davidbau.comA Dabbler's WeblogHandshaking Puzzles- December 24, 2007 While you are going to holiday parties, you might want to count handshakes, because you will find some puzzling properties. Here are two handshaking puzzles. Party Parity Puzzle number one is from Shklarsky's USSR Olympiad Problem Book. It's a proof...http://davidbau.com/archives/2007/12/24/handshaking_puzzles.html Out of Stock Toys- December 20, 2007 Can't find a Wii Get a DS instead. I can vouch for the fact that the DS can be just as fun as the Wii, especially if you get a few. Mario Kart is great on the DS - for...http://davidbau.com/archives/2007/12/20/out_of_stock_toys.html Brooks on Obama- December 18, 2007 A perceptive column on Obama by David Brooks in todays NYT. Brooks contemplates the exposure, isolation and the madness of the presidency, and concludes that among the Democrats, Obama is best-suited for the job. Obama is an inner-directed man in...http://davidbau.com/archives/2007/12/18/brooks_on_obama.html Compulsory Chinese in Panama- December 7, 2007 Thought this was an interesting news item: Panama is moving to make the teaching of Mandarin compulsory in all schools. Welcome to the 21st century....http://davidbau.com/archives/2007/12/07/compulsory_chinese_in_panama.html Wooden Jigsaws- December 2, 2007 Leave a jigsaw unfinished on a table, and my mother-in-law will be attracted to it like a moth to a flame. She says she hates the 1000-piece puzzles that are impossible to solve, but really you can tell that she...http://davidbau.com/archives/2007/12/01/wooden_jigsaws.html |