But... but... What I want to hide most IS Newsstand! :(

Oh. I had hoped that this tip would eliminate the need for adding sugar, but it still suggests sprinkling on the sweet stuff. Oh well.

Precisely. It's not about us. And it's not about him wanting to be heard. He's an artist of sorts, and artists need to express their art.

Funny. I use internalized phonemic rules to remember the correct spelling. I blame Whole Word.

Ha! It's not quite the same sound, but I had that same thought!

Between your first three sentences and the mentioning of the plot twist, you completely eliminated any twist for me, and surely many others. Shame.

Excellent point at 2:03. Thanks for posting.

More entertaining than I expected, but I would have liked a different ending: rather than blasting all (or half) the rubberbands at once, have a system set up to slice off one rubber band at a time until the rest all give up.

Yeah, I don't think I'd tune in to a show that just showed people standing around a chalkboard and doing math calculations.

Dammit. A bacon hack. There's no way I'll win now.

Welcome to the beautiful world of morphology and affixation. :) The latter most definitely is a word. The former may not be a word yet, but I give it less than three years before it's inducted into a dictionary.

Sometimes it's not about what the cat wants but what the humans know is safest and healthiest. You know, similar to how parents don't let their kids do certain things because they, as adults, know better.

Hey, at least ColdMagneticSun didn't say "chemicals". S/he's trying.

Hahahaaaa... I actually have nothing to say to you. I'm just laughing with all the responses to your failed troll attempt.

Yeah, now that it's department policy, participation is part of the regularly entered grades in the grade book rather than an end-of-the-quarter bonus/adjustment. The consequence is that now students who are genuinely shy actually do get dinged when we have formal discussions such as Socratic Circles whereas before…

Well said, and this is how I think participation points should be used.

Huh. Before classwork/participation became a department-wide official part of grades, I always used the participation grade at the end of the quarter as a bit of extra credit that would help out kids who weren't great test-takers and/or writers but put out great effort during class (and other kids who put out great…

And I only have a laptop. Where does one get a labtop? And must one have a lab?

Not necessarily. I was born and raised in Sunny San Diego, and currently live in Northern Nevada (after a brief stint in Wisconsin). I don't think I'll ever live in a snow-free zone again. (Oh, and I highly recommend Yak Trax for anyone who feels unsafe on ice.)

Thanks.