When they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
January 21, 2008 - 2:03 a.m.
It is 1:17 AM and I have to get up at 8:15 so I better start writing.
What did I do today? Put it down as another wasted day. I did get to Home Depot and I bought an air release valve for the downstairs bathroom radiator. It has been leaking. I didn’t replace it yet. I am such a procrastinator. I also bought a new spray head for the sink hose in the kitchen. The old one broke ages ago and I kept saying I wasn’t going to buy a new one because I’m selling the house. I realized that was silly because it is something that I really use every day so it is worth getting it replaced. That I actually did. It wasn’t as much work as changing the valve. It doesn’t involve me crawling on the floor.
I also went food shopping. I loaded up on filleted chicken breasts, which were on sale. Tonight I made Cajun chicken on my new George Foreman grill. It came out better than when i made it on the cast iron skillet and was easier too. With all the breasts I bought I am looking for new ways to prepare them. I think I’m going to try Chicken Francais next. The only thing is that it involves a white wine sauce. I’ll have to buy some wine first unless I can find some in the house.
I had peanut butter baked potato with the chicken tonight and that combination worked really well. I should see if I can find a peanut butter chicken recipe. I bet I can. I just checked and found loads of them. This should be fun.
I have gone from eating almost all my meals out and avoiding cooking at all costs to looking forward to my home cooked meals. I love cooking, it is the cleaning up I hate. I also enjoy my cooking better than the fast food I was surviving on. I actually look forward to my meals.
I got some schoolwork done today. I prepared the course outline for Finite Math. I looked at the syllabus I was given and found that it required too much work for me to post online as it is. It pretty much needs to be redone from scratch. I might go back to my usual practice of not giving out a syllabus. It really is pointless. I can tell the class what chapters we are covering and warn them that we might skip some of them. The one thing I can do is start posting what problems I’ll assign in each chapter for homework.
Want to see the outline? Sure you do. Here it is.
New York Institute Of Technology
Department Of Mathematics, Manhattan Campus
MATH-125 Finite Math
Instructor: Prof Horvendile
Office MCMB 508
Phone: ------------------
Email: -----@nyit.eduTextbook: Introductory Mathematical Analysis for Business, Economics, andthe Life and Social Sciences 12th edition; by Ernest F. Haeussler, Jr., Richard S. Paul, and Richard Wood: ISBN: 013-113948-7
Grading: There will be three tests, quizzes, and a final. There is no midterm!
Attendance and quizzes each count as one test. There are two grading options:
Option 1
The average of the tests, quizzes and attendance = 70%
The Final = 30%Option 2
The average of the tests, quizzes and attendance = 50%
The Final = 50%Your grade will be based on the option that gives you the highest grade.
Your attendance grade is simply the percentage of classes you attend. Excused absences will not count against you. If you are going to miss a test or quiz you must give proof of your excuse, a doctor’s note if you are sick. If you are attending a funeral a copy of the death certificate must be provided. This is for the good of your family. The mortality rate for family members of my students dropped dramatically after I instituted this rule. Previously some students lost as many as three grandmothers in the course of a semester. Email or call me as soon as you know you can’t make class. After the fact excuses will be judged far more critically.
Cell phones must be turned off or to vibrate. Violators will be beheaded.
I reserve the right to collect homework at any time and count it as a quiz.
You are expected to work outside class two hours for each hour you are in class. If you do that, attend all the classes and do all your homework you will probably get an A or a B. If you don’t you will most likely fail or get a D.
I posted that on Blackboard. I am going to see how much I can take advantage of the program. I had one fun idea today. I'm going to post a song of the week. It won't have anything to do with class but I'll enjoy it. The one song I know I'll use is Jim's Big Ego's Math Prof Rock Star!
All the girls in the class room think he's hot
he shows up wearing the sandals with the white socks
he hears them giggling while he's got his back to the class
he thinks he's got an eraser mark on his ass
and all the girls from the hall show up to hear him talk
even though most of the time he's covered in chalkMath Prof Rock Star!
woo hoo!
Math Prof Rock Star!
oh yeah!
Math Prof Rock Star!
who knew?
When he was young he never thought that he would be a
Math Prof Rock StarAnd after hours outside of his office there's a line waiting
full of girls lining up to ask about their quadratic equations
she leans over the desk and twirls a pencil in her hair
complains that the grade he gave her was way unfair
and all the professors they laugh about it and wish him well
but the guys in the class are just jealous as hellMath Prof Rock Star!
woo hoo!
Math Prof Rock Star!
oh yeah!
Math Prof Rock Star!
who knew?
He was voted most unlikely ever to become a
Math Prof Rock Star.And at the end of the day he's got to sneak out the back
there's a stairway behind the machine where you get a snack
she finds him there, grabs him and kisses him hard
he doesn't fight it, he knows he's been caught
and she leads him down to the alley way to her car
it's kind of hard being married to aMath Prof Rock Star!
woo hoo!
Math Prof Rock Star!
oh yeah!
Math Prof Rock Star!
who knew?
three point one four one five nine two six five three five
Math Prof Rock Star.
Can you believe that Lena doesn't think that accurately describes me? She is totally delusional.
I realized after updating yesterday that there was more I wanted to say about Rock 'N' Roll.
That doesn’t mean that I remember them now. Well this is what I can remember totally out of context of course.
Rock is often portrayed as having sold out. A group like the Rolling Stones is a corporation geared to making profits. What the plays shows though is that despite everything Rock isn’t about worshipping Mammon but the Great God Pan. When Jan gets to see his beloved Stones playing in Prague he rejoices, as chaos is unleashed, the antithesis of the totalitarian state.
On a more personal note seeing the play got me thinking about something totally unrelated to the material of the play but about my experiencing it. Carey enjoyed the show but we didn’t really share the experience. I don’t know if I have any friends now that would appreciate it the way I did and share my emotions. Lauren would be she is far away and I haven’t seen her in years. Some of you might and I don’t know it. I think there is a decent chance that Gella would as she is a fan of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead but she is in Israel. When the play opened I wrote her and asked her if she’d be in town at all during its run. She isn’t.
What I really miss though is having a friend who might not feel connection with the show independently but would if she saw it with me; someone who could see it through my eyes just as I can experience her passions through hers. That is a great gift.
I better go to sleep now. I have to get up early tomorrow to play bridge with Roy. It is already past my bedtime.
Against The Gods Intelligence Itself Contends in Vain. - July 02, 2008
Lies My Ego Told Me - June 30, 2008
Don't Believe Everything You Read; Not Even Here - June 28, 2008
Red Molly and Sinatra;, Together Again - June 27, 2008
Adventures in Adventures - June 25, 2008
Email me: GordonLew at gmail
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Horvendile January 21, 2008
