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Steve

Copernicus called. Turns out the universe does NOT revolve around you.

About Me

Guess I'm a sloth.

My Interests

Teaching, Mathematics, Teaching Mathematics, Teaching Inner City Students, Education Reform in CPS, Graduate Studies, Intelects, French, African Politics...particularly Cameroon, Love, Life, Travel, Adventure, Overcoming Obstacles, Philanthropy, Rock Stardom, Friends, Helping Others, Badminton, Walking, Jogging, Exercise, Writing, Pencil Sketching, Journaling, Reading, Sushi, Beach Going, Learning about Music Theory, Drumming, Bar Hopping, Indian Culture and Art, Kangoo Boots, Yoga, Throwing Things at Chad, Exploring the City, Riverwalks, Physics, JTHM, The Maxx, iTunes, Mathgrad podcast, Blue Man Group Video Podcast

I'd like to meet:

Whomever wrote, sang, and animated this song...

Books:

The Catcher in the Rye, A Short History of Nearly Everything, Infernal Angel, Life of Pi, Empire Falls, Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers, The Nothing That Is, Fermat's Enigma, The Golden Ratio, Fibonacci Fun (it's a workbook for kids), Harry Potter, A Series of Unfortunate Events (The End...Friday, October 13), Artemis Fowl, The Soloist, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago, Teaching Inner City Kids through Acting and Literature, more to come as I think of all the friggin' books I've read...

Heroes:

Merfbaby, my boss Emily, Amanda Congdon, Gir, René Descartes (drugs + genius = Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences), Leonard Euler, Archimedes, Franz Schubert, Henrietta Szold, ZekeySpaceyLizard, Steve Carell, Steve Irwin, Steve-o. And Lorraine Naylor. What would life be without her? I shudder at the thought.

My Blog

Failure Delivery...over 2 years later.

Everyone's received one of those "failure delivery" notices at one time or another, right? You send an email to an address that no longer exists? You get it back a few days later.   This one I s...
Posted by Steve on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:31:00 PST

One Year Later...

It'll be year since coming back to the United States in October. Progress rocks, but there's plenty left to be done. Plenty. I recognize that. With the basics now under my belt, time for improvem...
Posted by Steve on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:19:00 PST

Tell me this is not awesome...

Geeks for a Good Cause Does helping to create a Wi-Fi antenna from a water bottle, wire mesh and a motorcycle tire valve stem sound like a great way to spend a few months away from work? How about wor...
Posted by Steve on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:23:00 PST

LA Photos!

Hey, all! Sorry the updates have been few and far between. In New Mexico currently seeing the friends and family I made here during the college years! Been a blast. Everyone is so awesome. Last night ...
Posted by Steve on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 03:37:00 PST

A-Mary-Ca Day .1 and 2...

Hey, Readers! Steve here. Most of you know I'm outta Chi-town and into LA-ville.   In other words, after over 48 hours on a Greyhound, I made it into Los Angeles. Granted, I was a bit dirtier, sm...
Posted by Steve on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 04:07:00 PST

Dream a Bizarre Dream With Me...

No idea what's going on in my brain, but last week I had some MESSED UP dreams. Two, to be specific.Couple of nights ago, I drempt I was stage director for "Jaws: The Musical."Yes. You read that corre...
Posted by Steve on Sun, 02 Jul 2006 08:15:00 PST

Never said this was a "good" entry...

Second week of summer school...almost done.*sigh* Eight more to do. (Even have class on Saturdays.)Anyway, I'm taking a class entitled Technology for Math Educators. Oh man, it rocks!!!First, it's tea...
Posted by Steve on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:00:00 PST

Start o' Summer...

Summer's been in swing for just a shade under a week so far. Been going pretty good. First summer being back and all, I want to blog you all about it. Summer classes are pretty laid back. Started on...
Posted by Steve on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:41:00 PST

Reason Number 4576...

It was because of students like this that kept me in Cameroon for so long! Just got this email from one of my best students. Getting email like this makes all the headache, sweat, and blood over the t...
Posted by Steve on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 01:10:00 PST

Check it daily, my friends. Check it daily.

http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog/
Posted by Steve on Thu, 25 May 2006 08:10:00 PST