'Life of the Party'
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.
ETA: Oh, lookit that, you can sort on both! How interesting.
Yep, by both/either.
It's not nearly as useful as sorting alphanumerically, because you can't do it automatically A-Z, you need to manually tell Excel "blue first, then green, etc etc"
But it comes in handy for me when I mark restricted stuff in red and want to put it all at the top so the client can clearly see what they'll need to replace.
I wish I could find a good way to teach students to do this.
What I like about the Lattice Multiplication is that it reinforces the importance of the 0 as a place holder. That's what messed me up on the other method, I didn't put in the 00's, I just wrote down the relevant numbers, so I got my columns misaligned.
I redid the process to double-check my math and got the same result, then I looked at the numbers I got when I multiplied the 1's, 10's, and 100s, and added them together with the relevant 00s. That's when I realized my 100s number was assuming too many 00s.
This may be related to why I can do tech support and others can't, I can break things down into component parts.
M teaches at a state university and all his students submit their papers in hard copy. For, you know, another bit of anecdata.
Man, I forgot how much I love plain old pita bread with hummus and olives for lunch. (Yogurt for protein later.) So good.
I'm curious about Lattice Multiplication now.
Yogurt for protein later.
And calcium. Calcium is important!
I see Allyson reinforcing my theory that if there is a hell, it's the jury pool waiting room.
I want to take a physics class from the husband of one of my friends. He will show a Simpsons clip at the beginning of class and the kids have to identify the real-life physics issues portrayed in it.
I'm going to push my kids harder on math than I did myself. Seriously--actuarial work is an excellent way to make a living.
Hummus has protein!
Hummus has protein!
Only a couple of grams, right?
Only a couple of grams, right?
Depends on how much you eat, I think. But seriously, I thought chickpeas were a really good source of protein. Is that just something I read on the internet?
I would actually prefer to edit things electronically (I've become, by default, the office copyeditor ... yay?), but although I've asked repeatedly - and said I'd turn on track changes so they could see what I was doing (mostly eliminating serial commas) - I still get these beautifully laid out publications. Which I then go through and mark up. No one seems to run spellcheck before laying out the things, either, so I have to watch out for typos. And, since I always get them in color, I have to try to find a pen with a color that will show up. Really - it'd be easier for them if I got the files before layout!
And, speaking of track changes (yes, I was) - got a call from someone who'd purchased a contract document from us (Word file) and they were trying to have several people edit it, with a different color for each. But it kept defaulting to one color. I had to assure her that we had not done anything (on purpose) to make her job harder and that it was probably one of the Mysteries of Microsoft.