Sam Cook

Overheard the following at McDs this morning as 5 very old men talked very loudly. "You see those commercials for the $89 hearing aids, I can't believe how cheap they are" "Trump told them to lower the prices" "Yep, I am getting some fitted on Saturday"

That is 5 reliable votes in all elections.

Dodecahedron is the 12 sided dice (do Dec is 2+ 10), the 20 sided one is icosahedron.

WE HAVE AN EXPLANATION!!! Apparently google forms updates the file name with a "- name", so this is not willful ignorance.

Now thinking there is a coordinated joke being played on me. I updated the wording to be clear with an example of what not to do as well. We are now 0 for 5 on correct file names submitted.

They are doing some version of this. So I need to have some non-examples too I suppose. This is why I have so much grace with students, many of my own peers disregard instructions as well.

I ask because three people have resubmitted and all three submitted incorrect file names

If the link to your file is not taking you to your camera ready paper this means you did not follow the camera ready directions when it came to file name, please submit a PDF of your paper with the file name in the proper format. That format is the THREE digit submission number of your paper. For example if your paper is 112, then your file name should be 112.pdf, but if your paper number is 67 then your file name should be 067.pdf, etc. This should be the same file you uploaded to your camera ready submission.

What it is about my directions that people are not understanding. Several people did not follow file naming directions (not shocking), I gave them a chance to fix it by submitting with the attached directions. If your submission 117 file name was joesmith-papertitle.pdf what would you change it to?

Watching the DPOY odds change live is wild. I just watched over 2 minutes as Dyson Daniels went from 25-1 down to 13-1 in small increments every 10 seconds or so.

Victor Wembanyama out of the year, DPOY odds go from JJJ and Mobley being 30-1 (tied for 2nd best odds) to the favorites at -125 and -110. That is quite the jump

Unfortunately I am an R and Stata user.

checking your phone and seeing Luka was traded for AD

A Facebook post from 10 years ago saying Hassan Whiteside has 14 rebounds with 3 minutes left in the first quarter

Lol I am such a sicko for the NBA

Amen Thompson's game winner for the Rockets

Thanks, got the article

hello @readprimus.bsky.social how do I pull articles through MAA? Is that still a benefit of MAA membership? I cannot find it

It's not everyday that I wake up to a front page article in the Boston Globe featuring a colleague of mine, complete with photo shoot.

Today is that day! Fantastic coverage of the teacher workforce research that @oliviachi.bsky.social does here at BU Wheelock.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/14/b...

Facebook post saying that ESPN just announced the Maloofs were moving the Kings to Seattle.

12 years ago today, Seattle got their basketball team back for a hot second:

Great idea!

Santa's naughty and nice list. Naughty is 6÷2(1+2). Nice is "6/((2(1+2)) or (6/2)(1+2)"

Be on Santa's nice list by simply conveying what you mean mathematically clearly so we can stop having these PEMDAS arguments.

#math #ITeachMath #EduSky

Actual quote from an end of semester reflective essay: "I've ran into a bunch of math teachers in my day, some have been kickass and some have just been ass."

Can we calculate the probability this goes before a judge who was a beneficiary of this?

Amazing PBP call

My 4 year old had a very bad bike accident that required an ambulance ride. They billed the address of the house she crashed in front of, we never got the bill, went to collections. We tried to figure out but didn't even know ambulance company, so no way to fix anything.

Just because we can doesn't mean we should

Inter Miami's Lionel Messi named 2024 Landon Donovan MLS MVP | MLSSoccer.com Lionel Messi has been named the 2024 Landon Donovan MLS MVP, crowning a campaign in which he captained Inter Miami CF en route to their first-ever Supporters’ Shield title and the MLS single-season po...

Finally gonna put my Applied Math and Stats Ph.D. to good use. Lionel Messi just won the Landon Donovan MLS MVP Award, which means, mathematically that Landon Donovan is the greatest soccer player of all time, do not @ me I do not make the rules it is just math. www.mlssoccer.com/news/inter-m...

Shame, it was a good idea

Here is the link: learnedleague.com/question.php...

@learnedlag.bsky.social any idea why the Guac question from last week is listed as 100% correct? You each missed it, did you get credit for some reason?

I am asking the important questions here. Do you know what Iron Kids Bread is? Because my partner had no idea what in the world I was talking about when I casually busted out the rap.

1️⃣ Yes, it is BETTER THAN THE REST!
2️⃣ Vaguely
3️⃣ No idea what you are talking about

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So this is a nice joke, but it is also possible.