Calculus and alcohol—don’t drink and derive.
(old calculus joke)
Calculus and alcohol—don’t drink and derive.
(old calculus joke)
A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts, “Excuse me. Can you help me? I promised my client that I would meet him half an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.”
The man below says, “Yes. You are in a hot air balloon, hovering approximately 30 feet above this field. You are between 40 and 42 degrees N. latitude, and between 58 and 60 degrees W. longitude.”
“You must be an engineer,” says the balloonist.
“I am,” replies the man. “How did you know?”
“Well,” says the balloonist,” everything you have told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I am still lost.”
The man below says, “You must be a manager.”
“I am,” replies the balloonist, “but how did you know?”
“Well,” says the man below, “you don’t know where you are, or where you are going. You have made a promise which you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. The fact is you are in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but now it is somehow my fault.”
(A joke from dive into mark that reminds me of some of my students.)
Thanks be to God—all of the POW’s and MIA’s from Operation Iraqi Freedom have been accounted.
As for the POW/MIA’s from the Vietnam and Korean Wars, a prayer goes out to those soldiers and their families. You have not been forgotten.
Are you against hate and discrimination? Wear a paperclip this week!
This week is the national week for the Days of Remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust.
Also, a grass roots campaign started by Sharyn Markus at Mountain Ridge Middle School in Colorado has extended the idea to include the Days of Equality and Solidarity by wearing paperclips.
During World War II, Norwegians wore paperclips on their collars to protest Nazism. To take a stand against prejudice, discrimination, hate crimes, we wear paperclips on our collars during the Days of Remembrance.
The paperclip is a wonderful symbol for unity. So wear a paperclip this week to remember the victims of hate, like the Holocaust, terrorism, Sept. 11, and other hate crimes.
It was fitting that the Norwegians wore paperclips to show their unity. It was a Norwegian who invented the paperclip. Read about the History of the Paperclip.
Fifty years ago today, James Watson and Francis Crick published their Nobel prize winning discovery in Nature describing the geometric shape of the DNA molecule. Mathematician Keith Devlin said, “Their discovery opened the door to a new understanding of life in general and genetics in particular, setting humanity on a path that in many quite literal ways would change life forever.”
Also this month (this year), the National Human Genome Research Institute has announced that the complete detailed mapping of the human genetic code is essentially complete.