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At 8/16/07 03:57 AM, fli wrote: What ever happened to Gooie?

I think he was abducted by Aliens. Nazomi sounds familiar, but I think BWS was on his way out when I started posting in here way back when... but it's nice to see him here, none the less.

At 8/16/07 04:22 AM, fli wrote: While we're talking very naughty... I think everyone wants to know all the swear words in a foreign language just because...

At one time I had the Berlitz book of conversational Spanish, the one that was in all black with red letters saying "HIDE THIS BOOK FROM YOUR SPANISH TEACHER!" It has all sorts of stuff in there like that... swear words by region and degree of offensiveness, euphanisms for sex, pickup lines, just a lot of cool info.

It seems like I bought that and a book of how to bullshit your way through a job interview that same day when I was in our cam[pus bookstore, and I can't find either one of them now.

At 8/16/07 12:49 PM, Proteas wrote: At one time I had the Berlitz book of conversational Spanish, the one that was in all black with red letters saying "HIDE THIS BOOK FROM YOUR SPANISH TEACHER!" It has all sorts of stuff in there like that... swear words by region and degree of offensiveness, euphanisms for sex, pickup lines, just a lot of cool info.

My dad and I were at the Paris Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas one time, wandering through one of the gift shops, and they had this little British book of French for tourists. It had normal conversational stuff, like how to find a bus and that sort of thing, but it also had chapters on romance/sex ("Do you have a condom?"), drugs, etc. He bought a copy and left it on our coffee table for a long time. When I left for college I stole it, and it sits in the French section of my little home library, along with several F/E dictionaries and an illustrated children's book: "Les Chevaliers de la Table Ronde."

Hey seven? Which do you prefer to teach, a large class, or a very small class?

I ask because I have to teach a workshop next week, and although it's well within my abilities (I've done it before), it's not one of my favorite things to do.

I usually stick to personal 1 on 1 mentoring, for maybe 4 or 5 kids a semester. And I've always liked classes where there were only 10 people, including the instructor, over the 500 ppl lecture.

I just want a teacher's perspective.

Danke!

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At 8/16/07 04:22 AM, fli wrote: I'm suprised how much "muscle memory" I have preserved from the 3rd grade.

Muscle memory is indeed quite crazy.

I can still solve a rubik's cube, yet I have no idea how to actually do it.

At 8/15/07 08:40 PM, BWS wrote: As for myself, I totally switched from wanting to do econ and business and ended up getting a degree in pure math from Michigan, and im heading to Northwestern now to work on a PhD in engineering science and applied math. Sounds sorta dorky...

Apple math, eh? I still don't really know what people do with those degrees, but apparently they have real jobs.

They offer an undergraduate degree in apple math here, but it's very cloak and dagger. They teach you pure math for three years, and supposedly in fourth year they tell you how to use it all in real life, but I don't know anyone who's taking it, so I can't tell you for sure.

sounds like my school, seven, we only had about 13-18 in our class through the years.

Grant it, we were the only class in the grade.

At 8/16/07 06:43 PM, Malachy wrote: sounds like my school, seven, we only had about 13-18 in our class through the years.

We were always around the 30s, because my school is a mansion-like 19th century achool, founded along the foundation of the city, with quite big classrooms. My classroom is twice the size of my apartment :\
The Economics orientation tends to have lots of students, our Financial Math teacher told us he once had a course of 44. But we're 33 at the moment, so we're fine.

Talking about Economics, w00t, crisis, let's goes and bai dolarz!!!11!

At 8/15/07 08:11 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote:

At 8/15/07 06:03 PM, reviewer-general wrote: Why the hell is the janitor on Scrubs such an ass?

Because he thinks JD put a penny in the door in the first episode?

Either that or because he thinks JD stole his ammonia. And his window cleaner.

;

At 8/16/07 07:28 AM, SevenSeize wrote: You need to double check? :-(

I'm insecure, you know that :p

At 8/16/07 09:13 PM, SevenSeize wrote:

At 8/16/07 09:06 PM, aviewaskewed wrote:

At 8/16/07 07:28 AM, SevenSeize wrote: You need to double check? :-(

They have fried green beans.

