Cancer Posted January 2, 2020 Report Share Posted January 2, 2020 Classes resume Monday, and I find myself too poorly motivated to make a donation of fecal matter to the cause, so to speak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 2, 2020 Report Share Posted January 2, 2020 Retirement looms, eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 2, 2020 Report Share Posted January 2, 2020 More like the knowledge that more faculty hire stuff will attach itself to me as soon as I walk in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 2, 2020 Report Share Posted January 2, 2020 ... Influence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 2, 2020 Report Share Posted January 2, 2020 Sounds like a couple of sick days are in order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 2, 2020 Report Share Posted January 2, 2020 I'm at school today, watching students struggle valiantly to grasp the intricacies of molecular geometry and intermolecular forces. My kids are still at home with Lady P because their district doesn't start up again until Monday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 3, 2020 Report Share Posted January 3, 2020 3-dimensional thinking is almost impossibly difficult to teach. There's more or less nowhere in the standard curriculum where students get any practice with it. The lack of a true 3-D display makes it almost hopeless, unless you have specific physical manipulables where every student can play around with the situation and reach their own "aha" episode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 4, 2020 Report Share Posted January 4, 2020 At 4:15 yesterday afternoon I was driving my daughter to work; even here at 47 degrees 40 minutes north in the first week of January it is still broad daylight. Casually trotting down the sidewalk next to the athletic field of the high school four blocks from my house was a coyote, entirely unconcerned about whatever might see it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 4, 2020 Report Share Posted January 4, 2020 Perhaps they're not very edible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 4, 2020 Report Share Posted January 4, 2020 I don't think they are, though I've never tried. Seems like an out of the way place for a coyote though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 4, 2020 Report Share Posted January 4, 2020 Perhaps it was a grey fox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 5, 2020 Report Share Posted January 5, 2020 No, it was a coyote, no doubt about that. I have seen them before in the neighborhood, but in twilight and at night. This was the first full-daylight sighting, and that waltzing down the sidewalk of ... well, not an arterial, but fairly busy residential street. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 5, 2020 Report Share Posted January 5, 2020 Blasting out Welcome to the Jungle from an apartment window across the street from a dormitory a couple of minutes before 8AM on the Sunday before classes resume appeals to my sense of the predatorially absurd. It'll be interesting to see if that's still going on when I go back out to my car in a few hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 7, 2020 Report Share Posted January 7, 2020 (It wasn't. Pity.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 7, 2020 Report Share Posted January 7, 2020 Fool. Welcome to the Jungle is not a few hours long. November Rain is closer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 7, 2020 Report Share Posted January 7, 2020 That solo's aw'fly long But it's a good refrain [\regina spector] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 7, 2020 Report Share Posted January 7, 2020 Surely everyone has a repeat-until-countermanded button now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 7, 2020 Report Share Posted January 7, 2020 Man I can barely figure out the volume control on this thing, you want me to find a countermand button somewhere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 7, 2020 Report Share Posted January 7, 2020 (Pssst. It's the power switch.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 8, 2020 Report Share Posted January 8, 2020 Every now and then I misread the thread titles and end up looking back up the page for "A Thread for Random Violence". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 8, 2020 Report Share Posted January 8, 2020 Isn't that all the threads? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 8, 2020 Report Share Posted January 8, 2020 Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 8, 2020 Report Share Posted January 8, 2020 Might be, though there are some I have never looked into. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 10, 2020 Report Share Posted January 10, 2020 Also, lots of threads are really about systematic (but not necessarily continuous) violence as opposed to random violence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 10, 2020 Report Share Posted January 10, 2020 Yet another profile picture change. This guy was photographed in the hummingbird compound at the Sonoran Desert Museum in Tucson. He's native year-round both here and there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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