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Imagine you speak French as your first language. In your case, this is strange because nobody you knew growing up spoke French. You are surrounded by people who speak English. Your family speaks English and only English. You’ve never been exposed to any language other than English. Certainly not French. So you don’t know how…
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Last night we went to see Cowboy Mouth at The Magic Bag in Ferndale. It inspired a lot of thoughts in my head. Cowboy Mouth is about letting anxiety go and just having fun. That’s not really how my brain works, but it’s a solid message. I know I cling too much to things. That’s…
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[mathjax]If you want to square a two-digit number, you could just use a calculator, or you could use the traditional algorithm. I’m going to talk about a different method here, but not because I think this is a particularly useful method. The point of this discussion is to look at how numbers are interrelated; if…
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Matt Walsh wants to know. We are currently embroiled in a cultural war. Part of this focuses on a frankly disingenuous battle over the meaning of words. So I’ll talk about sandwiches. And porn. And dogs. And… Well, English has a lot of words, so this may take a while. You know what, I’ll talk…
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The “Empty Product” is the product of all numbers in a group of no numbers at all. To the uninitiated, this sounds like word salad. Mostly because it is: How can you multiply no values together? How does that even make any sense? And on one level, it really doesn’t: We need the Empty Product…
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I started this decade unemployed, adrift, and with a commitment to become a blogger. I started several blogs and posted a bunch of stuff. The next year, I went back to school to become a teacher, and let those blogs fade away. I thought about them a few times, but less frequently as time passed.…