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While naked. Just 'cause.
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I like math, in moderation.
It's fun to use in construction for instance.
Acid was also fun, but i'm way too old for that shit.
Plus i always ended up playing in the road, at some point your luck has to run out.
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Half hour to 45 minute wait for a passel of haircuts?! Dang.Around here that would be considered the express lane.It's official*. I hate* the west coast* and all that it stands for*.
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Man, something's in the air.
First I got double-charged for the hotel stay (still hasn't been fixed, and Orbitz keeps saying, "Be patient! 7-10 business days!"). Then I got double-charged for an iTunes purchase. Then NobodysWife got double-charged for parking.
Is it a double-up month or something? It's only the 3rd and I'm already getting tired of double-billing...
Yup.** Still** totally hate** everything** over there**.
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How can you hate our weather? We don't even have any!
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Sure you do, it's just really, really boring.
I lived in Seattle, i remember how excited the weather people got whenever there was a five degree swing in the temperature in a twenty four hour period. :-)
... and another mark against you...
Just keep 'em comin', guy-!
(Don't even have good rain, grumble...)
EDIT: ninja'd, but this still works as-is; also for a better alias...
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It rains.
From October until April it drizzles or mists for exactly three or four days, is cloudy for exactly two to three days, and if you're lucky and don't miss it you'll get exactly 4-6 hours of direct sunlight on the seventh day.
From April to October it's between 75-82 degrees and sunny or partially cloudy for pretty much the whole time. maybe you'll get a couple of days of rain. maybe.
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I wonder how long i can get this before Chris returns to work.
Just to be clear, i don't expect Chris to go on a moderator rampage, just that, you know she's also in charge of website feedback and all, and it's all light hearted anyhow. :-)
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Did I ever tell you guys that I hate math??
I did?
. . . . .
Are you sure?!
'Cause there's no way I have adequately described the fury, the lividity, the void-melting rage that little corner of thought brings out in me.
If I wanted acid-trip logic to help me arrive at my conclusions, I'd be tripping RIGHT NOW!!
Time to go read a book.
Math is fun.
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Growing a mustache is not in the cards, no matter how cool it would look with this eyepatch.
Hmm
There's always stick-ons.
Or eyebrow pencil
Or making friends with a compliant caterpillar, or very, very small Dachshund
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Math is fun.
Maybe that's also why I like fixing stuff.
I have never found it to be "fun". Not that I recall, anyway -- might have been five minutes in first grade where it was cool. There's just . . . some *disconnect* in my head that obscures the neural path(s) that help make the transition to "higher" math. Throw letters in with numbers, I'm crawling; start trig-ing things, I'm drooling in a heap on the floor while my mind dances in flowered fields with the Easter Bunny.
So: outside of the scene from Mirror Mask, does anyone know a suitably down-beat version of the Carpenters' "Close to You" song?
So... no one?
I'm not that familiar with The Carpenters.
Bam.
I'm going for a new look. Arrrr you ready?
So... Skulls & Shackles? Something else?
I'm going to miss the glasses gnome! You looked and sounded like a thoughtful librarian! But this works! :D
It's from Turn Of The Torrent.
It's from Turn Of The Torrent.
What is?
Her avatar image. :-)
Her avatar image. :-)
Oh! No, I just meant, "Why the piratical change? Are you playing Skull & Shackles, or some other pirate-themed game, or do you just like the image better?"
I suppose it could have been more clear.
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I wonder how long i can get this before Chris returns to work.
Just to be clear, i don't expect Chris to go on a moderator rampage, just that, you know she's also in charge of website feedback and all, and it's all light hearted anyhow. :-)
Perhaps, I should've said "How long *we* can get it before Chris is back"
I could do it myself but that'd probably just be sad.
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Did I ever tell you guys that I hate math??
I did?
. . . . .
Are you sure?!
'Cause there's no way I have adequately described the fury, the lividity, the void-melting rage that little corner of thought brings out in me.
