I can not figure out how to solve x/4+1/2=3, it is just shameful. X is apparently 10, certainly 10/4+1/2=3 but I can’t figure out why. I spent an hour shifting numbers around to no avail, I pulled out 3 different books on algebra and got no help. Perhaps this is the point when my brain defect shows itself as I have had a lifelong problem with division that apparently extends to fractions (which are of course essentially division operations). I wish that someone had come up with different ways to do math before I started trying to master it. I think such a task is beyond me. I would speculate that the reason math is so bad is because mathematicians are wrapped up in trying to solve outstanding problems using math as it is now (like P vs NP) rather than coming up with new ways to do math. Maybe I’m wrong about that, maybe solving P vs NP is a way of developing new math. Well whatever. {edit: I dreamed about the equation while I slept and managed to come up with an answer, I didn’t know you could use the addition property of equality with fractions. Actually I still don’t know that you can but it worked and that’s all that matters. Full details of the solution here}

Actually what I really wanted to address today is whether or not Lewis is worse than Inspector Morse. I would have to say that they’re about equal. On a character basis Morse himself was more amusing than Lewis but strictly on a show basis Lewis has various advantages going for it. Mostly that it is more recent making it easier to relate to and was planned originally for television. There were quite a few episodes of Morse that were not adapted from a novel but that is not quite the same thing now is it? Although the feeling of Lewis is not as great as that of Morse that isn’t something one can quantify. Perhaps if I say that Morse strikes me as a traditional english police procedural whereas Lewis strikes me as “just another procedural” that might as well be from or in any country. So saying, Morse always rubbed me the wrong way. Lewis is a bit more of an everyman I think. Unfortunately his subordinate Hathaway is somewhat in the vein of Morse. Maybe.

To be completely honest it has been years since I have watched any Inspector Morse episodes because I was never much of a fan. And nobody cares about this anyway.