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- September 13, 2010
Musings on Understanding Math
September 13, 2010Read moreOne of my pet peeves is the lack of deep understanding I have regarding mathematics. The feeling of confusion is very similar to the way I feel about long-running television soap operas with a cast of characters spanning generations. I guess what I’m looking for is the story of mathematics, where the characters are not mathematicians but the concepts themselves. In other words: how were these concepts born, and how do they relate to each other? (more…)
- September 12, 2010
Kicking Myself in the Hind Brain
September 12, 2010Read moreIn my last Groundhog Day Resolution Review post, I described how I’ve come to recognize that writing is my engine. There are two interesting corollaries to this:
- Writing is my engine, but writing is not the product. I write so I can get moving. While words are produced, these are byproducts of my creative process. Symbiosis is possible with people who like the words I make, but that is a secondary effect that arises from my movement from ideas to expression.
If I write to get moving, then I shouldn’t worry too much about how the words come out. Which means I should just write…and post.
This post is about two things: writing to get started (which is what I’m doing right now by posting this), and analyzing the blockage that prevents me from revving the engine to its full power potential. (more…)
- September 10, 2010
Voltron: Defender of Your Data
September 10, 2010Read more
My buddy Alen, who has been the grandmaster of the venerable Japanese toy robot site ToyboxDX for nearly as long as I’ve known him, has been slowly building an army of original character toys. His latest: a licensed Voltron: Defender of the Universe, in a diminutive 2G USB Flash Drive package (more…)
- September 9, 2010
Primitive Notions
September 9, 2010Read moreFrom Wikipedia’s article on Axioms: A lesson learned by mathematics in the last 150 years is that it is useful to strip the meaning away from the mathematical assertions (axioms, postulates, propositions, theorems) and definitions. — that might explain why nothing made sense to me in math class. They could have told me why. Apparently, it’s because if you just accept something as true, it helps streamlines the learning process. If you call that learning. I call it indoctrination.
- September 9, 2010
Groundhog Day Resolution Review Day 9/9/2010
September 9, 2010Read moreSUMMARY: For years I’ve felt I was getting closer to finding my destiny as I blogged. It turns out I’ve been chasing myself; I’m already here and making it work. The journey is the reward; in my case, the reward is the destination. All that remains is to officially recognize that the destination is also the business plan. (more…)
