Word problems
This morning in tutoring, I was twice asked to help with a Physics word problem, as follows: Bored, a boy fires a pellet gun at a 120 g block of… Read more »
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Sound!
About a year and a half ago, I bought a Tivoli PAL Radio. It’s a great little speaker for use with your iPod/iPhone. It’ll run from AC, but also has… Read more »
How clueless I am
There’s this girl. Note: Pretty much every story I could tell titled “How clueless I am” would lead off with the line, “There’s this girl.” We had met twice, each… Read more »
My door, Halloween 2007
I haven’t carved a pumpkin yet, but the initial door decorations are up! The carved wooden skull and crossbones come from a shop in SF; I’ve had it for years… Read more »
Tutoring observation
Random observation #83: It’s much easier to tutor someone when you’re not distracted by the repeating thought, “Ewww! What’s that smell?” That happened twice this morning. It made it rather… Read more »
Tutor? I hardly know ‘er!
I mentioned in an earlier post that I was starting as a tutor at a local community college. What happened was that a friend of mine decided to take some… Read more »
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome!
I just got home from seeing Cabaret at the Gerding theater at the Armory. Even as I was sitting in the balcony waiting for the show to start, I was… Read more »
Chicken Tikka Masala
I can’t deny it any longer; Fall has arrived. All those recipes I eschewed during the warmer months suddenly look appealing. Today I tried a Chicken Tikka Masala from the… Read more »
Summer’s Over
As much as I’ve tried to deny it, Summer is over in a most definitive fashion. Today opened gray, cold and drizzly, with more of the same forecast for the… Read more »
Saturday night was the Barfly Strip-O-Rama bus tour! We had the requisite bachelorette party, several couples, and a couple of slightly creepy stag guys. We piled onto a city school… Read more »