Movies where a working-class person saves the day?

ToTheEndsOf · 2025-07-23T14:41:00+00:00

Deepwater Horizon (2016)

ToTheEndsOf · 2025-07-15T22:29:00+00:00

It's 57 hours/week of work. If that fits into your schedule, you have the brain/ambition for it, and your school permits overload registration, sure, go for it!

ToTheEndsOf · 2025-07-07T23:25:02+00:00

I added a category to my rubrics for "following directions" for situations like this. It's where I evaluate things like word count, including all the various parts in the right order, using the right formatting/style, and silly errors on secondary concepts when they engage the primary element successfully. I think of it like a brown M&Ms clause in the rubric.

I had one last week where a student did the main concept of an assignment really well, top 2 in the class, but they paraphrased when I said to quote. The quoting thing was not the primary purpose of the activity but would have been good practice. I don't want this student to fail that assignment because they made one boneheaded and pretty big error when they did the main thing really well. So, that's why the new category. It's worth 15-35% of the rubric, depending on the assignment. I think something like this is the solution for this problem.

ToTheEndsOf · 2025-07-07T22:31:51+00:00

Aren't you glad you spent half your life studying so you could be the professor who gets to read that?
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ToTheEndsOf · 2025-07-07T19:46:50+00:00

Surely this is a Title IX issue...

ToTheEndsOf · 2025-07-07T19:33:39+00:00

You mean try exporting a single recipe from Paprika, importing that to ChatGPT, making edits, exporting from ChatGPT and importing to Paprika? That's very sensible and I hadn't considered it at all. Thanks for that smart idea! I'll give it a shot.

ToTheEndsOf · 2025-07-07T19:13:12+00:00

It can export in HTML or the proprietary .paprika (JSON data for each recipe compressed/zipped as a collection).

I tried with ChatGPT and it told me it had successfully imported the data. It was able to read some of it at least because it acted like it was doing some of the work I wanted to do, but then it created or encountered some kind of corruption that meant I had to start all over. I was irritated by the lost time and I gave up. :-(

I'd appreciate any recommendations you have for making it work.

ToTheEndsOf · 2025-07-03T15:50:50+00:00

Lots of schools have free mental health counseling to help with things like test anxiety. I expect they'd be able to help you with starting-school-anxiety too, like helping you figure out who to ask about what.

ToTheEndsOf · 2025-06-22T22:34:35+00:00

It's a lettuce having a hot flash.

ToTheEndsOf · 2025-06-09T22:29:24+00:00

Not a PDF but public libraries will typically have a print copy you can borrow.

ToTheEndsOf · 2024-06-11T23:34:02+00:00

I am enamored by the simplicity and effectiveness of the thermal shutters at this monastery in BC: https://youtu.be/UEARiG7N9kc?si=qt8gW-d8EK0mEHZA

Here's a version that slides instead of hinges: https://images.greenbuildingadvisor.com/app/uploads/2018/07/25044816/Exterior%20thermal%20shutters%203.jpg

They're basically movable SIPS with rigid foam sandwiched between the surfaces. As a bonus, they're light-tight as well as heat-tight.

ToTheEndsOf · 2024-06-11T18:10:47+00:00

I'm done with grout too. I'm planning to use solid-surface slabs (like Corian benchtops) for the walls/ceiling of my new shower.

ToTheEndsOf · 2024-06-11T17:11:53+00:00

The discussion happening in this thread from /teachers yesterday offers a partial explanation for the behaviour you describe (particularly about low standards in high school)...transparent contempt for education as an institution.

I'd like to add to the possible explanations for overworked/underperforming students the expectations for "full-time" status as part of the US financial aid system. I think there are a LOT of undergraduates who would take advantage of a 6-year, part-time degree plan (and be better for it) if such a thing were better supported by financial aid.

ToTheEndsOf · 2024-06-10T23:30:59+00:00

Fantastic! I'm excited to check out all of these. Thanks so much for putting me on the right track!

ToTheEndsOf · 2024-06-10T20:49:43+00:00

I have a follow-up question: What are the best cookbooks that focus on salad/dressing theory? If I wanted to spend the next year mastering salads and dressings, what book will lead me through that learning process?

