Archive for November, 2009

TNG

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

We finally finished the last episode of season 7 this week.
I loved the ending- Captain PIcard finally joining the officers to play poker…but of course it was sad, too, since it was the LAST one….ah well, we are only on season 2 of DS9.

Book Eighteenth

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

1)  I am determined to finish this book someday! 
2)  A nice math quote:  “And the verses are twenty-seven, which is the cube of three.  For three times three are nine; and nine itself, if tripled, so as to rise from the superficial square to the cube, comes to twenty-seven.” (page 629)
3)  Augustine spends [...]

Interruptions

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Normally I can teach through anything…a testing of the fire alarm, some kid screaming in the hall…
At least that’s the way I think of myself.  But today I stopped dead for a good three or four seconds.  There was a buck bounding across the field outside and I was staring uncontrollably.
There is a story a [...]