February 2009
5 posts
Movie Review: Rachel Getting Married
Of note: The main character’s name is not “Kim” but “Kym,” but this is never spelled out in the movie itself. Literally.
Also of note: Rachel Getting Married is a sci fi epic in which the work of the extra-terrrestrial is almost completely subtextualized. What aliens have abducted Kym’s younger brother? From whence come the poodles that Kym draws in the...
“The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class...”
– Art and Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland
Reading
I am reading Neil Gaiman books. Down so far: Stardust, Good Omens, The Graveyard Book, Coraline. Working on: American Gods. Still to come: Smoke and Mirrors, Don’t Panic.
That last one is the official companion to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy!
I started this project last Friday. Hoping to finish in time for the movie version of Coraline coming out this Friday. What will I...
Mathy
The folks at Math for Love are trying to change the way we think about and teach math.
I agree that math is generally poorly taught, but I’m sort of at a loss to describe a core subject I think is well taught. I’d loosely define English classes at the high school and college levels as places designed to make me hate reading. But the particular parallel that strikes me is teaching...