Reboot blues
A post wherein I discuss a kick-ass chick called Korra and provide a long overdue review of a movie adaptation of one of my beloved favorites that disappoints on so many levels… Wait a second… Didn’t I...
View ArticleThoughts on The Question
This is a conversation I seem to having a lot lately with math students, particularly seniors anxious to enter the fabled “real world” and questioning the value of their major. I figured I might as...
View ArticleThe horse says: APPLICATION DENIED
I’m currently on a search committee, and part of the job is to sift through nearly seventy sets of cover letter and curricula vitae and teaching statements and research statements and credit reports...
View ArticleBubble gum and ponies, and rainbows and happy thoughts…
… are not going to be the topics of today’s conversation. I got bogged down this weekend in a protracted and eventually caustic Facebook argument over same-sex marriage. The only silver lining to the...
View ArticleTransformvesty 3: The Dork of the Moon
I just saw a trailer for Transformers 4, which apparently has been renamed “Battleship” for some reason. There’s nothing particularly interesting about the trailer, but it did remind me of the time...
View ArticleGOP: STFU & GTFO
I try to be funny here at komplexify… I really do. (Whether I succeed is another issue entirely.) However, sometimes the sheer stupidity and vitriol of the world just defies my ability to put a...
View ArticlePopped culture
The Legend of Korra, the sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender, is officially happening! It premiers at 11 AM EST on Nickelodeon on April 14. The last time I mentioned it I was a little wary of the...
View ArticleQuickies
Scene: Office hours Me: If I had a nickel for every time a student asked me if they could include an “interpretive dance” component to their in-class mathematics presentation… …I’d have three nickels....
View ArticleHeresy
I’m sorry I’ve been away, gang… I’ve been working three jobs this summer, and they’ve kept me rather busy, whereby “busy,” I mean “3-hours-of-sleep-per-night mountains-of-paperwork...
View ArticleY U NO LISTEN TO 4 WEEKS OF ADVICE?
I finished grading my Calculus 2 exams, and I usually spend a good chunk of the day handing back the first exams talking about study techniques to better prepare students for the material. Often I...
View ArticleTalkin’ shit
If you are arguing about whether or not Forty-Five actually used the term shit hole[1], or whether or not said countries (due to their standard of living, or natural disasters, or corrupt governments,...
View ArticleWith great power…
To: Senators Thune and Rounds I am writing to express by unhappiness and disappointment with the current government shutdown, and more particularly, the circumstances that have lead to it. Despite...
View ArticleCounsel counsel
To: Representative Noem, Senators Thune and Rounds I am writing to ask you to support the Special Counsel Integrity Act (H.R 3771, S. 1741). This has been an eventful and tumultuous week for the...
View ArticlePTP > NRA
To: Senators Thune, Rounds, and Representative Noem On Thursday, a 19-year-old opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, resulting in the deaths of 15 people at the school, with...
View ArticleAccessory to theft
Senators Thune and Rounds: I am writing to you today about the current Supreme Court vacancy. On Monday, Donald Trump announced his nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. I did not see the televised event, though...
View ArticleEverything old is new again
It’s a new morning in America. One in which we now have to specify which Aurora mass-shooting we’re taking about.
View ArticleUnfollow
On Monday, 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg gave an impassioned speech at the United Nations castigating its members for failing to meaningfully address catastrophic climate change. On...
View ArticleGood counsel
I am still getting emails from the Mad Dad with whom I spoke yesterday. I’m not sure if I opened Pandora’s box, but this was my email response to him (some names have been changed to protect the...
View ArticleTwo videos
On May 25, 2020 I saw two different viral videos of white people threatening violence against Black men: the murder of George Floyd by the police, and the harassment of Christian Cooper by a jogger. I...
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