A terrorist from Al-Gebra

As received by e-mail:
At New York's Kennedy Airport today, an individual, later discovered to be a public school teacher, was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set square, and a calculator.
Attorney General John Ashcroft believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement. He is being charged with carrying weapons of math instruction.

Al-Gebra is a very fearsome cult, indeed. They desire average solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on a tangent in a search of absolute value. They consist of quite shadowy figures, with names like "x"
and "y", and, although they are frequently referred to as "unknowns", we know they really belong to a common denominator and are part of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country. As the great Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, there are 3 sides to every angle, and if God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, He would have given us more fingers and toes.

Therefore, I'm extremely grateful that our government has given us a sine that it is intent on protracting us from these math-dogs who are so willing to disintegrate us with calculus disregard.

These statistic bastards love to inflict plane on every sphere of influence. Under the circumferences, it's time we differentiated their root, made our point, and drew the line. These weapons of math instruction have the potential to decimal everything in their math on a scalar never before seen unless we become exponents of a Higher Power and begin to appreciate the random facts of vertex.

As our Great Leader would say, "Read my ellipse". Here is one principle he is uncertainty of---though they continue to multiply, their days are numbered and sooner or later the hypotenuse will tighten around their necks.

"The Seven Challenges Workbook" by Dennis Rivers is an excellent book in interpersonal communication. It contains great exercises to improve skills for dialogue and conversation. The book can be downloaded by free at http://www.newconversations.net/ . The author has put together best practices from Carl Rogers, Thomas Gordon, Marshall Rosenberg y other experts in interpersonal communication.

Murphy's law

According to the "Murphy Laws Site", the rule was born during an Air Force project in 1949. An engineer in chief that carried a list of principles listened to Edward A. Murphy scolding a worker who had made a mistake with some wires: ""If there is any way to do it wrong, he'll find it." The engineer wrote it down under the title Murphy's law. Latter on, when giving a press conference, John Paul Stapp said to reporters that the project was doing great because they followed Murphy's rule: "If anything can go wrong, it will". They published it, air industry picked it up and the law took off. The video above presents diverse instances of Murphy's law.

Benjamin Zander

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