Cancer Posted October 16, 2021 Report Share Posted October 16, 2021 ... That's part of the point. You'd rather I had "gun" instead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 17, 2021 Report Share Posted October 17, 2021 I am someone who succeeded in getting two awful astronomy puns inserted into Austin's street map. The story is longer than I want to relate here, but you can find streets named "Transit Circle" and "Sidereal Drive" in north Austin. Those were my idea. A pity they don't intersect. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted October 18, 2021 Report Share Posted October 18, 2021 Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 18, 2021 Report Share Posted October 18, 2021 Almost certain I have that book at my office, but it might be a different edition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted October 18, 2021 Report Share Posted October 18, 2021 I can't remember crying over a book, but I have been pissed off by a number of them. Good thing I didn't have a fireplace at the time; they would have turned into kindling! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 18, 2021 Report Share Posted October 18, 2021 I did burn one textbook, because it was worth more as fireplace fuel than as a textbook. And it was worth the $5 I would have got at the buy-back to watch it burn. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 20, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2021 School's not even out and I've already got my grades posted. Literally the first time I've ever been able to say that. Logan D. Hurricanes and Old Man 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 23, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 At the end of fourth quarter last year, as I was finalizing grades and trying to deal with my mom's death, I had one kid in my honors chemistry class who wanted to have all kinds of conversations about why he needed an A instead of the A- he had earned--maintaining his 4.0, the many hours he had spent working on practice problems, the numerous YouTube videos he had watched trying to understand concepts, that sort of thing. Over the course of about a week I told him that neither the number of hours he had spent doing homework, nor the number of videos he had watched, nor his GPA from other classes, determined his grade in my class. What determined his grade in my class was how he had performed on the assessments. The scores he earned gave him an A-, so an A- is what he got. So, having just posted final grades for first quarter this year, the same kid who is now in my honors physics class, sent me a canvas message wanting to discuss his grade and how to bump it up the extra one and a half percent he needs to get it to an A. My response, and I quote: "I feel like we've had this conversation before." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 Does he need this for a scholarship requirement or is it just an ego thing? Just curious, I've met very few students who would care about the difference between an A and an A-. I have met students who begged for a D-. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 L. Marcus, Cancer, Old Man and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 Junior year of high school, I cleaned my Art class at the end of the year so the teacher would raise me from C- to B. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 Junior year English Literature class, I was heading into the mid-term test with a B, and the teacher announced that it was essentially impossible to score high enough on the test to change our letter grade. When we received the results, she announced that she was incorrect, as one student had managed to change their grade from a B to an A for the quarter. She offered me congratulations when she handed back my test. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 The story I tell is from my Quarter From Hell as an undergrad, when I took the entire sophomore physics lecture series in one quarter (other things added to this "hell" qualifier, believe me). The prof handed back the first mid-term in Thermodynamics, on which I got a 67 out of 150, and spent a few minutes wondering I would do with my life now that I had f----d it up with that exam. Glanced over the shoulder of the guy in front of me, saw a 4, which was a perfectly plausible score for the problem on the first page. Time went by. Eventually all the papers were handed back, and then he told us that scores on the exam had ranged from a high of 67 down to a low of 4. Day had come again (though the passage that would inspire that last comment would not be published for a couple of years). L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 A man goes into a library and asks for a book about Pavlov’s dogs and Schrodinger’s cat. The librarian says, “It rings a bell, but I don’t know whether it’s there or not” Grailknight, Starlord and Old Man 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 Jeremy Bentham goes up to the counter at a coffee house, holding a $50 bill. “What’s the cheapest drink you have?” he asks. “That would be our decaf roast, for only $1.99,” says the barista. “Good,” says Bentham and hands her the $50. “I’ll buy those for the next twenty-five people who show up.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Pariah Posted October 26, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2021 We're discussing impulse and momentum in this week's online physics lectures. This comic is in the slide show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted October 27, 2021 Report Share Posted October 27, 2021 Professor Milford Wence is such a perfect name! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 27, 2021 Report Share Posted October 27, 2021 What if we only have a sense of humour? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted October 27, 2021 Report Share Posted October 27, 2021 19 minutes ago, L. Marcus said: What if we only have a sense of humour? You're ****ed. L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 27, 2021 Report Share Posted October 27, 2021 Ooo, stars! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tombrown803 Posted October 28, 2021 Report Share Posted October 28, 2021 3 hours ago, L. Marcus said: What if we only have a sense of humour? Take a trip into some gutters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted October 28, 2021 Report Share Posted October 28, 2021 Logan D. Hurricanes and Pariah 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 28, 2021 Report Share Posted October 28, 2021 :shrug: Gotta leave something for the next generation to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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