Housekeeping

I think I'm over the shock now, but I'm not entirely sure what I was thinking. One minute I'm half complaining about how my blog was discovered too quickly and then I'm tracking back both B. and Pharyngula on my first substantive post, somehow thinking that a good method of toiling in obscurity while I find my voice and internet savvy. But Uncertain Principles and Crooked Timber linked to me, and I woke up to a couple of hundred people visiting, which I did not really feel ready for. Though I should admit that I didn't figure out where everyone was coming from until the next day, and that the quotes from Crooked Timber were all stuff I had myself quoted (though indirectly reminding someone of Borges made me blush a bit, and it's an angle I'd never seen it in, and I had forgotten how awesome Pierre Menard was). So, I was feeling a little overwhelmed about the whole thing this week, and got to thinking some about why I was blogging (other than Ben thinking it funny that I read a lot of them but didn't have my own), and what I wanted out of it. This post is already becoming too unwieldy to address that point fully, but part of what I was imagining blogging about was local stuff. So, there's a Madison area blog section in the links now, which I wanted to add now so that I'll remember to read them occasionally. I'll introduce some of them in another post in a minute or two. Other things to expect in the future:

An apple pie (though the person I lost the bet to is telling me I don't have to go through with it, though I think I'm stubborn enough that I will)

A post with more thoughts about how upper level math should be taught. Hopefully this is tomorrow. This excites me, because I've decided that getting me to think about things like this and working at expressing it clearly (hopefully) is a good reason to continue this, but also depresses me, because the thinking and especially the expressing is hard work. I don't know how Timothy Burke does it.

Hopefully, some discussion about where this site is going (suggestions?)

A subtitle (Again, suggestions? What can I say, I'm lazy.)

P.S. Ick. I need to edit. "Find my voice?"