Are you going to give us a recipe.
I'm just using Good Eats' recipe this year, although it's pretty freakin' task-intensive. [link]
Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!
Xander ,'Lessons'
The Crying of Natter 49
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.
bon bon - Jan 14, 2007 3:01:45 pm PST #2798 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Topic!Cindy - Jan 14, 2007 3:01:59 pm PST #2799 of 10001
What is even happening?
Thanks Dana, and Emily. I would have recognized Tatooine.
Gah, my geek cred is so low.
eta...
Thanks, bon bon.
Wow. That does look labor intensive.
Emily - Jan 14, 2007 3:04:59 pm PST #2800 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Say, anybody remember the conversation we had about elementary school teachers who tell their students that you "can't" subtract a bigger number from a smaller one, and how betrayed some people felt by that? The textbook we're using tells me that "Negative numbers have no square roots." Now, eighth graders don't need to know about imaginary numbers -- they're certainly not going to see them this year, and maybe not ever. But to completely deny them like that... for shame, McDougal Littell!
§ ita § - Jan 14, 2007 3:17:15 pm PST #2801 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Why don't I have cookies?
Why do I have a stomach ache?
Hil R. - Jan 14, 2007 3:17:58 pm PST #2802 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Ugh. What's wrong with, "The square root of a negative number is called an imaginary number. In this section, we will only deal with square roots of non-negative numbers."
JenP - Jan 14, 2007 3:19:20 pm PST #2803 of 10001
24:
Aw, Karen and Bill, sittin' in a tree...
Cass - Jan 14, 2007 3:20:45 pm PST #2804 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
TOOKIES!
Why don't I have 24 yet?
§ ita § - Jan 14, 2007 3:23:37 pm PST #2805 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Math is just too rich and fabulous for their little brains. We lie to them to protect them...from, among other things, an early fascination with the impossible as rendered by formal systems.
Theodosia - Jan 14, 2007 3:23:41 pm PST #2806 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
The Science of Discworld authors label that kind of math teaching "lies for children", because you have to dumb knowledge down into more-easily digested chunks until the facts as presented are pretty inaccurate. If you are smart, you leave enough wiggle room that when you come back to it later, you can expand on what you said in previous grades without too much backtracking.
Amy - Jan 14, 2007 3:27:16 pm PST #2807 of 10001
Because books.
24: For someone who didn't watch last season, can anyone tell me if Chloe's boyfriend is on the up and up? Because he's coming across as a total user bad guy to me.
ION, Keifer's voice! I have missed it.