sunday, May 10, 2009

An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one orders a beer. The second orders half a beer. The third, a quarter of a beer. The bartender says "You're all idiots", and pours two beers.

I love geeky math jokes.



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