What's Stranger Than Cows That Mu?

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I debated adding "aque" and "tape".

Update: The cartoon was ready to go when I found out about this joke, which just appeared in the 66th Carnival of Mathematics.
It did provide me with a better title than what I had had.

Behind the Fence

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Sometimes you want to look when everybody calls your name...

But it might lead to a squirt in the eye
Or, if you're Brando, cider in the ear.

Just Frickin' Cool!

I went to check my blog today. Google was on the screen so I just started typing in "mrburkemath".

I got as far as "mrbu" when it not only showed up in the dropdown box, but it was listed FIRST.

Take that, Mrbubbles.org!! Take that, Mrbuttons.com!!

Just frickin' cool!

Near-Sighted

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You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses, would you?





How's that for "subtle"?

What is a Vet?

I first found this short essay (it's almost a poem), What is a Vet? somewhere on the Net about a dozen years ago, in the last 90s. I immediately put a copy of it on a website that I ran.

That site is no more, but I thought it important enough to copy it over to my new pages, even if it has nothing to do with Math.

My original source credited the work to Father Denis Edward O'Brien, USMC . However, he might have only written the few lines on the bottom. If anyone can find the author of the top portion (or show me that it is, in fact, all one poem), I would appreciate it.

Have a Happy Memorial Day. Enjoy your barbecues and beach parties, but take time out to remember those who made all that possible.

Subtlety

There are some who believe that humor should be crafted with the precision of a scalpel, not the blunt force of a sledgehammer. Then, there are days that I want to reach for that sledgehammer. Not that I'm usually accused of being subtle with my humor, except for the occasional quip meant to fly by many and be caught as an extra by a few.

What brings this on is yesterday's comic. I liked it simplicity, and the fact that it didn't take too much of my time. I spent as much time on the math in the comic as I did on the artwork. And I proudly showed it off around the Teacher Center yesterday.

And no one got it.

It looked like a regular mathematical illustration from a textbook, which in a way, could be a compliment. (heh, I almost spelled that with an "e" instead of an "i".) The pun was in the title, which everyone seemed to bypass like so many students skipping directions. At least we had a few "Oh, now I get it!" moments.

Now, where did I put that sledgehammer ...

Clouds

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Partly cloudy? Really? What part?

Looks like a 3% chance of a bad storm.

Eigenvectors

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No, I'm not proud, Mary.

Yes, I have been reading Spiked Math.

With Goals Like These, Who Wouldn't Want to Work There?

Corporate slide shows, particularly those that try to defend who "they" are and what "they" are doing and where "they" are going, can be tedious to sit through, and make you wonder if you want to be part of "them".

But with Key Corporate Goals like these, who wouldn't want to work there?

FYI: if you haven't noticed, Luke Surl's comic is in the bloglist in the left column on this page.

The Law of Fives

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THAT'S the POWER of FIVES!



And, of course, 1 and 4 have been buddies since Client No. 9, while 2 and 3 have been friends since the first comic.

The 0'Factor, episode 11

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"And are you a reciprocal girl?"

You know, I just checked the "OFactor" tag to see if any of the links were broken, and I didn't realize that it has been over a year since the last time I used this bit. I've used the character, but not the bit.



UPDATE: As of 2:00pm, the Comic Genesis link isn't working because they have not updated the website yet. Apparently, they are having a problem with their servers.

UPDATE 2: As of this writing, the backlog at CG has fallen from 9800 to 7, but I'm still not updated. I'm debating initiating another update manually, but that would put me to the back of the line. Granted, it says the line isn't very long, but that number hasn't changed in a while.

Ellipse?

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And when you add the square root of -1 and the square root of -1, you get ...