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Hmmm, let's see who is coming from really far away, crossing borders and such..... Richard Grant is coming from Sydney, Australia. Chris Rowan is coming from Johannesburg, South Africa. Paula Signorini is coming from Sao Paulo, Brasil. Carlos Takeshi Hotta is coming from Sao Paulo, Brasil. Vedran…
   Our newborn takes after his father.The following is something of an impromptu experiment in live birth twittering. It started out simply as a means to update friends and family, but as events transpired we received some unexpected international attention. The entire labor lasted 47 hours,…
I haven't done this in a while; so now seems as good a time as any. I fired up iTunes and let 'er rip on "Shuffle Play," and this is what came up: Woody Guthrie, Talking Dust Bowl Blues (from: Dust Bowl Ballads) David Bowie, Lady Stardust (from: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders…
As an introduction to a mathematical game, and how you can use a little bit of math to form a description of the game that allows you to determine the optimal strategy, I'm going to talk a bit about Nim. Nim is a simple two-player turn-taking game. The idea is you've got a collection of piles of…

1 problem with the title, this is a depression. The Bush Depression to be precise.