Bobby Winters

Kansas

Professor of Mathematics at Freelance

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Seminole Wind - The Morning Sun

2 weeks ago | morningsun.net | Bobby Winters

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What Do You Know?

1 month ago | morningsun.net | Bobby Winters

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Invisible Joinery

2 months ago | theadanews.com | Bobby Winters

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about making a frame for a cedar chest. My intention was to segue off that and talk about frameworks in a more abstract way, but I got sucked into a vortex of writing about woodwork and ran out of space. I could just leave it lay, but the topic won’t let me go. Frameworks just keep popping into my head.
The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything

2 months ago | morningsun.net | Bobby Winters

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A Discourse on Joinery

2 months ago | morningsun.net | Bobby Winters

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Percy, Tyson, and Pepe Le Pew

Jan 25, 2025 | theadanews.com | Bobby Winters

Many years ago I put forth my theories of “Cat Physics” and “Cat Chemistry.” Every home has a cat number attached to it. The cat number of my house is three and the universe conspires in ruthless ways to maintain that number. If a cat died, a new one appeared, and, by doing so, preserved the cat number. If a new cat turned up, then one of the old ones (or perhaps even the new one) would meet some sort of--sometimes grisly--end. You don’t mess with physics.
The Three-Body Problem

Jan 18, 2025 | theadanews.com | Bobby Winters

I’ve just finished going through the audiobook version of The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (translated by Ken Liu and Joel Martinsen). If you like hard science-fiction, I recommend it, but the word “hard” there carries multiple meanings. It is not an easy book. It’s made me think. There is a line from The Lord of the Rings that comes into my head periodically: “Some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth.” The same is true of humans now.
The Three-Body Problem

Jan 18, 2025 | morningsun.net | Bobby Winters

fOkie in ExilePosted 1/18/25I’ve just finished going through the audiobook version of “The Three-Body Problem” by Cixin Liu (translated by Ken Liu and Joel Martinsen). If you like hard science-fiction, I …This item is available in full to subscribers.
Feeling Like Seven - The Morning Sun

Jan 11, 2025 | morningsun.net | Bobby Winters

fOkie in ExilePosted 1/11/25Christmas has passed and we have all exchanged our gifts. As a grandpa looking at this, I delight in the childlike wonder my grandsons exhibit, especially the wonder shown by the …This item is available in full to subscribers.
A Four-Digit Word for Fool

Dec 7, 2024 | theadanews.com | Bobby Winters

Think about the first calculator you owned or your first LED watch, if you had one. The symbols it used were displayed on a seven-segment LED. These are somewhat misnamed. They have eight segments, not seven. One of the “segments” is not geometrically a segment; it’s a decimal point. But the geometrical segments are the important part. There are two vertical segments on the left; two vertical segments on the right; three horizontal segments up the middle.