ENDS & ODDS

Ends & oddS

I got my bachelor's degree from Shimer College decades (ouch) ago. Shimer students still read and discuss original sources rather than read about and hear about original sources. Shimer was in beautiful Mt. Carroll, Illinois in my day. [more information on Mt. Carroll] Since my time Shimer has moved twice, first to Waukegan and now Chicago and of course, the web. Check her out. The liberal arts college is not dead.
Internet in a Poem Maybe this should go under Feminist Threads—but I'll keep it here for now. [As of 2012, it's been here for more than 16 or 17 years and it was once at geocities, now at reocities, a kind of wayback archive.] This is definitely one of the more unusual links to my main page. You once could link from the Big Scarey Housewife's poem page to Bookbeast's page by clicking on the word "modern" in the second line of the poem. But it links to a site I have long moved from (since I got my current web address back in 1995)[well at least that's when I no longer had the AOL website]. Still fun to read—and check what links still lead somewhere interesting.
Not the newest news, but John Knox's 1998 article, as of 2012--found on a NASA website: Serendipit-e, about recent happenings in the life of the beautiful number e is my beautiful number feature for the year 2000. I'll add a few additional e-links soon.
natural log page | e: The Story of a Number by Eli Maor at amazon
Top ln(e^10) reasons why e is better than p [pi]. | e Home Page
Slide Rule Home Page | Interactive Java Slide Rule | Math Archives Excellent!
Intro to Numbers Page: the payoff? e^ip= -1
The Abacus - Okay, I confess, I love computers. But if you feel just a little Luddite - make your own abacus. If you prefer cyberdoings, head for this page.
The Squirrel Page
[Missing link]: The Unsquirrel Page , once at www.io.com/~hmiller/unsquirrels.html, seems to be no more. I will check for it's revival every so often.
[Another missing link]: The Surrealist Compliment Generator This site vanished about long ago. I will keep an eyeball out for its possible reappearance. I miss its slap-face tenderness.
Frequently Asked Questions about Coffee and Caffeine And what do bookbeasts like nearly as much as books? Coffee!!
Al's Wild Web Page So you find this site a little too tame? Drop by Al's for great entertaiment (ragtime), oodles of great links, product/service reviews & totally virtual wildness! The new China 1999 trip is terrific. Al's a virtual tourguide. Al had some good shots from his Hong Kong trip back in 1996 too. As he writes in what's new, "you haven't lived until you've seen Pinky and the Brain in Cantonese." Something to make you go, "hmmmmmm." - Hummingbird origami folded and photographed by John Paulsen: a link for Al, whose software company honors this bird's name.

Give me something to watch on TV. Let this link transport you to the save Dr. Who campaign

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