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Sorry I wasn't on at all, Yesterday. I was so dead-tired that I just slept all day, except for meals and bathroom breaks. Maybe it had something to do with it raining all day here in Pittsburgh.
And, I see that Deep-6 FaWtL has a new inmate. Welcome to the Madhouse, Woran. :D
The turtle gave me a blanket. Im staying.
*wiggles deeper into the blanket fort*Hey. Wait. Why am I naked?
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It happens.
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indeed it does...
says the Hamster who is up much to late...
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Welcome to my world!
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Late? The day has just started!
Since scedules are the thing now:
6:30 - wake up. Get dressed. Feed/cuddle rats. Make lunch to take with me.
7:00 - catch bus
7:25 - catch train
8:15 - arrive at work
17:00 - leave work (no real break. Eat behind desk while looking at internet)
18:something - arrive home, have dinner, clean up dinner
20:00 - game, prep PF/PFS stuff, GM if its a monday/wednesday
23:00 - *hopefully* be in bed by this time. But it might easily be 01:00
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Issue is when I'm busy, I forget to take drinks. I haven't been given antibiotics. I was told to go for a retest after I get my pee in order. (Basically one month later after I spend time hydrating myself and collecting pee samples properly).
Cover Turtle, did you figure out why the horse stomped on your foot? *Passes a basin full of ice cubes to cover turtle*
He was wearing blinders, and his owner decided to try and remove his gaiters without removing his blinders first. I was on the other side of the horse removing the harness.
Horse + blinders = horse can't see, and will tend to be more skittish (sound doesn't tell you much about who's touching you, says the average horse brain)
Horse + blinders + someone touching his lower legs (removing the gaiters) = Horse gets spooked and jumps away from what's touching his lower leg.
Me on the other side doesn't get away from side-jumping horse quick enough, and get a horse landing on my foot.
He then gets spooked again (still can't see properly) and a human foot is not very solid ground for a horse hoof, thus he jumps again, giving my foot a good second press as a parting gift.
Really you can't him (the horse) too much. It was his owner who forgot the proper order for removing your equipment from your horse :(
But why are horses wearing gaiters and I know hooding a falcon makes them calmer but on horses they have opposite effect?
How's your foot today anyway?
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I promise nothing!
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Delivering another skid loader to a different job.
Edit: correction, delivering another skid loader to the same job we delivered one to yesterday.
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Early day today, should get off work by four.
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I'll get my first overtime in six years this week.
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Schedules vary from day to day, but generally:
6.50am - wake up, breakfast, shower.
8.30am arrive into work and get on with it.
11.30am - tea
13:00 - 14:00 - lunch.
15:30 - tea
17:30 - 18:00 - leave work
18:30 - 19:30 - exercise, if not at HEMA
19:30 - 20:00 - evening meal, if not at HEMA
20:00 - 21:00 - Music/housework, etc. if not at HEMA
21:00 - 22:30 - Nobbing about.
23:00 - bed
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Now THAT'S something to lick your eyeball over!
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I was mostly just confused and thought I miss heard them. They didn't look that tired to me. They were having trouble with the buttons however. even though there is technically only one button.
My company would hire this person without an interview. Probably make them upper-middle management.
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How to Incense a Lawful Obsessive-Compulsive, brought to you by the DMV:
If you go to the DMV site, or look at the renewal notice, it specifically says, "Skip the lines! Make an appointment!"
I made the appointment in early April. It took TWO MONTHS to get ANY appointment at ANY time (I work from home, so I can go any time, any day)
I arrived at 2:55 pm for a 3:20 pm appointment. There were two lines: One for people without appointments, and one for people with. The one for people with appointments was triple the length. There was never once anyone who asked what my appointment time was, nor even checked to see whether I had one. I just stood in line until 3:45 pm (already 25 minutes late), got to the front, and their entire response was, "Go to the next line."
I had to stand in one line (that ignored appointment times) to check in. Then a second line to RE-FILL A FORM I HAD ALREADY FILLED OUT ONLINE! "I've already filled that out online like the form asked me to."
