As I stumbled out for coffee this morning Carter greeted me with a small whitish thing.
Carter: Look! Mom!!
Me: You got me a piece of corn?
Carter: I lost my tooth in the middle of the night!! I checked as soon as I got up to make sure the tooth fairy didn’t take it by accident [...]
All I want for Christmas
1 picture is to 1000 words as 1000 pictures is to _______
I’m always pleased when we get to incorporate math into our daily living- it becomes more like an intriguing puzzle, less like work.
Carter: Mom? What’s a thousand times a thousand?
Me: mmmm. Add up the zeros, right? So. . . a hundred times a thousand is a hundred thousand, so a thousand times a thousand [...]
Questioning what you think you know
Last Friday, Eugene Spafford became the first of four speakers in a new Distinguished Colloquia series offered by the School of Informatics. Spaffords talk, “The Value in Questioning What You Think You Know,” was a reflective look at current hardware and software practices, many of which are based on the computing landscape in the 1950s.
Out of the mouths of moms
Parenthood hasn’t been exactly what I expected. Idylic moments watching my children roll wooden cars down grassy knolls in between cooperative games and cuddle breaks are far outweighed by crazed flashes of ducking for cover, preventing attacks and pretending to be a superhero/villain. Instead of reading Emily Dickinson and Little Women, I’m reading books about [...]
Google Reader Recommends …
Today is the first day in months I haven’t looked at Google Reader. I weaved in and out of some academic data mining as I played Driveway Hockey, enjoyed some family time, and watched an “old” movie. It is a little strange to spend so much time away from the information stream, outside of Twitter, and I type now wondering if a long run of daily posts is about to end.