Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Feb 3, 2012, 5:58 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. Sometimes I do feel like I'm doing the same thing over and over again (after all, I am a math teacher), but the hardest thing to admit when creating this strip was that Groundhog Day was actually an "old...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Jan 27, 2012, 1:00 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. Name withheld to protect ... well, me, actually. I don't want to be fired or, worse, given the third-year freshmen pre-algebra class.
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Jan 26, 2012, 1:00 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. Anyway, the problem posed in the previous picture had an incorrect solution. Mike inadvertantly used phi instead of phi % when solving his imaginary interest inquiry. The actual result was a loss of a...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Jan 23, 2012, 3:49 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. If you're interested in a problem with four funny math 'numbers'. To some of the guys I work with, all paper currency is imaginary dollars...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Jan 20, 2012, 1:43 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. That is, 100%, without fail, metaphysical certitude.
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Oct 31, 2011, 1:00 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. Sounds totally logical, so he should wear blue. Except that he isn't 100% correct. In fact, in Mike's first appearance, he wore a blue shirt. I was determined not to have my characters wear the same thing...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Oct 28, 2011, 2:01 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. In this area, you encounter many accents which will make this joke work as well as a lot of outdated linoleum.
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Oct 27, 2011, 6:40 am
David Morgan-Mar, creator of Irregular Webcomic asked me to contribute a strip to his Guest Week of strips, which is now in its second week. My strip appeared yesterday. It's my first Lego bricks strip that I photographed myself, rather than adapting David's previous work. (Look up some to the stri...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Oct 26, 2011, 1:00 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. 1/2 a tea squared. That's my position, and I'm sticking to it. Inspired by some of the comments on the Coffee Logic thread, and those over on the Language Log blog.
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Oct 25, 2011, 8:54 pm
I did plan to put it on my calendar, so I wouldn't forget. But I didn't, so I did. Oopsie. It's probably just because it seems so hard to believe that it's been four years since I published that first comic on this blog. The blog itself is older as it was originally intended for my students, a few o...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Oct 24, 2011, 1:00 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. Everything shines, How sweet! Parallel line Who -- wait, what now???
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Oct 19, 2011, 4:45 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. Remember, kids, don't try this at home! Well, I guess you really can't try this at home unless you live in a really tall building or have a cliff in your backyard . . .
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Oct 17, 2011, 1:00 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. She gave me a chance! She gave me a sign! EDIT: Yes, it's an unauthorized follow-up to this xkcd comic, set to the sounds of the 80s.
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Oct 14, 2011, 11:35 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. Do you know one person who you have to constantly tell, You know what I meant. Only one? It was a short week, and I was still ready for Friday early.
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Oct 10, 2011, 10:15 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. And there's probably a .9375 probability that someone will be offended by the phrase my girl. Follow-up to Coffee Logic, which has been getting a bunch of hits and comments lately, which in turn inspire...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Oct 5, 2011, 1:00 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. (*) I didn't say it was a Math joke.   
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Sep 30, 2011, 11:50 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. Sometimes I like to get a little edgy   EDIT: Another mathematical take on the same song is here:https://sites.google.com/site/taylorspolynomials/specials/003-parasingsedgesareglorious. The site is Tayl...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Sep 28, 2011, 4:06 pm
I have to thank Mike at Spiked Math for prominently featuring a link to my Coffee Logic strip. Traffic to this blog is up dramatically this week, as well as traffic to the comic only mirror site as well. How much? (You may be asking...) Normally, only a good day, the blog gets about 500 hits. Sep...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Sep 26, 2011, 1:00 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved.Sometimes the humor is right there in front of you, just waiting to be made fun of.My apologies for using a joke that might not be so obvious to those outside this area who are served by different power co...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Sep 20, 2011, 1:07 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. And a bonus for a matching pair.
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Sep 16, 2011, 1:00 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. When it comes to unnecessary math accessories a tan cot is the one..
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Sep 11, 2011, 3:34 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. Real-world examples shouldn't be overlooked nor forgotten.
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Sep 8, 2011, 1:00 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. I wanted use 'Go Into' for 'Do Unto' but that gave the reciprocal value.
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Sep 4, 2011, 3:13 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. Someone always has to be last. It's being the one left over that's the bigger bother.
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Aug 29, 2011, 1:00 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. You know that imaginary team member who gets blamed for everything that goes wrong? Yeah, that's him.
