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On my way to lunch today, the brakes on my car failed. Luckily I was already turning into the parking lot and not going very fast, and I did have a little braking ability still, so I was able to stop my car. A friend of mine that I was eating with took a quick look underneath and found a puddle of brake fluid by one of the rear wheels, so I guess my brake line broke. I had to call AAA and they sent a truck to pick it up and take it to my automotive shop. I'll talk to them on Monday and find out what exactly happened.
Check your list of enemies and see which ones you haven't squared off with in a while. They can be so needy sometimes.
Glad things didn't turn out worse.
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So as I was studying the Germanic Soundshifts when I came across the Great Vowelshift. The soundshifts were straightforward enough, just have to memorize some stuff.
But… the Great Vowelshift is like "It's not a simple change, the sounds moved up in the mouth and then stuff happened"
Screw this, I don't want phonetics nor phonology, I want morphology at least :( Or pragmatics!
Jast omegoni thi truabli wi cuald hevi of e Griet Vuwil Shoft heppinid on Inglosh. Wi'd ell bi lust, saddinly ot wuald siim loki wi wiri ell spiekong enuthir lengaegi, ur hed rielly hievy eccints ur sumithong XD
Un thi broght sodi, thet's nivir guong tu heppin, su wi cen ell rilex end…weot, why eri yua luukong et mi loki thet?
moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon
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^Ot tuuk mi e cuapli trois tu ried thos. XD
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^Ot tuuk mi e cuapli trois tu ried thos. XD
O chietid biceasi O fogarid ot wes iesoir tu wroti e smell scropt tu du thi wurk fur mi then du ot mysilf, ispicoelly of O wes guong tu typi lungir siqaincis thet cuald git cunfasong pritty qaockly!
moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon
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O chietid biceasi O fogarid ot wes iesoir tu wroti e smell scropt tu du thi wurk fur mi then du ot mysilf, ispicoelly of O wes guong tu typi lungir siqaincis thet cuald git cunfasong pritty qaockly!
Will thet os e pritty swiit fietari thiri. O wundir whet cen ot bi asid fur. Uthir then holeroty end cunfasoun uf cuarsi!
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Thos cuald bi e niw lengaegi on otsilf!
Or at least a simple code language for writing down personal notes.
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Still don't get Tinder. It's kinda weird, some of the people are like really forceful onto you (Goddamn, you can wait for "your cup of coffee, you know?) and other are like shy and wait for you to make the first move. I'm guessing i will end up going out with someone in it out of sheer curiosity. I just hope i don't get ultra-murdered or something like that.
And oh, Tinder is less complicated than my actual love-life. Sigh.
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LIL! Yae goys ura crockang mo ip.
B-bet wha uro yei loovang sami "y" vewils is as, Prynto ind Nylos??
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We've been completely neglecting our garden, but finally decided to go out and weed a little this morning. Even though it looked like a jungle out there, it cleaned up really nicely and the actual plants are doing much better than I thought they would be. Going to have tons of fresh things to cook with this summer, so I'm getting pretty psyched.
I'm honestly surprised that everything has been going so smoothly, since I really only just started gardening a couple years ago (Haha, maybe it's just that easy to do in San Diego). It's a time consuming and tiring hobby, but it's extremely rewarding at the same time.
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I'm guessing i will end up going out with someone in it out of sheer curiosity. I just hope i don't get ultra-murdered or something like that.
Watch out for those ultra-murderers, now. Better carry a mega-taser for giga-protection.
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Watch out for those ultra-murderers, now. Better carry a mega-taser for giga-protection.
Oh you and your Deca Puns.
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Oh you and your Deca Puns.
If you and your date get bored, you can always bring a decacards.
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LIL! Yae goys ura crockang mo ip.
B-bet wha uro yei loovang sami "y" vewils is as, Prynto ind Nylos??
Because it makes writing that script a lot more annoying, because 'y' is a consonant more often than it is a vowel and you wouldn't want to shift it as a consonant else you start getting into cypher territory.
