Relationships

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Relations in math can be a tricky topic. Many fail to get them right on the first couple of tries.

Two Guys Walk Into a Bar...

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Just try telling someone in the morning that your head hurts because you walked into a bar.

Another "Oops" on my part. Part of the problem comes from not being able to load pictures onto Google's website at work. I can't use geocities anymore -- it's going away soon, and I prefer Google to Flickr for these cartoons.

Speed Limit

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In case you're wondering, it's 65.

If you're not wondering, it's still 65.

Sorry, this should've been posted here yesterday. It made it to the CG site.

Time vs. Money

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Nothing to add, really...
Except, perhaps, "True Story."



Sorry, this should've been posted here yesterday. It made it to the CG site.

Sunday Comic: Super-Stickman Graphite Novel page 5

Dateline: Stick-World!
Who is smarter? The man with the super-brain or the man with the super-appetite?
Who wins the battles of wits and will? Pick your sides, but be wary.

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Talk-Like-a-Pirate Day!

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Rebus Answer: Pi r Square

Significant

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The trouble comes when you have more than one significant digits...

I thought about doing something for comic number 3-6-9, but I just did a 3-6-5 cartoon, so it seemed a little lazy.

Triangular Numbers

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That about sums it up.

Financial Pirates

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Insert pithy comment

Sunday Comic: Super-Stickman Graphite Novel page 4

Dateline: Stick-World!
Cerebrum lives! Rotundo lives! Pretzel-stick-man ...
You get the point. The next page is up and ready!

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24/7

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If you think about it, it should be 24/7/52 or 24/365, but not 24/7/365.
On the other hand, is it something that you should be thinking about?

Bonus comic today because I decided I wanted to do a "365" strip, but
tomorrow is Sunday, so tomorrow's strip is Super-Stick-Man.

"Spiked Math" Response Comic

If you read Spiked Math, you might have had the feeling of deja vu this past week. That's because Mike, the artist at Spiked Math, was inspired by the Circle in the Square comic, and created a response of his own.

It's nice to know that I'm inspiring someone, even if he isn't one of my students.

Facing the Unknown

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Sooner or later, we all have to face the unknown.

First-Day Freshmen Mistakes

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First day of the year, I become a human signpost.

Sexy Primes

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Trust me, if you were a walking, talking alphanumeric character, you'd agree.

And then you might want to know what Sexy primes actually are.

Sunday Comic: Super-Stickman Graphite Novel pages 1, 2 and 3

Dateline: Stick-World!
A new story is beginning, a new chapter in the lives of Our Hero and those around him who matter most. And the villains are back. Chilling! Brrrrrrr.

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Circle in the Square

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Which yields the age-old debate: is it smarter to try to fit a round peg in a square hole or a square peg is a round hole?

Cartoon 360. All polygons have a different number of degrees usually associated with them, but circles and squares are both 360.

On a tangential note, there is a theater in Manhattan called The Circle in the Square, which has put on many great shows (and at least one dreadful one). If you're in the city ...

Everyone's a Critic ...

Okay, not everyone. And being critical isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Besides, it means at the very least that I got noticed by someone.

Looking at my statistics for the xwhy page for the past couple of days, I noticed a couple of unusual entries. First, there was MathFail.com, which I believe I punctuated correctly. There were only a few visitors, but they averaged 14 pages per visit.

I'll put aside for a moment my feelings for the use of the word "Fail" as a name, exclamation or expletive, even though that is as much Internet culture as calling a web log a "blog". This site is a blog with math jokes and other related links. Although I didn't make it onto the list of Favorite Math Blogs (and I can't argue with the choices because I read several of those myself), but I did make it onto the Top 10 list of geeky math comics / webcomics, with the following comment:

5. (x, why?) - A funny webcomic, and has over 350 comics published to date. The mot recent ones are kind of meh.

I don't mind the comment, actually. That's feedback. I like feedback.
And I'll be the first to admit that as much as I like the current series of strips, even I didn't envision it going on for as long as it has. It will be taking a break before it runs its course so I can rework the conclusion.

The bigger spike came from Slashdot.org, which sent a couple dozen hits. Unfortunately, most didn't hang around long and none have come back so far today.

It took a while to track this one down for two reasons: first, because I linked to slashdot article about Mersenne primes, and second, because there is a poster there named Chris Burke, who isn't me.

In the end, it turned out that the MathFail.com post was crossposted where more people clicked on it. Mystery explained.