Snow Days

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This comic is a couple days late because I was out shoveling snow. And then resting my back and sore muscles.

Ironically(*), this one occurred to me back in the beginning of the summer. I made a note to remember it. I didn't need the note as it turns out because I wound up living it.

(*) - Ever notice how people overuse "ironically" when they really mean "co-incidentally"? Who am I to go against the popular tide?

Christmas Graph 2010

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For full credit, you need to label the lines and put a big 'S' ornament in the center. Or buy me lots of presents.

Troll

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Fa la la la la, la la la la!

Carol dates back to a Bard's Tale rip-off I developed as a side project back in the mid-80s on my office's mainframe. It was written in a couple thousand lines of COBOL. Of course, those images were ASCII graphics.

Bases

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It was supposed to just be the Christmas specials, but I couldn't pass up the other ones.
The images were found around the web.

Once Upon a Time, There was a Card Game named Guardians...

Back in the mid-90s, there was a glut of collectible card games, also called trading card games. Many were quickly-produced, jump-on-the-bandwagon, make-a-quick-buck games, which tried to cash in on the success of Magic: the Gathering.

One game that was better than all that was FPG's Guardians. It was fun to plan, had great artwork and simple rules. And it didn't take itself too seriously. Sadly, I discovered this game right about the time the company decided to discontinue it.

That didn't bother me much, because there was a fan base on usenet and a handful of webpages. In fact, at one point, I had risen in the ranks of geekdom to have been the go-to guy for information if you couldn't find a representative from FPG. (Paging Dave Gentzler! Paging Dave Gentzler!) Folks said that if you stopped by my webpage, you might learn a thing or two. (I'd point you to the webpage, but I really need to take it down as I haven't used that account in many, many years even though I'm still paying for it. But I digress...)

When I posted on usenet, and later on a mailing list, I used to add what I called ".sig cards", homebrew card ideas which might've been serious or silly or possibly related to whatever I was posting. (As an aside, the idea to try to have different funny signatures came from following a Master, the late John M. Ford. If only I could be that good!)

I have recently discovered (as in a half-hour ago) that there is a Guardians blog (which I knew about) which has been taking my ideas and creating cards out of them using artwork from some of the original contributors of the game. He specifically took my cards and wanted to make a set out of them. In fact, he started this past May and just finished, and I discovered it accidentally while looking for something else.

Okay, now this doesn't have much to do with math, other than stuff about Probability and Statistics and Game Theory and the fact that Magic was created by a mathematician, but it's something I'm proud of, and I would like to share it with as many people as I can.

And it's frikkin' cool.

My .sig cards, as imagined by Jackalware.

NPR

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And NCR stands for National Cash Register, which is good when you order a Combo meal.

But Wait! There's More!

Everyone who found this blog because StumbleUpon sent you to this comic, also entitled But Wait, There's More!, look around. There are other hidden gems waiting to be discovered.

In the meantime, thanks for the 4,000 hits over the past two days, which is roughly 20-40 times my normal traffic!

State Capitals

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Juneau, you can look it up online?

A Late Leslie Nielsen Comic

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Your mind tricks won't work on Leslie Nielsen.
And, technically, it's a late Late Leslie Nielsen comic,

which references this comic.

Math & Technology

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I know people like this.
Sometimes I *am* people like this.
I can only imagine what poor Michele is thinking caught in the middle there.

Student Excuse Functions

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But you didn't.

The Saddest Function

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Coming Soon: the Top Excuse Functions for Students!