It's not as if the vowels we have match up exact vowel sounds anyway.
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Because it makes writing that script a lot more annoying, because 'y' is a consonant more often than it is a vowel and you wouldn't want to shift it as a consonant else you start getting into cypher territory.
It's not as if the vowels we have match up exact vowel sounds anyway.
Nivar tryst i cumpotyr te da u porsin's jib, y giuss…
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Anglash, mitharfeckors! Du yie spaek ut?
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If you and your date get bored, you can always bring a decacards.
Dude.
Completely unrelated.
But your avatar.
It's mad cool.Didn't see that second variation coming at all.
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Anglash, mitharfeckors! Du yie spaek ut?
http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/8289/juleswinffieldlarge2960.jpg
Sey 'whut' ugien. Sey 'whut' ugien, A deri yuo, A duabli deri yuo mitharfeckor, sey 'whut' una mira Geddimn tymi!
Dude.
Completely unrelated.
But your avatar.
It's mad cool.Didn't see that second variation coming at all.
Thanks! :) Luigi FTW
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O chietid biceasi O fogarid ot wes iesoir tu wroti e smell scropt tu du thi wurk fur mi then du ot mysilf, ispicoelly of O wes guong tu typi lungir siqaincis thet cuald git cunfasong pritty qaockly!
I approve of this.
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Sey 'whut' ugien. Sey 'whut' ugien, A deri yuo, A duabli deri yuo mitharfeckor, sey whut una mira Geddimn tymi!
Whut?
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Posting from a train on its way to Moscow. I swear, every place in this country has had WiFi except for the place we stayed in in St. Petersburg.
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Tomorrow begins finals week. But I got another class I kinda wanted for my schedule and I'm getting closer to getting a Wii U (May 30th). The final hurdle, it would seem.
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Sigh if I try to register to vote now, it won't get done in time for the election, will it?
What's the chance I forget until this late next year too, and miss the general election :/
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Sigh if I try to register to vote now, it won't get done in time for the election, will it?
What's the chance I forget until this late next year too, and miss the general election :/
Then just register now regardless? XD
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Then just register now regardless? XD
Yeah I'll probably do that. But effort …
I think I'll vote by post next year, for where I actually live rather than where I study. Although that will require forward planning :p
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I don't know how it works over there but here I registered as an "absentee voter." They just always mail me my ballot and I never have to actually go to a polling place to vote.
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Good news = No more fleas !!! My dogs are safe !!!
Meh news = I ate at McDonalds a "McBrazil" (Due to the FIFA World Cup, McDonald´s made 7 different types of sandwiches, each one representing a World Cup winner + USA).
Kinda bad news = Due to a hail storm, I was stuck inside a mall, and the fact that I'm claustrophobic made the situation worst.Job ? I started working in the research area. so far, no weird requests…well, only one: a girl asked me about poems based on mangas, I said she could read some of Tite Kubo´s poems.:ninja:
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I finally have my old bike back! My dad put new tires on it (well, the tires from my sister's bike I damaged back in October ^^;), and I decided to ride it to Pittsford and back like old times. It was a good day for it, too. Not too hot, not too cold; just right with sunny skies.
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Final #1 out today's 3 finals is done. Calculus. Wasn't too bad actually, I had no idea how to do this one problem, but I did a bonus one. Almost ran out of time, heheheh. I found out I got an 89.5 on the last exam, so….if I get an 85 or up on the final, I'll certainly get an A for the course.
Next up is a small exam for my library class in....err, a half hour. Better get moving.
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Final #1 out today's 3 finals is done. Calculus. Wasn't too bad actually, I had no idea how to do this one problem, but I did a bonus one. Almost ran out of time, heheheh. I found out I got an 89.5 on the last exam, so….if I get an 85 or up on the final, I'll certainly get an A for the course.
Next up is a small exam for my library class in....err, a half hour. Better get moving.
