Hello, fellow nerds! I am a retired electrical engineer, and I’m going to do what most of us recognize as a dangerous thing - I’m going to make an assumption … to wit, that if this diary’s title attracted you, it’s because, like me, you “get” math. Friends, it may surprise you to learn just how rare a species we are. Studies indicate that as many as 93% of American adults experience significant mathematical anxiety. when I encountered this datum on the flyleaf of a book my wife (who, at the time, was absolutely dreading the prospect of teaching middle-school math) was reading, I opined that the quoted figure was absurd. Her reply? “that’s because you’re one of that freakish 7% !”
So … you came here lookin’ for a question, right? Here it comes ,,,
How freakin’ tired are you of hearing that the number of new Covid cases today, in a state that has yet to “flatten the curve,” is higher today than on any previous day? Seriously, does nobody understand what “increasing exponentially” means??!!
Should you care to reply, please feel free to set the boundaries of your own 1-10 scale. I’m at 10, on the following scale: 1 = just finished an espresso, after 3 Red Bulls in the last half hour; 10 = an hour after taking 3 Ambiens, after 96 consecutive hours awake.