Deep 6 FaWtL

[Orthos, Post-Singularity]

Curses.

Eventually we will reach a state where exterior weather conditions are less relevant.

And nudity ceases to be something to be concerned over.

[Orthos]

Finished Stranger Things Season 2. Excellent stuff.

Spoiler:

Except for killing Bob. Low blow, ST. Low blow.

Eagerly looking forward to Season 3.

[John Napier 698]

Closing up the garage to go home. See everyone later.

[Vidmaster7]

4 pages busy day.

[doctor_wu]

lynora wrote:

So tired. I basically want to curl up in bed and watch Sherlock for the rest of the week....

But moms don't get to take sick days. :(

On the bright side, emailing my son's caseworker was immediately productive and he got a solution approved by the teacher right away to let the kidlet spend less time on math homework (he was at more than three hours a night thanks to his dysgraphia and the challenge of finding a non-handwriting way to do math, which means he and I are both rather sleep deprived after a couple weeks of this) so he can actually get to bed on time tonight! Hallelujah!

I have had the same problem but the best solution I found was LaTeX wiki but this is really difficult at first.

[gran rey de los mono]

Freehold DM wrote:

Scintillae wrote:

NobodysHome wrote:

You ARE a youngster, aren't you?

We've been complaining about the commercialization of Christmas here in the U.S. for at least 40 years now. It's become a tradition:
- Trim the tree
- Put out grandpa
- Argue about the commercialization of Christmas

Anyone else remember a few years ago there being a bit of hoopla over I want to say ABC cutting into A Charlie Brown Christmas to show more commercials?

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TRUE STORY: Last year when I was chaperoning the high school I had to bust a group of guys for talking too loud too late at night. Their conversation? Whether the Bolshevik Revolution or the Holocaust caused greater human suffering.

...what did they decide? That's a fascinating topic.

Charlie Brown Christmas is my favorite Christmas movie. I want that tree so bad.

It's a stick. I have a yard full of them. Come and take as many as you want. As payment, point the weather dominatrix elsewhere so I can have a warm winter with no snow.

[Vidmaster7]

Hes right ^ literally a stick.

[gran rey de los mono]

Scintillae wrote:

Kind of you, but I'm serious. Econ textbook is copyright 2003. Thankfully, the class is just hitting basic concepts, and supply and demand haven't changed since Adam Smith, but that means absolutely zero look into more recent economic problems... sigh

I loved learning from outdated textbooks. Why, back in '93 or '94, my Social Studies text (which still declared itself to be a History text) discussed how "One day the Soviet Union will surely fall apart, thus demonstrating the superiority of capitalism and democracy".

[gran rey de los bacon]

Orthos wrote:

Tacticslion wrote:

Also: I was super impressed that we'd managed to get two pages filled from yesterday, before I realized most of one page was gran's jokes, and Vid's responses to them.

(Which were still funny, just less substantial than I was expecting.)

Classic FAWTL there. Used to be worse before the anti-spam update. Used to be I'd come on and find four new pages of nothing but Heathy spamming the same one-word post over and over.

Bacon!!

[Vidmaster7]

I like to think my responses are substantial (Inner groucho marxs: "He'd like to think that anyways.")

[Sissyl]

gran rey de los mono wrote:

Scintillae wrote:

Kind of you, but I'm serious. Econ textbook is copyright 2003. Thankfully, the class is just hitting basic concepts, and supply and demand haven't changed since Adam Smith, but that means absolutely zero look into more recent economic problems... sigh

I loved learning from outdated textbooks. Why, back in '93 or '94, my Social Studies text (which still declared itself to be a History text) discussed how "One day the Soviet Union will surely fall apart, thus demonstrating the superiority of capitalism and democracy".

I take it the textbook wasn't written in 93/94...

[Vidmaster7]

he had the book in 93 at least. I feel like the internet had so much potential too. Hmm why aren't we teaching kids with their phones?

[gran rey de los mono]

Sissyl wrote:

gran rey de los mono wrote:

Scintillae wrote:

Kind of you, but I'm serious. Econ textbook is copyright 2003. Thankfully, the class is just hitting basic concepts, and supply and demand haven't changed since Adam Smith, but that means absolutely zero look into more recent economic problems... sigh

I loved learning from outdated textbooks. Why, back in '93 or '94, my Social Studies text (which still declared itself to be a History text) discussed how "One day the Soviet Union will surely fall apart, thus demonstrating the superiority of capitalism and democracy".

