I think I might have a problem.

I opened a tab for Hulu.com, to watch TV on my laptop, and the number of items in my queue is a whopping 653 !!    I set out wondering, wow, how long will that take to watch?   Assuming each entry was an hour (which they're not all, since some will be excerpts, and I delete those), that would be a monstrous 26.45 ( Read more... )

Computer Withdrawal -

I dropped off my laptop at Best Buy at the close of business Monday. The touch pad wasn’t working. I had disabled it previously, because I would invariably touch it with my hand or arm and it would move the typing cursor and I wouldn’t notice for the longest time that I was typing new stuff in the middle of a previous ( Read more... )

Life Mathematics - Maternity Math, Mommy Mathematics

Maternity Math
40 weeks = 40 x 7 days per week = 280 days of gestation (which is never the truth)
3 trimesters = 280 days / 3 = 280/3 =
Decimal: 93.333333   or   Fractional: 93 1/3
(Thanks so much. That made it so much clearer. So easy to remember 93 ! )

And when the baby is finally “born” (or yanked ( Read more... )

 Life Mathematics   --  Music Major Math

I'm sure I'm not the only person to come up with the joke that “Music Majors can only count to FOUR.”   And, they only need to learn their letters up to “G”.

Granted, there's less of the higher levels of Mathematics involved for a B.A. in Music than there was to obtain a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, I'll ( Read more... )