Ah yes, Southern Culture.

The only place where you can take a healthy food and make it heart stopping.

Much like making a food dish that contains 3000 calories and calling it salad.

Or Frying a chicken.....in chicken.

At 8/16/07 06:28 PM, SevenSeize wrote:
If everyone is on the same level, large groups are fine.

But me personally, I prefer small groups. I started with 14 this year, which was awesome. Now I'm up to 19. Not too big of a deal, I've taught up to 30. But 14 was much easier. :-)

Thanks Seven! I'm actually pretty sure they all won't be on the same level. It's a breakdancing "class" (it's really just an informal practice), and I'm pretty sure we're gonna have some veterans from last year returning.

It's all good though, they can re-learn the basics. Eventually I'm gonna start playing Education Professor, and start teaching the vets how to teach the new guys, but that's all down the road. And so the world turns.....

At 8/16/07 09:35 PM, SevenSeize wrote:

At 8/16/07 09:14 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote:

Or Frying a chicken.....in chicken.

I still can't get over deep fried twinkies.

mmmm....Deep Fried Twinkie

I like deep-fried Oreos, myself.

There's a fantastic little eatery in the Carytown neighborhood of Richmond called Galaxy Diner - it's a 50s scifi theme, really cool - that serves a deep-fried pickle with most meals. I can't eat them, they give me the Devil's own indigestion. Their food is fabulous, though, and not expensive. They even have healthy stuff, like a salad with portabella mushrooms. Breakfast all day, chili cheese dogs, what's not to love? I try to go there whenever I'm back in Richmond.

And if you haven't indulged enough, it's across the street from a store called For the Love of Chocolate.

damn Pearl Jam gets me nervous. all i want to do is listen to good music, not develop bipolar disorder.

I went to way too much effort to waste this capture in a pointless thread.

Flight of the Conchords rock! (Thank god I knew of them ages ago so I could catch onto them when they're just starting in the US)

At 8/16/07 11:23 PM, Mr-Silv3r wrote: I went to way too much effort to waste this capture in a pointless thread.

Flight of the Conchords rock! (Thank god I knew of them ages ago so I could catch onto them when they're just starting in the US)

I like his eyes. They are humble and yet pissed off.

At 8/16/07 07:38 PM, Der-Lowe wrote: Talking about Economics, w00t, crisis, let's goes and bai dolarz!!!11!

No, don't talk about econmics, I have to give a speech about Keynes in my Macro class in like a week! :'(

Whenever I'm in Albany I try to make sure to eat at The Cheesecake Factory. holy shit, best food ever. HUGE portions, really awesome homely food! oh man, so good. I can have half a heart attack thinking about how full and happy that place makes me.

In other news I'm at my father's house right now. I'm staying the night before heading out early tomorrow morning to get to Detroit by days end. On Saturday is my grandfather's funeral at his home church which will be much larger than the ceremony we had last Friday here.

At 8/16/07 11:27 PM, Malachy wrote:

In other news I'm at my father's house right now. I'm staying the night before heading out early tomorrow morning to get to Detroit by days end. On Saturday is my grandfather's funeral at his home church which will be much larger than the ceremony we had last Friday here.

Hope the road treats you well. Maybe on the way you'll stop at a rustic diner and have fried cheesecake with a dragon or whatever the fuck people are talking about here.

At 8/16/07 11:49 PM, stafffighter wrote: Hope the road treats you well. Maybe on the way you'll stop at a rustic diner and have fried cheesecake with a dragon or whatever the fuck people are talking about here.

lol.

I'm driving through Canada on the 401 to Detroit. there used to be a lot of really awesome KFCs along there, but they were all replaced by Wendies and McDonnalds.

At 8/17/07 12:10 AM, Malachy wrote:
lol.

I'm driving through Canada on the 401 to Detroit. there used to be a lot of really awesome KFCs along there, but they were all replaced by Wendies and McDonnalds.