I take it the textbook wasn't written in 93/94...

I believe the copyright was in the mid '80s.

[gran rey de los mono]

Of course this was the same school where my 8th grade Algebra class consisted of 8 (yes eight) people, and they couldn't get enough textbooks from the same edition for everyone. All the questions were the same, but the sample problems were all different. And the teacher's guide was a different edition from all the student books. So half the class had one edition, half the class had a second edition, and the teacher had a third edition. Also, the teacher was hired primarily as a basketball coach and had no idea how to really do Algebra, let alone teach it.

Good memories.

[gran rey de los mono]

Man, my players are so selfish. My birthday was on Tuesday, so I took cupcakes to the game today. I told them that as a gift, all I wanted from them was to kill one of their characters. And NO ONE WOULD LET ME!!!! How rude!

[Vidmaster7]

Wow Gran that school you went too... I went to elementary ina coal mining town. so they had a lot of money to throw around from taxes but not really anything to do with it so we had new everything all the time. one of the first schools in the nation to have a set of computers in every room. Down side is their was a large block of the curriculum that involve learning about coal and related subjects.

[Vidmaster7]

gran rey de los mono wrote:

Man, my players are so selfish. My birthday was on Tuesday, so I took cupcakes to the game today. I told them that as a gift, all I wanted from them was to kill one of their characters. And NO ONE WOULD LET ME!!!! How rude!

Happy late birthday gran. You can kill one of my aliases if you want but I will probably resurrect it later.

[gran rey de los mono]

Vidmaster7 wrote:

Wow Gran that school you went too... I went to elementary ina coal mining town. so they had a lot of money to throw around from taxes but not really anything to do with it so we had new everything all the time. one of the first schools in the nation to have a set of computers in every room. Down side is their was a large block of the curriculum that involve learning about coal and related subjects.

Money? What's that? The town had a population under 1,000. The county has a population under 7,000. We had a computer lab. It consisted of about a dozen Apple 2s. Not 2e, just 2. They were hardly ever used because 1) we had no software to speak of, and 2) none of the teachers knew how to use them for anything other than some basic word processing. And only one of them was connected to a printer, a s&#*ty dot-matrix that sometimes worked, but usually didn't.

[gran rey de los mono]

Vidmaster7 wrote:

gran rey de los mono wrote:

Man, my players are so selfish. My birthday was on Tuesday, so I took cupcakes to the game today. I told them that as a gift, all I wanted from them was to kill one of their characters. And NO ONE WOULD LET ME!!!! How rude!

Happy late birthday gran. You can kill one of my aliases if you want but I will probably resurrect it later.

Thanks, but it's just not the same.

[Un-Bear-able Puns]

gran rey de los mono wrote:

Vidmaster7 wrote:

gran rey de los mono wrote:

Man, my players are so selfish. My birthday was on Tuesday, so I took cupcakes to the game today. I told them that as a gift, all I wanted from them was to kill one of their characters. And NO ONE WOULD LET ME!!!! How rude!

Happy late birthday gran. You can kill one of my aliases if you want but I will probably resurrect it later.

Thanks, but it's just not the same.

Whew Good I was fur sure it was going to be me.

[Vidmaster7]

gran rey de los mono wrote:

Vidmaster7 wrote:

Wow Gran that school you went too... I went to elementary ina coal mining town. so they had a lot of money to throw around from taxes but not really anything to do with it so we had new everything all the time. one of the first schools in the nation to have a set of computers in every room. Down side is their was a large block of the curriculum that involve learning about coal and related subjects.

Money? What's that? The town had a population under 1,000. The county has a population under 7,000. We had a computer lab. It consisted of about a dozen Apple 2s. Not 2e, just 2. They were hardly ever used because 1) we had no software to speak of, and 2) none of the teachers knew how to use them for anything other than some basic word processing. And only one of them was connected to a printer, a s!*+ty dot-matrix that sometimes worked, but usually didn't.

Wow so your town didn't have a horse, and if it did their would probably only be the one.

[gran rey de los mono]

We had to borrow our one horse from the one-horse town down the road.

[gran rey de los mono]

I believe I've mentioned this before, but basically my only good memory of that town is the chowder.

[Vidmaster7]

mmm squirrel

[doctor_wu]

I have my mom's econ textbook sure some things are different but most of it is still applicable.

[gran rey de los mono]

Sometimes I like to watch birds and think "If I could fly, who would I s+$@ on?"