"I'm sorry, sir, you have to do it here."
"So why did I do it online?"
"I don't know, sir."
Then I had to sit around for half an hour for a window (now 4:30 pm) just to hand over my form and my check. I have no idea why line lady #2 couldn't accept this paperwork, because that was all that line lady #3 did.
I had to stand in a fourth line to get my picture taken, because we all know that digital cameras are SO expensive that the DMV can't afford more than one.
All in all, I saw people with no appointments get out of the building ahead of me, it took me 100 minutes just to renew my license, and there was never any reason I had to be there in the first place. (No tests, no check of my records that they could have done without me there, etc.)
Just... infuriating.
Then, just to top matters off, Amazon Restaurants got my order wrong for the first time, completely forgetting Impus Minor's dinner.
WTF is so hard about food delivery? Pizza and Chinese places have been doing it for decades without a problem. Online orderers just can't figure it out.
Grr on a Friday morning...
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Ouch. My sympathies. My uncle was cow-kicked once while doing farm-work. He was in the Hospital for a month.
Thank you John.
Don't think it be that bad...hopefully just a week or two of sore-swollen-foot-syndrom... ^^'
But why are horses wearing gaiters and I know hooding a falcon makes them calmer but on horses they have opposite effect?How's your foot today anyway?
This is when I wish I could just take you to a stable, as showing you would probably make more sense, then me trying to explain it...
^^'Well, first off.
Horses are skittish by nature, the fight-or-flight (more specifically the flight respons) response simmers very near to the surface in them.
While dulling or blocking their senses (ie blinders, stuffing cotton in their ears and so on) does calm them somewhat, it also help them focus a bit more as the amount of visual and auditory information that hey have to prosses during training in lessened, helping them focus on the task at hand (not having as many "what's that, I have to look/listen at it for a while" moments).
Though try and imagine, if I put a pair of "blinded" glasses and a pair of earmuffs on you, left you alone in a room for 10min and then came in again and started touching your shin or calf, from your blinded angle.
I'm guessing that you might at least flinch a bit too, especially if you hadn't seen me enter the room again.
Secondly.
Gaiters are mostly put on younger horses (the stallion in question is almost 3 years old - ie an teenager in human years), as they tend to (as with human children) have imperfect motor skills, especially while they are still growing.
In particular they tend to kick themselves on the inner part of their shins and calfs (ie the inner part of the lower leg from hoof-crown to the knee) during training. This gives them sores and bruises which can, if not treated right, turn into open wounds (which again risks infection), as they keep ripping up the same spots on their legs.
Thus we put gaiters on them to cushion the kicks they give themselves and minimise the time we have to treat their legs for nicks and bruises.
Thirdly.
Yes, my foot is still pretty swollen. Tried to put my boot this morning and it wouldn't fit (not without a considerable amount of pain), so I called in sick for the day, as me hobbling around wouldn't be of that much help in the stable.
Does that clear things up a bit? Please ask away if not, though I can't promise that my answer will be easily readable ^^' (sorry!).
*Give Mort another head scratch, between her ear, with a turtle foot*
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How to Incense a Lawful Obsessive-Compulsive,
Jeez... Last time I had to renew my licence, I made an apointment (it was 2 weeks in the future).
Showed up.Got called right on the dot. Gave over my old licence to check. Handed over photo. Digitally signed a waiver with info that I got to read online before the apointment.
Pick up licence a week later.
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How to Incense a Lawful Obsessive-Compulsive,Jeez... Last time I had to renew my licence, I made an apointment (it was 2 weeks in the future).
Showed up.
Got called right on the dot. Gave over my old licence to check. Handed over photo. Digitally signed a waiver with info that I got to read online before the apointment.
Pick up licence a week later.
I suspect you and I live in different locations with different population densities.
Back when I lived in Davis, the DMV was just a "walk in whenever" place.
