I live in the desert, too. It snows here every year. This would be handy if I hadn't already mastered the penguin walk and bought a pair of yaktrax.

Oh. Yay. Now the spammers are adding "graphics". Why, oh why, do we not have a "flag" button yet?

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.

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.

Thank you. All the websites I found during my searches touted the interest rates and not much else.

Niiiiiccccceeeeee......

Ah, yes. That lofty and worthwhile goal. Good times.

That's the one. I take it you read it? What did you think?

Establish territory. Duh.