Sorry, that was not a dig at you personally, and I apologize that it came off that way.
It is used all over the place, but I just personally don’t like it.

Yes, although I kinda dislike the CoMo monicker. But I’m an old, and we didn’t call it that back in my day.

It wasn’t really talked about when I went there in the early 90s. The Shack was mentioned, but I think it had been long enough since it had burnt down that it wasn’t discussed much. It was only later that the beetle bailey statue was put up and the history was restored and discussed.

Well, since the players are going to have to stand, he probably won’t be offered a job, right? (Which is a shame.)

I’m pretty sure he handed it over to her...if he knew something was off, he should have spoken up instead of expecting her to do so.

Holy cow! I think I haven’t heard that song since the 70s!
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
(I liked the adaptation, too.)

I’ll agree that it didn’t sound like the guy above took the difficult classes, especially if he was going to teach mathematics.

I will disagree with the notion that teachers should only concentrate on what they are going to teach. This is part of the problem sometimes with math teachers, especially in elementary,…

Agreed. I probably listen to it at least once a month. I also love their version of Lake of Fire.

Also, is Johnny Cash’s Hurt better than NIN’s? (But I am very partial to Johnny Cash, so I am probably biased here.)

I don’t like to cry about calls, but that last foul (and the two that put Tillman out of the game) were terrible.

Of course, I am biased as a Mizzou grad.

I have been meaning to learn some of this for years now, but the push is even stronger than ever now. There is a free online homework system called MyOpenMath, and it is adaptable enough that you can code your own problems, but I haven’t had any programming since a Pascal class back in the early 90s. This looks like…

Such a great idea! I did this years ago with a photo slide show (or Powerpoint) turned into a video. It was pretty plain, but it had a countdown with the requisite “Happy New Years” finale.

My kids are too old for this now, but if you don’t have Netflix, the slide show can be a nice substitute.

That is a great point. It has taken a lot for me to get used to the idea that my childhood heroes (Luke, Han, and Leia) “failed” (and I still don’t completely like it), but I think it definitely opens the universe wider, and I really want to see more Star Wars. I don’t think I want to see more Skywalker family drama.

Perfectly fine too. But if you like SW, the Clone Wars and Rebels is pretty good (especially later seasons of Clone Wars). I’ve watched them with my kids, and we still really enjoy them.

I am hoping when Rebels ends, the next show focuses on Luke, Leia, and Han between ROTJ and TFA so that I can still see them heroic…

Rebels and Clone Wars tv shows are, per Disney. All books/comics that have come out since Disney bought SW are canon also. All other shows, books, etc, are not (but sometimes, people sneak good bits and pieces of the old canon back in with new things).

From a SW nerd, but one without enough knowledge to be a pedant…

That made me chuckle.

I did a similar thing with mathematics with my kids. I didn’t worry about teaching facts like 1+2 = 3, but we did play “sugar packet math” at restaurants while waiting for our food to arrive. Questions like, “How many are in this pile? How many more do I need to get to 7 packets?” teach those ideas first by making…

While I agree that the teacher is an ass (and I am a teacher myself), in the current district in which I teach, a 63 would have been considered failing about 5 years ago. We changed over to a 60-70-80-90 policy and added +/- grades at the time. It depends upon the school’s/district’s grading policies, and while I…

I think that was intentionally done to show the use of a trope.

That was the quip m son made when I brought up their chemistry!

I liked Soundgarden and Chris Cornell before he died, but I didn’t listen to him often. Now, I listen to his quite often (mostly on YouTube), and holy crap, I love most everything I hear from him.