Next time I have to go to the DMV, I'll probably drive to Davis. The 70-minute drive each way would be worth the reduced stress.
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I'm always frustrated by teachers who do a strict, by-the-book curve because of events such as Impus Major's, but having been the subject of a formal complaint because I used subjective curving, I at least understand why some teachers do it.
But watching Impus Major get straight C's on all the exams leading up to the final, and then suddenly in the last 2 months of class catch fire and get straight A's, then a straight-up A on the final, and end up with a B- in class due to the quality of his previous work was... frustrating.
Understandable. But frustrating.
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DMV Hell
And that's one of the advantages of living in less urban areas. My county DMV? I can walk in and renew my license/plate registration in less than 30 minutes guaranteed. Pick the right time of day and I'll be in and out in 15.
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How to Incense a Lawful Obsessive-Compulsive,Jeez... Last time I had to renew my licence, I made an apointment (it was 2 weeks in the future).
Showed up.
Got called right on the dot. Gave over my old licence to check. Handed over photo. Digitally signed a waiver with info that I got to read online before the apointment.
Pick up licence a week later.I suspect you and I live in different locations with different population densities.
Back when I lived in Davis, the DMV was just a "walk in whenever" place.
Next time I have to go to the DMV, I'll probably drive to Davis. The 70-minute drive each way would be worth the reduced stress.
Last cencus from 2017 we had 344.384 people in my city.
But I think the biggest factor, is, you know, that I'm in the Netherlands. Not the USA.
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I'm always frustrated by teachers who do a strict, by-the-book curve because of events such as Impus Major's, but having been the subject of a formal complaint because I used subjective curving, I at least understand why some teachers do it.
But watching Impus Major get straight C's on all the exams leading up to the final, and then suddenly in the last 2 months of class catch fire and get straight A's, then a straight-up A on the final, and end up with a B- in class due to the quality of his previous work was... frustrating.
Understandable. But frustrating.
Grading on a curve has always boggled my mind...
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I'm always frustrated by teachers who do a strict, by-the-book curve because of events such as Impus Major's, but having been the subject of a formal complaint because I used subjective curving, I at least understand why some teachers do it.
But watching Impus Major get straight C's on all the exams leading up to the final, and then suddenly in the last 2 months of class catch fire and get straight A's, then a straight-up A on the final, and end up with a B- in class due to the quality of his previous work was... frustrating.
Understandable. But frustrating.
Grading on a curve has always boggled my mind...
Basically you dont have to be any good... just better then your classmates.
I had a biology class in college where the top 10% got the A. The next 10% got the B. So on down the line. That professor literally failed 60% of the students in every class he taught, regardless of the actual scores. He was also the head of the department and had, at the time, about 35 years in at the school. Filing a complaint was just going to go nowhere.
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Hey, has anyone heard from Lynora recently?
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We use a 100% scale.
Teacher make a test. Every question is worth an X amount of points.
If you get everything right, you get a 100. Get some things wrong you get lower.
A 55 is a passing grade. Lower and you fail.
Grades are cut off at 10, as most older computer systems cant handle grades like 08.
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We use a 100% scale.
Teacher make a test. Every question is worth an X amount of points.
If you get everything right, you get a 100. Get some things wrong you get lower.
A 55 is a passing grade. Lower and you fail.
Grades are cut off at 10, as most older computer systems cant handle grades like 08.
At my high school the grade splits were harsh and uneven.
94-100 A
87-93 B
78-86 C
70-77 D
0-69 F
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I'm seriously considering weighting my English grades this coming year. I had way too many kids who would do all their homework (almost certainly copied from/"worked on together with" a classmate) so they could turn in a subpar summative essay/project and skate out with a higher grade. One of my kids turned in just enough of a final project to merit a 25% (1s across the board on a 4-pt rubric) with a broad grin because he knew it wouldn't bring him down enough to fail.
