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mike  ·  3600 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Thenewgreen rounds up his friends in one big circle and says,

Hei Steve! So nice to round up folks -- du er helt topps!

Viking camp is purchased and I've moved in to the really great apartment over the business. We've begun taking out stuff we don't want and decorating with math artwork. Meetings continue with the county and state to get contracts to bring in teachers and classes in the fall. Looks like the money will be there.

It's an amazing property. It has a value of $1.3 million. I bought it from the county for $0.27 million. I think I just became a millionaire. Weird.

There's a lot to do right now, and I'm still working full-time at my day job. I'd post some pictures when I get the time and energy. I've just made a couple of sculptures I'm proud of. Here they are. The pair is called "The Fox and the Mouse", one is made from 60 wooden salad forks and one from 60 wooden spoons, they are polyhedral duals of each other so they have all kinds of splendid symmetric properties, and they're about 1 meter in diameter and cast the best shadows.

I have a lot of ideas for other art projects I'll be working on to make this place special.

Here's my company's website if you want to see some funny Norwegian letters. And a cool animated logo.

http://www.matematikkbølgen.com





thenewgreen  ·  3600 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The spoon/fork sculptures are beautiful mike, well done! Please do post photos of the camp as you transition it to the math camp. I look forward to seeing images of it and the artwork you use to spruce up the place. I hope that the move went well, it's not easy to uproot a family.

Did you sell your old home? Mike, the former trapeze artist turned millionaire mathematician with all his assets tied up in viking camps. -That's one hell of a resume sir!

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swedishbadgergirl  ·  3599 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Woah, your company sounds amazing.

So are you from Norway? I can kind of read your website but I'm terrible at understanding other nordic languages.

I would have loved it if my school had the kind of stuff it looks like you are selling. Maybe it eventually will - we sometimes got new exiting educational stuff with weird Norwegian letters.