#mathnet

[e-louise-bates]

James Earl Jones played many roles in his career, but to me he’ll always be Chief on Mathnet.

[leftycharacters]

Today's left-handed character is Roy "Lefty" Cobbs from Mathnet

[ingridverse]

A Brooklyn 99 Amy/Rosa fic, in which Amy is writing a self-insert Mathnet fic.

Yes, Mathnet.

Because of course she is.

[xiwoxerase]

Happy Five Eureka Day to those who celebrate!

[brightlotusmoon]

Oh shit my follower count hit 5432. Despite or because of the dyscalculia, I fucking love numbers with patterns. Like, the number 5 in the Principia Discordia.

Anyway. That's too many followers. But that's okay, I'm getting better at being perceived.

Sort of.

[kwebtv]

James Earl Jones (January 17, 1931 – September 9, 2024) Actor known for his film roles and his work in theater. He was one of the few performers to achieve the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony). He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1985, and was honored with the National Medal of Arts in 1992, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2002, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2009, and the Academy Honorary Award in 2011.

 On television, Jones received eight Primetime Emmy Awards nominations winning twice for his roles in thriller film Heat Wave (1990) and the crime series Gabriel's Fire (1991). He also acted in Roots (1977), Jesus of Nazareth (1977), Picket Fences (1994), Homicide: Life on the Street (1997) and Everwood (2004).

Jones played lead characters on television in three series. Gabriel's Fire and a revamped version called Pros and Cons aired on ABC between 1990 and 1992. In both formats of that show, Jones played a former policeman wrongly convicted of murder who, upon his release from prison, becomes a private eye. In 1995, Jones starred in Under One Roof as Neb Langston, a widowed African-American police officer sharing his home in Seattle with his daughter, his married son and children, and Neb's newly adopted son. The show was a mid-season replacement and lasted only six weeks, but earned him another Emmy nomination. He also portrayed Thad Green on "Mathnet", a parody of Dragnet that appeared in the PBS program Square One Television.[59] In 1998, Jones starred in the widely acclaimed syndicated program An American Moment (created by James R. Kirk and Ninth Wave Productions). Jones took over the role filled by Charles Kuralt, upon Kuralt's death.

Jones guest-starred in many television shows over the years, including for NBC's Law & Order, and Frasier, ABC's Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Fox's medical drama House, M.D., and CBS' The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men. He also voiced the CNN tagline, "This is CNN". He lent his voice to the opening for NBC's coverage of the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. (Wikipedia)

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[arconinternet]

Square One TV (Videos, 1987-1992)

The legendary educational kids show about math. Includes Dirk Niblick (from the creator, voice actor and narrator of Roger Ramjet), Mathnet (the episodic mystery series), and in episode 401, the one and only Weird Al Yankovic. You can watch episodes here and here, and even more on YouTube here and here.

[darker-than-darkstorm]

Oh, don’t get me started.  I loved that show, even though I was in my late teens when it aired.  It was a math-based version of the 70s PBS show The Electric Company, with similar skits and goofy humor, just a different focus on the educational aspects, and mostly late-1980s references rather than early-to-mid-1970s references.

Though the Dirk Niblick sketches were a throwback to 1960s cartoons like Roger Ramjet (even getting Roger’s voice actor for Dirk); and Mathnet was of course a reference to Dragnet, especially the radio series in the 1940s (George Frankly was based more on Friday’s hapless partner Frank Smith from the radio show, and even more on Frank Jones from Stan Freberg’s parodies of the radio show than he was on the TV series' Bill Gannon).

Man.  Brings me back.

Like I said, I could talk about it for hours.  And also about Dragnet and Roger Ramjet.

[oceangirl24]

tag 9 people you’d like to get to know better 💖

Tagged by @winterlovesong1- thank you!

No pressure tagging @writingpotato07 @hylianjo @lena-hills @mrsmungus and anyone else interested in doing this.

~ 3 ships: We're talking canon ships, right? lol Tony/Ziva (NCIS) @mrsmungus is totally to blame for this one. Shawn/Angela (Boy Meets World), and here's a random one Bridger/Westphalen (seaQuest DSV)

~ first ever ship: Oh man, I was a shipper from a young age. Not sure it counts but I remember being convinced at age 4 that George Frankly and Kate Monday from Mathnet were married. They were not. lol

If not them, then Bridger/Westphalen or possibly Zach/Kelly from Saved by the Bell.

