Comments on: Nut Up or Shut Up

By: Gammaburst

Gammaburst — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:07:32 +0000

Rule number one: Cardio….

By: ix

ix — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 10:27:09 +0000

“We’ve got three hot momma’s here…” Why does he want me to watch this again? Oh… select the first clip.

By: Jennifer West

Jennifer West — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 03:01:38 +0000

Great job, Jennifer, I love when he starts laughing…did you just say “nut up or shut up???” By the way, you’ve written three books now, from the outside it no longer appears that you are striving…can’t we just say adorable young author and leave it at that? Sean could still be striving, after publishing two books, but after the next one he’ll have to leave it at adorable as well.

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By: Ellipsis

Ellipsis — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:28:09 +0000

Great job Jennifer!

By: Jennifer Ouellette

Jennifer Ouellette — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:27:07 +0000

Also? What Spyder said. I was delighted when San Diego Living had a last-minute cancellation and asked me to fill in — math and science get zero time on many of these kinds of shows. The people there are kind and friendly and competent. I loved chatting with them. They’re just like your neighbors, probably, who also mistakenly assume math and science is boring. Baby steps.

By: Jennifer Ouellette

Jennifer Ouellette — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:24:15 +0000

@KiwiDamien: You’re correct. I meant to say taking an integral. It’s very very easy to mis-speak when you’re talking off the cuff like that, and correcting midstream ruins the flow of conversation — which is a critical element of TV. I’ve been very careful in subsequent interviews to get that particular example correct.

By: Tevong

Tevong — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:15:27 +0000

Good rapport and enthusiasm comes across, the interviewer seemed genuinely interested in the book by the end. Overall a positive impression!

By: KiwiDamien

KiwiDamien — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:11:03 +0000

I had a question for your wife based on this interview. She claims that the exercise of catching a baseball is really one of taking a derivative. But given what we are looking to do (take an initial speed and initial position, and then find a position as a function of time so that the catcher can intercept the ball) isn’t it closer to integrating a differential equation?

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:02:07 +0000

First, I watched like three and a half minutes of a chef with diabetes before realizing I had to load a different clip but….

I didn’t think that interview was so bad. A lot of people think math is hard and useless, so having a host start from that premise isn’t the worst because it gives the viewer someone to identify with. All in all, I think that was a fine advertisement for a book I hope to read soon.

By: spyder

spyder — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:56:00 +0000

Like most cities, San Diego Living, is a video magazine mashed together with snippets of this and that to promote the week’s events in that city. The fact that they would help promote Jennifer’s new book, The Calculus Diaries is quite noteworthy actually. LA has twenty or thirty stations that do this sort of production and they don’t invite her. Props to her for taking advantage of the opportunity to share her thoughts.

By: Rhacodactylus

Rhacodactylus — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:06:38 +0000

Excellent, another hackneyed morning show starting with the premise “math and science are boring.”

Someone fire that schmuck and hire someone with a central nervous system.