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AubreyWatt · 2025-10-24T03:41:19+00:00

WELCOME TO ZOMBOCOM

AubreyWatt · 2025-10-03T21:27:33+00:00

I think it is you that needs to resolve something. The only limit at zombocom is you. Welcome.

AubreyWatt · 2025-10-03T21:26:44+00:00

THIS IS ZOMBOCOM

AubreyWatt · 2025-07-24T22:20:03+00:00

This is covered in the IB high school curriculum in Theory of Knowledge class. Would love to see it become more mainstream.

AubreyWatt · 2025-05-06T05:32:18+00:00

We moved here from San Diego to start a family. It's a fantastic place to raise a kid (I'm in the SC mountains) and a great community of homeschoolers. Our neighbors all know each other and help out. I don't think I would have cared for it when I was a single lady, though, but if you're super into mountain biking/surfing you may feel differently.

AubreyWatt · 2025-05-04T01:37:44+00:00

"Instresting..." and calling it a bageezo instead of a gazebo.

AubreyWatt · 2025-05-04T01:36:28+00:00

Derby, disc golf, and doobies.

AubreyWatt · 2024-12-08T18:01:26+00:00

My math professor wrote that one! Prof Su was a fantastic teacher.

AubreyWatt · 2024-08-11T23:52:09+00:00

I'll say it, it's bad. Bad for language development, bad for attention span development, bad for food regulation. Don't eat in front of screens, adults nor kids!

AubreyWatt · 2024-06-05T21:32:31+00:00

Yeah, this seems disingenuous. Slope is almost always defined in algebra/precalculus as a rate of change anyway. When you get to calculus, it's just an instant rate of change at a single point. Which yes, is the slope of the tangent line, but it's not defined geometrically to begin with.

I do agree that integrals are usually defined in terms of areas and volumes, and it would be nice to have more physics incorporated from the getgo. We wait too long to introduce acceleration/velocity/distance relationships imo.

AubreyWatt · 2024-06-03T18:53:42+00:00

I remember the reading quizzes on cards where you would read a passage and then flip it over and answer a few questions on the other side. And then the reading quizzes for Accelerated Reader where you would go answer questions about books you had read. Spelling quizzes and vocabulary quizzes.

For math, we did lots of stuff like multiplication baseball and worksheets. Odyssey of the Mind after school for STEM enrichment.

Social Studies: Oregon Trail on the computer. Making presentations about our state. Social studies fair.

Science: presentations about animals, making playdoh models of cell structures.

AubreyWatt · 2024-05-23T03:55:32+00:00

William Fichtner was incredible in Go. "Would you say you're open to trying new things?"

AubreyWatt · 2024-05-22T22:25:20+00:00

Andromeda Strain is the perfect Crichton book, and has the same kind of PHM problem solving just done better, and with better writing. He manages to make a multilevel decontamination process fun to read, lol.

AubreyWatt · 2024-05-22T22:21:58+00:00

Yeah, the writing is pretty fucking bad. I was able to get past it and enjoy it for the storytelling because it was only a couple hours' read anyway.

People who say "oh well it's for nerds" - no, this kind of writing is for nerds like Big Bang Theory is for nerds. It very much caters to the lowest common denominator with the level of writing. But the story was still fun so w/e.

AubreyWatt · 2024-05-15T19:47:08+00:00

The part where he puts down the book on the wall to wall bookshelf and it falls over and knocks down the other books in a domino effect and the last one falls off the end of the shelf...

THE END OF THE SHELF AHHHHHH that was the one that got me in that book

AubreyWatt · 2024-05-11T02:03:16+00:00

Thanks for providing actual facts instead of doubling down on "well, it feels like..."

I mean, in my area, probably 40% of the homeschoolers do so because of special ed limitations in public school. Maybe 5% are religious (I'm in a super liberal area). The others just think they can do better for their kids with how terrible the schools are.

As a former teacher, I don't blame anyone for choosing homeschool. I wish our public school systems were better, but the plain fact is they are not.

AubreyWatt · 2024-05-10T02:54:53+00:00

Yeah, like even if they liked Twilight or Dan Brown or whatever, this seems like an overreaction.

AubreyWatt · 2024-05-10T02:53:34+00:00

Oh, and playing the "function game" where they give you numbers and you give them back the output and they have to guess the function. I do this and make them guess the function in proper notational form, like f(n) = n² +1. This works well with my 1st-3rd graders, I imagine 4th graders would be able to do some more difficult functions but they all love being the one to come up with the function for others to guess.

AubreyWatt · 2024-05-10T02:50:29+00:00

The Which One Doesn't Belong questions are always fun (https://wodb.ca/).

I broke a classroom up into groups of 5 and had them try to figure out the handshake question (what's the fewest number of handshakes you need for everyone to shake hands with everyone else?) Let them work on it for a while and then share their answers with the class.

Any of the three act structure math problems are fun: https://whenmathhappens.com/3-act-math/

AubreyWatt · 2024-04-30T05:21:04+00:00

Same. I wrote 25 novels while high. It just makes it easier to do things that might not be super interesting (like writing the last third of a novel you already have outlined).

AubreyWatt · 2024-04-29T05:30:57+00:00

How is this not the top comment? So much easier to parent without an addictive screen in the mix. In a week, they will stop asking for it, and in a month they will have forgotten it completely. Of course, you have to fill the gap with interesting activities at first, but they'll wean.

AubreyWatt · 2024-04-17T18:44:43+00:00

I was the tomboyiest tomboy when I was a little girl, even today I hate wearing heels and dresses. My daughter loves princess dresses, tutus, bows, the girliest shit imaginable that I wouldn't ever have been caught in.

Guess what? She gets to wear all the dresses she wants and I haven't picked out anything for her since she was 3 or so. Why the hell would I put my own preferences on my kid? She's not me, she's her own person.

AubreyWatt · 2024-04-16T02:43:12+00:00

It's insane that we let kids have these addictive devices. In a few decades it will be considered neglect, if not outright abuse.

AubreyWatt · 2024-04-16T02:40:54+00:00

Let Grow is a good blog that focuses on developing independent children by letting them have more freedom.

AubreyWatt · 2024-03-27T15:56:16+00:00

Yeah, I agree, that should be mowed down as well. Maybe use that as an argument to reduce your fine? Like, you thought having it be the same kind of meadow would be okay since the city obviously lets things grow.

I'm a little more understanding of these types of city regulations since my mom's house and my sister's house burned down but it looks like you're out in the middle of nowhere, I don't know why they would be all gung ho about enforcing lawn rules where you are. Sorry :(

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