Steven Clontz

@clontz.org

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Mathematician, professor, puzzler, cat juggler Pronouns he/him Website clontz.org Puzzle PBaiReGOVANeLpNFrFGBfVkyRgGREf https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4938-4274

Me (a big goofball) at Wilderness Lodge at Walt Disney World Resort, wearing a huge foam orange cowboy hat, a WDW Mickey t shirt, two celebration buttons, and straddling a stick pony.

Deltarune screenshot. A character says: "How bout you go home and try doing a 100% run of your shower"

Screenshot of text

Someone discovered four Fields Medal laureate lecture fields marked "HIDDEN" in the front-end code of the ICM 2026 official schedule. A single curl command

Link card with a photo of a soccer ball. Its pentagons are shades of gray that look at first glance like it might be two translucent photos overlayed.

screenshot of PreTeXt.Plus editor using Markdown-style PreTeXt to write a course syllabus. I've highlighted the text "professor of mathematics" in the preview.

Victory screen from Smash Bros Ultimate. The winning Yellow Team is a bearded man Mii Brawler and a young girl Mii Swordfighter.

Flowery screenshot saying "Y... you can ignore my fake statistics!?"

Screenshot of a cropped research article abstract. The words "No separation axiom is assumed." are highlighted.

Email screenshot. Text:

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Deku tree in Zelda 64:

Malevolent forces even now are mustering to attach our hand of Hyrule.

Deltarune chapter 2 screenshot:

Queen:
Kris Cross Applesauce

Screenshot of the 2004 fan game Chrono Trigger: Resurrection

MAA MathFest official webpage -- a banner ad for "Your math skills can move markets" shows up at the bottom of the page.

My discover feed: Trump, FF7, Cid and Vincent, Final Fantasy VII Revelation

Snake's "everyone is here" reveal from Smash Ultimate trailer

Slay the Spire board game

A math puzzle that solves to a Bible verse

Weird Al in front of a bunch of storm troopers

Live performance of Amish paradise

Weird Al dressed like Devo

Bunch of nerds in tacky shirts in downtown Greenville SC

Four copies of a graph. In each subsequent copy, green skulls spread to adjacent nodes except at marked protected nodes. The final graph shows that a key node has been saved from the skulls, and the protected nodes spell out K-E-Y.

Giant pink plush in a garbage bag

Google search result for "how many ss in Clontz"

AI answer: "there is 1 's' in the name Clontz" with a link to the USS COONTZ.

Imperfect Cell from dbz

Text message sent at 7:49pm:

😁 then let's plan on a big brunch on Saturday around 10? I'm just assuming we'll stay up late playing board games but also we're 40 so maybe that's optimistic lol

Photo of a Zombies Ate My Neighbors cartridge in a Game Genie cart in an SNES

Screenshot of markdown source on the left, with rendered PreTeXt output on the right.

Mobile screenshot of a web app for MaPP. This is the homepage with the header "Play MaPP puzzles and games — in class, at home, or with your local host campus."

screenshot of PreTeXt.plus new project page which includes PreTeXt, LaTeX-style PreTeXt, and a currently-disabled Markdown-style PreTeXt option

Me wearing a lightsaber RSVLTS shirt

A discontinuous graph illustrating a ficticious loss of income once hitting "the next tax bracket".

ai and al in the Papyrus font. There's not much difference

it's just the words "math of mario" in the Super Mario font

Essentially, a graph with six vertices where more than two have odd degree

Screenshot of DOJ draft memo:

"SUMMARY: By this Interim Final Rule ("IFR"), the Department of Justice ("Department") is revising the regulations implementing title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA") to extend the compliance dates for the requirements for web content and mobile application (*"app") accessibility that were adopted on April 24, 2024. The compliance date for State and local government entities with a total population of 50,000 or more is extended from April 24, 2026, to April 26, 2027. The compliance date for public entities with a total population of less than 50,000, or any special district government, is extended from April 26, 2027, to April 26, 2028."

Getting started with Pretext slide with picture in picture of David Farmer

Mobile view is tweaked to be displayed properly

screenshot of pretext.plus web app which includes a "LaTeX-style PreTeXt" project type

'Shop of the quoted image, replacing the moon from the evil moon from Majora's Mask

Back of the hoodie, which of course has King Bowser's spiked shell printed onto it

Mirror selfie of me wearing a King Bowser hoodie

Screenshot of email with the subject "License for execution"

A nearly 40yo man (me) in front of a beach sunset wearing a button up shirt with his 7yo daughter's face superimposed on several mermaids. The old man is making a grimace at something off camera.

Whiteboard of graph theory abstractions of Zelda dungeons

Screengrab of a YouTube video by TheRetroDude titled "Trying to Get Stuck in Zelda 1 (Analysis)". The video shows three keys and five doors; each door is labled "Leads to [item]".

Screenshot of two cryptogram puzzles with the title "Disney Quote Puzzles" and including illustrations of the Blue Fairy and Dug the dog.

That utopia meme photo illustration of a beautiful futuristic cityscape

a cute li'l sidewalk sized snow plow being driven down a sidewalk

A brick wall with no door

Photo of a TV where a man sits in front of a painting of the crucifixion of Christ, with the subtitles:

"The church doesn't need some pussy who gonna"

Edit of https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/303:_Compiling where the excuse is "GitHub Codespaces is Down" and the programmer's response is a screenshot of the 500 error pink unicorn GitHub is showing me now.

I'm making a goofy face in a selfie with my wife (in an awesome purple gold green sequin coat) and kid (face obscured by an emoji). We're standing in a downtown Mobile park where a Mardi Gras parade will roll through in an hour.

Graph theory model of the first level of the first Zelda game. The graph is split into two regions, each of which is a "tunnel" of rooms/locks where there is no real choice on where to travel.

A screenshot of the Hero's Cave from Oracle of Seasons, abstracted into a mathematical graph, with appropriate vertices marked with small keys and appropriate edges marked with locked doors.

Nintendo switch Joy Con with a D pad

Promo for Michelle Obama's 2020 documentary on Netflix stand by screen

Animation of a Space Invaders ship attacking my GitHub contribution illustration

Me at a podium holding up a map of campus and explaining game rules to several tables of high school students