Cancer Posted November 26, 2017 Report Share Posted November 26, 2017 I've got two calculators, both older than my kids, and I think one of them antedates my marriage. Worse, they're both HP RPN machines, so more or less no one else can use them. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 26, 2017 Report Share Posted November 26, 2017 8 hours ago, Pariah said: The hard part of teaching kids to use an abacus is that none of them read cuneiform. What are they teaching kids in school nowadays? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 27, 2017 Report Share Posted November 27, 2017 Whatever it is, the list is very short. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 27, 2017 Report Share Posted November 27, 2017 Not in my class, it ain't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 27, 2017 Report Share Posted November 27, 2017 Well, the ones I get have trouble plotting points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 27, 2017 Report Share Posted November 27, 2017 Then they won't plot against you. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 27, 2017 Report Share Posted November 27, 2017 Hey, I'll put up with a lot, but if you're going to start making jokes about graphs, that's where I have to draw the line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 27, 2017 Report Share Posted November 27, 2017 For that I may have to sic polar coordinates on you. sample Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 27, 2017 Report Share Posted November 27, 2017 That's quite enough of that. Go stand in the corner, young man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted November 29, 2017 Report Share Posted November 29, 2017 This stretch of road seems to have a permanent Slow spell cast on it. Tom Cowan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 1, 2017 Report Share Posted December 1, 2017 From a colleague's email after we'd had a discussion about grading student essays: Quote If it gives you some sense of where I'm at after a full afternoon of grading [course number] essays: for a brief moment this is the quote that I thought you were referring to: "Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." -H. L. Mencken Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 10, 2017 Report Share Posted December 10, 2017 "She's bouncing the lettuce out of my taco!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted December 13, 2017 Report Share Posted December 13, 2017 Upon making the same mistake for the third time in as many minutes: "I feel like a Britney Spears song -- Oops, I did it again!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdamnhero Posted December 17, 2017 Report Share Posted December 17, 2017 From a conversation last night with a non-gamer friend who is super-outdoorsy. Gaming came up somehow... Me: "I know it's geeky as hell, but I do enjoy it." She: "Aren't all hobbies a little geeky tho? I mean what do I really get out of my hiking obsession?" Me: "Besides good exercise, being really healthy, looking great, getting lots of fresh air, connecting with nature..." She: "Well...yeah." Me: "I mean I appreciate what you're trying to do. But not all hobbies are equally geeky; I'm cool with that" She: "OK, fair enough." L. Marcus, tkdguy and bigbywolfe 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 18, 2017 Report Share Posted December 18, 2017 "Do you need my blood, or can I keep the stuff I have?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 25, 2017 Report Share Posted December 25, 2017 "The Mini Cooper in my front yard [when I got home from Christmas Eve dinner] was not my Christmas present." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 Student: "Would you consider light two-dimensional? And what would three-dimensional light look like?" Me: "What color would you identify as red-sharp, and would that be the same color as orange-flat?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 Just now, Pariah said: Student: "Would you consider light two-dimensional? An what would three-dimensional light look like?" Me: "What color would you identify as red-sharp, and would that the same color as orange-flat?" OT: I would have gone into the concept of circularly polarized light (both handednesses) here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 1 minute ago, Cancer said: OT: I would have gone into the concept of circularly polarized light (both handednesses) here. I'm not that sinister. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 You're a sugar, not an amino acid, eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 So to speak. I'm not sure 'sweet' is one of the most common words my students would use in describing me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 18, 2018 Report Share Posted January 18, 2018 Boron doesn't care. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 18, 2018 Report Share Posted January 18, 2018 It's also one of those elements that supposedly is easy to astrate, though I am not sure that has been observationally confirmed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burrito Boy Posted January 22, 2018 Report Share Posted January 22, 2018 "This is Josh, he lives up on the mountain. He's a mountain man." "It's just a hill. I'm a plain ole hillbilly." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 22, 2018 Report Share Posted January 22, 2018 "It's not every day a man can see his own spine." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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