Plei is me on the calculator issue.
Nothin'. I just wanted you to face me so she could get behind ya.
Mal ,'The Train Job'
Spike's Bitches 42: Which question do you want me to answer first?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
NoiseDesign - Sep 03, 2008 2:30:16 pm PDT #4263 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
SailAweigh - Sep 03, 2008 2:36:20 pm PDT #4264 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
arithmetic winds up turning a lot of people off (especially ones like me who have a hard time retaining the stuff) of math before they get to the actual useful and fun parts
Reminds me of that article someone linked to about the way English lit is taught and how it turns students off.
Still, I'm a bit of a...what's the word I want...someone who believes that if electricity/electronics disappeared overnight, we damn well better be prepared to live without it. If you only know how to build a bridge with a computer model and a calculator, you're screwed when your grocery store is across the river and you don't have a boat. Better to learn how to do all that without the crutches first, so you remember how to do it that way when they get taken away.
Barb - Sep 03, 2008 2:38:35 pm PDT #4265 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
I sucked at math with and without a calculator. Equal opportunity math hater. Oddly enough, I teach it well.
Nate is his father with math, in that he can get the right answer, he just sees no use in showing how he got to the right answer and gets incredibly frustrated having to show his work. Abby is completely analytical and math comes super naturally to her, especially the whacked out abstract stuff. Coupled with her love or art and her ability to see things with depth and perception makes me think if she's at all interested, she could do well in architecture.
Steph L. - Sep 03, 2008 2:43:26 pm PDT #4266 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I hate to interrupt this discussion, but I'm being egotistical and in the likes-carrots mode: God DAMN we're pretty.
t edit Yeah, I know I need a haircut.
Barb - Sep 03, 2008 2:45:59 pm PDT #4267 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
You can ALWAYS interrupt for that kind of gawjus!
Steph L. - Sep 03, 2008 2:47:57 pm PDT #4268 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I fully admit there was Photoshopping. My face was all sweaty, and so I airbrushed it away. I darkened and blurred the background, but The Boy is fully un-Photoshopped. (Yes, those are his real eyes, no color contacts, no Photoshopping.)
Barb - Sep 03, 2008 2:48:10 pm PDT #4269 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
Bwah, the expressions in that shot are priceless.
Aren't they? I giggled like a loon when I uploaded the pic.
Barb - Sep 03, 2008 2:49:32 pm PDT #4270 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
(Yes, those are his real eyes, no color contacts, no Photoshopping.)
Oh, I totally remember his eyes just absolutely leaping out even in the dark ambiance of Porkopolis.
SailAweigh - Sep 03, 2008 2:56:17 pm PDT #4271 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Yeah, those eyes are pretty damn pretty and I'm not just talking about his. You guys make a really pretty couple!
beth b - Sep 03, 2008 3:00:51 pm PDT #4272 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
always interrupt with the pretty -- it makes us happy