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My 2019 Birthday Star
I was born 51 years ago today. To mark the occasion, here’s a 51-pointed star. It’s made of {17/7} heptadecagrams repeated 3 times, and with their edges extended as lines, in three different colors. This works because 51 = (17)(3).
Posted in Art, Life, Mathematics
Tagged 17, 51, Art, birthday, geometric, geometrical, geometry, heptadecagon, heptadecagram, life, mathematical, Mathematics, star
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Because I’m a Teacher
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14 August 2018
Tagged back to school, enjoy, fun, life, school, teach, teacher, work
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Hexagon the Kitten Is Recording My Computer Activity
So I’m looking at Facebook, and all of a sudden Hexagon the Kitten is on the keyboard. Zap! Screenshot captured at feline speed — before I could grab the little rogue. This is the first of four pages of information … Continue reading
My Mother’s Epic Battle with an Armadillo
I just found a hilarious tale about my mother (in L. Lee Cowan’s Except for All the Snakes, I just Love It Out Here: The News from Stone County, Arkansas, Where One Life is Put Down Straight Up, p. 120). … Continue reading
Our New Kitten
We have a new kitten. Her name is Hexagon.
Congratulations! We’ve Survived One Year of President Trump.
There are no guarantees regarding future years.
A Proposal: An Ice-Tunneling Lander to Explore Extraterrestrial Sub-Surface Oceans
We have found compelling evidence for the existence of several sub-surface oceans in various places in our solar system. The most well-known of these bodies of liquid water is under the ice crust of Europa, a moon of Jupiter, with … Continue reading
