Don't let this happen to you.
"My name is Shrift. I'm a Morlock."
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
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.
DavidS - Sep 17, 2007 7:44:02 am PDT #1081 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Lee - Sep 17, 2007 7:45:15 am PDT #1082 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Happy first day of new job Dana! I hope they get you access to stuff soon.
Jessica - Sep 17, 2007 7:45:22 am PDT #1083 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Hayden Panettiere's dress seems...well, she's just so cheerful. I think that alone should get her off a worst-dressed list. It's a horrible dress, though.
I think it's only horrible in stills. She was so happy wearing it last night that she made it work.
tommyrot - Sep 17, 2007 7:47:59 am PDT #1084 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.
"My name is Shrift. I'm a Morlock."
"Close those fucking window shades!"
Sophia Brooks - Sep 17, 2007 7:53:52 am PDT #1085 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Hayden Panettiere's dress seems...well, she's just so cheerful. I think that alone should get her off a worst-dressed list. It's a horrible dress, though.
I don't think hers was any worse than Kristen Bell's. I don't understand the trend of putting tiny, tiny, people in large shapeless wads of cloth. Kids today!
Of course, I also don't understand all these young men on the bus buckling their pants UNDER their butt-cheeks. Not low on the hips, but actually so that the waistband goes where I would think their penis would be, and the crotch is at their knees, and they look like they have tiny, tiny cartoon legs! It is very strange.
flea - Sep 17, 2007 7:54:57 am PDT #1086 of 10001
information libertarian
Stephanie, I can't speak to the test results, but my impression is female-to-male vaginal intercourse transmission of HIV is actually pretty rare; there's a 25% chance of transmitting the virus to a child during birth, assuming there is no treatment. If HIV status is known, they give drugs and do a C-section and the risk is very low. (This is Wikipedia talking).
sarameg - Sep 17, 2007 7:56:46 am PDT #1087 of 10001
There are ways today could have gotten worse.
They have happened.
Dana - Sep 17, 2007 7:56:47 am PDT #1088 of 10001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I just saw Jenna Fischer's dress. Oh, dear.
Fred Pete - Sep 17, 2007 8:02:33 am PDT #1089 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
And the local B&N has The Book.
I bought it at the local Borders over the weekend. It's this week's lunchtime reading.
Which means I'd better get going.
beth b - Sep 17, 2007 8:19:14 am PDT #1090 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
happy birthday, Lee.
Motivation for the able but unwilling.
1) rewards for perfect assignments - as in the ability to skip something. For me the killer was 30 math problems - I always did the last few, that were more complex - so that I knew what I was doing - which was the pt of the homework - If there had been some sort of system where if I did the 5 hardest correctly and didn't have to do the rest _ I would have done even better in math -
2) serious repercussions for not handing in an assignment. Even ungraded stuff has to be turn in. since this is work skills you are teaching - the consequences should be as serious as not doing something at work - x number of missed , undone or incomplete assignments means not a zero in the homework part of the grade - but a drop of a letter grade ( depends on the class - but some where between two and 5 assignments missing)