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Rectitude refers to behavior that is correct, upright and honorable. You have moral rectitude if you refuse to be involved with a plan that some kids in your class have to cheat on a test.
Also for not being nekkid in public, which I apparently am now.
*gets dressed with a sigh*
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Rectitude refers to behavior that is correct, upright and honorable. You have moral rectitude if you refuse to be involved with a plan that some kids in your class have to cheat on a test.
Also for not being nekkid in public, which I apparently am now.
*gets dressed with a sigh*
if it involves nudity I am all for it.
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9-5 mental health is another symptom of mental health being a secondary concern.
Plenty of industries require staff to be on call 24/7, including the one I work in. Hospitals have 24/7 doctor presence.
If you're bleeding to death due to an internal injury, you can go to any ER at any day and time and get care. Yet if you're swallowing a bottle of sleeping pills, it's because the ER will charge you who knows how much to put you on suicide watch and the psych hospital is closed until Monday morning, as VE says.
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I have a 4 AM start time.
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Tonight's homework is just such a classic example of how wrong-headed many (if not most) math teachers are.
Given two sides of a triangle, it's useful to know how to calculate the "big three" trig functions: sine, cosine, and tangent.
If you do it correctly 2 or 3 times, it's obvious you have the concept and you're done.
Similarly, the *only* issue with the reciprocals is that secant = 1/cosine instead of 1/sine, so it can be confusing.
Once again, 2 or 3 problems is all you need.
So why am I looking at tonight's homework, where Impus Major's instructor asked him to calculate all six values (sine, cosine, tangent, secant, cosecant, and cotangent) EIGHTEEN TIMES?
It's not educational. It's punitive.
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Argghhhh my ears burn at hearing maths!
I simply can't imagine kittens bringing me their maths homework.
*Flees screaming*
Anyway if you don't want to do all your maths homework - get 5 friends. Each of you tackle 3 problems and copy paste the solutions from each other.
Its maths, geddit? That's why I'm not so lawful.
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9-5 mental health is another symptom of mental health being a secondary concern.
Plenty of industries require staff to be on call 24/7, including the one I work in. Hospitals have 24/7 doctor presence.
If you're bleeding to death due to an internal injury, you can go to any ER at any day and time and get care. Yet if you're swallowing a bottle of sleeping pills, it's because the ER will charge you who knows how much to put you on suicide watch and the psych hospital is closed until Monday morning, as VE says.
well said.
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Wooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I finished!!!!! NaNo officially done! Fifth year in a row!!!!!!!!
*collapses in relief*
Okay, so tomorrow, I do nothing. Well, the school run obviously, but other than that nothing. Just me, my knitting, and as many episodes of Supernatural as I can watch in one day. :)
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I'm late to the party.
You Are A:
Lawful Neutral Human Wizard (4th Level)
Ability Scores:
Strength- 11
Dexterity- 13
Constitution- 11
Intelligence- 15
Wisdom- 12
Charisma- 13
Alignment:
Lawful Neutral- A lawful neutral character acts as law, tradition, or a personal code directs him. Order and organization are paramount to him. He may believe in personal order and live by a code or standard, or he may believe in order for all and favor a strong, organized government. Lawful neutral is the best alignment you can be because it means you are reliable and honorable without being a zealot. However, lawful neutral can be a dangerous alignment when it seeks to eliminate all freedom, choice, and diversity in society.
Race:
Humans are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like.
Class:
Wizards- Wizards are arcane spellcasters who depend on intensive study to create their magic. To wizards, magic is not a talent but a difficult, rewarding art. When they are prepared for battle, wizards can use their spells to devastating effect. When caught by surprise, they are vulnerable. The wizard's strength is her spells, everything else is secondary. She learns new spells as she experiments and grows in experience, and she can also learn them from other wizards. In addition, over time a wizard learns to manipulate her spells so they go farther, work better, or are improved in some other way. A wizard can call a familiar- a small, magical, animal companion that serves her. With a high Intelligence, wizards are capable of casting very high levels of spells.
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...I was expecting a negative Wisdom, tbh. Also figured Bard.
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Wooo lynora, I am amazed at anyone who can write anything in a month's time! What genre did you write?
