Tuesday, March 31, 2009

#36: There Will Never Be Another You

Retirement beckons: I'm heading to the University of Chicago for graduate school in financial mathematics! Look for the new website "Mathematician Dan" in which I will post a new differential equation every day. (Just kidding. Sort of.)

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Today at Nordstrom, a woman asked me the following question:

"Is that canoodling?"

She evidently meant this in some musical sense, but I've never heard it used that way. I pretended to think she was asking if I was playing a song called "Canoodling" (though I know of no such song). Altogether an awkward exchange.