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Ah, kids.
We need the house shutoff replaced, so it was a good opportunity to show the kids the house shutoff (which we're responsible for) and the utility shutoff (which the water company is responsible for).
Impus Minor's immediate response: "Wait! So some kid can just come along and turn off the water to our house? Just like that?!?!?!?!"
"Yep."
Impus Major: "Sounds like a great time next Halloween!"What have I wrought?
...your water shutoff valve is outside your house...?
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On the front right under the front hose. Most houses in this area are like that.
We're in earthquake country. You have to plan on not being able to get into the house at all. Water, gas, and electric shutoff are all outside of the house. I believe it's a requirement. At least I've never seen a house that wasn't built that way.
I asked the guy under my house (general contractor for 20 years now) and he says it's a fire issue, not an earthquake issue. Firemen need to be able to shut off everything from the outside before they go into the house.
I'm sure there's a story there, but I don't want to hear it.
EDIT: Speaking of things nobody wants...
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(And yes, I'm making a 52-year-old man crawl around under the house replacing ALL of my plumbing. The original contract was "only the stuff under the house", but considering that every upwards pipe broke off when he tried to reconnect to it, there's been a slight increase in scope. On the other hand, it's all of 6 extra pipes, so it's not exactly a massive "holy carp" surprise.)
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Burns Night dinner with the kids was a success. Hermione did the readings, and we finally found a tinned haggis that actually tastes like food.
WW went back for thirds. I only convinced him to stop by suggesting he might want to save some for breakfast.
This is the same man who only wants me to cook one or two non-vegetarian meals a week, for health/weight/cholesterol reasons.
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Vait, that vas supposet to be challengink?!Indeed. This is highly unfair to rats who live in large matrimonal societies and are way more social then that organge dude.Hey let's not disparage the rats.It's true. Florida is full of giant rats.Some of them are orange and live at Mar-A-Lago.Woot! Wedding partay!!!!!
Look I think we all know who would win... and he's got a long beard.
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Sounds like good times.
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We just have endless rain going on.
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Their would be soooo many accidents.
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Yup, that's a lot of snow alright, looks like it's going to be a long one.
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gonna need snow pictures all I have is sad rain pictures.
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Holy cow that is a lot of snow.
You get actual blizzards. TN would literally shut down and their wouldn't be any bread or milk anywhere.
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Yup, that's a lot of snow alright, looks like it's going to be a long one.
*sob*
If you release it anywhere near your house its just gonna come back.
Yep. It was pretty bad advice all-around.
Wild animals are always better off wild. Making it a pet would be hugely stressfull for it. If its far enough away it will probably just make a new territory for itself.
Yeah. We tried to move it as far away from anyone as possible.
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I love that the Yiddish word for plum is 'floym'. A floym sounds like a particularly gentle and affectionate creature.
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I swear, if Albany Unified School District really is in the top 10% of schools for the state, I weep for the state.
This week's atrocity? Impus Minor got a 0% on his physics final. Yes, a straight-up 0. I looked at the work he'd done on the first three problems and he'd done them all correctly, but yet again he had to turn in his answers on an online form that was a straight-up exact string match. If the answer was supposed to be "14.2 N", then any variation was incorrect: "14.2" or "14.2 Newtons" or "14.21 N" (which wouldn't have been so bad if all semester long the answers on the online quizzes didn't use significant figures, so using them on the final would be... <expletive deleted>).
I'm hoping it's a mistake: He noticed that his final had been marked as "returned" so maybe she accidentally returned it to him, then noticed it was unsubmitted and gave him the 0.
But if she's really pulling a, "No partial credit, your answers must be perfect or you get nothing," then yet again I have to go to the principal. For the fifth or sixth time since online learning started.
I swear...
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I swear, if Albany Unified School District really is in the top 10% of schools for the state, I weep for the state.
This week's atrocity? Impus Minor got a 0% on his physics final. Yes, a straight-up 0. I looked at the work he'd done on the first three problems and he'd done them all correctly, but yet again he had to turn in his answers on an online form that was a straight-up exact string match. If the answer was supposed to be "14.2 N", then any variation was incorrect: "14.2" or "14.2 Newtons" or "14.21 N" (which wouldn't have been so bad if all semester long the answers on the online quizzes didn't use significant figures, so using them on the final would be... <expletive deleted>).
