So...

Me? I sit back and laugh, since I dont' have any finals, except for the odd english or french exam, which are all complete for me. /me sits back and laughs, but leans back too far, and flips the chair

phattonez wrote:Is it any surprise that I've gotten both of these objection flashes in the thread?

:P No, not really. You just seem to have this huge sign on your head that says "object to me please!"

Pineconn wrote:What's broken with him?

:rofl:

Where do you get these, or am I banned from knowing? I guess according just to probability I would get both of them since I have the most posts in this thread by far.

EDIT: I just looked it up. The lead that I have is 18 less than the number of posts than the person with the second most post in this thread has in this thread. I have 252, so you figure it out.

phattonez wrote:Question for the ages #3: What do you do during Finals Week in college?

You should probably study at some point. But..

Unless you have a final thursday morning, here's what you do on Wednesday night: Get drunk, strip down to your underwear, and join the rest of the undergraduate student body in a run along campus which will inevitably end up with several hundred almost-naked people dancing in a fountain.

I guess the particulars of that only really apply to UCLA students (although there are many other schools that have undie runs). Also, phanttonez, since you're a freshmen, in your very first quarter, you are probably a) taking only three classes and b) taking some GE's, meaning your finals will most likely not be terrible. So you have no excuse not to take part in this great tradition.

Sadly I have to sit this one out. I've got a math final thursday and the tests are too easy meaning the mean is like an 89% (ie the curve actually brings your grade DOWN). So yeah, I really need to prep well for that =/

He's tasted blood, now he'll never be the same...

AW!!!!

He's the cutest fucking thing ever! Well, next to my kid and my dog...

My friend's dog just gave birth to a litter of 9. He has a puppy army, lol.

It's always nice to get off work, go home and try to relax when you get a call that goes something like this...."hey uhh I'm almost positive Naara is dropping her baby...oh and she just kicked the shit out of Dakota."

Two bales of hay, a trough of water and a pair of Carrhart overalls covered in mud later I have a baby colt and he is one tall little shit. From the time I got out there it took about 4 1/2 hours or for him to come out. I was pissed because I was the only one at the farm until our neighbor showed up and good thing to because there was a breach and we to pull him out....try doing that with a mom who does not like you near her babies and it's fun!

I wasn't able to get any pictures but Naara's new colt is going to be named Jack or Louie. Mom was being a pain in the ass and didn't want us in the stable so we left her alone. I'm gonna try and get some pictures later.

At first I thought that you were talking about people, and then I was kind of concerned, until I heard about the bales of hay. Wow, that was interesting.

Congrats on the new colt. I remember when my mare Dobbie gave birth to Yankee Starlight (I don't own either anymore - haven't in over 20 years) in the middle of the night under a sky FULL of stars. We thought he was breach until all of a sudden he literally fell out all at once. He was beautiful... flaxen mane & tail... Palomino body color, both parents were solid blacks. That first night he was trying to run around Dobbie to check things out... it's like he came out running.

on the first day of Christmas my (insert word here) gave to me, a very tiny walnut tree!

I can't wait for X-MAS :3

So walnuts do grow on trees. That was on Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader and I didn't know.

phattonez wrote:So walnuts do grow on trees. That was on Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader and I didn't know.

hey I saw that episode, pretty funny stuff. at least i get most of them right, considering im a freshman. seriously, they should change it to "freshperson" because not everyone there is a "man." there are "women," "men," and... "its". gotta be publicly correct! :tongue:

edit: I actuly have a walnut tree in my back yard. 😉

Wow, and I was having a hard time with those questions. I didn't know how to get the median for a set with an even number of objects in it.

Over here we have Are You Smarter Then A 10 Year Old?. I don't watch it, but my family does occasionally. The only question I ever watched asked what a French phrase was, and I had no idea. I only speak two languages - English, and Bad English.

phattonez wrote:Wow, and I was having a hard time with those questions. I didn't know how to get the median for a set with an even number of objects in it.

The numbers were 2, 2, 5, 9, 11, and 14, right? Obviously "7" is the correct answer - I had no problem with that one. :shrug:

The history questions kill me, though.

No, I know what the median is, I just didn't know how to get it when there was an even number of objects in it.

Who knows the lowest layer of the atmosphere? Really.

phattonez wrote:
Who knows the lowest layer of the atmosphere? Really.

You know that now, right after the show tells everyone.

You know, philosophicly, that show raises a lot of questions. If your fifth-grader is smarter than a good deal of adults, who have presumably learned the same stuff (maybe not at the same rate, yeah I know stuff was taught slower then) then it can be assumed that they forgot it by their current age. And if that's true, then whats the point of education at all? Apart from your particular profession, I mean.

phattonez wrote:You know that now, right after the show tells everyone.

You know, philosophicly, that show raises a lot of questions. If your fifth-grader is smarter than a good deal of adults, who have presumably learned the same stuff (maybe not at the same rate, yeah I know stuff was taught slower then) then it can be assumed that they forgot it by their current age. And if that's true, then whats the point of education at all? Apart from your particular profession, I mean.

