I had a friend tell me this new restaurant in town makes a mean burger but when I tried it I was very underwhelmed. Then I remembered that my friend is a statistician.
True story: Two mathematicians boarding a plane were discussing something called the Killing form (after Wilhelm Killing) that has a real role in the theory of Lie algebras. And they got seriously questioned about it. And can you imagine how Proxmire freaked when he found a research grant in the theory of Lie algebras (Sophus Lie)?
A city boy cousin at his relative’s farm tried to help out with the milking in the morning, but went to the bull’s enclosure instead of the cow’s. His cousin intended to correct his mistake when he came back, but he only returned at sunset looking exhausted.
“That was harder than I thought,” he said; “it took me all day to fill the bucket.”
Our computers went down at the office today, so we had to do everything manually.
It took me fifteen minutes to shuffle the cards for Solitaire.
Putin has boasted that Russia is planning to build a base on the moon
The idea is that astronauts will live there permanently. When they were asked if they really wanted to spend the rest of their lives in a barren, lifeless, empty landscape, the Russians said…