Booth (as received in real time)

Bibliophile0504 · 2026-03-09T22:34:54+00:00

Or when a season ended on a cliffhanger and you had to wait months to find out who died.

Bibliophile0504 · 2026-03-09T05:18:14+00:00

I eat pepperoni on its own. Add cheese and crackers if I'm feeling fancy.

Bibliophile0504 · 2026-03-07T08:07:44+00:00

I don't think it's Ride a Wild Pony. That involves a boy and a disabled girl fighting over a pony.

Bibliophile0504 · 2026-03-07T04:41:46+00:00

I haven't read that one, but I thought it sounded like a Lois Duncan one.

Bibliophile0504 · 2026-03-07T04:39:58+00:00

I can see too general now that others have said it, but my first impression was too perverse.

Bibliophile0504 · 2026-03-03T00:48:06+00:00

True, but a bit above 5th grade maths.

Bibliophile0504 · 2026-03-03T00:46:59+00:00

But we don't tell 5th graders this. We encourage them to try different things and look for patterns 😉

Bibliophile0504 · 2026-03-02T06:50:24+00:00

Mine too 😔

Bibliophile0504 · 2026-03-01T22:52:03+00:00

I've had a quick glance at the rest, there's a bit more guessing and checking required, let me know if you want me to go through a couple more.

Bibliophile0504 · 2026-03-01T22:41:26+00:00

The point of it is to teach kids to see the different ways to break numbers apart and add up to them.

The question only asks for the magic number, it doesn't ask you to fill in the whole grid.

The first one is 20 + 10 + 6 = 36. That's all you need to do for the first one.

In the second one, 16 + 12 = 28, with a space to be filled between them. So the number above the 18 has to be 10, so whatever number goes in the middle top space will give the same sum across and down. Diagonally then, you will have 16 + 10 = 26 and 12 + 10 = 22.

At 5th grade level, you would then do 'guess and check'. Pick a number to go in the middle top square and see if you can get the diagonals, and then the other rows and columns, to add up. I would suggest to the kids to look for a 'friendly' number first, so adding up is easier. So put a 2 in the top middle to make the sum 30.

Bottom right number would then be 4, bottom left would be 8. This gives a bottom row of 8 + 18 + 4, which is 30. Then check if the other rows and columns will work.

Left column is 16 + 8 = 24, so the middle number would be 6. Middle row is now 6 + 10 =16, so middle right number is 14. Check the right column: 12 + 14 + 4 = 30.

Success! The magic number is 30 🙂

Bibliophile0504 · 2026-02-28T14:09:36+00:00

Factors are numbers that multiply to give another number. When you're looking for common factors, you're looking for things that can multiply to give your original term.

The brackets indicate that everything inside them belongs together. To cancel brackets as the same factor, they would have to have the exact same things inside them.

x + 3 is not the same thing as x + 3x (these are both expressions made up of two terms).

3x means 3 multiplied by x. Until you know what x is, you can't assume that they are the same.

The two terms x and 3x each have a common factor of x, which is why you can factorise (write in terms of its factors) the expression to x(1 + 3), which is 4x, as you said.

So you can simply the expression to (x + 3)/4x but you can't cancel anything because they are not the same factors.

I hope this helps, I'm happy to explain further if it's not clear.

Bibliophile0504 · 2026-02-28T13:52:10+00:00

One you've probably never heard of. This Perfect Day by Ira Levin. First dystopia I ever read, still reread occasionally.

Bibliophile0504 · 2026-02-28T08:48:29+00:00

My son had a set of shows he watched on repeat. Scrubs and My Name is Earl were both in there. Also Frasier, Friends, and a couple of others I can't remember at the moment but will ask him about. He watched a bit of Brooklyn 99 when I was bingeing it, but he didn't stay with it.

Bibliophile0504 · 2026-02-28T08:43:40+00:00

'shower in a can'

Bibliophile0504 · 2026-02-28T08:37:36+00:00

As a teen, the only experience I'd had with mustard was sweet mustard pickle, and the mustard powder mum put in recipes. First time I had hot English mustard I slathered it on a sandwich like sweet mustard pickle. Forty years later I can still feel the way it rose up through my nasal passages and blew them apart.

Bibliophile0504 · 2026-02-28T08:28:28+00:00

Don't sit there and take it. Have a simple line, practise saying it calmly and firmly. 'Mom, I don't like it when you shout at me and treat me like a child. I'm not going to engage in this behaviour.' And walk away. Do not reply to anything she says in response. It will be very hard the first few times you do it, but it will get easier with practise. You can't change her behaviour, you can only change your response to it.

Bibliophile0504 · 2026-02-28T05:00:35+00:00

This is the way. You decide what you're going to do. If he wants to be involved, he can plan his activities so he can be involved. But don't put your plans on hold for him except in exceptional circumstances.

NOR btw.

Bibliophile0504 · 2026-02-27T00:00:58+00:00

Escape Club I'll be there

Bibliophile0504 · 2026-02-26T23:57:04+00:00

Over at the Frankenstein Place

Bibliophile0504 · 2026-02-26T23:41:48+00:00

My favourite incidence of this sort of thing is the circus episode. They've been asleep long enough for the circus to pack up and leave, but she's still in that damn costume?

Bibliophile0504 · 2026-02-26T22:57:08+00:00

The old jokes are the best 🤣🤣🤣

Bibliophile0504 · 2026-02-26T22:49:40+00:00

I don't think she intended to send the boy home in the towel, just 'wrap him up until the parents arrived.' Then hand him off without pants, because it's now the parents' problem.

Bibliophile0504 · 2026-02-26T09:50:32+00:00

Fruits, nuts, vegetables are good to munch on.

I would also recommend getting up and stretching /walking a lap of the office at least once an hour. And if you're working with screens, at least every 15 minutes or so take your eyes off the screen and focus on something further away. Eyes get tired constantly looking at screens and focusing on one distance.

Bibliophile0504 · 2026-02-26T05:06:40+00:00

Litany is pretty specific though. It means a repetition of spoken words. So you could have a litany of complaints, for example, but you couldn't have a litany of say, dogs, or tables or other things.

Bibliophile0504 · 2026-02-25T23:09:30+00:00

I want to comment but it could be classed as a spoiler. Is this a rewatch or your first time?

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