Meme Ketchup? Meme Catch Up?

On Physical Space

Click for larger. The meme asks us to ponder our interior design. I cringed. I tried to pretend I hadn’t seen it. I’m terrible at this.

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Simultaneously the other day:

• I reconnected with some old college buddies and realized through our perfunctory catch-up chatting that I won some sort of lottery a few years back, a lottery I didn’t enter, the prize of which was a career and some hobbies I find eminently satisfying. Dodged a bullet there, apparently.
• I realized this blogging thing has to be more than the exchange of ideas — you and me, me and you — that, for the ideas to really take root, there has to be some personality lubricating the transaction. There is, of course, the concern that a noxious personality might attach itself to worthy ideas, but we’re going to risk that here.

So my alter ego would like to introduce himself now.

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You’re missing a great roundtable discussion of NCLB right now. [via Jacobs]

The newest STAR questions were released last Thursday. Time to drop these into warmup exercises.

Dave Marain posts his most confounding problem to date over at his Math Notations.