I think the dork dumptrucks sentence is hard to understand. The rest of the letter is rocking.
And Kaylee, what the hell's goin' on in the engine room? Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?
Mal ,'The Train Job'
Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?
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 - Jun 20, 2007 4:03:24 pm PDT #4059 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Anne W. - Jun 20, 2007 4:07:08 pm PDT #4060 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I did finally hear back from Mom. Glen's going to be in the ICU for a few days, and then they'll be coming back here a few weeks earlier than planned so he can recuperate. Mom's worried about him, as am I. The appendix completely ruptured, so all sorts of nasty stuff wound up in the abdominal cavity and so they're trying to get the infection under control.
Pretty much what I assumed from the (brief) earlier conversation.
erikaj - Jun 20, 2007 4:21:45 pm PDT #4061 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Allyson, I hope you get on. Of course I'll be So Damn Jealous. Oh! What about "Countdown"? KO cannot live by Musto alone(even though I *like* Michael Musto getting his bitchy queen on.) Of course that will push my jealousy up to 11.
sarameg - Jun 20, 2007 4:26:25 pm PDT #4062 of 10001
Oh, Anne, I hope it all gets cleared up!
Spent another hour tutoring. OK, so her teachers have not introduced, or at least she didn't understand: the concept of units, cancelling or really explained the relation of fractions to division. And we're having places issues with decimals. I'm really not the best to teach this, having not had though about it since I grasped it years and years ago so will have to do some internetting.
I think I've got the places thing sorted out for her. I make her draw columns.
Oy.
Allyson, I'm sure you're coming up with a great letter. You writes good.
sarameg - Jun 20, 2007 4:38:38 pm PDT #4063 of 10001
And, um, dur, I just was reminded there are math teachers among us. If there's any good site out there for explaining 5th gradish intro to algebra and those skills, lemme know. I mean, I can't download your brains, but maybe just having examples of explanations that don't involve me going "ok, so if I cut off my finger, what am I doing? Adding, subtracting, dividing, multiplying? What if I chopped it into many pieces?"
As soon as that came out of my mouth, I knew I needed help. And T probably did too...
Hil R. - Jun 20, 2007 4:46:42 pm PDT #4064 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I usually like Dr. Math for that kind of stuff [link] but the mathforum website doesn't seem to be loading for me right now.
Allyson - Jun 20, 2007 4:47:13 pm PDT #4065 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
I'm trying.
I feel terrible plagiarizing JZ, though.
Aims - Jun 20, 2007 4:52:49 pm PDT #4066 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
It's not plagarizing! It's accepting editorial changes!
Jesse - Jun 20, 2007 4:54:57 pm PDT #4067 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You asked for help!
Allyson - Jun 20, 2007 5:08:57 pm PDT #4068 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
These were my instructions:
It just has to contain these elements: DESCRIBE HERSELF AND HER AUDIENCE: eg. "I'm a pistol, and speak for the millions of people out there who live through their computers..." (tell her to take a classic "underdog position")
MY AUDIENCE CONSISTS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE: This would appeal to all the (X, Y, and Z people) out there, which makes up a huge part of your audience.
MY BOOK IS ABOUT AND I CAN TALK ABOUT: This doesn't have to be too long, our press release will do all the talking, but something about the "mysterious secret world of interent geeks" is fascinating, and if she says something outlandish like "we're taking over the country" then she'd have me. Remember she can touch on these briefly and you can elaborate. All we need from her is a fun little note.