No worries, Tom and I will just gossip about you.
Right on. You're really nobody until people talk behind your back.
Jeez, don't get all Movie of the Week. I was just too cheap to buy you a real present.
Dawn ,'The Killer In Me'
Natter 40: The Nice One
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Nov 18, 2005 7:59:34 am PST #5257 of 10006
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
P.M. Marc - Nov 18, 2005 8:03:16 am PST #5258 of 10006
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
IMO, brand doesn't matter so much -- any relatively high-end chocolate will do. The trick is to heat it to about 90-95 degrees F so that when it cools it gets that shiny snappy texture.
Keen! I may find two I think would blend in a tasty fashion and go that way.
I *heart* my digital thermometer and my double boiler.
Gudanov - Nov 18, 2005 8:04:49 am PST #5259 of 10006
Coding and Sleeping
I'd offer to help, but I'd have to bring the kids and Leif might destroy something or just make everything go slower. Well, that and geography.
Laura - Nov 18, 2005 8:05:59 am PST #5260 of 10006
Our wings are not tired.
Attn Mathy types: DH and I had some discomfort over one of my son’s math problems last night. He brought it to us because it didn’t see right to him. Both DH and I ended up getting the same answer which was 6.736842 or so. The reason we had the discomfort is because all the other answers on the page were whole numbers and could have been figured out without a calculator. It could be that the book gave one of the parameters wrong, because we have seen that before.
So the problem is to find n. We are given a drawing of an ordinary looking triangle and told that the perimeter is 32cm. Then there is a midsegment triangle that we think should have a perimeter of 16cm. The sides of the midsegment triangle are given as n, 7/8n, and 1/2n. So are we missing some logic here? I would really hate it if math gets beyond us when he is only in 8th grade.
Kat - Nov 18, 2005 8:12:23 am PST #5261 of 10006
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Paragraph two of Laura's post is all greek to me. yet I want to get a pencil to see ifI can figure it out.
Yet. No. So, Laura, sorry that I can't help.
I have to go wrestle with copy machine to copy the test I'm giving to my 5th period. Ugh.But yeah! Cause quiet, yo.
Gudanov - Nov 18, 2005 8:15:15 am PST #5262 of 10006
Coding and Sleeping
I got your answer too Laura.
Jessica - Nov 18, 2005 8:15:30 am PST #5263 of 10006
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Paragraph two of Laura's post is all greek to me. yet I want to get a pencil to see ifI can figure it out.
Me too. I know I could have done it back in 8th grade...
Sophia Brooks - Nov 18, 2005 8:17:58 am PST #5264 of 10006
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I don't know what a "mid-segment triangle" is. Otherwise I would try.
Laura - Nov 18, 2005 8:19:08 am PST #5265 of 10006
Our wings are not tired.
Thanks Gud. (and the rest of you for the moral support) I didn't see any other possibility, but it seemed odd in the context of the rest of the page. I bet the large triangle really wasn't 32cm, but I didn't have the ambition to figure what the more likely dimension was. And Brendon probably won't bother to ask his teacher about it.
eta: Best bet is that it was 38cm because that would have been all even numbers and wouldn't have required a calculator. Yes, the kids would all know what a mid-segment triangle is.
Kat - Nov 18, 2005 8:20:49 am PST #5266 of 10006
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Maybe I could have figured it out in 8th grade, as i didn't have algebra until then.
I do have a gift but no wrapping paper. I gotta go dig around an office to see if I can find pretty enough paper.
Also, a kid in each of my classes takes pictures with my digicam and then writes up what we did in class that day. On Monday, I was wearing this super flattering red shirt that I should wear EVERY DAY. I look thin in it. AM SHOCKED.