Checking out my nephew TJ on the front page of his high school's web page as homecoming king. (related link)
Dropped Claire & friends off at school. I've got Pandora music streaming via the Chumby, coffee in /dev/mug, and am working from home.
Just back from the gym. Did a double board Step routine. They're always mentally as well as physically challenging. Back to debuggin'...
Just got a clever phishing email for my non-existent Merrill Lynch account. [vent]The folks who masquerade like this are just scum! [/vent]
Laughing at the parody Microsoft/Apple attack ad, done political campaign style. Tin foil hat anyone? (related link)
Doin' some 0ld skoo1 code debugging with gdb under emacs. (related link) Lord, help me!
Did a little of my taxi papa role as I went to pick up Claire and two friends from Gymnastics Village.
Claire and I spent 15 minutes trying to complete this pattern for her homework: 3, 4, 7, 12, 19, ??, ??, ?? before we figured it out.
I got the pattern right away- must be an elementary ed. thing- did you ask the boys?
Posted by: alyssa at September 26, 2008 12:20 AMThe thing that sent me on the wrong path for a little while was that 7 == 3+4, and 19 == 7+12. So it was starting to look a lot like a Fibonacci style pattern. But 12 is not 7+4! And yes, once I looked at the trend in differences between two adjacent numbers, I quickly caught the pattern. Perhaps if I'd looked at the other examples on the page, it might have hit me sooner. Claire gave me just this one because she was stuck on it and when she told me the kinds of things she was thinking, I just kept going down the wrong paths. I needed to think "it's just 7th grade math." and stop trying to complicate it more than it was.
Posted by: Scott at September 26, 2008 11:13 AM