Facts

[countrycousin]

I better do this before I have to count the minutes:


1. Very happily married 46+ years.
2.  Three children, 2 biological, one legal (future post subject:  supply and demand as it pertains to adoption and adoptees)
3.  Seven grandchildren, from preschool to college.
4.  One child in Houston suburbs as Rita comes barreling through, but the family went south, had no severe traffic difficulties.  Just tried reaching them: network overloaded.UPDATE reached them, they're fine, had a vacation day.
5.  Have many interests not listed; will have to update that. 
6.  Hexaflexagons, for a random hit.
7.  Le Carré for another.  Don't necessarily agree with him, but does he write.
8.  Am generally interested in conservation, but have wound up on the Village Board of a village that owns an electric dept, so now am much more interested.
9.  So the next book whose review I intend to post is Goodstein's "Out of Gas".
10.  Greene's "Fabric of the Cosmos" after that.  Excellent for history buffs.  (long time scale, though)
11.  Was directed to interdictor just before Katrina hit (actually it was to insomnia who led me to Interdictor who occupied my attention for some time)
12.  So that's why I'm here.
13.  Live in a small village (already stated, that's not the fact) a few hundred yards from the hills and the trees.  Get out there nearly every day.  Snowshoes when usable.
14.  Overly fond of parenthetical inclusions.  You've already figured that out, OK, but it is still a fact.
15.  The net is great.  There is a small college in this town, but it is hard to find someone who has mutual interests.
16.  I suppose I ought to say something about political orientation.  Particularly since I'm an elected official.  I'm scared of both major parties.  In Vermont, I'm more scared of the Democrats.  Nationally, I'm much more scared of the Republicans.
17.  Just four more to go.  That's a fact, but I suppose it doesn't count.  Have started "The Historian" by Kostova.  So far, lots of standard suspense building, but well written.  Person who recommended it couldn't put it down. I'm not there, but am still interested.  Shouldn't all that count for more than one fact?
18.  I want to discuss Julian Simon's "Ultimate Resource".  Brief opinion: his thesis should work great until it doesn't.  Then what?
19.  Haven't been able to get the wife hooked on Bujold.  Completely don't understand.  Major failure.
20.  Haven't been able to get self hooked on Potter.  Appropriate-aged grandchildren are hooked and I have read here and there and watched the movies.  I find the schoolboy environment old.  But I have been enjoying many of the Potter-based discussions - by and large they are not about the schoolboy environment.

Comments

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

Hexaflexagons, eh? I was just talking about them (for no particular reason) in my abstract algebra class, and urging my students to look into Gardner. (Did you know that his collected columns are now available on CD-ROM from the American Mathematical Society?)

[countrycousin.livejournal.com]

I didn't know about the Gardner CD's. Will have to look into that. I have many since I have many of his collections. I was an undergraduate when the hexaflexagon article first came out. They supplanted bridge as no. 1 time waster for some time ;<). There is a good web site here:
http://home.xnet.com/~aak/hexahexa.html (http://home.xnet.com/~aak/hexahexa.html)