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looks like a sexy Spanish dancer with a set of castanets in each hand?

By now, I’m sure Phil is wondering how wise it was to uncork the bottle whereby releasing an Erin onto his site.

Ivan.

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Ivan.

It is nice to meet a fellow “fear” (gaelic….) also which I break it down to Fe Ar… and get giggles from the resultant free association…
Glad on ye.

Stone statues would stand frozen in time and bear witness.

It only took a few clicks before I was roiling in a cyclone of sines, cosines, functions, and antiderivatives, all of which were swimming in a bowl of alphabet soup with letters degreed, multiplied, grouped, positive, negative, and square-rooted*.

Scary, but thrilling as well.

Why? This might surprise some of you bopping Bad Astronomers, but in high school, one of my favorite subjects was Calculus. I remember the glossy cover of the text book, cool blue and green with a waving distorted grid** for a graphic. When I was deep into the world of limits and derivatives, music would actually play in my head. I got an A in the class and went onto college to get my degree in electrical engineering.

Why do people think the concepts of creativity and mathematics are far apart? Here is an equation for you: Writing+Calculus-2(Sculpture)/Triginometry+Colors-Poetry=Erin. And an assertion: you rely on punctuation more than you realize.

You don’t believe me?

You don’t believe me!

You don’t believe me.

My name is Erin O’Brien. I am a writer.

*letters in mathematical equations are a lot like people.

**The tattoo on my back is a distorted checkerboard, representing that which is at once orderly and asymmetrical. It is my only tattoo. I designed it myself***.

***Kids, don’t try this at home.

“In Flatland there are only two dimensions (I have more) and all of the characters are geometric shapes (I am not).”

Erin, dear, you should know better than to say something like that around me. You need to look up Ovals of Cassini.

It’s Erin O’Brien–no ‘d.’

erf.

“Geek Love” is a great book. Here’s another, “Flatland” by Edwin Abbott.

This baby is 118 pages and was first published in 1884. It crackles and giggles and winks. It is little and quirky (Jeepers! This book is a lot like me!). In Flatland there are only two dimensions (I have more) and all of the characters are geometric shapes (I am not).

The circles are priests: “the controllers of our conduct and shapers of our destiny, the objects of universal homage and almost of adoration.”

Irregular polygons are shunned:

“I for my part have never known an Irregular who was not also what Nature evidently intended him to be–a hypocrite, a misanthropist, and, up to the limits of his power, a perpetrator of all manner of mischief.”

All the women are lines:

“For if a soldier is a wedge, a Woman is a needle; being, so to speak, all point, at least at the two extremities. Add to this the power of making herself practically invisible at will, and you will perceive that a Female, in Flatland, is a creature by no means to be trifled with.”

You bet your buster browns I’ve got a point at both ends. As for all you Irregulars out there, why don’t you come up and trifle me sometime?

Regarding the Mini Cooper, it possesses every quality I admire. It does not take more than it needs. It’s smart and responsive and tight. It goes really fast and it’s cute like a puppy!

Yay!

Phil, thank you so so so much for the kind words and thanks to all your readers who took time to drop in over at my place.

Erin O’Briend

I’ve bookmarked her site also.

You have given me yet ANOTHER blog to be addicted to (thanks, BA) although my all-time fave is still Gia’s blog.

It’s http://www.depletedcranium.com btw.