Mrs. Sunrise and I are still storyboarding the book we will write; we're currently working on the Road of Trials...
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Wooo lynora, I am amazed at anyone who can write anything in a month's time! What genre did you write?
Mrs. Sunrise and I are still storyboarding the book we will write; we're currently working on the Road of Trials...
Urban fantasy. It was intended to be one thing but sort of veered off into left field halfway through. *shrug* These things happen
I’m the sort who cannot outline or plan ahead of time. I have an idea, a couple of character names, and it’s off to the races. It’s what works for me.Now if only I could figure out how to write a second draft.....D:
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I was curious, and changed one answer. It moved me from 6th Wizard to 3/3 Druid/Wizard.
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If you ever just hate existence and feel hey, maybe I should check myself in a hospital for help, ask yourself, "is over four hours before I'm actually seen and attended to as I sit in a freezing hospital gown going to make me feel MORE depressed?" The answer may surprise you as yes, yes it will. It will make you feel like an invalidated waste of space, especially when the ER is dead and has no patients.
Four hours and counting that is. I'm not supposed to have my phone. My gf gave it to me. If they don't like it they can get their ass in here, tell me how much longer I'm waiting, and THEN take it.
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If you ever just hate existence and feel hey, maybe I should check myself in a hospital for help, ask yourself, "is over four hours before I'm actually seen and attended to as I sit in a freezing hospital gown going to make me feel MORE depressed?" The answer may surprise you as yes, yes it will. It will make you feel like an invalidated waste of space, especially when the ER is dead and has no patients.
Four hours and counting that is. I'm not supposed to have my phone. My gf gave it to me. If they don't like it they can get their ass in here, tell me how much longer I'm waiting, and THEN take it.
I appreciate Singapore public services more and more once I see the inefficiencies overseas. It took my brother 2 months to get his license plate in Arizona. Here, you'd get it in a week.
Sure, we may be a draconian state that banned chewing gum, but at least we did get some things right.
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That was a waste of time. No doctor helped me with meds. No therapist talked to me. They gave me a packet of info I could've googled. Now I feel exactly as horrible plus five hours less sleep. And whatever copay they leexh away.
I am unhelped.
I tried to burn them with a bad review but their average is 1.9 and 0 is not an option!
I utterly and completely disdain my existence and this dumb c*&% thinks I'm trying to score anxiety meds.
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If you ever just hate existence and feel hey, maybe I should check myself in a hospital for help, ask yourself, "is over four hours before I'm actually seen and attended to as I sit in a freezing hospital gown going to make me feel MORE depressed?" The answer may surprise you as yes, yes it will. It will make you feel like an invalidated waste of space, especially when the ER is dead and has no patients.
Four hours and counting that is. I'm not supposed to have my phone. My gf gave it to me. If they don't like it they can get their ass in here, tell me how much longer I'm waiting, and THEN take it.
I appreciate Singapore public services more and more once I see the inefficiencies overseas. It took my brother 2 months to get his license plate in Arizona. Here, you'd get it in a week.
Sure, we may be a draconian state that banned chewing gum, but at least we did get some things right.
I would follow all the dumb rules you could come up with if it meant I could go more than a month without severe crippling depression and unpredictable panic attacks.
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Mora-wha?WHY IS EVERYONE SMARTER WISER AND STRONGER THAN ME?!Clean living and moral rectitude?
Says the LG Elf Cleric.Yeah, not me.
I'd say it's just a busted algorithm. F*** it.
Rectitude = how far up the thermometer (or other device) ought to go.
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Tonight's homework is just such a classic example of how wrong-headed many (if not most) math teachers are.
Given two sides of a triangle, it's useful to know how to calculate the "big three" trig functions: sine, cosine, and tangent.
If you do it correctly 2 or 3 times, it's obvious you have the concept and you're done.
Similarly, the *only* issue with the reciprocals is that secant = 1/cosine instead of 1/sine, so it can be confusing.
Once again, 2 or 3 problems is all you need.
So why am I looking at tonight's homework, where Impus Major's instructor asked him to calculate all six values (sine, cosine, tangent, secant, cosecant, and cotangent) EIGHTEEN TIMES?
It's not educational. It's punitive.
a Mathie that gets it? Impossible!