If I wanted acid-trip logic to help me arrive at my conclusions, I'd be tripping RIGHT NOW!!
Time to go read a book.
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Her avatar image. :-)Oh! No, I just meant, "Why the piratical change? Are you playing Skull & Shackles, or some other pirate-themed game, or do you just like the image better?"
I suppose it could have been more clear.
No, I much prefer librarian-gnome. But although only five people had librarian-gnome, three of them were people I constantly interact with.
GM Aest in my Kingmaker campaign wore librarian-gnome's face.
GM Tyrant Princess, one of Kalindara's IDs, wore librarian-gnome's face.
King of Anything has a librarian-gnome alias.
It was getting too confusing, so I tried to look for a smiling alias that no one else was using. But I may just go back to my old undine image, because this one while it actually sort of looks like I would with an eyepatch, feel less like me. Librarian gnome was a perfect fit. Glasses, thoughtful with colorful hair. I have a purple streak in the black, right where my gray used to be, so I appreciate colorful hair.
Maybe I'll change it again and go back to the undine, who at least looked peaceful.
Hmm
Oh! This one is good for me - I was just curious of reasons for the change.
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To call back to your link, Freehold:
I had the same math teacher for the last four years of K-12. C-Span is more exciting than her presentation. And C-span puts me to sleep. I did *try* to understand, and I might stumble upon the correct answers 7 times out of 10, but I had no idea how I got there.
The one college algebra class I took was taught by a high-energy soccer coach -- and I actually figured some things out. Probably 'cause Coach Lucifer (as he was nicknamed) would go over the same problem at least three different ways till everyone got it. But koine Greek was better -- humanities, yay!!
And I *still* have never needed to locate points on a curve for ANY frikkin' reason in the last 18 years!!
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I think I've said it before, but I feel it's worth repeating: I always used to start my first day of class with, "I have never met someone who 'cannot do math'. I have only met people who have had bad math teachers."
And every student would whisper a name...
It's amazing how one bad teacher can turn someone off to a subject forever...
I think I've said it before, but I feel it's worth repeating: I always used to start my first day of class with, "I have never met someone who 'cannot do math'. I have only met people who have had bad math teachers."
And every student would whisper a name...
It's amazing how one bad teacher can turn someone off to a subject forever...
^ This one! ^
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To call back to your link, Freehold:
I had the same math teacher for the last four years of K-12. C-Span is more exciting than her presentation. And C-span puts me to sleep. I did *try* to understand, and I might stumble upon the correct answers 7 times out of 10, but I had no idea how I got there.
The one college algebra class I took was taught by a high-energy soccer coach -- and I actually figured some things out. Probably 'cause Coach Lucifer (as he was nicknamed) would go over the same problem at least three different ways till everyone got it. But koine Greek was better -- humanities, yay!!
And I *still* have never needed to locate points on a curve for ANY frikkin' reason in the last 18 years!!
I loved it when I was teaching remedial math and one of the guys in class was a carpenter by trade. He was utterly astonished when he'd come in with the square measurements for whatever he was building, I'd use the Pythagorean Theorem to calculate how long the diagonal beam was supposed to be, he'd cut it to my specifications, and it would fit.
He thought it was Black Magic. And he utterly refused to do it himself, saying, "I'll just get it wrong."
Fun guy... but slightly lacking in self-confidence...
Wow - several of the Roswell people have physically changed a lot in between seasons!
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I think I've said it before, but I feel it's worth repeating: I always used to start my first day of class with, "I have never met someone who 'cannot do math'. I have only met people who have had bad math teachers."
And every student would whisper a name...
It's amazing how one bad teacher can turn someone off to a subject forever...
Is it still "math" if all the answers you get are wrong? I mean, it's got numbers in it . . . !
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Wow - several of the Roswell people have physically changed a lot in between seasons!
Yeah, like Chandler Riggs hitting his growth spurt on TWD.
Wow - several of the Roswell people have physically changed a lot in between seasons!
Yeah, like Chandler Riggs hitting his growth spurt on TWD.
I'd probably be more inclined to agree if I had seen that show or had any idea who Riggs is! XD
(The cast of Roswell has purposefully "matured" their presentation - one actress in particular has lost a lot of weight* and changed her hair.)
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To call back to your link, Freehold:
I had the same math teacher for the last four years of K-12. C-Span is more exciting than her presentation. And C-span puts me to sleep. I did *try* to understand, and I might stumble upon the correct answers 7 times out of 10, but I had no idea how I got there.
The one college algebra class I took was taught by a high-energy soccer coach -- and I actually figured some things out. Probably 'cause Coach Lucifer (as he was nicknamed) would go over the same problem at least three different ways till everyone got it. But koine Greek was better -- humanities, yay!!
And I *still* have never needed to locate points on a curve for ANY frikkin' reason in the last 18 years!!
I loved it when I was teaching remedial math and one of the guys in class was a carpenter by trade. He was utterly astonished when he'd come in with the square measurements for whatever he was building, I'd use the Pythagorean Theorem to calculate how long the diagonal beam was supposed to be, he'd cut it to my specifications, and it would fit.
He thought it was Black Magic. And he utterly refused to do it himself, saying, "I'll just get it wrong."
Fun guy... but slightly lacking in self-confidence...
I honestly didn't get math until I worked in landscaping. But mostly I suspect it was a poor attitude from myself that was holding me back.
I honestly didn't get math until I worked in landscaping. But mostly I suspect it was a poor attitude from myself that was holding me back.
I know when I was in middle school, I hated math. But I'm pretty sure that's just because it was supposedly what people did, and I wanted to be more like other people.
Very silly on my part, but there it is.
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My problem was my slightly younger brother was really, really good at math. :-)
Oh my word~! Hah!
S2:E4 is hilarious~!
EDIT: It's using the main cast to fill in for an old guy's flashbacks. It's amazing~! In a good way!
I think I've said it before, but I feel it's worth repeating: I always used to start my first day of class with, "I have never met someone who 'cannot do math'. I have only met people who have had bad math teachers."
And every student would whisper a name...
It's amazing how one bad teacher can turn someone off to a subject forever...
Ms mieselas.
If I had been gaming then, I would have had thought her a lich, not a b$%+!.
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To call back to your link, Freehold:
I had the same math teacher for the last four years of K-12. C-Span is more exciting than her presentation. And C-span puts me to sleep. I did *try* to understand, and I might stumble upon the correct answers 7 times out of 10, but I had no idea how I got there.
The one college algebra class I took was taught by a high-energy soccer coach -- and I actually figured some things out. Probably 'cause Coach Lucifer (as he was nicknamed) would go over the same problem at least three different ways till everyone got it. But koine Greek was better -- humanities, yay!!
And I *still* have never needed to locate points on a curve for ANY frikkin' reason in the last 18 years!!
I loved it when I was teaching remedial math and one of the guys in class was a carpenter by trade. He was utterly astonished when he'd come in with the square measurements for whatever he was building, I'd use the Pythagorean Theorem to calculate how long the diagonal beam was supposed to be, he'd cut it to my specifications, and it would fit.
He thought it was Black Magic. And he utterly refused to do it himself, saying, "I'll just get it wrong."
Fun guy... but slightly lacking in self-confidence...
I think this is one of the biggest problems in modern mathematics- there is no frame of reference, and the knowledge has become highly situational/specialized. Unfortunately it is also traditional, and oh man does America love its traditions. The "new math" wave of the 70s was pushed back hard in favor of a traditional approach that few could truly explain why it was better- it just WAS! I feel the same thing may be happening with common core.
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I honestly didn't get math until I worked in landscaping. But mostly I suspect it was a poor attitude from myself that was holding me back.To call back to your link, Freehold:
I had the same math teacher for the last four years of K-12. C-Span is more exciting than her presentation. And C-span puts me to sleep. I did *try* to understand, and I might stumble upon the correct answers 7 times out of 10, but I had no idea how I got there.
The one college algebra class I took was taught by a high-energy soccer coach -- and I actually figured some things out. Probably 'cause Coach Lucifer (as he was nicknamed) would go over the same problem at least three different ways till everyone got it. But koine Greek was better -- humanities, yay!!
And I *still* have never needed to locate points on a curve for ANY frikkin' reason in the last 18 years!!
I loved it when I was teaching remedial math and one of the guys in class was a carpenter by trade. He was utterly astonished when he'd come in with the square measurements for whatever he was building, I'd use the Pythagorean Theorem to calculate how long the diagonal beam was supposed to be, he'd cut it to my specifications, and it would fit.
He thought it was Black Magic. And he utterly refused to do it himself, saying, "I'll just get it wrong."
Fun guy... but slightly lacking in self-confidence...
I have no plans to work in/experience with landscaping, but one of my high school teachers used to use that as a point of reference constantly. It lost most of us in class.
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Her avatar image. :-)Oh! No, I just meant, "Why the piratical change? Are you playing Skull & Shackles, or some other pirate-themed game, or do you just like the image better?"
I suppose it could have been more clear.
No, I much prefer librarian-gnome. But although only five people had librarian-gnome, three of them were people I constantly interact with.
GM Aest in my Kingmaker campaign wore librarian-gnome's face.
GM Tyrant Princess, one of Kalindara's IDs, wore librarian-gnome's face.
King of Anything has a librarian-gnome alias.
It was getting too confusing, so I tried to look for a smiling alias that no one else was using. But I may just go back to my old undine image, because this one while it actually sort of looks like I would with an eyepatch, feel less like me. Librarian gnome was a perfect fit. Glasses, thoughtful with colorful hair. I have a purple streak in the black, right where my gray used to be, so I appreciate colorful hair.
Maybe I'll change it again and go back to the undine, who at least looked peaceful.
Hmm
My top two criteria for avatar picking is that they have to be rarely used and smiling too!
Occasionally I get bored and cycle through a bunch of weird ones just for the fun of it.
In fact, I once had to ask for more memory from the website (or something, it wouldn't let me switch avatars, just kept getting the warning golem, and the worst part, it was during GenCon so I was stuck as Baba Yaga's Dancing Hut the whole time, and everyone teased me for it!) because I used it all up switching avatars every two or three days.
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It is a great treasure to find an unused avatar that looks just right.
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Easier said than done when you have a bunch of copycats following you around. :-D
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I certainly wouldn't do something like that...
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[Initiating Terminator protocol]
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[Initiating Terminator protocol]
Is that the one where I rant about Genisys? Because I think I've done that here already.
True fact: Saw T3 in theaters when I was a teen. When the robot makes her breasts bigger I say to my buddy Dave "I'm building that robot. Apocalypse be damned I'm building that robot."
When she moved her legs into a spread a then backwards physically impossible for any real woman position, I reaffirmed my commitment to end humanity.
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!?!?!?!?!?!
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[Initiating Terminator protocol]Is that the one where I rant about Genisys? Because I think I've done that here already.
True fact: Saw T3 in theaters when I was a teen. When the robot makes her breasts bigger I say to my buddy Dave "I'm building that robot. Apocalypse be damned I'm building that robot."
When she moved her legs into a spread a then backwards physically impossible for any real woman position, I reaffirmed my commitment to end humanity.
Dave sounds like a cool guy.
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[Initiating Terminator protocol]Is that the one where I rant about Genisys? Because I think I've done that here already.
True fact: Saw T3 in theaters when I was a teen. When the robot makes her breasts bigger I say to my buddy Dave "I'm building that robot. Apocalypse be damned I'm building that robot."
When she moved her legs into a spread a then backwards physically impossible for any real woman position, I reaffirmed my commitment to end humanity.
At some point I made a joke about getting the Exoskeletons for the life sized prop aliases at Arnold Schwarzenegger's yard sale.
I really liked it so I've been establishing it ever since.