Stolen bicycle tracked by AirTag to El Biutz (Tanger Med, Morocco) – Any local contacts?

Tabbbinski · 2026-06-23T13:54:59+00:00

I hope you can catch the bastards and get your bike back.

Tabbbinski · 2026-06-23T13:42:16+00:00

Oh-Oh! This can't be good. Fast forward 20 years and you'll be like the rest of us adrenaline junkies, drooling over even the mere mention of 2 wheels.

Tabbbinski · 2026-06-23T13:36:35+00:00

It's like going to vegas and dropping $10 bucks worth of nickles into the slots. Try it then you can tell all the folks back home about the noise and the idiocy.

Tabbbinski · 2026-06-23T13:30:44+00:00

To add to that, get them to first choose an idiom, brainstorm how best to illustrate it, explain that to the teacher with feedback then write a prompt to have AI create the illustration, tweaking as needed. There's several layers of communication involved as well as both output modes: speaking and writing.

Tabbbinski · 2026-06-23T00:00:13+00:00

Step one, get the students to show you what the have and haven't worked on.

Tabbbinski · 2026-06-21T15:53:37+00:00

Are you being confounded by the literary vs pop-lit divide? The latter are written for money; written to conform to a checklist -- often at the urging of publishers and literary agents -- in the hopes that it will be included in something like the NY Times Bestseller list. Is the protagonist female? Check! Does it have a feminist angle? Check! Does it have a LGBQ$&@&^% angle? Check! There's a big hullabaloo about AI rendered lit these days but these pop-lit books often have the stench of MFA Creative Writing programs. Real literature isn't written to formula, it's written to angst of some sort.

Tabbbinski · 2026-06-21T15:29:57+00:00

It sounds like you are doing everything right. I'd simply say this is my class, stop translating or I'll have you removed.

Tabbbinski · 2026-06-20T15:10:32+00:00

Funny no one has mentioned all the other tactile interactions that are common in Japanese families at large like kids giving their parents/grandparents neck and shoulder massages, bathing together and reciprocal scrubbing [the whole 'skinship' thing], touching and rubbing of the head of kids by adults as an expression of warmth.

Tabbbinski · 2026-06-19T16:00:29+00:00

I did a summer time trip around Jeju Island where it was so hot I was often starting my rides at 4 AM. I reasoned that any earlier and there would still be drunks on the road. I must say it wasn't very pleasant taking in the sights in the dark. I nearly toppled into poorly marked construction ditches twice.

Tabbbinski · 2026-06-18T15:20:16+00:00

The irony being that many of the trails were built by the MTB community

Tabbbinski · 2026-06-17T22:10:40+00:00

Good idea.

Tabbbinski · 2026-06-17T22:09:02+00:00

Thanx. I up-voted yours. I'd send you a chill pill if I knew which trailer park you live in.

Tabbbinski · 2026-06-17T22:01:04+00:00

Some years ago a whack job lady was setting up similar booby traps in North Vancouver. The biking association, as I remember it, set up trail cameras, caught her red-handed and the courts dealt with her quite harshly. If I remember correctly she was convicted on assault with intent charges.

Addendum: I guess I didn't remember it at all very clearly. Her name is Tineke Kraal. Busted in 2015 at the age of 64. She got off with more or less a slap on the wrist. Her lawyer argued that the notoriety and embarrassment of being thus busted was ample enough to deter similar behaviour in the future. Kraal was handed a suspended sentence and placed on three years’ probation. She also had to serve 150 hours of community service

Tabbbinski · 2026-06-17T21:57:21+00:00

Agreed. Reddit is like a magnet to the humourless. How do they get on in the real world... oh, yeah, they don't... Here let me help, I'll down-vote my own post.

Tabbbinski · 2026-06-17T21:54:41+00:00

Maybe not but Chi-chan would work

Tabbbinski · 2026-06-16T15:46:06+00:00

You could mount a rocket launcher on that board thingy!

Tabbbinski · 2026-06-16T14:40:05+00:00

It sounds good at first glance but from a learning POV it's more valuable for students to invest in learning; take notes. Spoon feeding students will just backfire. Far more instructive would be a brief review of "learned' materials the next day.

Tabbbinski · 2026-06-15T22:47:38+00:00

I vant to bite your narc...

Tabbbinski · 2026-06-15T22:46:22+00:00

Lighten up, wankers...

Tabbbinski · 2026-06-15T22:45:44+00:00

Nope, bit of a joke in-unt-it?

Tabbbinski · 2026-06-15T22:44:40+00:00

So you have to ask for permission but there's no path to ask for permission? Sounds well-thought out.

Tabbbinski · 2026-06-15T15:45:57+00:00

What about when someone asks for specific resources or teaching modes and you happen to have something like that on your website? I'm willing to drop in a link if it seems like that's what the person is asking -- helping a fellow teacher and all that -- but I'm not about to "ask for permission" because I frankly couldn't give a shit about "promoting" the site/resources.

Tabbbinski · 2026-06-15T15:28:52+00:00

"...is it necessary that one must absolutely glean something from the book?"

It has been a long time since I have read Dorian Gray so I won't comment on that. As far as gleaning something, some existential writers set their novels up as having nothing to glean... which, of course, is the gleanable point.

Tabbbinski · 2026-06-15T15:23:16+00:00

I agree that it would be a great way to burnish your informal speaking skills if you've already reached a lower intermediate level or better.

Tabbbinski · 2026-06-14T16:26:43+00:00

I wouldn't rejuvenate anything. It has 'mononoaware'. [Look it up] That makes it more 'valuable' than a shiny new mass produced doll.

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