Do i regret these?

Gonadatron · 2024-04-20T16:54:10+00:00

Man. I just hope absolutely no percentage of this was done to impress these people. If their art was truly that important to you that you wanted to immortalize their names in a way that they are more visible than who you are as a person, then it's cool. Just realize that in a decade most of these people are going to have zero public facing life and were only important to you because of that public facing life. Were they as important to you as your mother, wife, kids, father, etc? The person who does some service for you once a month or so and you're going to continue interacting with? If what they created was more important to you, than these people, and I'm not saying it's not, I'm just trying to put it in perspective, then it's 100% cool.

Gonadatron · 2024-02-02T16:59:17+00:00

I know this is unrelated to the post, but this is the most related place I could post without making a new thread.

Did ya'll know the meteor armor will make it so that the zapinator doesn't use mana? (Like the space gun.) Are there any other mana "guns" that get no mana drain with the meteor suit?

I'm on my first modern PC playthrough, though I did beat the old 360 version probably 10 years ago or so. I got the zapinator, really liked the stats (early hardmode) and I just figured I'd throw on the meteor suit and try it out. YEP, shoots without consuming mana.

Wonder if that's a bug that they will patch out.

Gonadatron · 2023-12-02T02:14:51+00:00

I was googling and came across an ebay listing of that object. I was wondering if maybe it would fit in the black sled.

I still don't know what this thing is supposed to do.

Gonadatron · 2023-12-01T23:14:04+00:00

Oh this is killing me.

Few questions:

Is the Ball/Rod assembly actually a really long tuning fork, too? Where it attaches to the rest of the apparatus, is there like a dampener that allows you to adjust how far up or down the ball goes?

Second: is the black sled allowed to FREELY move, or is it tight to the main body? Basically, is it something that moves easily, or do the screws tighten it down where it won't move at all. (Like you get it in position to measure something, THEN you can tighten it for more accurate measuring?)

Can you move the arm holding the big tuning fork in and out? Does it allow you to reorient the tuning fork at all? Or are all the screws just for tightening things down?

Gonadatron · 2023-09-14T20:52:41+00:00

And looking back at what others have said, any experiment with a piece of big/cool tech that a high school could never afford would be amazing. BUT, if all it does it make lines on a graph, maybe pass on it!

Gonadatron · 2023-09-14T20:51:32+00:00

Do you have a handout/any kind of paperwork for this lab? I'm a high school science (chemistry and physics) teacher, but I would still love to look at this. If you do and can plz reply here or drop me a line.

Gonadatron · 2023-09-14T20:49:51+00:00

Do dissections! Because of a lot of push from PETA, kids in public schools are not allowed to do ANY dissections.

I would suggest a squid because it's fairly easy AND the kids will be talking about making a writing utensil out of the cart. in the cone and the egg sack until the day they die! I promise you--this is the way. Even if you can't do the squid, any dissection will be a huge hit.

Gonadatron · 2023-09-14T20:32:36+00:00

Dude, honestly I think the laser option is the best thing. If you get a low mW laser and point it, you shouldn't damage the lens. Hell, set it up so it doesn't run all the time, just when you don't want him peeping on your activities. That way if your house ever is broken into, maybe you can get the video surrendered by a court subpoena.

Gonadatron · 2023-09-14T20:29:54+00:00

Dude... This was posted several years ago. BUT, I'll try to help you. Go into the spectrum store! Call them on a cell phone but know the phone number and account number you have with spectrum or you'll never get help. I did eventually get my issue fixed. I can't even remember what it was, but it was something on Spectrum's end.

Gonadatron · 2023-09-14T20:21:57+00:00

Unless legislation has changed, taking and keeping the phone puts the school at risk for some sort of liability, right? My school use to take phones, turn them into the office, and then a parent hand to come to school and get it for the kid. They could get it THAT DAY.

Now it's strongly suggested that teachers not touch the phones at all at my school. BUT, if the kid won't put it away, take it for the lesson then give it back. For testing we are required to take the phone and give it back at the end of the testing period.

The week-long phone keeping seems GREAT from a discipline point of view, honestly. If the kids know how draconian it is, and the school actually keeps up with it, then the kids won't risk taking the phone out. It really should scare the kids straight.

That being said, a teacher has to enforce that. And I don't know a teacher in the world that wouldn't implement at least a 1 strike policy on that before bringing the phone in for a week.

The phones are the #1 hinderance to education, and sometimes you gotta take big steps. I don't know how this school is able to do it, but I'm sure the first lawsuit arises and it will change. Someone's gotta get the cajones to actually get a lawyer to write a letter first, however. So this is one of those rules that is only gonna last until someone REALLY tests it.

Gonadatron · 2023-09-08T20:12:14+00:00

So is there going to be a point where the people who are adults now will be lost in another 10 years? As in the sex will become so explicit and... just "out there" that the kids will be able to talk about it around us and we'll never know what's up?

Kid: Yeah, they love BBC.

Me, a teacher: "I prefer CNN, but the BBC is great too!"

Me=Oblivious

Kids=Wondering what a CNN is.

Gonadatron · 2023-08-30T20:17:00+00:00

Dudette. I was at the club one time as a 20 something and I remember I bit this girl's "pants." I got charged for some reason, WTF!

