scottobear | Entries tagged with education

Solid sleep, but I woke up once in the middle of the night - maybe that's why I can recall my dream so readily today. Dreamt that I was living in a haunted house - hanged bodies in varying states of decay kept appearing on the porch. Some of the skulls were certainly not human... more bovine or ursine, depending. I would throw them away, or burn them out in the yard, but the following day, more would be there.

I kept the noose rope, spooling it into a large ball in the back yard, hoping to make the place a roadside attraction. I don't know why reappearing bodies wouldn't be enough. For whatever dream-reason, I spun the rope to the tune of Stick Shifts & Safety Belts (Which is still lodged in my head... 16 hours or more later.)

Rather than come for the huge ball of twine, visitors did start to come, due to the delicious smell of charred carcasses. I don't know why feeding the bodies to visiting people felt OK, but it was guilt-free... my attitude was "hey, they were just hanging there... like selling fruit from my apple tree."

Top 20 Logical Fallacies - When in a debate, I'm often guilty of abusing reductio ad absurdum (#14).

This morning on the way to work - still a few autumn colors out there.

I hear through the grapevine that one of my old places of business is in a pretty big tangle. Eight people have turned over in a year's time there. When one considers that they only have 14 positions, five of them part-time and not all 14 existed for that full year, that's a sure sign of a problem.

Speaking of Grapes... DIET GRAPE AT GIANT HAS RETURNED!!

The only grape soda that I actively enjoy, flavor-wise. Plus, the foam is a soft powder blue, not purple. BHK has been questing for it since mid-june.

Nice.. finally a word of the day I'd not heard before!

perfervid puhr-FUR-vid, adjective:

Ardent; impassioned; marked by exaggerated or overwrought emotion.

I like it.

1 year ago - punch buggy, meeting, craig james white, typo on sheet, work misc

2 years ago - LED clothes, K&K mime, Clavicus loves his pastry, doom patrol, quizzes, x-ing, newt pic, Red knows the score, cybermen, scotto avie

pictures taken 2 years ago - newt with the palm cam

3 years ago - bro call, sammich heartburn, remote control jargon, Eid, promenade in the park, FF movie looks like poop, comic book torrents, CoH sued by Marvel

4 years ago - Butterflies, Christ, Wind and Dexterity, my journal is in popular science, phonepost, back on call

5 years ago - expensive minis, misc whims, wacky news, bob hope

6 years ago - I live near blimps, medicine poll, Bad Elder Caucasian Dudes, marvel misfits

7 years ago - Des tries to take on the hive, whoville test, aok, Robbo's last week

Current Mood: dorky
Current Location: 20714
Current Music: stick shifts & safety belts

Will I get big brain today, or will I have to huff and puff and bloooooow compusa down?

via

christin - Study: Most College Students Lack Skills
More than 50percent of students at four-year schools and more than 75 percent at two-year colleges lacked the skills to perform complex literacy tasks.

That means they could not interpret a table about exercise and blood pressure, understand the arguments of newspaper editorials, compare credit card offers with different interest rates and annual fees or summarize results of a survey about parental involvement in school.

Rest of the article can be found here:
http://enews.earthlink.net/article/nat?guid=20060119/43cf1cd0_3421_1334520060119-1850181305

Heard from Liz for the first time in a while yesterday. That was nice... apparently she's keeping two jobs to bring in the bucks.I'm glad to see she's got some buddies down south.

You are the little prince.

Saint Exupery's 'The Little Prince' Quiz.
brought to you by Quizilla

1 year ago - Sicky Mel, PSA, No new drama month, paypal button for charity, weather, Korean postal robots guards, MA lobster strike, Monkey king, fibs and truths answers, weather

2 years ago - crapulent, British WWII photo archive, Chick Tract, homeowners groups lacking

3 years ago - bawled out my bro, bashed up my hands.

4 years ago - walkies, coloring book fairy, waterlog ear, some dead links and some live ones, full moon birth, good dreams.

5 years ago - Iron Man, brain eating, thinking about my dad, smitten, First experience with a good LJ client, Fred the enema cat.

“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”

You'll do well to remember that, Scotto.

Current Mood: reeducated

Dinosaurs are a specific subgroup of the archosaurs, a group that also includes crocodiles, pterosaurs, and birds. although pterosaurs are close relations, they are not true dinosaurs. Even more distantly related to dinosaurs are the marine reptiles, which include the plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs. Mammoths and mastodons are mammals and did not appear until many millions of years after the close of the Cretaceous period. Dimetrodon is neither a reptile nor a mammal, but a basal synapsid, i.e., an early relative of the ancestors of mammals.

I honestly didn't know that pterosaurs and marine reptiles didn't count as dinos, or that dinosaur wasn't a catch-all term before today, and I've loved early critters for well over three decades. Talk about a hole in my education!

-as a side result of this entry of graypumpkin 's

Also testing out this site to seek out info re: sexual predators over a mapped area -

http://www.familywatchdog.us/

Type in your home address or a family members address. The web site will bring up a map of your neighborhood with small colored boxes on it. The small House icon represents your address; the colored boxes represent sex offenders in your area.

Click on the colored boxes and it will bring up the offender's photograph and the exact address, names and employers. Click ALL AROUND, you will be amazed at the information you get!

Seems to work better with MSIE than Mozilla

Current Mood: surprised

Dan snores, and it makes me laugh. He's about 1/3 Doug sound level.

The 2nd movie - Return of Gaimajin was even better than the first. good hurricane karma, I got them by helping with Charley.

Newt's being naughty... hissing at Janet a lot. (A bit at Dan, too. I don't think he's happy sharing space with them.) If I pick Newt up, he quiets down and purrs like a fiend... I'm an anchor of familiarity in this place.

Danny pointed something out to me on the way to his place yesterday... how do new and used car lots empty out so fast? Where do they put 'em? I theorized that there's some hidden underground parking or more likely that they're accordianed in the back. I got a call from Wilt, and he told me that no wood is going on my windows.. just tape. Ugh... I'm glad I was smart and packed up all my important tech and took it with me.

I'm glad I left on Thursday, because I hear that the roads are now mobbed with folks trying to get the heck out of there.

Dan's house is super-prone to little power-flickers at this point I'm glad I had a candle in the bathroom while I took my morning shower.. I'm glad that I've got a surge bar and that lappie is on battery power.

Wind's kicking up pretty good, now... I'll have some nifty movies to upload from the palm after the storm.

Another J factoid - She's never, ever stopped talking when I've been within earshot. Talks back to the TV, and steps on other people talking, too. I wonder if she ever has a quiet time? I think that maybe her own voice is a comfort to herself? I suspect it's a nervous habit, to take her mind off of other things.

Mighty windy and wet at this point. Lots of boil water orders, though not in my region quite yet.

Waffles for late breakfast today - clearing out the freezer in case of a long term power out.

All in all, Still safe and sound. Still mostly have power, a/c and light.

Dorkiest looking Dinosaur ever.

I think he's cute. I can see him laughing, and blushing. That Hyuk, hyuk, hyuk, sort.

Shaved off all but the goat. It was fun playing Kevin smith for a while, though.

The face of Tutankhamen, the Egyptian king, has been reconstructed by special effects artists. A pretty good-looking guy. A little like RuPaul, I think.

Current Mood: I stand in uffish thought.

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