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To be honest if it is a mental health issue - I don't know how long you'd have to wait down here, but our ER is never empty. My cousin works as a doctor and she says that there's always a shortage of bed space, but they manage.
Oh! I didn't know that Singapore had 24/7 mental health care!
*Goes to hide in a hole in shame for not knowing things about her OWN country*
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Looks like we only got a half inch (of snow).
Unfortunately, that means I won't be able to blast through my residential run as that's only for an inch or more (of snow).
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I have some serious blind spots. My colleague told me about there were shower facilities in the toilet next to our office. I never found them.
Reason?
They were in the toilet for the handicapped, which I avoid like plague, because lawful me refuses to step in because I don’t want to use the toilet in case some handicapped person needs it more.
Granted, I will use the toilet for handicapped if its an emergency and all the other cubicles are full. But only then.
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I park in the back of parking lots, so elderly or those in need can park closer.
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I park in the back of parking lots, so elderly or those in need can park closer.
Cap gets cookies.
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Rectitude = how far up the thermometer (or other device) ought to go.Mora-wha?WHY IS EVERYONE SMARTER WISER AND STRONGER THAN ME?!Clean living and moral rectitude?
Says the LG Elf Cleric.Yeah, not me.
I'd say it's just a busted algorithm. F*** it.
You guys know it was a JOKE, right?
Because I'd just gotten the wildly off "Lawful Good Elf Cleric" result on that silly quiz, so I answered in the way that I thought a stick-up-the-rectitude LG Elf would?(sigh)
I should have just answered "Math." That would have been funnier.
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I know. I've wanted to use that 'rectitude' 'joke' for ages - that's all.
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As much as I like how Classroom means I don't have to lug reams upon reams of paper around to grade essays, I keep finding myself missing paper just for the ease of marking them up. Since the kids can just resolve the comments I give them and therefore send them away, it's not 100% clear that they've actually taken the advice I've given. It's harder to miss a gel pen than it is to just click a go-away button.
That said, the corrections I've had turned in so far do look leagues better if not completely perfect, so I know at least some of them were followed.
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Will I get cookies if I (honestly) note that I not only got the joke and enjoyed it, but enjoyed the follow-up?
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As much as I like how Classroom means I don't have to lug reams upon reams of paper around to grade essays, I keep finding myself missing paper just for the ease of marking them up. Since the kids can just resolve the comments I give them and therefore send them away, it's not 100% clear that they've actually taken the advice I've given. It's harder to miss a gel pen than it is to just click a go-away button.
That said, the corrections I've had turned in so far do look leagues better if not completely perfect, so I know at least some of them were followed.
Nothing is effective as being returned a 5-10 page essay bleeding in red ink.
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Nothing is effective as being returned a 5-10 page essay bleeding in red ink.As much as I like how Classroom means I don't have to lug reams upon reams of paper around to grade essays, I keep finding myself missing paper just for the ease of marking them up. Since the kids can just resolve the comments I give them and therefore send them away, it's not 100% clear that they've actually taken the advice I've given. It's harder to miss a gel pen than it is to just click a go-away button.
That said, the corrections I've had turned in so far do look leagues better if not completely perfect, so I know at least some of them were followed.
It's usually pink since I lost my purple pen.
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It's usually pink since I lost my purple pen.Nothing is effective as being returned a 5-10 page essay bleeding in red ink.As much as I like how Classroom means I don't have to lug reams upon reams of paper around to grade essays, I keep finding myself missing paper just for the ease of marking them up. Since the kids can just resolve the comments I give them and therefore send them away, it's not 100% clear that they've actually taken the advice I've given. It's harder to miss a gel pen than it is to just click a go-away button.
That said, the corrections I've had turned in so far do look leagues better if not completely perfect, so I know at least some of them were followed.
1) I'm old school, and my mother was my English teacher in high school.
2) I'm colorblind, and really only understand colors that come in the Crayola 8 pack of crayons. Sometimes the 16 pack. The 64 pack is just filled with made-up words.
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To be honest if it is a mental health issue - I don't know how long you'd have to wait down here, but our ER is never empty. My cousin works as a doctor and she says that there's always a shortage of bed space, but they manage.