[gran rey de los mono]

When Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer, it's "art" and "music". But when I do it, I'm "drunk" and "banned from the hardware store".

[gran rey de los mono]

Why is it that everything I love is either unhealthy, addictive, or has multiple restraining orders out against me?

[gran rey de los mono]

If procrastination was an Olympic sport, I'd compete in it. Later.

[gran rey de los mono]

Refusing to go to the gym counts as resistance training, right?

[Vidmaster7]

gran rey de los mono wrote:

Why is it that everything I love is either unhealthy, addictive, or has multiple restraining orders out against me?

You answer this one conveniently in the post immediately above it.

[gran rey de los mono]

I'm not lazy, I'm just in energy saving mode.

[gran rey de los mono]

My girlfriend told me "I'm tired of how you always act like you're a detective. I want to split up." I said "Great! We can cover more ground that way."

[gran rey de los mono]

A positive attitude might not solve your problems, but it may annoy enough people to be worth the effort.

[gran rey de los mono]

Earlier today white smoke came from under the hood of my car. Either my radiator hose sprung a leak, or my spark plugs elected a new car Pope.

[gran rey de los mono]

I like to finish other people's sentences because my version is better.

[gran rey de los mono]

A friend set me up on a blind date and said "By the way, she's expecting a baby." I felt like such an idiot waiting in that bar wearing a diaper.

[gran rey de los mono]

I wanted to lose 10 pounds this year. I've got about 3 weeks left, and only 13 pounds to go.

[gran rey de los mono]

When I applied for my job, the application asked "Who to call in case of an emergency." I wrote "911".

[Limeylongears]

gran rey de los mono wrote:

It's a stick. I have a yard full of them. Come and take as many as you want. As payment, point the weather dominatrix elsewhere so I can have a warm winter with no snow.

She can come over here if you don't want her.

{Drifts off into a lovely daydream about a stern lady dressed in thigh-length boots and a sorta corset, all made of clouds}

[Vidmaster7]

Somehow I felt that statement was terribly British.

[gran rey de los mono]

Limeylongears wrote:

gran rey de los mono wrote:

It's a stick. I have a yard full of them. Come and take as many as you want. As payment, point the weather dominatrix elsewhere so I can have a warm winter with no snow.

She can come over here if you don't want her.

{Drifts off into a lovely daydream about a stern lady dressed in thigh-length boots and a sorta corset, all made of clouds}

I wondered if anyone was going to notice I wrote that.

[Taliesan]

Limeylongears wrote:

gran rey de los mono wrote:

It's a stick. I have a yard full of them. Come and take as many as you want. As payment, point the weather dominatrix elsewhere so I can have a warm winter with no snow.

She can come over here if you don't want her.

{Drifts off into a lovely daydream about a stern lady dressed in thigh-length boots and a sorta corset, all made of clouds}

If you live in the north she's here today. Begins singing Sweet Caroline

[captain yesterday]

We're expecting an inch or two (of snow) tomorrow night.

A lot of good that does me though, I work until midnight tomorrow night and then back at 8:30 Saturday morning (but I get off at like 5 Saturday afternoon, so).

More snow on Tuesday so hopefully we can do the cliche whole family walks through the snow to get the Christmas tree bit then.

[Scintillae]

O_o

Thank you very much to whoever anonymously gave me the entire Skulls & Shackles AP!

[Scintillae]

I finally caved last week and started playing Christmas music before my first hour started. To mix it up, however, it's been different every time, so the kids have started commenting on how they can't predict anything to expect from me.

Today, I found this. Yessss.

[Scintillae]

I think the 8-bit collection is still my favorite.

"Why does this sound like a 90s video game, Ms. Scint?"
"Because it's awesome."

[Scintillae]

There's nothing quite like the wailing and gnashing of teeth of an English class.

"So we have a test and an essay over the book?!"
"It's almost like this has been true for literally everything we've read this year."
"But why do we have to write an essay?"
"One, you need the practice with writing essays. Two, it gives me a better idea of how well you actually understand the concepts. Three, we established the first day of school that I'm an aspiring supervillain, so why are you surprised when I do evil things?"

[Scintillae]

I'd feel worse about it if I wasn't giving them the next several days in class to work on it...and if the ones complaining the loudest are the ones who rarely turn their work in anyway.

[Cap'n Siskel, FaWtLy Critic]

The Squirrel Nut Zipper's Christmas album was surprisingly boring.