But I'm leery of doing so from my old school, where we had a mandatory 80/20 weight with the opposite problem - the kids knew they didn't need the homework to pass, so barely anyone ever did it. Which, of course, led to them failing because they hadn't mastered the skills practiced in the homework being assessed on the projects and tests...
I just want to make them care about the quality of their work.
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And I am so sick of this argument.
"We're trying to teach you skills like organization, time management, and communication to make you employable."
"I am employable! I work at Subway!"
Kid, if you're as punctual to that job as you are to my class, you won't for long.
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I'm always frustrated by teachers who do a strict, by-the-book curve because of events such as Impus Major's, but having been the subject of a formal complaint because I used subjective curving, I at least understand why some teachers do it.
But watching Impus Major get straight C's on all the exams leading up to the final, and then suddenly in the last 2 months of class catch fire and get straight A's, then a straight-up A on the final, and end up with a B- in class due to the quality of his previous work was... frustrating.
Understandable. But frustrating.
Grading on a curve has always boggled my mind...
Basically you dont have to be any good... just better then your classmates.
The difficulty in a "straight curve" is the idea is that the teacher can somehow, miraculously, figure out exactly how to create an exam such that A-level students will get over 90%, B-level students will get over 80%, and so forth.
My U.C. Professor insisted that, "If you're asking students to solve problems they've already seen before, then how are you determining whether they've actually learned anything?"
Impus Major's physics teacher designed an exam where he messed up and made it too hard and the average was 56%.
Did the whole class deserve an F? Or should he make some adjustments to account for the fact that he is a fallible human being?
My curve was simple:
> 90% Automatic A
> 80% Automatically at least a B
> 70% Automatically at least a C
> 60% Automatically at least a D
< 50% Automatically an F
But then the actual grades depended on natural breaks in the distribution (which always happen); in one class an 83% might be an A, in another class it might be an A-, and in another class it might be a B.
To assume that teachers can somehow miraculously design their exams such that classes naturally fall into exact breaks is really expecting quite a lot...
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But why would you cater to naturally occuring breaks? Either a student has studied enough to get enough right about the queried subject, or he doesnt.
And if he doesnt, he gets a failing grade, which hopefully he learns from and does more his best later and gets better grades, aiming for a passing grade on average of all the tests taken at the end of the year.
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Hey, has anyone heard from Lynora recently?
A little…
She sent me a short pep-talk the 1. June.She seems to have her hands full with getting the propper treatment for her kid.
But please don't take my word for it. PM her if you're worried or have something to discuss with her LM.
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Hey, has anyone heard from Lynora recently?
A little…
She sent me a short pep-talk the 1. June.
She seems to have her hands full with getting the propper treatment for her kid.
But please don't take my word for it. PM her if you're worried or have something to discuss with her LM.
Just missing her and feeling concerned. Thanks. I'll pm.
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Of course our system isnt perfect. Since 55 gets you a passing grade, we have what we call 60% culture'.
Doing just good enough to pass, as a better grade doesnt matter in a lot of cases (unless you want to get into a numerous fixus study).
This causes a lot of underperformimg.
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Just missing her and feeling concerned. Thanks. I'll pm.Hey, has anyone heard from Lynora recently?
A little…
She sent me a short pep-talk the 1. June.
She seems to have her hands full with getting the propper treatment for her kid.
But please don't take my word for it. PM her if you're worried or have something to discuss with her LM.
I understand LM.
She's such a sweet soul.*Pats LM on her shoulder with a turtle foot*
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Late? The day has just started!
Since scedules are the thing now:
6:30 - wake up. Get dressed. Feed/cuddle rats. Make lunch to take with me.
7:00 - catch bus
7:25 - catch train
8:15 - arrive at work
17:00 - leave work (no real break. Eat behind desk while looking at internet)
18:something - arrive home, have dinner, clean up dinner
20:00 - game, prep PF/PFS stuff, GM if its a monday/wednesday
23:00 - *hopefully* be in bed by this time. But it might easily be 01:00
It was 3.00 am where I am.
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Hey, has anyone heard from Lynora recently?
