Re: OT: US/Mexico wall would be "disgraceful" Fox

>>Each time I do it it's different with different results. Dangerous
>>lack of consistency for something that's supposed to be finite.
>
>I maintain my belief this could be made intuitive for you. It's all in
>matching the explanation to the way you take in data.

It's certainly possible, the math classes I took when I prepared for
the Plumber Union exam were really helpful and I scored high in the
class out of about 40 others. I forget where exactly and I already
forgot what I learned, so it wasn't intuitive enough, beyond certain
small margins.

>>I could do History Numbers because they tied to something, 480BC
>>Battle of Thermopalyae and Salamis, 1066AD Battle of Hastings, 1215
>>Magna Carta - and that wasn't even MY American History, but I could
>>work the negative BC numbers and the positive AD ones.
>
>How about 10/17/1777?

Got me on that one! I learned more other-peoiple's History than ours.
In High School the History teacher was basically a Communist who said
that everything we were doing was going to hell and would end in ruin.
What a great Optimist!

>>What I missed was being able to see how numbers interacted, and what
>>ruled their behavior.
>
>It's cool stuff... at least some of it.

It has a great narrative, sorta like Joyce's Ulysses... ;-)

<snip>
> it's hard to hit a
>>vaguely distant fuzzy stick with a hoop, something you can't see. So
>>I read a lot of things that were close-up.
>
>Perhaps this explains why you weren't a goalie too. That and the no-ice
>part.

Yeh, it was easier (read: possible) to go to combat directly.

>>By 4th and 5th grade I had
>>read all the non-boring stuff, anything that wasn't "The Congo
>>produces 10,00 Hectares of Wheat"
<snippet>

>There's something else we have in common. I didn't read that either:)

I'm afraid I also didn't care for/about the economic outcomes or
results - it was straw, not grass. I loved the dynamic stuff.
Now what they're doing in Economics ties together and proofs much
better than the vague, socialistic theorists who dominated when I was
in College.

>>Might as well try and tell me how funny "Green Acres" or some other TV
<snip>

>Agreed... it's hard to explain the humor of green acres to a new crowd. But
>math is less sensitive to trends. Too bad it's just not practical to spend
>a few years explaining some of the cool things.. I wonder of you'd like
>some of the writing out there on math.. say, The Mathematical Tourist?

If it's written I can grasp it. And I did well when I studied the
subject matter later (above) but it didn't stick because there was
never any purposeful stuff behind it tying it together, like a job and
making money. I was 3rd on the list for 6 years but nobody died and I
got too old to haul pipe around for the Journeymen having coffee on
tailgates, doing their livelihoods for them. I'm just not a Union
guy.

>You know.. I think Pete agreed at dinner. There's no more riding dirt
>bikes. Maybe I should dump the XR too?

Oh HELL no, it's an action, a flow-event - that can't be appreciated
any other way. Don't cut your fingers or toes off and wear short-bus
headgear just because you didn't compete in Paris-Dakar!!

I can appreciate music, but I can't play any instruments.
(Rap isn't in the calculus of music, it's something else.)

>M

-k
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