Paperback is released! Last Day for Special Deal! BOTH issues (e-book & paperback) of More Spitballs. . . are now released and live on Amazon. (Check out the paperback link here.) Don’t forget this is your LAST day to order the paperback at the special pre-publication price!
Krazy Pic 1 A little different from our usual KPs, but if you know anything about chess, it’ll make you smile! Clever indeed.
Krazy Pic 2 Well, perhaps we can at least admire their apparent dedication?
The Bridge that’s a “Truck Magnet” This Kansas City bridge is 12 feet high. It’s hit so often by trucks, it has its own Facebook page to keep score! (Thanks to Richard Barger for the alert.)
Hate Grammar? Turns out you’re an expert here (and didn’t know it). Foreigners learning English study this rule extensively, yet we instictively are experts without even knowing there’s a ‘rule’ !! Thanks, Anita Dixon!
Did I Read That Right?! Alexis Avis sent along this funny list of headlines that just didn’t come out quite right. (Format is a little messed up, but you’ll still be able to read – and smile.)
BT Summary & Solutions – Again I’m including this again, partly because you might not have looked last time (and there were some neat results and solvers’ observations), but mostly because I forgot to include a fascinating, paradoxical math fact after Bonus #3! (If you’re not fascinated by this, we’ll refund your money and I’ll double the amount I’ve left you in my will ! [family excluded].
Dropping Out . . . and Dropping In Back in the ’90s, two Missouri legislators tried to extend the mandatory school attendance age from 16 to 18. That effort dovetails nicely with our recent discussions about maximizing learning for all – and how difficult it is. Last week’s News-Leader column.
Quote for the Week
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
Hal Borland