On the Run

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They should catch it. It's a relatively slow bus.

Frigg's Day

Friday is "Frigg's Day" name for Frigg, the Norse Goddess of Foreknowledge.

This explains why when I walked into a classroom today which had gone bezerk and hollered, "What's friggin' goin' on?", I already knew the answer even before I asked.

Mouse Troubles

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The farmer's wife and his grandfather clock -- oh, the murinity!

Minus X? Why?

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I hope branching out into a new quadrant doesn't reflect poorly on the comic.

This bonus comic brought to you courtesy of "Supplyman" and "SpikedMath".
Yes, my own stuff is coming...

Transcendental Addition

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Some numbers transcend ordinary mathematics the way a good pie transcends ordinary desserts.

Oddly enough, it isn't known whether the sum of pi and e is transcendental.

Evenly enough, this comic was suggested from a comment made on a recent Spiked Math comic.

Daylight Savings

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And the funny thing isn't that I get to go back to "EST", but that everyone I know uses the abbreviation "EST" all year long even when "EDT" would be correct (for those in the Eastern Time Zone).

Spiked Math / Geeky Comic Shout-out

Mike at Spiked Math has shout-outs to (x, why?) and other geeky webcomics in this comic of his own.

More Fractals

Too good not to repost:


see more So Much Pun

Happy Halloween! / Merry Christmas!

Yes, it's a Merry Christmas! for all mathematicians because, as everybody knows:

31 OCT = 25 DEC

Okay, lame joke, which has been told a million times, which is why I didn't put it in a cartoon.

No Halloween comic this year because Real Life caused me to be away. Oops. Be back to a semi-regular schedule soon.

R's Cube

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Not to imply that grading standards, while somewhat adjustable, are totally interchangable just by rotating your position 90 degrees ...

Benoit Mandelbrot

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This conversation, more or less, occurred in the Teacher Center a few days ago.

Happy Birthday!

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Happy Third Birthday to (x, why?)!

When I was writing this up, I remembered that in the opening of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (maybe that should be 4um??), Psuedolus holds up the masks of Comedy and Tragedy -- except that both
are Comedy, so he turns one upside-down and ...

Oh, great! Now I have "Something familiar, something peculiar, something for everyone ..." running through my head!