baffle them with bullshit. I gave my talk in the Math Club this last Wednesday in hopes of attracting some students to work on a research project. I spent a while coming up with the title. It needed to be completely accurate and yet have that arrogant flair which is typically found in titles of science talks/articles. I think I nailed it.

How ’bout dem apples! It was a really fun talk to give because I had to engineer it to a different audience than I am accustomed to. Typically I present material to other faculty (not at Spring Hill of course) or to graduate students. For this talk I was presenting to undergrads. Some of them had taken very little mathematics. So, I needed to throw out all of the high powered jargon and assumptions and really get at what was going on. It was an incredibly instructive exercise. I have given a talk on this stuff to PhD’s before using fancy terminology and, quite frankly, I wish I had given them the talk I gave the math club folks. Oh well. Lessons learned I suppose.

On a completely unrelated note. I have a series of Demotivators^TM up on my door at work and I found some software online here that lets you make your own. I made Perspective below.