While I appreciate your sense of humor, Amaster, I think the show actually raises a serious issue as well. Namely that a lot of the material taught in elementary school is useless/worthless and trivial, so why are we spending time and money teaching it? Seriously a good deal of the questions on that show (from what I have seen) have no application or relation to anything, including the stuff you study in higher education. Hell you probably could reduce the number of years you have to go to school if you just remove a lot of the chaff and condense grades 1-12 to 1-8 or less.

While I appreciate your sense of humor, Amaster

Don't know what your talking about. I'm dead serious. School should be adapted to each students needs based on their planned career. And enough with this feelings stuff, place kids by intelligence instead of a melting pot in which you have to cater to the lowest common denominator.

Amaster42 wrote: If your fifth-grader is smarter than a good deal of adults

I was referring to that part. I didn't think you were actually serious about that. That show doesn't demonstrate that fifth graders are smarter than any adults... knowing your state capitals doesn't make you more intelligent than anyone, it just means you memorized more useless information.

I agree with the rest of what you said though.

Amaster42 wrote:School should be adapted to each students needs based on their planned career.

Good idea.

with one TINY flaw...

a lot of kids either choose careers that they'll never be able to follow through with (like a tone-deaf kid who insists they will be the next Elvis, or that they wanna be a pogo stick tester, or something like that.), or they don't know what they want to do.

what, do we hold these kids back from school until they come up with a "reasonable" idea? or do we tell them "go for it" and then when they botch up, they start from scratch?

:P That could lead to a lot of bums, and a lot of guys in school when they're 30...

I dunno...that's kind of my $0.2 Canadian.

I only realized what I wanted to do in sec 4 (game programmer), and by then, I had already screwed up my math, and due to a ton of annoying series of events, I was never able to get my match 436, and 536, and at this point, I'm too far behind to even catch up (I have not done math in 3 years, and I'm almost done the graphic design program).

So...your solution doesn't work in all cases A-man.

Education is more than about career training . . .

Speaking of career wise. I did get another job finally. Work 3rd shift. Been there for about a month. Last night really sucked.

Walk in find out my machine is going to be down most of the night due to it having issues. So I was working the floor. Basically I was keeping areas clean and giving people's breaks.

I get called to go to the back to the warehouse do to a resin spill. Resin is this white plastic stuff that we use for make our bottles. Anyways I go back it looked like a snow scene in the warehouse. So there I am cleaning it all up by myself for about 2 hours. There was a lot. So basically I had to put it through regrind so it would take the dirt out. Of course this stuff is messy. So when I finally took care of it I walk out of the warehouse and I looked like a yeti cause I had all the stuff over my clothes. I go take my 10 minute break. Go outside and shake my shirt out.

Come back another machine started acting up. I go over to take a look and one of the chambers was not being filled. So the red alarm goes off. I refill it and start the machine. Starts doing it's output but very slowly. Then it lit fire lol. I was like omfg and blew it out cause it wasn't all that big. Waited for it to warm up and it started functioning properly again.

Then next the machine next to me starts acting up to. Basically it was the same deal with that one but this machine's mixer wasn't doing what it was supposed to do. I fixed that also and then started going back to the warehouse to make sure the pumps are working.

While I was walking back a lady off to my right was having issues with her machine too. The discarded waste pipe became disconnected. So I am putting the damn thing back together for her and the top part comes down. At this point I was getting pissed but I kept my cool. Grabbed a ladder and fixed the top. Now lunch comes and goes.

Finally come back and my machine is up and running. I call it the mega bitch because its known to cause a lot of problems. First thing the cutter was jamming and the bottles all jammed up. So I flip the safety door open and got hit by the door on accident. Left a nice diagonal slash on my neck lol. So I fixed it and it kept acting up during the night. Then the machine breaks down again. So it was offline for the rest of the night.

Basically I go back to working the floor. The machine next to me was doing the same shit so I was over there helping cleaning the mess up. And what do you know. State inspector comes in 30 minutes before I have to leave. The inspector was throwing a fit with the machine that was malfunctioning and bitching about the mess. And he comes over and started his shit with me. Basically told him look. If you knew what was going on during 3rd shift you would understand why it is such a mess.

So yeah that's how well my work night went. Thank god I am off today.

What is wrong with everyone? Does no one post at 4 am? Am I the only one here who is insane?

It's 9:15am here. I posted my rant at 4am. XD

phattonez wrote:Am I the only one here who is insane?

:P No, but I think you're the only one who would openly admit that you're nuts.

I post at awkward hours, but that's mostly because I like in the UK. First thing in the morning for me is like 1:00 AM for you or something.

Yo, haven't posteed a bit and today I thought I'd pop into AGN while at the library. Anyways, I'm stuck at the hotel I work at becvause the weather sucks. On the plus side I get "free" tv. :kitty: Also, great to Sean on his new job. And to Darthy, that new av is hilarious. :kitty: