yes, and yes.
Mal: You want to tell me how come there's a statue of you here looking at me like I owe him something? Jayne: Wishing I could, Captain.
'Jaynestown'
Spike's Bitches 32: I think I'm sobering up.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Lee - Oct 29, 2006 5:21:36 pm PST #9196 of 10000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
beth b - Oct 29, 2006 5:22:12 pm PST #9197 of 10000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I have to say - matt's brother A sends lovely thankyou notes. but honestly, even my parents who taught me to send notes only do email or phone.
I was taught that notes - handwritten were what counted. it seems that email and phone calls count among my family. This may be partailly because I have illegible handwritting. and though most of the rest do better than i do - beautiful cooperplate we do not have.
Interestingly, I was also taught not to give with expectation ( as I said earlier) .
It is a paradox.
Hil R. - Oct 29, 2006 5:22:30 pm PST #9198 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Can you solve this problem without calculation: (87 * 326)/87 ? Would you expect an eighth grader to be able to?
Yes, and probably. I'm pretty sure that most of my college students would instinctively reach for a calculator, but if they were told not to use it, and to think about the problem, they'd see what they were supposed to do. And I think that I'd get a similar response from the sixth-graders I taught this summer, so I'd guess that eighth-graders should be able to do it.
Daisy Jane - Oct 29, 2006 5:26:50 pm PST #9199 of 10000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Thanks for the ~ma yesterday. Everything went well. Person who needed to be told was already aware and handling, person who it was about remains unaffected. Yay! I like her a bunch and would hate to hurt her.
Still recovering from last night's Halloween festivities and the Saints' loss to Baltimore.
Scrappy - Oct 29, 2006 5:28:19 pm PST #9200 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I give without expectation, but I also want to thank graciously. In my mind, the expectations of the person who gave to me are immaterial, what matters is my actions.
Emily - Oct 29, 2006 5:28:51 pm PST #9201 of 10000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
And I think that I'd get a similar response from the sixth-graders I taught this summer, so I'd guess that eighth-graders should be able to do it.
Just checking I wasn't crazy. Also, I have a student who thinks 27/3 is 24. A simple misunderstanding, but worrisome.
JenP - Oct 29, 2006 5:28:55 pm PST #9202 of 10000
Oh, quick math survey. Can you solve this problem without calculation: (87 * 326)/87 ? Would you expect an eighth grader to be able to?
Yes, and yes. I mean, right? That seems like a pretty basic mathy concept you ought to have down by eighth grade. Eighth eighth eighth. That is such a weird word to spell.
Lee - Oct 29, 2006 5:32:03 pm PST #9203 of 10000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I have to admit, when I first glanced at the problem, I thought "can I have paper and pen", and then I looked again and realized it wasn't necessary.
Trudy Booth - Oct 29, 2006 5:32:56 pm PST #9204 of 10000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I think my committed laziness would win out over my non-mathyness on that one
Hil R. - Oct 29, 2006 5:32:57 pm PST #9205 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Also, I have a student who thinks 27/3 is 24. A simple misunderstanding, but worrisome.
I had a college student who didn't know the difference between 2 1/3 and 2 * 1/3. Every homework assignment, when there was something like 2 * 1/3 in a calculation, she put 7/3. Took me a little while to figure out what she was doing, and then much longer to explain to her why it was wrong.