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Aug 27, 2011, 10:43 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. I don't mind the negative ones so much as the guy that keeps going back and forth.
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Aug 25, 2011, 2:16 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. The anchor weighs about a ton, Cap'n.
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Aug 23, 2011, 9:16 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. She's more like The One Point Six One Nine Eight.
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Aug 18, 2011, 1:00 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. When I say refer to Notepad, I'm usually talking about the spiral memo pad in my shirt pocket. It's the only way to remember stuff.
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Aug 17, 2011, 2:21 pm
Yes, when I'm not making math comics, I'm wasting way too much time playing Farmville on Facebook. One of the features that they have is to take pictures of your farm and allow you to post them. Naturally, I saw the comic potential there, and I've posted some comics on this blogs as Bonus comics, no...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Aug 16, 2011, 1:00 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. Almost only counts in horseshoes and handgrenades and rounding errors of Biblical proportions. (*) That's a pun: smile or groan, but don't start an argument. It shalt be deleted.
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Aug 14, 2011, 1:00 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. It's like Wessonality, but with Cardinals. Something told me to upload this on Sunday instead of waiting for Monday.
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Aug 12, 2011, 4:28 pm
I, personally, am on Google+. Unfortunately, when I clicked on the invitation to join, which was sent to my hotmail account, I was logged into gmail as mrburkemath and not my personal gmail account (which I really don't use because I still have the hotmail account). Anyway, I am on Google+ as m...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Aug 5, 2011, 11:29 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. I like pirates, okay?! And after botching the last strip, this one was going to be a simple one.
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Aug 4, 2011, 12:45 pm
Not that there is one at the moment. Or plans to make one. Assembling one would take a bit of time, especially when you consider that I'd have to figure out how to make one first. And then collect and format a bunch of the comics. If the answer is yes, what would you want to see in it? Just the com...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Aug 3, 2011, 1:48 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. That's what you call a mighty big IF! And, yes, it's really, really much bigger than that, but there aren't enough letters in the alphabet for all those conditions. On the flip side, the chance of being...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Aug 2, 2011, 7:56 pm
This Dork Tower comic is either funny or not funny, but you won't know which until you click on the link. Until then, it's half-funny.
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Aug 1, 2011, 1:00 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. When you get right down to it at the end of the day, it is what it is. (And what it is is a set of three overused cliches.)
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Jul 29, 2011, 4:16 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. I guess they could bring some tau-rists along for the ride...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Jul 25, 2011, 1:00 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. (*) Fixed That For You
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Jul 24, 2011, 1:00 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. I like the word MATHS. On one side of the pond, it's a proper term. On the other, it's just a silly word. That's it for now. I had a few more of them that I didn't get to do. Many m...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Jul 20, 2011, 1:00 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. Yes, I know you don't "play" Marines, and it isn't a game, but I had the image and I was using it!
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Jul 18, 2011, 6:52 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. Anyone up for a game?
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Jul 13, 2011, 1:45 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. What's a Parabola? About time I had a Conic Comic.
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Jul 9, 2011, 1:41 pm
I have three sizes of flag images for anyone who wants to use them as wallpaper. At the moment, none of these is tilted, like the Fourth of July comic because that requires a little more precision to line up seemlessly if your computer tiles the images. I welcome suggestions other than "Make one Re...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Jul 6, 2011, 2:31 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. Nor can he make those on the inside to be on the outside, short of redefining those terms. But I wouldn't put that past the administrati--, er, I mean, some theoretical 'management'.
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Jul 5, 2011, 11:14 am
Mike from Spiked Math has issued his own Pi Manifesto in response to other mathematicians who would wish to dispose of of pi in favor the nonsensical tau. (Go ahead look it up. "Nonsensical", I mean. You really don't need to look up tau.) One simple reason the switch would never work for me: my stud...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Jul 4, 2011, 1:00 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. There's a party goin' on right here. A tessellation to last throughout the years! So bring your good times to your barbecue. We're gonna tessellate Old Glory with you! Happy Independence Day!! Happy Fou...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Jul 1, 2011, 4:15 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2011, C. Burke. All rights reserved. And if you sing the body electric, how many eighth notes are in an ohm?
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Jun 30, 2011, 10:20 pm
Did you know that if you translate the numbers of Pi into musical notes and record it and upload it, you'll get a cease and desist letter because SOMEONE HAS ALREADY COPYRIGHTED PI ... set to music, that is. Take a look at this, anyway, while you still can: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOQb_mtkEE...
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