Borrow

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And this is after he made him carry one last week!

This cartoon was inspired in part by a comment from reddit's Math board. Unfortunately, I can't find where the comment is.

Series Premiere!

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Can you put one over on two? Find out next week!

All Around

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I thought about giving the circle an Italian accent and calling him, paesan. Then I thought better of it.

For more info on 22/7, see these.

Talk Like a (Math) Pirate Day!

It's Talk Like a Pirate Day, but I'm a Math Pirate.

So, Pi Arrrrrrr Squared, me mateys!!

Comic Sighting @ Penny Arcade

I didn't get any feedback yet on the blog about the Star Teachers strip, but someone re-posted it on the Penny Arcade forums, on a thread entitled, "Webcomics of Wildly Variable Quality".

I'd be worried by the title of the thread, but whoever posted it also took the time to edit out the extra panel in the version which was originally posted.

It's nice to know that there's an overlap of fans with Penny Arcade, even if it's only one.

Star Teachers

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Record this as a week late, and file it under What the Hell was he Thinking?

The words came to me in August, but I didn't start to visualize it until just before Labor Day. And then I had to put it together.

The historical pictures came from the Library of Congress website, and other pictures came from various freebie clipart sites,
and the Star Blazers stuff is whatever I found using Google, none of which belonged to the sites that I found the images from.

Tragedy and Comedy

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The tragedy is that this passes for comedy.



A Bonus comic for today. It was supposed to run Friday, but then I realized that the timing of it could be misinterpreted, so I held off until today.

This and That ...

Two completely unrelated topics:

First, on the anniversary of 9/11, I wanted to say something about that day, whether in words or in a comic. I thought it better to hold off attempting a comic until next year. Oddly, as a math teacher, I can't comment on what happened in the schools that day -- because I wasn't teaching yet. Even the following year, I wasn't in a classroom because I was at a district office being reassigned, having been bumped from my previous position.

No, on September 11, 2001, I wasn't in a classroom yet or still in a cubicle. I was sitting in a court building in downtown Brooklyn, just off the Brooklyn Bridge, waiting for jury duty to begin. It was a while before they gave us the news. Sometime after the trains had stopped running.

Second, on Wednesday's Star Trek meets Mythbusters comic, there was a message congratulating me on being selected for a list of the 25 best Math blogs for college
students. This might be a nice honor if the same website hadn't already done a list of the FIFTY best Math blogs for college students.

Now, it's better to be in the top 25 instead of the top 50, right? Maybe. But there's no criteria for inclusion. No rhyme or reason for the picks (except for a brief description of each blog). I haven't compared the two side-by-side yet, but the order has changed dramatically for the sites on both lists.

But I'll accept the recognition and hope that it doesn't lead to a lot of spam. My virus filters and ad blockers are working and up-to-date.

The list is at: http://www.onlinedegrees.org/25-best-math-blogs-for-college-students/

The Aliens Table: MythBusters

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But the MythBusters didn't have Capt. Kirk.

A Tale of Six Bushels

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We cut, boiled and jarred six bushels of tomatoes yesterday, give or take a peck.
How much is that in metric?
Who cares?!

There may or may not be an update on Monday or Tuesday this week.

Phineas and Pinky and Ferb and the Brain

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If you mix them all together and add a different accent, you get Dexter's Laboratory.
Or maybe Felix the Cat.

Dog Days of Summer Puzzles

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New Conversion: 1 Dog Day = 1 Week! Yes, I'm Sirius!

Edit: Here are hints to the answers. If you give up, you can rot13 them.
1. Guveq tenqr.
2. Uvtu fpubby.
3. Pynff vf bire sbe gbqnl.
4. V fgrccrq va vg ntnva.
(Lrnu, V ernyyl fgrccrq va vg ntnva.)