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Post by impulse on May 5, 2017 13:27:02 GMT -5
I really don't wanna today, guys. I just don't wanna. 3-ish more hours at work. Got to get through it. Hit my caffeine quota already for the day. Might be time for some aggressive music. Crap, this post hasn't even taken one minute. Motivate!
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2017 14:01:08 GMT -5
Jugger .... don't ever change that avatar gif buddy ..... :heart: Diana Rigg I'll keep this up for a week before I change it again! ... Because of your comments here. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 5, 2017 14:24:54 GMT -5
Jugger .... don't ever change that avatar gif buddy ..... :heart: Diana Rigg I'll keep this up for a week before I change it again! ... Because of your comments here. You're a good man. :swoons: .... Oh I guess I should get back to work. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 5, 2017 15:29:31 GMT -5
Bought a 6' HDMI cable yesterday, still in its packaging, at an estate sale for a buck. I didn't really need one. But I didn't see how I could pass up a brand new cable for a dollar.
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Post by Pharozonk on May 5, 2017 16:12:46 GMT -5
Bought a 6' HDMI cable yesterday, still in its packaging, at an estate sale for a buck. I didn't really need one. But I didn't see how I could pass up a brand new cable for a dollar. I always find that HDMI cables are somehow never long enough. Even when I think that 6 feet sounds good in the store, it's always shorter than I thought once I hook it up at home. I'll probably have to just buy a 12 footer at some point. |
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2017 17:41:57 GMT -5
I'll keep this up for a week before I change it again! ... Because of your comments here. You're a good man. :swoons: .... Oh I guess I should get back to work. Love it. Such a great moment in the film too. |
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Post by Mormel on May 5, 2017 23:39:54 GMT -5
MormelI was in the Netherlands in 1994 (during the 50th Anniversary of D-DAY) and I spent a day with a dear gentleman tour guide and he shared the story Ellen Hoffmann and he was in his 70's when re-telling the story and met her briefly in 1942 while hiding from the Nazis. He tried to find her in 45 and was told after Christmas in 1945 that she was killed earlier that year and he was heart-broken and sad. He wanted to remind people of the suffering and persecution that these people endured and thanks for sharing this with us today. I can relate to these stories because I heard so many of them on my trip to Europe that year of which it was a learning experiences for the ages. Thanks Juggs. Wow, I think it's quite special you spoke to someone who's met Ellen in person. One sadly doesn't have to search hard to find reminders of the tragedy that struck so many innocents in Europe in WW2. But, it's of vital importance to keep remembering, and to put faces and stories to the names that have been recorded in the commemoration archives so far. |
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Post by wickedmountain on May 7, 2017 17:30:33 GMT -5
Hi everyone been awhile hope your all doing well  Sigh some things about computers really are trial and error but that's the way it is I guess ...But I'm getting a little better with things so that's good |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 8, 2017 13:27:22 GMT -5
It's snowing. I'm depressed.
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Post by brutalis on May 8, 2017 17:14:22 GMT -5
It's snowing. I'm depressed. Trade you. We just had 3 triple digit 103 degree days last week. Thankfully a small storm moving through so this week Sunday through Thursday supposed to be in the high 70's to mid 80's and then up into the high 90's by the weekend and those temperatures continue on into beginning the onslaught of Summer and Monsoon's. Likely be in triple digits very quickly. |
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Post by DE Sinclair on May 9, 2017 19:00:14 GMT -5
It's snowing. I'm depressed. Trade you. We just had 3 triple digit 103 degree days last week. Thankfully a small storm moving through so this week Sunday through Thursday supposed to be in the high 70's to mid 80's and then up into the high 90's by the weekend and those temperatures continue on into beginning the onslaught of Summer and Monsoon's. Likely be in triple digits very quickly. I'm guessing you're in the southwest if you're US based. Too hot for me. And RR's Canada is too cold (believe me I considered it last November). And here in Wisconsin we're having overnight freeze warnings. I just want to find somewhere that it's 75 degrees most of the year round and I can afford to live. Is that too much to ask? |
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Post by brutalis on May 10, 2017 7:44:09 GMT -5