I'm hoping it's a mistake: He noticed that his final had been marked as "returned" so maybe she accidentally returned it to him, then noticed it was unsubmitted and gave him the 0.
But if she's really pulling a, "No partial credit, your answers must be perfect or you get nothing," then yet again I have to go to the principal. For the fifth or sixth time since online learning started.
I swear...
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Just re-reviewed it. On the scratch paper, one of Impus Minor's answers is the absolutely, 100% correct square root of 1.3 over 4.9.
So he got a 0/10 for:
- Not putting units on his final answer, or
- Not plugging his final answer into a calculator to get a numerical result.
Yes, I'm livid, as you might have noticed.
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I swear, if Albany Unified School District really is in the top 10% of schools for the state, I weep for the state.
This week's atrocity? Impus Minor got a 0% on his physics final. Yes, a straight-up 0. I looked at the work he'd done on the first three problems and he'd done them all correctly, but yet again he had to turn in his answers on an online form that was a straight-up exact string match. If the answer was supposed to be "14.2 N", then any variation was incorrect: "14.2" or "14.2 Newtons" or "14.21 N" (which wouldn't have been so bad if all semester long the answers on the online quizzes didn't use significant figures, so using them on the final would be... <expletive deleted>).
I'm hoping it's a mistake: He noticed that his final had been marked as "returned" so maybe she accidentally returned it to him, then noticed it was unsubmitted and gave him the 0.
But if she's really pulling a, "No partial credit, your answers must be perfect or you get nothing," then yet again I have to go to the principal. For the fifth or sixth time since online learning started.
I swear...
You know darned well that any math teacher who pulls that **** is also on my **** list. And at least when I was a math professor I could do something about it when one of my colleagues pulled a stunt like that.
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So he got a 0/10 for:
- Not putting units on his final answer, or
- Not plugging his final answer into a calculator to get a numerical result.
In most math classes, not putting units on the final answer would be sufficient to mark off quite a few points. I used to routinely get 0s on problems because I did that.
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much like your much earlier rant, I want to hear this on your native language.
YOU WERE THROWING STONES TROUGH HOSPITAL WINDOWS YOU GIGANTIC OVERRIPE PLUM FOR BRAINS YOU DESERVE GETTING HIT WITH A WATER CANON
JE GOOIDE STENEN DOOR DE RAMEN VAN EEN ZIEKENHUIS, JIJ GIGANTIESE OVERRIJPE PRUIMBREIN JE VERDIENT HET OM MET EEN WATERKANON GERAAKT TE WORDEN
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Wow... it's worse than I could have imagined.
Impus Minor did the entire final exam on a Google Form she gave him. The form came to her blank -- his answers didn't get recorded due to a technical glitch somewhere.
And in spite of the fact that he was on-camera in a Zoom call taking the exam the entire time, she never reached out to him. She just gave him a 0, recorded his final grade, and moved on.
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Wow... it's worse than I could have imagined.
Impus Minor did the entire final exam on a Google Form she gave him. The form came to her blank -- his answers didn't get recorded due to a technical glitch somewhere.
And in spite of the fact that he was on-camera in a Zoom call taking the exam the entire time, she never reached out to him. She just gave him a 0, recorded his final grade, and moved on.
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Wow... it's worse than I could have imagined.
Impus Minor did the entire final exam on a Google Form she gave him. The form came to her blank -- his answers didn't get recorded due to a technical glitch somewhere.
And in spite of the fact that he was on-camera in a Zoom call taking the exam the entire time, she never reached out to him. She just gave him a 0, recorded his final grade, and moved on.
That's unprofessional, at best, malpractice in most cases, and vengeful at worst.
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Wow... it's worse than I could have imagined.
Impus Minor did the entire final exam on a Google Form she gave him. The form came to her blank -- his answers didn't get recorded due to a technical glitch somewhere.
And in spite of the fact that he was on-camera in a Zoom call taking the exam the entire time, she never reached out to him. She just gave him a 0, recorded his final grade, and moved on.
WTAF?!?
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I have his scratch paper, so I *could* fix his grade quietly.
But, "My A student decided to sit in on the exam and turn nothing in. Oh, well. Here's his 0. That drops him to a B," is so grossly unprofessional that I'm going ahead and escalating it.
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As the child of two dedicated teachers I can say, without reservation, that is either one incompetent twit of an instructor or they just don't give a f#$%.
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I have his scratch paper, so I *could* fix his grade quietly.
But, "My A student decided to sit in on the exam and turn nothing in. Oh, well. Here's his 0. That drops him to a B," is so grossly unprofessional that I'm going ahead and escalating it.
...Like what the F
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I love that the Yiddish word for plum is 'floym'. A floym sounds like a particularly gentle and affectionate creature.
And much like plums, dehydrated floym meat really, um, stimulates your digestive tract. Beware kobold leaders bearing mystery jerky as a "peace" offering.
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Wooow... I've been going through "proper" channels, having Impus Minor ask her what can be done. Her offer:
(1) Re-take the test
(2) Accept a grade of 50%.
What the actual ****?
EDIT: My counter-offer was to send her pictures of the notes or enter the data for him. Primarily so I have a written record of the entire conversation to send to the principal.
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My anger at this is only increasing.
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In other news, the OPM manga finally had Blast appear.
Murata has been kicking ass lately. Cranking out new issues like a beast.
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Wow... it's worse than I could have imagined.
Impus Minor did the entire final exam on a Google Form she gave him. The form came to her blank -- his answers didn't get recorded due to a technical glitch somewhere.
And in spite of the fact that he was on-camera in a Zoom call taking the exam the entire time, she never reached out to him. She just gave him a 0, recorded his final grade, and moved on.
If you know her address DOOM is prepared to reorient DOOM's space laser.
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If you know her address DOOM is prepared to reorient DOOM's space laser.Wow... it's worse than I could have imagined.
Impus Minor did the entire final exam on a Google Form she gave him. The form came to her blank -- his answers didn't get recorded due to a technical glitch somewhere.
And in spite of the fact that he was on-camera in a Zoom call taking the exam the entire time, she never reached out to him. She just gave him a 0, recorded his final grade, and moved on.
I know it. It's:
Mrs. DumbDumb McDumbDumb
12345 Head-Up-Her-Own-Ass Blvd
MakesAllTeachersLookBad, CA 90210
Their is a part of me though that feels like if we paid teachers a decent wage we would get a lot less of these sort of problems. I think the two most important things we should be investing in is education and healthcare.
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17 hours, not too shabby for a foot of snow.
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I believe that the most important thing we can invest in is fear. Fear and surprise. The TWO most important things we can invest in are fear and surprise and ruthless efficiency...Their is a part of me though that feels like if we paid teachers a decent wage we would get a lot less of these sort of problems. I think the two most important things we should be investing in is education and healthcare.If you know her address DOOM is prepared to reorient DOOM's space laser.Wow... it's worse than I could have imagined.
Impus Minor did the entire final exam on a Google Form she gave him. The form came to her blank -- his answers didn't get recorded due to a technical glitch somewhere.
And in spite of the fact that he was on-camera in a Zoom call taking the exam the entire time, she never reached out to him. She just gave him a 0, recorded his final grade, and moved on.
I know it. It's:
Mrs. DumbDumb McDumbDumb
12345 Head-Up-Her-Own-Ass Blvd
MakesAllTeachersLookBad, CA 90210
DOOM approves of your concept but not your math skills.
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17 hours, not too shabby for a foot of snow.
if you could master the construction of snow golems you could really automate the procedure. Plus the golems will just take care of themselves when they are not needed anymore.
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Wow... it's worse than I could have imagined.
Impus Minor did the entire final exam on a Google Form she gave him. The form came to her blank -- his answers didn't get recorded due to a technical glitch somewhere.
And in spite of the fact that he was on-camera in a Zoom call taking the exam the entire time, she never reached out to him. She just gave him a 0, recorded his final grade, and moved on.
This happens to Tiny T-Rex ALL THE TIME.
I hate his teacher and I f~&!ing hate Google.