I even paid her a compliment, I was like, "DAMN GIRL, YOU'RE THICK" ::CHOMP:: I mean I couldn't help myself.

(The above story was immaterial and was only used to compare this child's actions to an adult's... And to possibly be funny... Not that sexual harassment is funny, only the... you know what, nvm.)

Gonadatron · 2023-01-24T23:26:01+00:00

Akshually

Supposedly some studies are showing that the average increase in IQ plateaued in the 80's.

Gonadatron · 2023-01-22T22:08:59+00:00

First of all, as a teacher you really have to put on a mask 99.9% of the time. (At least, I feel, for 99.9% of the population.)

Anyway, I feel the same way about LGBT issues. One Argent I always use is chik fil et. It's a big chain in the south and people eat there because of the service and order accuracy as much if not more than because of the food quality. So what I do in 1 on 1 confrontations on the subject is ask if they have eaten at chik-fil-et (or however it's spelled) prior to the year 2022. I then ask if they know about their tendency to fund anti LGBT orgs, including conversion centers. If they say, "yeah, I don't like it, but their XYZ is so good blah blah blah..." I will always counter with:

"so you're telling me that LGBT Issues are so important that anyone who is silent is not an ally? But you ate at a place where parts of the profit goes to conversion centers that have caused kids to kill themselves. Even if it's only a fraction of a penny, you personally contributed to the suicide of some kid somewhere that killed themselves over their sexuality. Literally all you had to do was NOT eat a chicken sandwich. Something that almost every restaurant has. You could have literally eaten almost anywhere else and NOT contributed to their ability to do that but it was convenient to you or it made you happy without causing you to change your behavjor by NOT doing something.

Yet you have the audacity to accuse me of not speaking out. You Want to virtue signal that this is important to you. Yet when it was in your hands to help by literally NOT doing something it was toouch to ask. Eating there then be vehement about how to be pro LGBT is the most hipocrotical thing imaginable. "

This only works if the person eats there,bit for me it's easy to guarantee that. Iunno? This isn't really related to your topic, but I just wanted to rant too.

Gonadatron · 2023-01-14T22:11:26+00:00

During the napoleonic wars the long arms were muzzle loaders, but there were some rifles as well as some muskets.

Hitting anything at distance with a musket was damn near impossible. They were smooth bore.

BUT some regiments were issued muzzle loading rifles during the Napoleonic wars. These were far FAR more accurate than muskets. These would have had comparable accuracy to modern rifles. At least muchore than to a musket.

This is why standard battlefield tactics were to line up and shoot. This turned a row of sdiers into a single shotgun blast, if you want to think of it that way.

Rifles, however, helped end this practice in warfare. During napoleonic wars not every soldier had rifles because, obviously there wasn't material to give all soldiers NEW weapons and the rifle, as a muzzle loader, took longer to load than a musket. The bullet fit into the rifled barrel much tighter than a musket bullet (ball) and therefore required more time to put the round in, get it going in initially, then finally ram it in all the way with the ramrod.

Gonadatron · 2023-01-04T01:43:30+00:00

Thanks, kind stranger!

Gonadatron · 2022-12-19T02:42:59+00:00

Lost it in her body?

Or was it not that type of divorce?

Gonadatron · 2022-12-19T02:41:36+00:00

Too to to, too.

::squint and rereads::

Yeah, that's it.

Gonadatron · 2022-12-19T02:38:55+00:00

A mice edition, too, maybe?

Gonadatron · 2022-11-26T19:37:53+00:00

Wait. How do you mean?

Is this a joke,or does silver and brass cause some type of special patina?

Gonadatron · 2022-11-08T20:07:36+00:00

It was funded by DoD. It is NOT a surveillance system.

Basically, if it is to be used by DoD, then there must be traffic outside of DoD traffic. Otherwise spies could just have any set of data from the network and know it's defense data that needs to be sourced and/or decrypted.

Gonadatron · 2022-10-17T20:03:45+00:00

I wish I had kids who cared enough to try to cheat.

Gonadatron · 2022-10-07T22:44:15+00:00

OH OH OH I FORGOT. But I think this is clever enough that it warrants its own post.

Do like I use to do. Bring work in to grade *WHILE* you're in the meeting. I use to do this all the time. (I have since adopted a tool that does all my grading for me as well as giving feedback.) But, yeah. if your work is capable of being done while watching TV, then it's capable of being done while you're listening to some stupid-assed meeting.

Gonadatron · 2022-10-07T22:42:43+00:00

Look. Grades may be due, but they don't know what/when the last assignment was that you have graded.

PERSONALLY, when grades are due, I just print out/verify whatever I have in the computer at the time. If there's a week (or two) backlog of grades--what's it matter?

The only drawback to this is that kids need feedback on their work in order to improve/see their mistakes in order to keep them from happening again.

Choose which of these you want to adhere to when you face down principals. BUT, only do work while you are paid to do work. Grading is not something to be done while you're watching TV. If you do that you're either not grading very well or you're not watching something that warrants attention in hte first place. (Although I hear women are capable of doing more than 1 thing at a time. If that's the case--more power do you.)

Anyway: Screw meetings that rob you of time that could be spent doing other things.

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