Lorne: Once the word spreads you beat up an innocent old man, well, the truly terrible will think twice before going toe-to-toe with our Avenging Angel. Spike: Yes. The geriatric community will be soiling their nappies when they hear you're on the case. Bravo.

'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'


Natter 57 Varieties  

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.


Laga - Feb 18, 2008 9:08:43 am PST #15 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

one time I had a whole bunch of variety 42 and as a result I got sick of it

oh yeah, that's why I can't hack variety 11 anymore. Man that was a hell of a party.


Steph L. - Feb 18, 2008 9:18:15 am PST #16 of 10001
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

How can you not like variety 42?

I like Product 19.

I just try not to think how bad Products 1-18 must have been.


aurelia - Feb 18, 2008 9:20:47 am PST #17 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Kristin, I had an instructor in college who required each of us to provide a cassette tape for comments. That was pretty low tech. I'm sure there are ways to do it entirely electronically over the internets, but yeah, that probably takes a little more planning. Something to consider if your hand keeps bothering you though.


Emily - Feb 18, 2008 9:26:07 am PST #18 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

In almost entirely unrelated news, I've been trying to emulate McDonald's honey mustard sauce, and although I've failed it's been an interesting failure. Based on the Web's advice, I added Heinz 57. It's not bad.


beth b - Feb 18, 2008 9:27:02 am PST #19 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

new thread....huh.....still looks like people are sleeping


Allyson - Feb 18, 2008 9:27:13 am PST #20 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 was just reading about a new book that blames the internet and such for making people dumber.

Woe. Another rant on rampant anti-intellectualism: [link]


brenda m - Feb 18, 2008 9:32:48 am PST #21 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Same rant, I think.


DavidS - Feb 18, 2008 9:33:44 am PST #22 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I like Product 19.

I hear that Product 23 is eaten by the Order of Zion.


Pix - Feb 18, 2008 9:40:57 am PST #23 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Aurelia, thanks. I think that my problem would be that I am a very visual person; I have a hard time aurally. I also think I would have a hard time giving specific feedback on the writing/mechanics aspect of the papers. I'll keep it in mind, though, especially if the pain doesn't abate. Because ow.


Rick - Feb 18, 2008 9:41:54 am PST #24 of 10001

If the papers are submitted electronically, you can use voice recognition software to enter comments in the electronic file. This makes grading undergraduate papers much less tiresome.

The downside is that it takes some time before the voice recognition software really understands you. It took me forever to get the microphone to work well enough for the sofware to understand me, but I'm guessing that you have an advantage there.

The upside is that you can program in codewords for frequently used comments. So if I say "c-z-14" it inserts the instructions for reporting electronic sources in APA style. C-z-1 through cz-4 are from Strunk and White. With this system it looks like you are working much harder than you really are.