My Buddy Doug

Although, I am a little behind in my reading of Doug Peterson's blog, he always has fascinating links and articles to dig into.  Yesterday, it was the Dolphin Mobile browser and a post about Blogger Mobile layouts.  The latter had me blow away the widgets on this blog for a few minutes until I found the revert button.

Today, was a fun diversion that appealed to my vanity.  When we were growing up, we thought we were the only Iseneggers in the new world, but the internet and Nadine cured that notion.

HowManyOfMe.com

There are or fewer people with the name Ross Isenegger in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Doug is so current that he has dropped Mathfest off his blogroll, presumably for my dismal rate of posting.

More trivia from HowManyOfMe.com:

• There are 78,058 people in the U.S. with the first name Ross.
• Statistically the 622nd most popular first name.
• More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Ross are male.
• There are fewer than 116 people in the U.S. with the last name Isenegger.

Happy 2nd Birthday

My blog is now into its third year and although I have plenty of ideas for posts, I seem to have placed writing them at a very low priority. Most of my ideas for posts require more concentration and research than I think I can muster. I often check my Feedjit traffic - about 15 visits a day for topics closely related to my interests or as far away as the visit by someone searching for "dream about number 127". Recently, I noticed for the first time a visit by someone from a Google Doc (that I don't have access to) and someone leaving the page from my embedded delicious feed at the left of the screen. That was a link to what I thought was a fair-minded and well-written piece in the Washington post about a teacher trying to encourage Math talk in her classroom.

If you are looking to follow a blogger who is more prolific, may I again suggest Doug Peterson. Just one day of his delicious feed is inspiring.

It has been two years full of learning and thinking about the effect of Web 2.0 on education, much of it chronicled at http://mathfest.wikispaces.com. /Web2.0+For+Math+Educators. Thanks for your part in it.

Math in the Movies

If you are going to subscribe to only one delicious feed, choose dougpete, unless you already subscribe to his blog.

Here is a beauty of a site that Doug tagged: Mathematics in Movies.

Right now it has about 80 clips from movies that involve math, including the explanation of why 7 times 13 is 28 below from Abbott and Costello's In the Navy, which I just love and the clip from Harold and Kumar that I wrote about previously.

I laughed out loud!

From Doug Peterson's del.icio.us stream:

Let me google that for you
This is for all those people that find it more convenient to bother you with their question rather than google it for themselves.
(tags: weird web utilities useful tools share)

I visited the site, typed my favorite search term ("Ubersketch") and laughed out loud when I saw the result. Now, will I be brave enough to send that to a querier (that is someone who poses a query - which reminds me of an off-colour joke about the effeminate English teacher...)?

Geoff Day told me again that there is no such thing as a dumb question, but in my heart of hearts, I tend to disagree.