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Duke Phillips Preschool

"Built On A Dare"

Url:	http://builtonadare.blogspot.com
Author(s):	John Light
Language:	English
Tags:	trivia, math, cooking
Description:	The main content at DPP (or BOAD - the blog, like its author, goes by several names on the Internet) is usually my team's misses at weekly trivia contests. Occasionally, however, my ruminations on cuisine and teaching appear. Recently, The Preschool has begun a lecture series on mathematical topics. The first topic extends a result in my dissertation. Future topics will be strategic discussions of dice-related games, and graph theory topics the I am currently researching.
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A son! A son! A son! Hear the joyful celebrations in the street!

The trivia posts have been slowing down lately. The caller has moved to a new location, but hasn't set up trivia night yet, so this may have to hold you until 2010. Don't despair, though, I remain ...more

2009-12-14

Hit your marks, Stay in the light, and do the same thing every time, for continuity

WARNING: Minor Glee spoilers ahead. If you haven't seen this week's episode, consider coming back tomorrow. When we last saw the gang at McKinley High, it was Wednesday, and Will had just stepped ...more

2009-12-10

Deep Blue Something, or possibly not.

We're a bit behind on trivia because of the holidays, too. We've only been going about every other week, as the popularity at this particular watering hole has slowed down; it's just not that much ...more

2009-12-03

This show has 74 flaws as of yesterday...

WARNING: Minor Glee spoilers ahead. If you haven't seen this week's episode yet, you may want to come back tomorrow. We missed last week's Glee recap because of the holiday, so it's time to pack t...more

2009-12-03

There's no beating Judy's ham!

There's not much to say about this week's Glee. It's hard to stay with a timeline, as I can't find any point in this week's episode that specifically references an occurrence in the previous week's...more

2009-11-21

Back then, of course, if the fight lasted less than fifty rounds, we demanded our nickel back!

It's been a while since I put up trivia, and I've been stocking up on misses. Unfortunately, I've misplaced most of that stock, but here are a couple of the tougher ones from the last few weeks. Ge...more

2009-11-15

It's beginning to look a lot like...

WARNING: Minor Glee spoliers ahead. If you haven't watched this week's episode, you may want to come back tomorrow. Also, there's a spot where I link to a blog post that links back here, so you cou...more

2009-11-12

Why does it happen? Because it happens.

When I lived in Michigan, a friend of mine hosted Monday Night Football parties. I expect he still hosts them, I just don't live there anymore. Anyway, a bunch of guys would show up, and we'd spend...more

2009-11-10

Lesson 12: Why Bigger Isn't Better

In the final post on strongly asteroidal graphs, we look at asteroidal graphs other than S3; namely, graphs IIIn (for n > 2) and IVn (for n > 1). Fortunately, changing these graphs into mini...more

2009-11-04

Lesson 11: From C To Shining C

Welcome to the penultimate post on strongly asteroidal graphs. We've seen category A constructions, in which a neighbor is added to one of the asteroidal vertices of S3, and category B construction...more

2009-10-28

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