At 3:14:15 PM, I was tutoring mathematics: inscribing circles in triangles and circumscribing circles around triangles. :)
Update (10:47 PM): Fixed a typo. I had written 3:14:59 instead of 3:14:15!
March 14, 2010
February 22, 2010
Happy Birthday, George Washington!
To celebrate today, read and view some of my prior posts on this great man: George Washington: Man of Integrity, Courage, and Sterling Morality, Washington’s First Inaugural Address, and the sculpture “George Washington” by John Rogers (1829-1904).
February 15, 2010
Klaus Nordby, Tutor (Software and Graphics)
On his Website, he says:
Personal software tutoring via Internet phone
Expert hands-on tutoring in Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamweaver and other graphics stuff
I like to teach. I am, in fact, a damn good teacher. And I love talking about and demonstrating graphics software and graphics techniques. Therefore, I have decided to offer private tutoring sessions by phone in Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, XaraX and various graphics subjects. I have conducted such phone tutoring sessions with several people, and it works really well.
You — the student — and I will work on the same image or project in the software of your choice, for instant back-and-forth feedback. If you are online during the tutorial (recommend) we can easily send each other files while we talk.
The Awesome Deal
I charge $30 per 60-minute hour (phoning included) — which is a great bargain, if I may say so myself. I guarantee that you will learn a lot in just one hour. In fact, I am so confident you will be happy with our tutoring sessions that I offer a full money-back guarantee: I’ll refund your money without question if you tell me it wasn’t worth it — or give you some extra time for free, to “fill in the blanks”.
Am I legally required to say I did not, am not now, and will not in the future, benefit financially in any way from this recommendation: no stocks, bonds, money, Monopoly money, gold, silver, jewelry, diamonds, rubies, pirate treasure, books, old wadded up paper or gum wrappers, pencils, certificates, awards or anything else of a material, or spiritual, sort?
Update (2-16-10, 8:15 AM): Corrected a typo: I had written “an” instead of “am” in the last sentence.
February 12, 2010
Happy Birthday Darwin!
He has changed our lives and world outlook forever, and made medical science more inductive, integrated with survival, and practical than it has ever been. Not that all doctors have grasped his message; far from it: there is still a lot of catching up to do. But each of us, on our own, can improve our thinking about diet and health based on the theory of evolution.
We celebrated his birthday last year, and posted a link to a biographical sketch of Mr. Darwin.
January 22, 2010
Happy Birthday Sir Francis Bacon!
See my 2009 post “Happy Birthday, Sir Francis Bacon.”
He is one that people interested in science and mathematics should study. I’d recommend that homeschoolers have their children read some of his works, when age- and developmentally-appropriate. If someone has not learned induction, they have not learned science.
January 21, 2010
A Belated Happy Birthday To Edgar Allan Poe
See my 2009 post “Happy Birthday, Edgar Allan Poe.”
For the SAT and ACT takers, his material is good to read and study to learn about language, grammar, and style. His work is good to study for an education, in general.
January 17, 2010
Happy Birthday, Ben Franklin!!
Born on this date in 1706. Wikipedia says:
Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705[1]] – April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, soldier,[2] and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and the glass ‘armonica’. He formed both the first public lending library in America and the first fire department in Pennsylvania. He was an early proponent of colonial unity, and as a political writer and activist, he supported the idea of an American nation.[3] As a diplomat during the American Revolution, he secured the French alliance that helped to make independence of the United States possible.
PBS has information about him, and you can read about him on Answers.com.
January 4, 2010
Houston Weather Warning
In Houston, it’s supposed to be 28 deg F tonight, 23 Thursday night, 23 Friday night, and 24 Saturday night. Source: AccuWeather.
Take care of yourself and your animals!
December 30, 2009
Happy Birthday Kipling!
Today is the birthday of Rudyard Kipling, the English writer and poet.
On Answers.com, they say:
Rudyard Kipling is the author of The Jungle Book and other British-flavored tales of the Indian subcontinent. Kipling was born in India to British parents, but spent much of his childhood at school in England before returning to India in his teens. His collection Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) was full of colorful, dusty, sing-song poems told from the point of view of the common British soldier, including the popular poem “Gunga Din.” The Jungle Book (1894) was a collection of fictional stories about the wilds of India, many of them about Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves. It was followed by The Second Jungle Book in 1895 and was the basis for the popular 1967 Disney animated film. … Among his most popular poems are If (”IF you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you…”), Mandalay (”… An’ the dawn comes up like thunder outer China ‘crost the Bay!”). His 1897 book Captains Courageous [made into a film featuring Spencer Tracy] was set among the fishing fleets of New England, and Kim (1901) in the Himalayas. Just So Stories (1902) was a collection of whimsical African tales, including “How the Leopard Got His Spots” and “The Elephant’s Child.”
Copyright © 1998-2008 by Who2, LLC. All rights reserved. See the Rudyard Kipling biography from Who2.
A prior blog post contains the poem “If,” and another contains a quote from one of Kipling’s poems.
