I know most of you are either way older or way younger than I am, but I thought I'd give this a shot anyway. Does anyone remember an educational math show on PBS called "Square One?" It was made by the same people that made Sesame Street, but it was aimed more towards older kids, ones who were in school learning about math and stuff: multiplication, division, fractions, geometry, that sort of stuff. I don't know why I started thinking about that show, but I did. Since the show ended in 1994 and shows no sign of returning (unlike the Electric Company!) I have decided to make my own season 6. I'm not sure whether I am going to show a completed episode (even if I did, I won't be able to upload it to my website due to its very crappy and very small 5MB file limit.) So I've taken the theme songs from YouTube, ripped the audio from them, and I've put together a (kinda crappy) opening for my version of Square One. In episode one of my season 6, I will be doing skits about square roots and binary numbers. But all I have for the time being is a short segment on the number 5,318,008 as well as the opening. I've thought of another skit I can do today. Some guy asks "What's the temperature?" the other guy goes on to the Weather Channel and says "It's a right angle." The other guy is confused until he gets explained that a right angle is 90 degrees. I know, kind of corny, but anyway, it's supposed to be 92 here today. My Square One will be mixed with stupid jokes along with fun explanations of how math works. Too bad it won't see the light of day, except for this: http://www.atari2600land.com/square1/

Now here's the trouble I'm having: How can one guy (me) make 30 minutes' worth of a show, let alone a whole 35-episode season? It's too bad PBS doesn't have ads, then I could make only 25 minutes' worth or so. My mind works in more mysterious ways than just about anyone else's. So let the math jokes begin.