Thursday, April 16, 2009

The Nature of Two Things That are Perplexing

There are two things that I find quite perplexing -- one rather amazing and the other rather amusing.
First, the amazing thing:
The student of mine who recited the 314 + digits of pi from memory a few weeks ago and thus causing me to don a blond do just recited 901 digits of pi today.
Yes, that's right folks! We had some visitors in the building today and they got to witness it too.
This student is not someone who you'd think would take up such a task. He's not D&D geeky or strangely savant. He's smart but not flashy and prefers to fly under the radar. Except for this anomaly, he's quite the adequate minimalist. However, this challenge has him showing his true nature. I told him that the cat's out of the bag now. This is big!

Secondly, the amusing thing:
It seems that my shortest blog entry happens to be the one that draws the most traffic! It is about a naturist beach I visited in Cornwall, England last summer. I would say that two-thirds of the visitors from Google searches include the word "naturist" in them.
Who'da known?
BTW, the second most-searched blog entries that are visited are related to the posts of the questions that the students ask during our 5th grade unit on Family Life, which is coming up very shortly. Check back in the near future for these updates!

1 comment:

Unknown said...

What I find perplexing *and* amusing is that you are surprised that the two biggest hits on your blog both have to do with sex! Have you even *been* on the internet lately?!