And yes!

We have a foot. A real foot. It walks like a foot. It quacks like a foot. So it must be a foot. (Oh, just go with it, okay?) Dr. said I don’t have to come back (unless, of course, I break something else), and not to do anything terribly weird until June. Not involving Continue reading And yes!

Archimedes

I’ve been sitting in on Steve’s History of Math class – been a favorite subject of mine for a long time. Monday, they went over the approximation of pi using a technique developed by Archimedes that involves inscribing polygons inside the circle with an ever-increasing number of sides, for greater and greater accuracy. I missed Continue reading Archimedes

Scent and memory

Every evening, my father used to make these, one for him, one for mom. She didn’t used to drink, before they married, but he taught her. A non-drinking wife would be too embarrassing. The smell of adulthood: 1 and 1/2 jiggers of Kentucky Bourbon (Virgin Bourbon preferred) 1 teaspoon sugar water as desirable ice: much Continue reading Scent and memory