Simpson toys at one, french fries at the other my friend

At 8/17/07 12:25 AM, stafffighter wrote: Simpson toys at one, french fries at the other my friend

I love wendies burgers. they put mayo on them!

At 8/16/07 11:27 PM, Malachy wrote: Whenever I'm in Albany I try to make sure to eat at The Cheesecake Factory. holy shit, best food ever. HUGE portions, really awesome homely food! oh man, so good. I can have half a heart attack thinking about how full and happy that place makes me.

I've never eaten food over there beside the cheesecakes. Sooooo good. I love the strawbery one, ad the blueberry.

At 8/17/07 12:42 AM, Malachy wrote: I love wendies burgers. they put mayo on them!

I lke homemade ones... beause then I can add cilantro, sauteed onions and pieces of tree-chili pieces in the patty, which makes them taste really great.

At 8/17/07 02:17 AM, fli wrote: I lke homemade ones... beause then I can add cilantro, sauteed onions and pieces of tree-chili pieces in the patty, which makes them taste really great.

how the hell do you manage to retain any hydration whatsoever?! fuck man, if I ate like you, I'd have explosive diarrhea every hour on the hour.

ROFL wikipedia is incredible. I introcude the "Gay Bomb."

The Pentagon examined the possibility of developing an aphrodisiac bomb that would cause enemy troops to find one another sexually irresistible, newly declassified documents reveal.

It also considered development of a "Who? Me?" bomb that would produce odours that suggested that other soldiers were passing wind or had serious halitosis to disrupt enemy morale.

The £5 million six-year research project suggested the use of "chemicals that affect human behaviour so that discipline and morale in enemy units is adversely affected".

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It said: "One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behaviour."

It is not known if, or when, the programme was abandoned.

The Pentagon also considered chemicals that would make the enemy troops sexually attractive to "annoying or injurious animals" such as stinging and biting bugs or rodents.

ROFL that shit is priceless.

Now thats tax dollars well spent.

At 8/17/07 02:52 AM, Malachy wrote:

At 8/17/07 02:17 AM, fli wrote: I lke homemade ones... beause then I can add cilantro, sauteed onions and pieces of tree-chili pieces in the patty, which makes them taste really great.

how the hell do you manage to retain any hydration whatsoever?! fuck man, if I ate like you, I'd have explosive diarrhea every hour on the hour.

I like peppers... it's cultural.
But I eat it because they're so good and savory. Otherwise, if it didn't taste good... I wouldn't eat it. In my experiance, lots of White people eat a lot of peppers... but not for the same reason why a Mexican will eat it. For many of them, it's about... "Who can eat the most hottest pepper!" But a Mexican will eat it because they believe it's geniuenly good. In our house hold, we have a saying which is our own way of saying "al dente." We say "pica bueno." (Stings good.) We say it when we have the right amount of heat and flavor.

For me, flavor counts most... not heat. I've tasted TERRIBLE hot sauces before... one of them was a novelty called, "Get on your knees, Lewinski sauce." And it had a picture of Monica going down on Bill.

I got the job. Lowe's called the house this morning while I was at work... I go in for orientation on Monday, then they'll give me a date to start. I gave my boss my two week's notice no less than 45 minutes ago.

The little OCD hampster in my brain is on it's little wheel trying to get up and running, but nothing. I'm a bit apprehensive, but I'm more or less numb right now. I'm not used to haveing stuff go RIGHT for a change.

At 8/17/07 03:01 PM, Proteas wrote: I got the job.

Congrats, Proteas! I know that must be a big relief.

At 8/17/07 04:16 PM, IllustriousPotentate wrote: Congrats, Proteas! I know that must be a big relief.

Thanks. To a certain extent, it is a relief, because now I'll be able to get health insurance and caught up on some bills...

I'm going to miss working at the music store, I really will. Now I get to go from waiting on squirelly stoners and soccer moms to waiting on squirrely contractors and weekend home-improvement warriors. YAY!!!!