Dramatis persona*

helenhead Helen Chick

I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"!

I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1!

* Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona.
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Axioms for technology

1. If everything is working fine, then it won’t be after you upgrade.

2. There WILL come a point when you cannot put off upgrading any longer.

Theorem: If everything is working fine then there WILL come a point where everything is not working fine.

Proof: If everything is working fine, then Axiom 2 says there will come a point when you will have to upgrade … despite the fact that everything is working fine (this will also happen even if everything is NOT working fine, but that’s irrelevant to our proposition). Axiom 1 then implies that things will not be working fine afterwards. QED.

Alternatively, you could have the proof by one example*: my computer was fine six weeks ago. The last few days have not been fun.

* Such a “proof” by example is not a proof at all, but it’s the one that seems most convincing to the average citizen. It’s certainly been mighty convincing for me.

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