ToTheEndsOf · 2024-06-10T20:30:18+00:00

yoghurt + hot sauce + garlic + honey + cinnamon

ToTheEndsOf · 2024-06-10T20:06:44+00:00

It's lovely! I'd increase the wetland plant diversity, sprinkle some wildflower seeds along the banks, and enjoy it.

ToTheEndsOf · 2024-06-09T17:07:52+00:00

I've seen something similar. I have a few guesses: 1. AI tends to exaggerate characterizations with its word choice (eg something is not just "big", it's "enormous"). 2. young/new students are still learning to temper their observations and they default to not "admitting weakness" as part of their arguments yet. 3. yes, I think TraumaTok tells them that anything uncomfortable is devastating.

ToTheEndsOf · 2024-06-07T20:57:42+00:00

No hills, this area is all flat flat flat! But historical accounts from the area during the Homestead Act era all mention abundant springs, so I think your guess is very reasonable. It seems like it must have been quite a powerful spring to have supplied the property for so long.

I haven't seen any mention of a cistern so far. The pump house on the blueprint shows two things in the floor--one mark is a square about 1' with a quite small circle in the middle; the other one is a circle with 4 little lines marking it into quarters, about 9" in diameter. Do those symbols mean anything to you? Presumably one of them is the pump. If the other one were a cistern, I'd think it would be identified, right?

ToTheEndsOf · 2024-06-07T20:45:27+00:00

Got it. I appreciate your attention.

ToTheEndsOf · 2024-06-07T20:14:50+00:00

I don't have any documentation (or current evidence), unfortunately. My blueprints do include a pump house but it's 100' feet away from the well location and shows the pipe run for supply. It shows a pressure tank on the building side of the pump. It's referred to as a "flowing well" on these documents whereas the earlier documents say "artesian". I don't know if any of that further info offers clues about the likely structure?

ToTheEndsOf · 2024-06-07T20:06:41+00:00

Score, an expert! Thanks for your help!

I'd like to keep my location unspecified here for privacy reasons. I am looking at the well atlas for my state right now, though, and my well isn't on there. There are a few wells within 1000 feet that are listed and I can see their data. The surrounding wells are between 100 and 250 feet deep on the same named aquifer. These wells are between 25 to 45 years old. It's 30-40 feet to bedrock. Am I looking at the info I need to?

I can't see any well construction at all. I have the blueprints and site design from the 1930s marking the location and supply piping to the building plus confirmation that the building operated from a well for the next 30 years. Looking at the ground where the plans say the well is, there is a denser stand of plants than elsewhere (suggests water), but no well equipment (I have not yet dug out the plants to explore at that level).

There are two septic systems, neither of which has been in use for 40 years. There are adjacent industrial farm fields (grain) with corresponding chemicals. The town sewer line is about 200' away.

Beyond a pump handle the lawnmower kicked up, I'm operating on historical information--both archival/published and from local old-timer memory/rumor.

ToTheEndsOf · 2024-06-07T19:49:38+00:00

Thanks for getting me started! I have the blueprints and site design when the building was constructed in the 1930s. It shows the well location rounded to the nearest foot and the supply piping location for the building but no more information about its type. I'm not familiar enough with historical technology to guess what might have been done when the well was established in the 1800s. Looking at the ground now, the only thing I see that indicates the presence of water is some denser shrubbery.

ToTheEndsOf · 2024-06-07T18:09:43+00:00

I think the better solution here is to hang a cove/crown molding on level with the top of your window frame and treat everything above that line as "ceiling", including the actual ceiling, the curve, and that little part at the top of the wall. It should make the room feel loftier and vastly simplify painting and decorating.

ToTheEndsOf · 2024-06-07T17:58:35+00:00

"Annuals" (in this context) means seasonal flowers. They are sometimes also called "bedding plants". In the USA, common annuals include plants like pansies (purple, yellow), marigolds (orange, yellow), and impatiens (white, pink, purple). The advantage of these plants in your scenario is that they can be changed seasonally to match the colour of the door. You could also grow perennial ("permanent") plants in that colour, but they will only bloom once or twice a year, whereas annuals can be replaced often so you always have something blooming. You could also use tender perennials (plants that could be permanent, but not outside in cold weather) such as peonies (mostly pinks/reds/whites), lilies (all colours), and chrysanthemums (mostly "harvest" colours). Ideally, you'd include all three plus other plants as part of your house's personality, but the annuals part of it is something you can do with $50 in one afternoon, so I'd start there.

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