http://www.opendiary.com/entrylist.asp?authorcode=A434612 The irresistible urge to write http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=A434612&entry=25619 http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=A434612&entry=25619 <p>Live your life as an existence theorem; as a demonstration that the greatest things in life as possible, that life does not have to beat you down.</p> <p>Live your life to show that no matter what life has done to you, you will endure, and that if you could, so could anyone else.</p> <p><em>Hang.*</em></p> <p>_______</p> <p>*If you get this, smile.</p> Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=A434612&entry=25618 http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=A434612&entry=25618 <p>I was uncool long before it was cool.</p> <p>Suck on that, hipsters.</p> Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=A434612&entry=25617 http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=A434612&entry=25617 <p>Why do you not have a useful answer to <em>How do I remove my wife's blusher from my daughter's face after she's been applying it with a trowel because she got at the makeup drawer while she was asleep?</em></p> Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=A434612&entry=25616 http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=A434612&entry=25616 <p>i. Try saying the name out loud in a stereotypical Chinese or Japanese accent, where r becomes l and l becomes r.</p> <p>ii. Statistically, there must be at least one kid out there who thinks that the Big Bad Wolf will Hufflepuff your house down.</p> Thu, 2 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=A434612&entry=25615 http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=A434612&entry=25615 <p>While working with my students in preparation for the SYPT competitions, I've managed to cover the entire whiteboard with equations and definitions, and after a while I noticed that we had the symbols of friction from one problem run into the symbol for density of the next one, so that we had this on the board:</p> <p> F<sub>µs</sub> ρ</p> <p>prompting me to comment that all we needed was an excuse to add "dah".</p> <p>It took a while for the students to realise that ρ is pronounced "rho", and thus would give us this:</p> <p><a imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8Ai7yxQ5EJ8/TyTMQp8XY7I/AAAAAAAAAeg/tWjE4i_xW2g/s1600/satki+grandma2.jpg"><img border="0" alt="" width="640" height="426" closure_uid_43h1s1="3" gda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8Ai7yxQ5EJ8/TyTMQp8XY7I/AAAAAAAAAeg/tWjE4i_xW2g/s640/satki+grandma2.jpg" /></a></p> <p>(<a target="bodahdhdhd" href="http://edmwtimes.blogspot.com/">picture from EDMW times</a>)</p> Thu, 2 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT