We're still working on our sunburst design.
Oh and Silver bullet is my all time favorite werewolf movie.
I believe I prefer the short story.
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Wish me luck - I’ve got a big licensing exam this afternoon and it’s got me nervous.
You're gonna nail it!
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Wish me luck - I’ve got a big licensing exam this afternoon and it’s got me nervous.
Good luck, we're all counting on you!
Yep. This is our "top 10%" school district:
Event #1: Teacher on Administrative Leave
- The kids got an email from the principal on Tuesday that the teacher wouldn't be in for the rest of the week. Parents were not notified.
- The kids got a second email from another student that the teacher would be out for the rest of the semester. The principal confirmed this rumor. Parents were not notified.
Event #2: In-Person Learning Fail
- Today is the middle school's first day of in-person classes. Kids who opted out can continue to take online learning by watching a webcam placed in the classroom and connected to the teacher's Zoom session.
- The internet at the school went down, and all at-home students missed their classes, as the teachers kept right on teaching the in-person students.
- The principal sent out a notification to all the students of the issue. Parents were not notified.
See a common theme here? There's a reason we're SOOOOOOO pissed off at the current administration right now...
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Kind of wondering whether to try my hand at DMing Ravenloft or Dark Sun once my DM is done running Spelljammer for my crew.
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On the other hand, sometimes the school district forces the kids to do something that pushes their imaginations:
Every year, Impus Minor's physics teacher assigns every student to build a 3-step Rube Goldberg device, and assigns an "initial frame" and a "final frame" so that at the end of it all she can splice videos of all the devices together to demonstrate an 80-90 step device. It's supposed to be a "fun" video.
EXCEPT...
...if you've never built anything in your life before, building even a 3-step Rube Goldberg device can be a nightmare of hours of tape, string, thumbtacks, and frustration.
So, what did Impus Minor do instead?
He filmed each step of the device working properly: A tennis ball falling and turning on a switch that turned on the fan. The fan blowing a marking pen across a cabinet. Etc.
Then he used video editing software to splice the three steps together so they look like they work.
Not in the original "spirit" of the assignment, but it's pretty clever, so I'm letting him get away with it.
EDIT: And yeah, if his teacher isn't OK with it I can't exactly complain. But considering the amount of ingenuity he's putting in to getting his "fake" video looking just right, I think he's learning a lot.
Wish me luck - I’ve got a big licensing exam this afternoon and it’s got me nervous.
{hands him a sledgehammer and a chunk of 4"x4" post} Break a leg. Or two.
Edit:
All passed!
Congrats!
Congratulations!
Nice one, CH!
ALL (DE) is staying over. She drank around half a pint of mulled wine an hour or so ago, and is now fast asleep.
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OK, this is expected but hilarious nonetheless. Of Impus Minor's 24-person class, only 13 people were ready to show off their devices today. Of the 13 of them, only 4 of them (Impus Minor included), had their devices "work".
And yet...
...every single day when I watch our Product Managers give demonstrations, they use spliced-together recorded videos of the product to avoid any possible embarrassment when the product fails to work correctly.
In other words, as Impus Minor put it, "Instead of learning something useless, I learned a valuable life skill!"
I can't argue with him.
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The patio is almost finished, just got to lay out, mark, and then cut the sun out of stone, finish cutting the sun rays, mix up the concrete edging, sweep in about 1,200 pounds of polymeric sand, blow it off and then compact it and sweep another 200 pounds of polymeric sand into it, blow it off again, and then gently spray it with water.
I am playing Watch_Dogs, and bounce between frustration and delight. The fights can be fine, though even more disorienting than Far Cry or Assassin's Creed. The ubiquotous car chases are terrible and the game checkpoint/autosave system is atrociuous, either not saving much for most of the mission, or putting you in a terrible position if you have to repeat some of the annying parts...
And of course, as it is Ubisoft game, the weapon progression is less than impressive.
The music and the sight-seeing value is excellent, though CY could probably contest the later because, well, it's Chicago.
Night John.
tsk tsk gran.
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They should just have a website that checks them all for you. that would be good forward thinking.
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They just opened up vaccines to everyone yesterday.
Why was Anakin Skywalker called "Lord Vader" after becoming a Sith?
Because no one took him serious when they called him "Master Vader".
Oh your going to get force choked for that one..
Me: "So, the bread represents Christ's body?"
Priest: "That is correct."
Me: "And he was crucified, died, and was buried?"
Priest: "Yes, and then three days later he rose from the dead."
Me: "... Because of the yeast?"
Priest: "Get out."
I've heard that one before but still love it.
Explaining Easter to an alien.
Oh I follow that guy on tik tok. he is hilarious.
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Just made an appointment for a COVID vaccine on Monday. I feel kind of dumb. I've been trying for the last few weeks to get one and couldn't because they filled up too quickly. Then a few minutes ago, I thought "Why not try looking in (other town)? It's only a 20 minute drive." And, BOOM!, got one. Why didn't I think of this two weeks ago?
I have had a lot of trouble snagging appointments since New York State opened it up for 30+. Today they are opening for 16+, so yesterday I said “F it” and snagged whatever I could find - which turned out to be 5 weeks away in Albany (NY, not CA). It’s about 2 hours from where I live, but people in the lower Hudson valley really seem to like their COVID vaccines.
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For me, I didn't mind adding 3 days to my appointment, but the 5-week wait is going to drive me nuts:
April 6: Vaccine #1
April 27: Vaccine #2
May 11: Vaccine is in full effect
"Well, you got a shot, but it'll be more than a month before you can feel you're 'fully' protected," is a looooooong time...
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Me: "So, the bread represents Christ's body?"
Priest: "That is correct."
Me: "And he was crucified, died, and was buried?"
Priest: "Yes, and then three days later he rose from the dead."
Me: "... Because of the yeast?"
Priest: "Get out."
True story:
When I was a kid, I was raised Catholic, and as we were in a class preparing for First Communion, the priest asked if we had any questions, and I, as an innocent child asked:
"Why does Jesus taste like a paper cup?"
The priest laughed. The nuns laughed. I never got my answer. I wasn't trying to be a smartass. It's just...anyone here who's Catholic knows those wafers taste like styrofoam.
For me, I didn't mind adding 3 days to my appointment, but the 5-week wait is going to drive me nuts:
April 6: Vaccine #1
April 27: Vaccine #2
May 11: Vaccine is in full effect"Well, you got a shot, but it'll be more than a month before you can feel you're 'fully' protected," is a looooooong time...
And considering it doesn't cover variants and mutations already discovered, it'll be a lot longer than even that month before you're truly protected.
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And considering it doesn't cover variants and mutations already discovered, it'll be a lot longer than even that month before you're truly protected.For me, I didn't mind adding 3 days to my appointment, but the 5-week wait is going to drive me nuts:
April 6: Vaccine #1
April 27: Vaccine #2
May 11: Vaccine is in full effect"Well, you got a shot, but it'll be more than a month before you can feel you're 'fully' protected," is a looooooong time...
That's pretty much the opposite of everything I've been reading.
Preliminary data show that the COVID-19 vaccines currently available in the United States should provide an adequate degree of protection against SARS-CoV-2 variants," NIAID Director and White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said in a statement.
EDIT: Always one to do research, the BBC agrees with Dr. Fauci, so I researched the South African variant that everyone thinks of when they say, "Vaccines don't work" and the study was done in Fall of 2020 with a vaccine that didn't make it to the global market. Both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have so far worked just fine against the variants. Similar to a flu shot, there's a greater chance that a variant might infect you and make you contagious, but it's still extremely unlikely to make you sick enough to go to the hospital. And I was planning on wearing a mask through the summer anyway, because I'm enjoying having no hay fever for the first time in decades.
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Yep. No one vaccinated has died of the variants or the central strain. And the "avoid death" aspect is what is really important about vaccines.
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Me: "So, the bread represents Christ's body?"
Priest: "That is correct."
Me: "And he was crucified, died, and was buried?"
Priest: "Yes, and then three days later he rose from the dead."
Me: "... Because of the yeast?"
Priest: "Get out."True story:
When I was a kid, I was raised Catholic, and as we were in a class preparing for First Communion, the priest asked if we had any questions, and I, as an innocent child asked:
"Why does Jesus taste like a paper cup?"
The priest laughed. The nuns laughed. I never got my answer. I wasn't trying to be a smartass. It's just...anyone here who's Catholic knows those wafers taste like styrofoam.
At the last Catholic church I attended before I officially became a Protestant, we baked our own unleavened bread because the priest hated those wafers so much. We had a weekly baking rota.
Yep. No one vaccinated has died of the variants or the central strain. And the "avoid death" aspect is what is really important about vaccines.
Hey Feros, what is it like in Canada in terms of vaccine supply and organization?
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The roofers are back, and they brought their whipping boy with the same first name as mine. Which means every 10-20 minutes I hear some yell "G$&~@+n it, Captain!!".
It's a bit distracting when you've grown accustomed to being the guy doing the swearing.