The Colbert Report is fabulous this evening. Stephen "Mr. Scrappy" Colbert is being hilarious.
The money was too good. I got stupid.
Jayne ,'Ariel'
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.
Scrappy - Nov 29, 2005 7:21:19 pm PST #7894 of 10006
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Cass - Nov 29, 2005 7:40:06 pm PST #7895 of 10006
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I really wish we could have a Buffista Retreat Week. We could do Math for Grownups Who Can Articulate Their Feelings, and nobody would have to do problem sets who didn't want to. I made a class full of people think calculus might possibly be not all that bad after all, dammit! Because, yeah, some people do have more of an aptitude for it than others, but that doesn't mean it ought to be torture for anyone!
I'm a wee bit tipsy and in love with the math right now. Math is looking at me askance and saying it needs to get up early in the morning, but that's okay. Math understands my foibles.I (heart) Emily. A lot.
"Oh, my, you're having a wonderful vacation, aren't you?"Mastering the obvious...
P.M. Marc - Nov 29, 2005 8:23:27 pm PST #7896 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
Em, are you cheating on Education with Math?
antibiotics for two different kids and for three different asthma meds, two nebulized and one oral
ACK! Parenting is more complex than the frickin' brochure claimed!
Strega - Nov 29, 2005 8:45:52 pm PST #7897 of 10006
I think that it would be best to combine pre-algebra, Algebra I, and Algebra II into a two-year sequence, then follow that with geometry, and then trig and pre-calc, then calculus.
I think there should be multiple tracks. With HS science classes, if physics wasn't your bag you could at least think, maybe biology will be more interesting. Deciding to take algebra2/trig in 10th grade meant I had to take pre-cal in 11th grade, and I had to take calculus in 12th grade. Well, or fail completely and retake a class, but that wasn't an appealing option. When I rule the world, there will be the standard algebra-trig-calc track, or you can take stuff like stats, logic, & economics instead. Which is shit more people should know, anyway.
Plus, then the people who are taking algebra would either want to be there, or could comfort themselves by thinking, "At least it isn't statistics." Knowing you have a choice makes a difference, even if you're only choosing the lesser evil.
Cass - Nov 29, 2005 8:50:25 pm PST #7898 of 10006
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Em, are you cheating on Education with Math?Her heart belongs to Education but sometimes Math just smiles that certain way and runs its fingers...
Lee - Nov 29, 2005 8:58:49 pm PST #7899 of 10006
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
My nyquil just kicked in.
Whee!
Allyson - Nov 29, 2005 10:43:20 pm PST #7900 of 10006
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Math is hard.
A sneeze woke me. Now I have to play "where'd the snot go?" and do a search so when I go back to bed I don't get a faceful of boogies on my pillow.
Does anyone still want to talk about eggs?
Nilly - Nov 29, 2005 11:05:55 pm PST #7901 of 10006
Swouncing
I've skipped a couple of hundreds of posts, to ask: am I correct in remembering that today is Emma's first birthday?
billytea - Nov 30, 2005 12:39:57 am PST #7902 of 10006
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
A sneeze woke me. Now I have to play "where'd the snot go?" and do a search so when I go back to bed I don't get a faceful of boogies on my pillow.
Allyson has the boogie fever. She caught it from that boogie woogie bugle boy, and now she's bugling too.
Cass - Nov 30, 2005 1:58:18 am PST #7903 of 10006
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
A sneeze woke me. Now I have to play "where'd the snot go?" and do a search so when I go back to bed I don't get a faceful of boogies on my pillow.My being woken up by coughing that sounds like a seal barking seems so much better now. It's all in how you look at it.
Em is 1 today! Happy Birthday MiraclePrincess!