Blog Archives: March, 2006
Math Jokes
Here are some math jokes I recently discovered. If you have heard them before, I apologize for repeating them; if you haven’t heard them before, well, I just plain old apologize.
Q: Why did the chicken cross the Möbius strip?
A: To get to the other… er…
Q: What is the world’s longest song?
A: “Aleph-naught bottles of beer on the wall”.
Q: What do you get if you cross an elephant with a zebra?
A: Elephant zebra sine theta.
Q: What do you get if you cross an elephant with a mountain climber?
A: You can’t do that: a mountain climber is a scalar.
Q: How many mathematicians does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: One, who gives it to 5 engineers, thus reducing it to a previous joke.
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Painting
Painting Two weekends ago I visited Laura in Toronto. Besides buying every classical CD at HMV, I bought a painting, which is shown at left. We were just wandering down Yonge Street and we stopped in a small art gallery (Gallery Hi Art, Yonge and Wellesley). I saw a gentle red painting hanging on the wall, and though I looked around at all the paintings they had around, this one kept calling me back, so I took the plunge and bought it. It’s a great contrast against my black and white Ansel Adams photographs. It looks different in different lights — at morning, the sunlight streaming into my room makes the top have a yellow tint, and in late winter afternoons, it has a much cooler light to it. It was painted by a Toronto artist named Marco Jiang, but if the painting has a name, I don’t know it. So for now, I guess it’s Untitled, until I come up with something better. Maybe Fido. Maybe not.
