#math nerds

SUSALDI!!!!!!! I haven’t drawn them in forever I’ve missed them

Listen Princibaldi and Pompflex have my heart but my personal favorite will always be these two and has been for a while now

I know a thing with these two has kinda been that she’s like a duplicate of Baldi but I really wanted to try designs where her and Baldi opposite eachother! Bc I think it’s cute <3

I just finished reading Anathem by Neal Stephenson, and it was hard. And I don't say this as a form of criticism, but as a satisfaction of overcoming a challenge. I don't believe I understood all the philosophical and scientific discussions - Dialog - throughout the reading; on the contrary, there were some things I gave up trying to understand in order to maintain my sanity and be able to move forward. This is a book that requires attention to detail, engagement and patience.

"People have a need to feel that they are part of some sustainable project. Something that will go on without them. It creates a feeling of stability. I believe that the need for that kind of stability is as basic and as desperate as some of the other, more obvious needs."

It's a thousand pages that mix alternative history, close encounters of the third kind, utopian fantasy of futuristic science fiction, multiple religions and philosophical treatise, all highly detailed and not at all obvious. But I'm happy to have finished this challenge and to have understood, at least in part, the Narrative.

Illustration by Patrick Arrasmith

“Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.”

Diagrams by Fraa Erasmas in Calca 1: Cutting the Cake

Kevin’s point is to remove geometry education completely as “It is entirely useless both on its own and as a steppingstone to further studies in math.

Okay friends. Pi Day is coming up and The Boy constantly uses Pi as a way to annoy me by insisting that it’s just 3 and that’s all that matters. 😒😡 Because he’s an engineer and approximations are close enough. 😒😒 So. Being that he is 1500 miles away, I’ll be sending a Pi Day care package. So I need some help. I need to make sure this is the most obnoxious and in your face package, short of literally throwing a pie in his face.

So far I have this Pi shirt and Pi belt. I’m also thinking of making a breakfast pi and a lunch pi and a dinner pi, assuming I can make sure it will survive the trip. And ideas on what else I can put in here?