Molarity

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Moe + Larry + catalyst -> Hilarity ensues

Molarity

The catalyst is from the set Stooge₃: {stooge | stooge = curly, joe, or shemp}

Sunday Comic: Super-Stickman Mini-Poster

Dateline: Stick-World!
There's a new villainous vigilante in town who will be hunting Our Hero if he tries to get in the way . . .

What is this mystery ... thing? Click on the link to the comic and find out!

Updated Tag: Crossover

I'm updating the use of a label, namely Crossover, which I originally used for a crossover with Irregular Webcomic. Actually, it was a strip that I had done that I had had permission for, but it wasn't part of IWC's official storyline. (It did wind up generating so much traffic, I had a new classroom example for what an outlier is.

Anyway, I'm expanding the use of this tag -- rather than create another one -- to include all parodies, satires and shout-outs to other webcomics as well as crossover. If this causes any confusion, let me know, and I'll create a different tag.

Time to Go...

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Happy Retirement, Jill. You've earned it.

The characters aren't meant to be avatars for real people, but I seriously considered morphing them for one cartoon just so they could say 'Good-bye'.

Any Minute Now

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June flies by really quickly ... until those last few moments.

Last week of school = Extra updates this week!

Graham's Number and the Ackermann Function

A good explanation of Graham's number and the Ackermann function can be found in the annotations below this comic strip.

It's written well enough that a guy like me could follow it.
Most of it.

Last Days

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Next up: The Doors' "When You're Strange"

Just a Gigolo goes back a lot farther than I thought it did, much earlier than the Louis Prima version, which was the first to combine it with I Aint Got Nobody.

Last week of school = Extra updates this week!

Evaluation

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Some find it hard to change their ways and integrate new technologies.

This cartoon reuses an old
Irregular Webcomic strip under the Creative Commons license. As such, this one strip is
created under that license.

Class Blog was a previous strip that was created under the same license.

And just to avoid confusion, although both of these strips are from IWC's Shakespeare theme, when they appear here, they are totally unrelated characters. Those particular strips lend themselves to a Teacher Center theme very nicely and they complement my (developing, but nonetheless lacking) artistic abilities.

Last week of school = Extra updates this week!

Ken-Do #3: Extra Credit?

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Of course, twice as hard only works if you're average is 32.5 or more

Ken-Do 1, Ken-Do 2.

Last week of school = Extra updates this week!

Dad and Pop

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Happy Father's Day to all Dads and Pops!

Fathers Day 2008


Super-Stick-Man will return soon.

TV Time

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The funny thing (or maybe it isn't) is that this was an actual conversation.
This father-son moment brought to you by (x, why?), reminding you of last year's Father-Son-Father-Son-etc moment.

Count of Three

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If you think this is bad, wait for the follow-up: The Rule of Three.

Integral Trees

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Right now, there are many educators reading this and scratching their collective heads.
Given that Michele is an English teacher, I would hope that she'd at least have heard of Larry Niven.

47th Mersenne Prime Found

On April 12th, the 47th known Mersenne prime, 242,643,801-1, a 12,837,064 digit number was found by Odd Magnar Strindmo from Melhus, Norway! This prime is the second largest known prime number, a "mere" 141,125 digits smaller than the Mersenne prime found last August.

Mersenne Primes where the subject of a comic from last May:
http://mrburkemath.blogspot.com/2008/05/mersenne.html


http://mersenne.org/

http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/06/13/2218226/47th-Mersenne-Prime-Confirmed

Sunday Comic: Super-Stickman 60: Another Lousy Driver

Dateline: Stick-World!

In the winding mountain roads just outside the City, a car is in trouble! Worse yet, there's a driver in trouble! His wife is going to kill him because he's a lousy driver! Can Our Hero save the man from his wife and himself?

Why is this mystery ... thing? Click on the link to the comic and find follow the exciting story!

Bro. Steve

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Bro. Steve is among the school's honorees tonight for his many years of service
-- including three with me.



UPDATE: I found out this weekend from The Tablet that not only is Bro. Steve Keitzman, CFX, celebrating his 50th year as a Xaverian brother, but Bro. Warren Abel, CFX, my former vice principal (who took over the reins the year after I left) is celebrating his 60th year. Bro. Warren is now retired. Congratulations -- and thanks! -- to both of you.

Top Taco

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Form follows function. And what do you call it when two functions fall along the same lines? Coincindence, of course.




EDIT: What Kind of Mexican Food Are You?

As I've said before (actually in a later post than this), I'm not one for all that blogsam/jetspam that creeps into blogs, but it fit the theme and I found it shortly after the strip was published, and it really fits the theme of the comic.

Bernoulli

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Yeah, first thing I did was look it up to, uh, refresh my memory.

One of the hazards of teaching Algebra -- all that stuff that you start forgetting.

Sunday Comic: Super-Stickman 59: Faster Than a Speeding Bullet?

Dateline: Stick-World!
It was sunny day over the City when shots rang out. Is Our Hero faster than a speeding bullet?

Click on the link to the comic and follow the exciting story!

D-Day 2009

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Commemorating 65 years.

Who knows if I'll still be doing this in 5 or 10 years. It seemed like a big enough anniversary to mention now.

Zip Code

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What? No copy of the home game?

That was the most famous (or at least well-known) zip code in the U.S., at least until a certain show about Beverly Hills came around.

This one's a day early, but I'll hopefully have something more appropriate for tomorrow. (Yes, I'm hoping for a Saturday update!)

300

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First, they'll strike on the left. Then on the right. Then on the left again...


In case it isn't obvious from the title, this is the 300th (x, why?) comic.

Pacific Coast

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They define the planes, too.