The Recovering Hopper

  A lthough I haven’t posted about it on the blog since 2020, π Day is celebrated every March 14 here at the Hopper household with unbridled...

  “God teaches the soul by pains and obstacles, not by ideas.” – Fr. Jean-Pierre de Caussade, Abandonment to Divine Providence   “What s...

  H ere’s a neat mathematical riddle to use on your friends to prove your genius bona fides. It sounds unsolvable until, well, you hear the ...

  I was scrolling through Twitter over the weekend and saw this pic:     with the phrase, “DON’T BE A …” right in front of it.   Yes!...

  I just learned a nifty little item a few days ago that only stuck out to me since I posted a bad math joke on Fibonacci numbers about a m...

  “T his joke about the Fibonacci sequence is just as bad as the two that preceded it.”   Answer Key:

  I’m pleasantly meandering my way through a science fiction anthology I picked up from the local library, The 1976 Annual World’s Best SF ,...

  Okay, I read about this a month or so ago and wanted to post something but haven’t had the time, energy or inclination. Now, lucky reader,...

  Don’t know if I’ve mentioned it here in these electronic pages before, but I’ve been thinking about some personal inevitabilities lately. ...

“Yes, I want a small breakfast of banana bread and apple fritters, expensive alcohol, improving all my old features” That is someth...

Q: How did the mathematician scold his child? A: “If I told you n times, I’ve told you n + 1 times …” Joke courtesy of Patch,...

During the Civil War, how did a general know the size of the opposing force? McClellan had on hand Alan Pinkerton, of the well-known...

I was reading an article on why the metric system never took off in the US the other day (it was slow at work). In the comments, someone ...

Take any number greater than two digits and add its palindrome. For example, 26 + 62 The answer will also be a palindrome. 26 ...

Let’s say you take three pennies and toss them up in the air simultaneously. What are the odds they all come down on the same side, eith...

Happen every weekend? I am so refreshed – really needed that extra hour of sleep. I am sure you are, too. So, why can’t we do this every...

“A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.” - (in all probability erroneously) attri...

If Twitter existed back then

Saw this pic yesterday morning and was filled with a glorious hope for all things American pop culture to grand Western Civilization: ...