View From the Bushes

For those of you that are working on the "19 problem," the address to the original contest is http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MathQuizOne. Of particular note is the fact that there are actually three problems and the question asks which of the three are possible and which are not, so it's certainly possible that there is no way to get 19 out of 1, 2 and 3, but then you'd have to prove it wasn't possible...

I was going to make this one of the short "forum for my critics" posts, but I guess I have enough to say that I can go on. My wife and I went and saw the play "Humble Boy" last night. We had high hopes, but we were ultimately disappointed. Apparently we're in the minority; most of the reviews I've found are in the A-B range. However, this review from the Village Voice seems to largely agree with my own. The play is billed as an adaptation or at the very least an homage to Hamlet, and as such my capsule review would have to be that it was "Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing..."

Late in the day we found out that the babysitter we had lined up wasn't feeling well. So thinking quickly, I walked across the cube aisle and asked a co-worker who's a good friend of mine if he would be willing to do it. He absolutely adores children, and because he's going through a divorce he doesn't get to see his own nearly as much as he would like. As such, he was happy to come watch our kids. Despite his evident enthusiasm, I feel like I owe him big now.

One foot in front of the other
Ross