Yeah, yeah...when she gets on on her FRONT then I'll start taking her seriously.
WhatEV. Like there's a direct line into my nervous system anywhere on the FRONT of my body.
Wait. People? She eats people? 'To Serve Man.' It's 'To Serve Man' all over again.
Gunn ,'Power Play'
Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
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.
Jessica - Oct 11, 2006 7:24:09 am PDT #3071 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Strega - Oct 11, 2006 7:28:36 am PDT #3072 of 10001
...Suddenly I feel like this conversation belongs in Bitches.
Jessica - Oct 11, 2006 7:36:18 am PDT #3073 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
t blink
Okay, I really wasn't meaning to go there. I'm not at my most alert and focused today.
Jesse - Oct 11, 2006 7:37:42 am PDT #3074 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Likely story.
bowm chicka bowm bowm
sumi - Oct 11, 2006 7:38:45 am PDT #3075 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Jesse - Oct 11, 2006 7:41:01 am PDT #3076 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
ION, I totally just blew off some coworkers who wanted to have lunch together, by accident! I just forgot. Ah well.
tommyrot - Oct 11, 2006 7:48:04 am PDT #3077 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Cursive writing rapidly becoming passé
WASHINGTON - The computer keyboard helped kill shorthand, and now it's threatening to finish off longhand.
When handwritten essays were introduced on the SAT exams for the class of 2006, just 15 percent of the almost 1.5 million students wrote their answers in cursive. The rest? They printed. Block letters.
And those college hopefuls are just the first edge of a wave of U.S. students who no longer get much handwriting instruction in the primary grades, frequently 10 minutes a day or less. As a result, more and more students struggle to read and write cursive.
Many educators shrug. Stacked up against teaching technology, foreign languages and the material on standardized tests, penmanship instruction seems a relic, teachers across the region say. But academics who specialize in writing acquisition argue that it's important cognitively, pointing to research that shows children without proficient handwriting skills produce simpler, shorter compositions, from the earliest grades.
Scholars who study original documents say the demise of handwriting will diminish the power and accuracy of future historical research. And others simply lament the loss of handwritten communication for its beauty, individualism and intimacy.
This just seems weird to me. Only 15% of the next batch of college freshmen use cursive? Wow.
Jessica - Oct 11, 2006 7:51:20 am PDT #3078 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Huh. I'm not sure using SAT essays is the best way to measure what percentage of college freshman can write in script -- I always did essay tests in block letters because I didn't want to risk the teacher not being able to read my writing, not because I didn't know cursive.
Pix - Oct 11, 2006 7:52:04 am PDT #3079 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
I'm not at my most alert and focused today.
HA! Coffee not workin' for ya, lady?
Allyson - Oct 11, 2006 7:55:30 am PDT #3080 of 10001
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
My brother is pretty hardcore dyslexic, and had trouble writing until he learned cursive. Something about connecting the letters helped.
Oh, oh, and to brag, I have excellent handwriting.