School Life #18: Happy Halloween 2020

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I don't know how happy it'll be. Maybe it'll be more stealthy.

In years past, no facial coverings were allowed in school. Face makeup is fine, but not actual masks. (I have twice, at different schools, gone as Green Lantern using face paint.) This year, everyone is masked up.

The other amusing thing is how many heroes have masks that don't cover their mouths. This works well visually for comics and movies so the characters can be more expressive.

Non-turtle ninjas seem an obvious choice for a costume that covers the face but leaves the eyes visible. The problem is that it looks like regular dark clothing that's been accessorized.

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Math Horror Movies: THEm!

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>Spoiler: There's no top. That's anticlimactic, I know.

So this one came about accidentally while I was working on "The y". I almost made a joke in the aftertext and then realized I had a comic.

And top of this, I borrowed the spider from the work files from Ants vs. Spiders, which had all those lovely ants as well.

The one thing that killed me was that I found the background and started making the comic, forgeting that I needed to fit it into my screen. I could have avoided a couple of problems. For one thing, I would have made the slope less steep, and fit more ants on it. Second, I actually had to slightly rotate the ants to fit them on this line when they would have fit a more gentle slope just fine.

Planning always helps. Having time to plan ... well, that's a different buggy situation. Anyway, que sera, sera, whatever plus b plus b.

And as these are all "B" films, don't expect to see The b any time soon. Not until next year when I'm either desperate enough to use it, or forgetful enough to think I thought of it for the first time!

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Math Horror Movies: (x, why?) The 13th

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>Accept no similarities! It's the same or it's not.

I overthought a compilation before simplifying, so to speak.

When I first started this, I never expected to still be doing this years later. Many of the webcomics I read back in 2007 have fallen by the dustbits (some have been reclaimed). Others are still going strong. Me? To quote (then paraphrase) Luke Coombs: "They say I'm middle of the road, not much to show, underachieving average Joe." But I wear my heart of my sleeve, and that might not mean much to them, but it does to me.

For thsoe who I left waiting for this one: my apologies, but family first. They were here for a good part of the day, which prevented me from finishing up. But that's fine with me.

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Math Horror Movies: THE y

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What will it intercept?

I don't know how many Math Horror Movies there will be this year because I've run through most of the obvious and quite a few obscure movie references, and they'll get more repetitive than a math drill.

This one was a little truoublesome. I originally thought to call it The Return of the y or somesuch because I thought "The y" might not be obvious. Once I drew it, I didn't feel that way. Except ... !

Then I had the logo (and post title) problem that is looks like "They"! So I played some font games. I'm happy with the result.

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Congruent

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A Pythagorean Triple whammy.

Originally, I was going to use WALK and RIDE before I decided I wanted Pentagons, for whatever reason. Oddly, it was difficult finding lists of 6-letter words with no repeated letters. Maybe I was using poor search terms.

EDIT: This was supposed to have been added when I got home last night and was sitting at my own computer. That obviously did not happen.
A congurent number is an integer that is the area of a right triagnle with three rational sides, which are not necessarily integers.
In the case of this comic, a triangle with sides of 24/5, 35/12, and 337/60 would have an area of (1/2)(24/5)(35/12), or 7.

No, not an obvious solution. I saw the list of congruent numbers before I found a list of triangles that created them. I wouldn't have wanted to have worked that out. For starters, I probably would've been stuck on the 7-24-25 triangle, trying to get an area of 7 out of that!

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Families of Functions

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It's a Not All in the Family moment.

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Time Remaining

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The moment after they post those ''Time Remaining'' announcements, they're incorrect.

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Not Right

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There's always that one who's just so obtuse.

And, yes, I could've said "right around the corner" but I didn't want to step on my own joke.

Besides, just around the corner, there could be a rainbow in the sky ...

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Rainy Days and Monday

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It's a rainy Tuesday, so that's a down day.

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Faces

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But you see more of their faces than remotely with the cameras off!

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(x, why?) Mini: Asymptomatic

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Some values have no signs. And absolute values have no signs absolutely.

This comic was inspired by #asymptotic comic from a comic of days ago.

Ob-Math: For students who found this comic page, I'm curous -- HOW?. Anyway, the fuction on the right, g(x) is asymptotic, not asymptomatic. (Also, another note for students. There's no such thing as an asymptomatic function. That's the joke.)

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(x, why?) Mini: Asymptotic

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Keeping it within the lines.

This comic was inspired by #asymptotic trending a few nights ago along with #asymptomatic.

When is a function #asymptomatic? ... Well, maybe you'll find out on Wednesday! (I was about to waste a punchline.)

Ob-Math: For students who found this comic page, the function on the left is quadratic (or is it?), and the function on the right could be exponential or part of an inverse function. (It's hard to tell.) Both functions have been transformed from their parent functions.

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