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Dramatis persona*
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. Visits since May 2016 |
It seems I am still jammed in the Scouts Victoria database, despite having moved and let them know. Some other aspects of their record-keeping appear to be pretty good, however, as I arrived home today to find a letter of congratulations from them and my 30 year service badge, right on time.* Yep, 30 years. That’s about 1000 meeting […] Have you ever tried procrastination while in possession of a TARDIS? You can put everything off […] “One Direction” is just […] My office is near the tea-room which overlooks the carpark and the nearby bush, and a birch (?) tree. I have been delighted to find that most days one of the branches of the tree is occupied by a pair of tawny frogmouths. These nocturnal birds (kind of like owls, but not) are about 40cm long […] 99.9% of all sentences in the real world do not contain the word “relevant”, so does this mean you don’t need to […] My issue with Twitter: my propensity for polysyllabic verbosity (and parenthetical comments) means what I want to say won’t fit in […] Today was a Saturday, normally a day to seek excitement, adventure and really wild things*. So I did. I was in Launceston for day 2 of the annual conference of the Mathematical Association of Tasmania, where I presented a session for teachers on “Fermi problems” and getting students to engage and work with large numbers and mathematical modelling.** […] As I have mentioned elsewhere in this blog, Mount Wellington is something of a touchstone for my psyche, and when I was house-hunting prior to my move back to Hobart, having a view of the mountain was one of the requirements (although someone has since pointed out that it’s actually quite difficult to find a place […] Dear Apple I presume there is a sensible and Very Important Reason for suddenly requiring me to select some security questions for my iTunes store account. However, you appear to have failed Designing Security Questions 101. In fact, you appear not to have even enrolled in it. I struggled to pick suitable questions from your options for my first […] |
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