Oh! I didn't know that Singapore had 24/7 mental health care!
*Goes to hide in a hole in shame for not knowing things about her OWN country*
Wow, I am in awe! 24/7 mental health services, and according to Wikipedia Singapore still manages to have a $59 trillion USD surplus.
What's it like to live in a country where most of your legislators give two sh!ts about you? :)
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Hmm, I don't know where you're getting the $59 trillion surplus, but well, life in Singapore is expensive(you've heard about my housing prices stories, right?), but good.
Singapore is a small country and the government has a very long arm so being lawful is the way to go. I believe that the government does take a paternalistic attitude to imbue Singaporeans with a "Government knows best" kind of vibe. As you can see from a certain cat here, you know how that worked out.
But one thing also I'll have to say is that Singapore pretty much clamped down on riots and strikes to keep everything working at tip top efficiency - labour union is controlled by the government, as is the mainstream media (straits times, Channel News Asia), and public utilities, and public transport.
But if you call a goverment department to complain about things, things will get done.
However on the flip side, Singapore is also very competitive. If you don't graduate with good enough results/a field that is in demand, it is difficult to find a job since there are probably a whole lot of degree holders sharing the street with you.
And also Singaporeans aren't good for keeping 9-5 working hours. If there's a job to be done, you stay in office/work from home, however long it takes, to get it done. And you may be expected to check your email even when on vacation.
If I smell things in the air I will check email even if I'm not in the office.
During weekends, due to the great population density, shopping malls and other places of attraction are usually packed. Heck, even the nature reserves get packed. So if you want a place without people, no, Singapore isn't for you.
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I don't know if Singapore has much of a night life, since I'm not the partying sort. I didn't start drinking until rather late in my life, and I only drink when I'm among friends/colleagues. I won't randomly walk into a bar and start drinking unless they've got some special cocktail I'd like to try. And I do not dance in public, unless under the influence of beat saber. Then I don't care lol. The world can watch me dance, I'm just having fun.
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I park in the back of parking lots, so elderly or those in need can park closer.
I park in the back of parking lots because I hate dealing with other people's failure to be able to park their giant SUVs in under 3 minutes of back-and-forth.
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It's usually pink since I lost my purple pen.Nothing is effective as being returned a 5-10 page essay bleeding in red ink.As much as I like how Classroom means I don't have to lug reams upon reams of paper around to grade essays, I keep finding myself missing paper just for the ease of marking them up. Since the kids can just resolve the comments I give them and therefore send them away, it's not 100% clear that they've actually taken the advice I've given. It's harder to miss a gel pen than it is to just click a go-away button.
That said, the corrections I've had turned in so far do look leagues better if not completely perfect, so I know at least some of them were followed.
1) I'm old school, and my mother was my English teacher in high school.
2) I'm colorblind, and really only understand colors that come in the Crayola 8 pack of crayons. Sometimes the 16 pack. The 64 pack is just filled with made-up words.
My favorite quote (from my now-retired co-worker) (frequently repeated here):
- Heterosexual men see in 8-bit color- Heterosexual women see in 16-bit color
- Gay men see in 32-bit color
So all those made-up crayon names? Gay men can tell the difference, apparently.
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Speaking of driving complaints:
Dear California Driver;
I realize that it is terrifying to have water coming down from the sky instead of from a tap where it belongs, but driving at 30 mph in the left lane of a busy 65 mph freeway is NOT a "safe" solution. In fact, you are endangering yourself and everyone around you.
If you feel you cannot exceed 30 mph safely, GET OFF THE FREEWAY AND USE SURFACE STREETS!!!!!!!
EDIT: Yes, we're having a bunch of collisions because drivers are slowing to 30-40 mph below the speed limit in random lanes, and other drivers just aren't expecting the cars in front of them to be going that slow...
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Very similar, and yet opposite, to what I experience when I go to Florida.
Torrential downpour. Can't see more than 10 feet in front of the car. My father-in-law is driving at least 10-15 mph faster than what I'd be willing to risk, and he's doing it in an old passenger van with no suspension.
I look at him and go "So...nobody bats an eye when it's raining so hard you can't see the car in front of you, but seventeen snowflakes would cause a 37 car pileup?"
