Oh, yeah, baby, it's snakalicious in here.

Xander ,'Empty Places'


Natter 69: Practically names itself.  

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.


billytea - Oct 20, 2011 8:56:30 am PDT #2405 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

and then mj nutballs

I want this to be the name of a rap artist. A white rapper with cornrows.


Kathy A - Oct 20, 2011 8:56:37 am PDT #2406 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I'm sort of surprised you're marking college level papers on hard copy in the first place.

My graduate program teachers almost all require hard copy so they can mark it up. My current teacher is the only one I've had so far, however, who doesn't do emailed copy at all; he doesn't even check his email more than once a week or so. Of course, he's the oldest teacher I've had so far--he's actually retired a few times, but just can't stop teaching.


Allyson - Oct 20, 2011 9:04:51 am PDT #2407 of 30001
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

Maybe bieber can be mj nutballs. He was denied entry into a cipher for asking ludacris to write his rhyme. I lold


Connie Neil - Oct 20, 2011 9:05:59 am PDT #2408 of 30001
brillig

I feel academically smug. I ran a few test Lattice Multiplication problems next to the basic multi-digit multiplication format that I learned (1's, 10's, 100's, etc.). Everything was hunky dory until I hit one where I got wildly divergent numbers, so I went for the calculator to see which one was right. And the Lattice one was right, so I spent several minutes analyzing where I went wrong and discovered a fundamental bit that I'd forgotten over the years.

Thereby illustrating what the video was saying about it being a less muck-up-able method than the other way.

I be smart! No, wait, I be trying hard!

I'm gonna read smutty fic now.


Sue - Oct 20, 2011 9:09:18 am PDT #2409 of 30001
hip deep in pie

By the time I finished my MLIS most of my comments were given electronically.

It's a requirement to fly with a black pen now? That's not in the documentation I got.

I think the customs declaration forms bet. US/Canada state blue or black pen.


Allyson - Oct 20, 2011 9:10:33 am PDT #2410 of 30001
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

Oh hey only six more hours of staring at a wall.


Hil R. - Oct 20, 2011 9:11:18 am PDT #2411 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

She wouldn't let me mark in red pen, because she says they find it dispiriting. Is that common practice?

It was the trend a while ago. I don't remember exactly when, but for a while, all the stores were selling packages of purple pens for teachers who didn't want to grade in red. From what I've seen, it seems to not really be the trend anymore. I usually mark in other colors, because I don't like looking at all that red, and I've (totally unscientifically) noticed that my students seem to be more likely to actually read the comments written in purple or green or turquoise, while they mostly just look at the things they got wrong when it's written in red. That could be totally my imagination, though.


Hil R. - Oct 20, 2011 9:12:17 am PDT #2412 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I be smart! No, wait, I be trying hard!

Yay!

so I spent several minutes analyzing where I went wrong

I wish I could find a good way to teach students to do this.


Jessica - Oct 20, 2011 9:20:02 am PDT #2413 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

they had some things coded by color, so you couldn't even sort it automatically, so stupid

In Excel, you can sort by color.


Steph L. - Oct 20, 2011 9:31:53 am PDT #2414 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I prefer marking hard copy, like I said. I just thought it was going away. It has in much of publishing.

God, I love editing on hard copy. I miss it SO MUCH. I hate editing in Word. Hate it like burning. Fuck you, "track changes." Fuck you hard.