~ last song: Shut up and Dance, Walk the Moon

~ last movie: Miracle on Ice

~ currently reading: I was gifted William Daniels' (Mr. Feeny, Boy Meets World) autobiography There I Go Again for Christmas by a sweet friend. It's a fascinating read.

~ currently watching: High Kick Through the Roof (Korean comedy) and yet another rewatch of Boy Meets World. NCIS is on the list.

~ currently consuming: nothing atm

~ currently craving: salt & vinegar potato chips.

[faejilly]

@shadesofmauve replied to your post “ ”:

YES MATHNET

​I MISS IT, IT WAS GREAT

I am suddenly realizing that it and The Bloodhound Gang (and Murder, She Wrote) at young impressionable ages probably are a big part of why I'm still such a detective story fan 😅

I'm honestly having a weirdly visceral memory of PBS watching in the basement of a friend's house with their siblings and how we kind of rotated who got to bounce on the little mini-trampoline that was probably supposed to be for exercising but was instead now a kid toy... I wonder how they're all doing, I lost touch with them a billion years ago

/We also watched The Last Unicorn periodically, which is probably another thing that explains a lot about me 🤣

[princesscolumbia]

When I was a kid, there was this brilliant show on PBS called Square One TV. Some enterprising folks recorded the show on VHS back in the day and later ripped it to digital and posted it on YouTube. It gets taken down every so often and someone re-uploads it again. It presented math concepts similar to how "Bill Nye the Science Guy" did things and, IMHO, it was years ahead of its time. It has been 30 fucking years since I watched those shows and to this day I remember, "The numerator's up-up-up; the denominator's down-down-down, 'cause there's action at the Fraction Bar," and "That's In-fin-it-y, you can count for-ever, there'll always be one more. That's infinity, count from dusk 'til dawn; you'll never reach infinity it just goes on...and on...and on...and on..."

They had a segment that spun off into its own show called Mathnet, a play on Dragnet, and it was two detectives who solved crimes using mathematical tools and even a few physics principles. I think the most important thing this show taught was lateral thinking in puzzle solving; one episode had the detectives having to tromp through an ol' west tourist town trying to solve the riddle of a legendary cattle rustler and gold thief who left only cryptic clues on a decrepit old map. They realized that the reason the clues were so hard to figure out was that the thief had really low reading and writing skill levels and what everyone assumed was the name of someone in the graveyard was actually a misspelling; "C. Myror" -> "See mirror" They held the edge of the map up to the mirror to reveal that they had only ever been looking at half the map. (Clever, but couldn't spell worth a damn)

Around the same time another show came out called Voyage of the Mimi (same deal with the YouTube availability) that was about natural sciences and oceanography and the like. They had subjects as diverse as Deaf culture and sign language, teamwork, fresh water vs. salt, how to read a map and even making fresh water in a still. I learned so much about the natural world from that show.

(Go watch the shows and revel in the Absolute 80s™️ of them)

Why do I mention these? I have ADHD. I couldn't tell you a single thing I "learned" in school in the same subjects. Even better, I got interested in the subjects on Square One TV and Voyage of the Mimi and took my own time to read up and research them, something I don't think I did with a single class on math in my entire pre-college school career and only in the later Junior and Senior level science classes in high school inspired that kind of independent research.

We've had the formula for making video content to teach ADHD kids for decades. People just ignored it because it didn't look like neurotypical teaching techniques.

Scientists once thought that ADHD symptoms were always present. But previous research from Rapport, who has been studying ADHD for more than 36 years, has shown the fidgeting was most often present when children were using their brains' executive functions, particularly "working memory." That's the system we use for temporarily storing and managing information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks such as learning, reasoning and comprehension.

Here’s full study: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/478386

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[llcooljae]

For yuletide

An episode of mathnet

[shanie]

All these polls about PBS Kids shows gonna make me wanna go binge watch Mathnet

[combinecremator]

i dont know what confluence of events let to the creation of a mystery/detective kids show centered around mathematic principles was but holy fuck it slapped

[fuzzyghost]

[pocketdimension]

Mathnet: “The Case of the Swami Scam” (1990)