She hasn't posted or favorited anything in a couple of weeks, but from my recollection that's not all that unusual for her, especially at the end of a school year. In another week I'd start worrying.
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But why would you cater to naturally occuring breaks? Either a student has studied enough to get enough right about the queried subject, or he doesnt.
And if he doesnt, he gets a failing grade, which hopefully he learns from and does more his best later and gets better grades, aiming for a passing grade on average of all the tests taken at the end of the year.
And that's the difficulty. You are pre-supposing my perfection in designing a test that can evaluate that on a strict, flat scale.
I am complimented, but I do not think myself capable of designing such a test, nor in properly assigning partial credit in such a manner...
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At my high school the grade splits were harsh and uneven.
94-100 A
87-93 B
78-86 C
70-77 D
0-69 F
Wat...how...I don't...why...who came up with this letter-scheme?!
*left eye twitches uncontrollably*
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So, since I think Woran's question is worth discussing, here's a concrete example. Except it involves math, so I'll hide it from Freehold and Mort.
Every teacher can agree that any student who fails to integrate S x dx (with an S instead of an integral sign because I'm too lazy to look it up) should fail the class.
What about a student who forgets the constant every single time? So they answer (1/2) x^2 instead of (1/2) x^2 + C? Is that an A student? A B student? A C student?
Different teachers will give you different answers, and if you're not grading that absolutely, uniformly consistently across all teachers, then your grading scheme is unbelievably unfair as a flat scale.
Even worse, suppose you have a less straightfoward example:
S (sin x)^3(cos x)^2 dx
It's not all that much more difficult, but you need to remember your trigonometric identities. Is failing to remember this an A, a B, or a C? Who decides? How much partial credit do I give? Are all math teachers grading this consistently?
So I would argue that an arbitrary "90-100% is an A, no matter the teacher, the difficulty of the test, nor how the teacher gives partial credit" is far more arbitrary and baffling than a curve.
Hey, Amby, where are you, these days?
#wouldteleportSharoth,butdon’thaveteleportation,dangit
that's EXACTLY what Orthos' dad would say in this situation!That’s the main reason I’ve been avoiding commentary... XDWait... you're Orthos' dad?!?!?!?!... no.
(I’m also not Orkos’ dad, which is what i first thought this was when I read it because my kids are watching an Orkos-themed He-Man episode.)
That... seems like an extremely specific and limited series of event to be exactly what he Kyle say...
... and would he claim to be Orthos’ dad or Axioanarchist’s?
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Of course our system isnt perfect. Since 55 gets you a passing grade, we have what we call 60% culture'.
Doing just good enough to pass, as a better grade doesnt matter in a lot of cases (unless you want to get into a numerous fixus study).
This causes a lot of underperformimg.
Yep... so many kids who are so much smarter than their work shows because they know they can just skate through on a C. I'm sure this won't backfire horribly when they start looking at college...or trying to start a career with their horrible work habits leaned on for years...
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Man, playing Pokémon GO at Disney is pretty amazing.
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Hey, Amby, where are you, these days?
#wouldteleportSharoth,butdon’thaveteleportation,dangit
Like, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, or physically? More than one of the above? None of the above?
Hey, Amby, where are you, these days?
#wouldteleportSharoth,butdon’thaveteleportation,dangit
Now I’m just imagining bringing all FaWtLers and their immediate family here by teleportation (with, of course, enough cash to ensure they didn’t have to worry about concerns so banal as, “work,” or, “money”) and it just sounds super-amazing...
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Tacticslion's posts are like islands in a sea of favorites.
Like, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, or physically? More than one of the above? None of the above?Hey, Amby, where are you, these days?
#wouldteleportSharoth,butdon’thaveteleportation,dangit
Like, I’m never sure if you’re close enough to, say, meet for lunch at Downtown Disney for a hug from an ugly guy in an ugly neon green swim shirt...
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Laying a carefully planned trap, once more...
The classic post #50 trap, of course...