gary shank
shank who-is-at duq.edu
1) i dont know who said this -- any clues?
"Education in the 20th century is like being taken to the world's
greatest restaurant and being fed the menu."
2) it has come to my attention that a cncentrated effort is afoot to merge and
mix qualitative and quantitative methods. this should not be attempted
without proper guidance. below is a set of conversions that might be
useful for such efforts....
Conversion factors:
1/1,000,000 phones = 1 microphone
1 trillion microphones = 1 million phones = 1 megaphone
2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
10 cards = 1 decacards
1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
10 rations = 1 decoration
100 rations = 1 C-ration
10 millipedes = 1 centipede
3 1/3 tridents = 10^1 dent = 1 decadent
2 monograms = 1 diagram
8 nickels = 2 paradigms
2 wharves = 1 paradox
2 noids = 1 paranoid +1 noid = adenoid
5 grams = 1 pentagram
100 ifiknows = 1 hectifiknow
10^-12 (one-trillionth) boo = 1 picoboo
(1 boo)^2 = 1 boo-boo
10^-18 boys = 1 attoboy
>1/10 mate = 1 decimate
1/10 Arnaz = 1 deciArnaz
10^-9 (one-billionth) goats = 1 nanogoat
2 gorics = 1 paregoric
0.001 ink machine = 1 millink machine
1 billion los = 1 gigalo
0.01 mental = 1 centimental
10^15 dogs = 1 petadog
10^18 lent = 1 exalent
10^-21 Marx = 1 zeptoMarx
10^21 spell = 1 zettaspell (take your shoes off)
10^72 = 10^24 ( 10^24 (10^24))) = yotto-yotto-yotto
10^100 purple dinosaurs = 1 barney google