Cash - that is approx. a million times better than mac's writing. enrichment programs would be awesome for him.
Jayne: Well... I don't like the idea of someone hearin' what I'm thinkin'. Inara: No one likes the idea of hearing what you're thinking.
'Objects In Space'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
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.
msbelle - Apr 23, 2012 11:47:44 am PDT #2082 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Cashmere - Apr 23, 2012 11:52:05 am PDT #2083 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Most of the work they've been doing is writing fiction--which I think he writes closer to his grade level. I think with non-fiction, he really shines--he loves facts and can communicate them very effectively.
I found a movie-making program here at the local university--but it's for 6th to 8th graders. I wonder if they would make an exception for him. If not, I'll try to get him in a grade 3-5 writing program.
I have to give mad props to his teacher. His classmates have made amazing progress on their writing this year and I adore her style of teaching. She enjoys what she does and it shows.
le nubian - Apr 23, 2012 12:08:06 pm PDT #2084 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Cash,
that is pretty awesome. No shit, he writes better than half of my grad students this term.
Cass - Apr 23, 2012 12:46:26 pm PDT #2085 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
the facts are all correct and he has the correct people and the correct time line. It looks like he's cobbled together the facts and distilled it down to a very simple essay on the subject.
Way to go, Owen! That is really impressive. He's remarkable.
Ginger - Apr 23, 2012 12:59:57 pm PDT #2086 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I wonder if I sent Owen lots of gummy worms now, he might hire me as he rises to world domination.
Allyson - Apr 23, 2012 1:24:33 pm PDT #2087 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
I think with non-fiction, he really shines--he loves facts and can communicate them very effectively.
I concur. Non-fic rules!
Allyson - Apr 23, 2012 1:25:56 pm PDT #2088 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
I think the thing went well, unsure if I'm the right fit, but enjoyed the interview and left feeling pretty good about it.
Scrappy - Apr 23, 2012 1:29:32 pm PDT #2089 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Yay, Allyson. I assume there was no discussion of rock-bonding?
Consuela - Apr 23, 2012 1:37:29 pm PDT #2090 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Allyson, that's good to hear.
Me, I'm just exhausted about job issues. I still don't know when my position is going to be announced, and the guy who's supposed to be in charge of the hiring process is leaving my division next month. If it doesn't happen before then, I have no idea when or if it'll happen at all.
... of course, it's possible I'll end up with someone more capable than the current guy. But I'm not holding my breath.
tommyrot - Apr 23, 2012 1:39:33 pm PDT #2091 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
North Korea issues unusually specific threat
North Korea's military vowed a new and unusually specific threat to its neighbors, saying it would reduce South Korea "to ashes" in less than four minutes.
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The North Korean military threatened to "reduce all the rat-like groups and the bases for provocations to ashes in three or four minutes, (or) in much shorter time, by unprecedented peculiar means and methods of our own style."
Well OK then.
From now on everything I do will be by the unprecedented peculiar means and methods of my own style.