Saturday in Hull

[mattbean]

Tutorial in Hull yesterday.  I really didn't want to go and the wind did make the drive rather unpleasant.  However, I'm glad I did.  I now understand calculus!  I hasten to add that doesn't mean I can actually do  calculus but I understand what it is for and the principle underlying it.  So, where a year of AS maths failed the OU manages in 2

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[geoffbrowne]

Hull Univerity branch of Waterstone's has always shut on Saturdays, as I recall.

Are you being heterosexist in assuming that just because a man has a male name tattooed on him it must be his own?

[mattbean]

Are you being heterosexist in assuming that just because a man has a male name tattooed on him it must be his own?
a-ha, you underestimate my cunning powers of deduction grasshopper! I conclude that it was his own name because it was the same as the name on his ID badge! Of course, he could also have a partner with the same name as well. Or I suppose he could be wearing someone else's ID badge...

[geoffbrowne]

Of course, one the commonest class names to have tattooed on oneself, I believe, are those of one's progeny, and it's not uncommon to name progeny after a parent...

[mattbean]

A possibility that I confess I had not considered. Hmm, he was very young but it is possible I suppose.

[dilerium]

Are you planning on doing anything for Kassie-monsters birthday?

[bitvacuous]

Many years ago someone asked me to help them with their calculus homework for an access course. So I borrowed the text book to remind myself what it was (not having done any for a decade) and discovered why I'd spent those 3 years learning the stuff, I just thought it was a maths mind game, but discovered it was about calculating the gradient of a curve. I'd completely missed the whole "practical application" and just treated it as a way to a bit of paper to get me to university (and to stay there). I really must have been very tiresome to teach.