Month: February 2010
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Ask a Silly Question
The silliest question anyone ever asked me was, “Did you start out tall and then shunk?” It is out of my reality to even imagine a disorder where a person starts out in adulthood at five feet six inches tall, then begins the process of shortening. Not only would their skeleton have to change, muscles,…
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A Box and Whisker Plot – The Plot Whisperer
I do not think I taught the lesson well and it is going into the notebook as a topic whose probability of need is an extreme outlier. At least, if someday, at some job, sitting next to a co-worker upping the nerd scale, he can say something like, “but can you show me a Box…
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The Eyes Have It
I tried out my first set of contact lenses in the late 1980s. My only experience was recalling my bonus sister working with her glass contacts on Thanksgiving Day in the mid 1970s. I remember it making a clunk noise as it fell to the table. In High School, I remember some of the wealthier…