Trade you. We just had 3 triple digit 103 degree days last week. Thankfully a small storm moving through so this week Sunday through Thursday supposed to be in the high 70's to mid 80's and then up into the high 90's by the weekend and those temperatures continue on into beginning the onslaught of Summer and Monsoon's. Likely be in triple digits very quickly. I'm guessing you're in the southwest if you're US based. Too hot for me. And RR's Canada is too cold (believe me I considered it last November). And here in Wisconsin we're having overnight freeze warnings. I just want to find somewhere that it's 75 degrees most of the year round and I can afford to live. Is that too much to ask? Yep, I am in Arizona land of the scorching summer desert heat. With air-conditioning you can survive out here but the summer June/July/August and into the 1st part of September can be brutal. The 100+ temperature would be endurable but once the humidity and dew-point goes up then you learn quickly to get up and do your stuff before 10am and then sleep away the rest of the day. Very draining physically and mentally for many. I jokingly refer to work as home during the summer because it is easier to go in early a couple of hours before i start and internet surf while having breakfast and stay an hour or two after work later and enjoy the comfort and coolness the hospital heavy duty A/C provides. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 15, 2017 14:11:55 GMT -5
One aspect of teaching that is particularly unrewarding is marking an incorrect answer. The simple way would be to give no point whatsoever, because the answer, as stated, is factually wrong. However a test is not some kind of challenge in which the teacher tries to trick the student; it's meant to evaluate the student's level of comprehension. So the teacher tries to evaluate how much understanding the student demonstrates in their bad answer. Eventually a numerical value is reached (say, 2 points out of five)... but often students still feel that they've been wronged. Those I call "point lawyers" will even argue that their understanding was higher than that mark reflects, and that they should at least get 3 points, or perhaps four. And all the while the teacher thinks "Bud, you had ZERO point when I started this exercise". Aggravation, aggravation...  |
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Post by DanBintheUnderworld on May 15, 2017 14:16:34 GMT -5
I'm guessing you're in the southwest if you're US based. Too hot for me. And RR's Canada is too cold (believe me I considered it last November). And here in Wisconsin we're having overnight freeze warnings. I just want to find somewhere that it's 75 degrees most of the year round and I can afford to live. Is that too much to ask? Yep, I am in Arizona land of the scorching summer desert heat. With air-conditioning you can survive out here but the summer June/July/August and into the 1st part of September can be brutal. The 100+ temperature would be endurable but once the humidity and dew-point goes up then you learn quickly to get up and do your stuff before 10am and then sleep away the rest of the day. Very draining physically and mentally for many. I jokingly refer to work as home during the summer because it is easier to go in early a couple of hours before i start and internet surf while having breakfast and stay an hour or two after work later and enjoy the comfort and coolness the hospital heavy duty A/C provides. I lived in the Phoenix area from 8/81-5/84 while going to grad school (with the summer of '83 spent in Tucson for an internship with the U of A Press), & about the first thing I did as a resident, before classes started, was rack up a case of heatstroke while lying beside the pool on campus. Oops. (And it wasn't as if I'd just blown in from the Arctic. Extreme SW Arkansas in August is pretty damned hot as well.) |
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Post by brutalis on May 15, 2017 14:21:35 GMT -5
One aspect of teaching that is particularly unrewarding is marking an incorrect answer. The simple way would be to give no point whatsoever, because the answer, as stated, is factually wrong. However a test is not some kind of challenge in which the teacher tries to trick the student; it's meant to evaluate the student's level of comprehension. So the teacher tries to evaluate how much understanding the student demonstrates in their bad answer. Eventually a numerical value is reached (say, 2 points out of five)... but often students still feel that they've been wronged. Those I call "point lawyers" will even argue that their understanding was higher than that mark reflects, and that they should at least get 3 points, or perhaps four. And all the while the teacher thinks "Bud, you had ZERO point when I started this exercise". Aggravation, aggravation... I had a teacher for a kinesiology class that required all his questions being answered in essay form. He TOLD the class that if you didn't know the answer then try to "baffle him with bullshit" because he felt that in writing out an "essay" that sometimes the student would show that they may not know the exact answer but that they had a general understanding or concept of what was asked. And that in "writing out the bullshit" the students could surprise themselves with actually remembering or finding the answer. He would base points on what he read and saw and how much "bullshit" that someone could come up with in their writing the answer. My teacher said he gave one student a 5 for 5 (example) just for the fact that the student wrote out a full 5 page essay. And surprise of surprises he said in every class test he would get students that would just leave a question empty and get no points at all even when he TOLD them they should always write something in and he would give them 1 point for effort. |
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Sigh some things about computers really are trial and error but that's the way it is I guess ...But I'm getting a little better with things so that's good 