Him? "Vany, that's snow! You have to be careful with that kind of weather."
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Eesh. The only time I'll go that slow in bad weather is when it's legitimately an impediment to seeing and safety. Blizzards, ice, etc.
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Turns out it's a full run as we got an inch of snow.
And I get Big (Slow) Pete, who I assumed they fired.
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a Mathie that gets it? Impossible!Tonight's homework is just such a classic example of how wrong-headed many (if not most) math teachers are.
Given two sides of a triangle, it's useful to know how to calculate the "big three" trig functions: sine, cosine, and tangent.
If you do it correctly 2 or 3 times, it's obvious you have the concept and you're done.
Similarly, the *only* issue with the reciprocals is that secant = 1/cosine instead of 1/sine, so it can be confusing.
Once again, 2 or 3 problems is all you need.
So why am I looking at tonight's homework, where Impus Major's instructor asked him to calculate all six values (sine, cosine, tangent, secant, cosecant, and cotangent) EIGHTEEN TIMES?
It's not educational. It's punitive.
Gotta admit that I usually find the opposite in English.
"Rewrite the sentence with correct use of commas."
I will get a significant number of kids who, for ten examples, find three different variations on how to do the skill. If I only gave them 2-3, they'd look as though they mastered it...but on ten, I see that those might have been a lucky guess, so I need to reteach to be sure they actually do get it.
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Very similar, and yet opposite, to what I experience when I go to Florida.
Torrential downpour. Can't see more than 10 feet in front of the car. My father-in-law is driving at least 10-15 mph faster than what I'd be willing to risk, and he's doing it in an old passenger van with no suspension.
I look at him and go "So...nobody bats an eye when it's raining so hard you can't see the car in front of you, but seventeen snowflakes would cause a 37 car pileup?"
Him? "Vany, that's snow! You have to be careful with that kind of weather."
Oh, yeah. When I was living in Davis we would always take bets on exactly HOW many cars would be in the biggest pileup of the year in the tule fog; it was always over 30, and it sometimes exceeded 100. I think the record when I was living there was 115 vehicles involved in a single incident because the fog gets so unbelievably thick in the valley, and NOBODY CARES.
The Bay Area has a few drivers who have the attitude, "It's pouring rain, visibility is 200 feet, the left lane is occasionally flooded out, but the speed limit is 65 mph so I'm doing 70 anyway, darn it!", but they're remarkably few and far between; on the 35-mile drive from Fremont to Albany I might see 2-3 such drivers.
Most drivers adapt to the conditions quite well; for example, NobodysWife found that 55 mph was about right for the visibility, but she certainly didn't complain when she got slowed to 50. But the people doing under 30? In random lanes?
Just, no...
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a Mathie that gets it? Impossible!Tonight's homework is just such a classic example of how wrong-headed many (if not most) math teachers are.
Given two sides of a triangle, it's useful to know how to calculate the "big three" trig functions: sine, cosine, and tangent.
If you do it correctly 2 or 3 times, it's obvious you have the concept and you're done.
Similarly, the *only* issue with the reciprocals is that secant = 1/cosine instead of 1/sine, so it can be confusing.
Once again, 2 or 3 problems is all you need.
So why am I looking at tonight's homework, where Impus Major's instructor asked him to calculate all six values (sine, cosine, tangent, secant, cosecant, and cotangent) EIGHTEEN TIMES?
It's not educational. It's punitive.
Gotta admit that I usually find the opposite in English.
"Rewrite the sentence with correct use of commas."
I will get a significant number of kids who, for ten examples, find three different variations on how to do the skill. If I only gave them 2-3, they'd look as though they mastered it...but on ten, I see that those might have been a lucky guess, so I need to reteach to be sure they actually do get it.
Oh, it depends on the topic, of course.
Integration by parts? Sorry, you really *do* need to do as many of them as is reasonable a night to "get" it. I always wowed my students by being able to choose the correct substitution every time, but I'd point out, "I'm no smarter than you, I've just done over 10,000 of these in my lifetime, so I know what to look for."
But trig? Once you know that sine = opposite/hypotenuse and secant = 1/cosine, you're done. It's not rocket science, although it IS used in rocket science. :-P