Ignoring marketing advice and respecting my readers.

Learning the rules and then playing the game. Also, tying your shoes, technology and the Canterbury tales, why women apologize more than men, Maggie's link to a video of the Shaker Heights High Marching Band, and Sevil on Embracing the Devil within.

How we know that the sum of the angles in a triangle add up to 180º.

Continuing to go high when they go low.

So many things in our lives happen in threes - or at least that's the way we group them. Also, an airplane phone hack, Uno's reverse card, yoga meditation alarms neighbors, fake Canadian tourism ads, Maggie's link to a topologist's map of the US, and Karin Prater's SwiftData series.

We know that the area of a triangle is one half of base times height but in this episode we see how that is related to parallel lines.

Learning to tell someone a story they already know.

During the height of COVID we stopped shaking hands - now I notice I hug more than before. Also, Stephen Fry's voice used without his permission, Futility Closet is back, R&R HoF drops Jann Wenner, a library trolley fantasy, Maggie's link to Michelle Khare working the garbage truck, and John McCall's talk on the advantages of Swift.

How do we know when a line is straight? What about lines on the surface of a sphere?

The origins of the phrase "Keep two thoughts" from my Eulogy for Kimberli Diemert, my wife, at her funeral August 26 2016.

Do the things while we still can (or may). Also, leaving the toilet seat down, an art piece seized from a museum, are any museums ethical, the cost of owning a $500 car, the origins of Keep Two Thoughts, Maggie's link to "I bought a roundabout", and setting your legacy contacts for Apple devices.

We see why there are no parallel lines on a sphere and also note that the angles in a triangle add up to more than 180º

I'll be delivering three workshops over four days in London in November. Join me!

A reminder of the many forms of privilege and what to do when it's spotted.