zzzzzzzzzz

All I did yesterday was do laundry and go out for Chinese food with my brother and cattitude, and I was yawning through it and joking about whether I would fall asleep before our food arrived.

Today, I only went as far as the water, and the major activity of the day was cooking myself a cheese omelet. Still sleepy.

Okay, I've also read Ken Macleod's Dark Light, and done some LJ support and stuff.

Dark Light is good, with enough throwaway jokes and references that I'm sure I missed a bunch, but it badly needed a proofreader. This is the mass market paperback, and there are places where words have obviously been omitted, and typos like "hunerd" for "hundred." Also not-so-throwaway jokes, like "Saint Teilhard of Piltdown", the patron of evolution, whose feast is celebrated with the display of avowedly faked relics. Macleod is having fun playing with overlapping tech levels and different ideas of gender. Croatan has a settled, hunting-and-gardening Stone Age culture, and an industrial culture a short distance away. Quite short, by the gliders that are part of the Stone Age people's tech. Somewhere in there, one of the industrialists explains polycentric Ptolemaic astronomy. (This is the middle of a trilogy; I'm going to wait a bit on volume 3, because three more Tiptree submissions arrived today, and I have a middle-sized backlog already.)

zzzzzzzzzz

All I did yesterday was do laundry and go out for Chinese food with my brother and cattitude, and I was yawning through it and joking about whether I would fall asleep before our food arrived.

Today, I only went as far as the water, and the major activity of the day was cooking myself a cheese omelet. Still sleepy.

Okay, I've also read Ken Macleod's Dark Light, and done some LJ support and stuff.

Dark Light is good, with enough throwaway jokes and references that I'm sure I missed a bunch, but it badly needed a proofreader. This is the mass market paperback, and there are places where words have obviously been omitted, and typos like "hunerd" for "hundred." Also not-so-throwaway jokes, like "Saint Teilhard of Piltdown", the patron of evolution, whose feast is celebrated with the display of avowedly faked relics. Macleod is having fun playing with overlapping tech levels and different ideas of gender. Croatan has a settled, hunting-and-gardening Stone Age culture, and an industrial culture a short distance away. Quite short, by the gliders that are part of the Stone Age people's tech. Somewhere in there, one of the industrialists explains polycentric Ptolemaic astronomy. (This is the middle of a trilogy; I'm going to wait a bit on volume 3, because three more Tiptree submissions arrived today, and I have a middle-sized backlog already.)

can someone recommend a calculus review?

During Wiscon, I looked at someone's t-shirt, and realized "I've forgotten integral calculus!" (It had a very simple integral on it.) I thought that maybe I was just tired, but I've more or less caught up on sleep, and I think I have forgotten integrals. Maybe all of calculus, I haven't tried to do anything with derivatives in the last week.

So, can anyone recommend a decent refresher? Online by preference, to save money and space.

(I could post it as an AKICIF on news:rec.arts.sf.fandom, but there are two threads at least arguing over math teaching, public schools, and similar matters at the moment, and I suspect I'd get more heat than light.)

I remember sitting in calculus class, and learning to read Bruce's mirror writing, and not thinking much of the teacher. I remember the odd sensation of slogging through problems and tests on sheer brute force memorization, and then going "aha!" three weeks into the next unit, over and over. But I don't remember the material itself.

can someone recommend a calculus review?

During Wiscon, I looked at someone's t-shirt, and realized "I've forgotten integral calculus!" (It had a very simple integral on it.) I thought that maybe I was just tired, but I've more or less caught up on sleep, and I think I have forgotten integrals. Maybe all of calculus, I haven't tried to do anything with derivatives in the last week.

So, can anyone recommend a decent refresher? Online by preference, to save money and space.

(I could post it as an AKICIF on news:rec.arts.sf.fandom, but there are two threads at least arguing over math teaching, public schools, and similar matters at the moment, and I suspect I'd get more heat than light.)

I remember sitting in calculus class, and learning to read Bruce's mirror writing, and not thinking much of the teacher. I remember the odd sensation of slogging through problems and tests on sheer brute force memorization, and then going "aha!" three weeks into the next unit, over and over. But I don't remember the material itself.