magicdragon2 (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} magicdragon2) wrote,@ 2004-10-16 12:16:00 |
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What's Happening Since We Fell into Fall
I've been away from LiveJournal for at least a month, working gruesomely long hours (on top of teaching and research) in writing an Appellate Opening Brief, and filing a late tax return (very complicated when you run several small businesses, have erroneous data from a mortgage company on interest paid, and have a son getting tax credits as tiny rebate for college tuition). But now that I'm back, I'll be catching up.
I've also been very busy submitting and having over 100 accepted and posted on Prime Curios!
In July, we spent a long weekend (along with over 70,000 others) at San Diego Comic-Con.
In late August I started teaching my Fall Semester classes in Intermediate Algebra (2 sections, 55 students) at Woodbury University. My family and I saw, and enjoyed, "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow." I coauthored a web page on my silly math discovery:
Eric W. Weisstein et al. "Emirpimes."
From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Emirpimes.h
In September, I turned 53 years old (a prime), and my brother Andy turned 51 (an emirpimes, since 51 = 3 x 17, and its reverse 15 = 3 x 5). My wife and I attended CopperCon, in Arizona. I went to a Dodgers-Padres game (before the Dodgers' season sputtered out in early postseason). My 15-year-old son
There's been academic politics galore, but I seem to have won a chunk of a big Federal Grant to rigorously test my innvoative Math teraching methods for 10 weeks in late may 2005-early August 2005, at my consulting rate ($100 to $150 per hours, triple my teaching rate). More on that as it develops.
That's my life in brief: husband, father, brother, teacher, Experimental Mathematician, baseball fan, and giver-of-panels at Science Fiction conventions. It's fun for me, and thank you for letting me share my experiences with you!
I've been away from LiveJournal for at least a month, working gruesomely long hours (on top of teaching and research) in writing an Appellate Opening Brief, and filing a late tax return (very complicated when you run several small businesses, have erroneous data from a mortgage company on interest paid, and have a son getting tax credits as tiny rebate for college tuition). But now that I'm back, I'll be catching up.
I've also been very busy submitting and having over 100 accepted and posted on Prime Curios!
In July, we spent a long weekend (along with over 70,000 others) at San Diego Comic-Con.
In late August I started teaching my Fall Semester classes in Intermediate Algebra (2 sections, 55 students) at Woodbury University. My family and I saw, and enjoyed, "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow." I coauthored a web page on my silly math discovery:
Eric W. Weisstein et al. "Emirpimes."
From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Emirpimes.h
In September, I turned 53 years old (a prime), and my brother Andy turned 51 (an emirpimes, since 51 = 3 x 17, and its reverse 15 = 3 x 5). My wife and I attended CopperCon, in Arizona. I went to a Dodgers-Padres game (before the Dodgers' season sputtered out in early postseason). My 15-year-old son
There's been academic politics galore, but I seem to have won a chunk of a big Federal Grant to rigorously test my innvoative Math teraching methods for 10 weeks in late may 2005-early August 2005, at my consulting rate ($100 to $150 per hours, triple my teaching rate). More on that as it develops.
That's my life in brief: husband, father, brother, teacher, Experimental Mathematician, baseball fan, and giver-of-panels at Science Fiction conventions. It's fun for me, and thank you for letting me share my experiences with you!
