Amusements


So you, too, like fruitcake?
Robert Walser upon being

introduced to Lenin, in Zurich between the wars.

 

 

Genealogical amusements.

 

A few of my essays.

 

Youthful indiscretions.

 

"Real life" stories, from the trenches of the academy.

 

Quotes.

 

Sunrise and sunset times all over the world (and a pile of other interesting stuff as well).

 

The U.S. counties I've visited, an almost perfectly ironic page!


The Little Giants Math Book, a booklet I wrote on how to succeed in a college mathematics course.

 

Why men shouldn't write advice columns.

 

My mathematical grandfather is J.H. Conway. So is this video by Conway Twitty a coincidence? I donմ think so.

 

Follow this link to find a list of all the species of birds I've seen in or from my yards i.e., my so-called "yard lists". You will also find photographs of some of these birds.

 

Finally, I note that I used to teach at Wabash, which is, of course, an all-male college, so I've included this brief video explaining the subtleties of all-male education, which, surprisingly, I think, seem to be beyond the ken of many academics.