Is the final going to be graded on a curve? As in, does the letter grade corresponding to your point total at all depend on the class's performance distribution? Because if there's one thing I can't stand, it's professors who don't realize there's no such thing as a "bonus" question when this is true (which was the case in ALL of my technical courses). A bonus question is supposed to be a question that isn't required and can only help your grade. But if everyone in the class other than you did the bonus question, and it raised the average score, then not having done it is damn well going to lower your grade. Ugh. Sorry for the rant. This just brought back memories XD
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one final left for the day, and it's chemistry. Thankfully it starts at 4.
Is the final going to be graded on a curve? As in, does the letter grade corresponding to your point total at all depend on the class's performance distribution? Because if there's one thing I can't stand, it's professors who don't realize there's no such thing as a "bonus" question when this is true (which was the case in ALL of my technical courses). A bonus question is supposed to be a question that isn't required and can only help your grade. But if everyone in the class other than you did the bonus question, and it raised the average score, then not having done it is damn well going to lower your grade. Ugh. Sorry for the rant. This just brought back memories XD
ha, no worries.
He did mention something about a curve if the class average isn't too high, but considering that I've gotten curve points and still got the bonus ones on the last tests, I assume it'll be concurrent.
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The idea of bonus questions on an exam seems odd to me.
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Talked to my mechanic today. Turns out it wasn't a brake line problem, but rather a faulty caliper. Nonetheless, that led to a leak in the system, thus depressurizing it and leaving me with no brakes. It's fixed now, though I was at work all day and didn't have time to pick it up. I'll go get it in the morning.
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The idea of bonus questions on an exam seems odd to me.
Why? It has never been a strange concept to me, as I've seen it happen all the time in school growing up. It just doesn't work on a curved exam.
Talked to my mechanic today. Turns out it wasn't a brake line problem, but rather a faulty caliper. Nonetheless, that led to a leak in the system, thus depressurizing it and leaving me with no brakes. It's fixed now, though I was at work all day and didn't have time to pick it up. I'll go get it in the morning.
WTF, how do you screw up a caliper so badly that it causes your entire system to bleed out?
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Why? It has never been a strange concept to me, as I've seen it happen all the time in school growing up. It just doesn't work on a curved exam.
I am used to these though :p So I never got them. So they seem odd.
And surely an exam should test what it's meant to test and not more or less. So why would you ever end up setting a bonus question?
For some reason, when I read "curved exam," I imagined an exam paper … which was curvy :p
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I am used to these though :p So I never got them. So they seem odd.
And surely an exam should test what it's meant to test and not more or less. So why would you ever end up setting a bonus question?
For some reason, when I read "curved exam," I imagined an exam paper … which was curvy :p
As I said, that's how all of my technical exams worked at the university. But never had my courses been curved before that. The concept of trying to normalize grade distributions before university is kind of disturbing to me, actually.
And why should it be so strange to reward especially bright students by including optional question(s) that are much tougher or different in some way? Or just generally an opportunity for students to show some extra knowledge and get some extra points. The notion of a perfectly designed exam that perfectly reflects one's ability is silly.
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As I said, that's how all of my technical exams worked at the university. But never had my courses been curved before that. The concept of trying to normalize grade distributions before university is kind of disturbing to me, actually.
And why should it be so strange to reward especially bright students by including optional question(s) that are much tougher or different in some way? Or just generally an opportunity for students to show some extra knowledge and get some extra points. The notion of a perfectly designed exam that perfectly reflects one's ability is silly.
Well, in any case, you will have candidates who will struggle with some normal questions and be okay at others, to different extents. Then you will have some proportion (the extent of which is determined by the difficulty of the exam) who won't struggle so much unless you test them further. Like with a bonus question. But then that bonus question may as well just be a normal question, right? there's no difference, except that … it's called a "bonus." Or am I missing something really straightforward?
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You are missing something really straightforward. If you don't answer a bonus question, you don't lose points. You don't punish "normal" people for missing the hard question. In other words, a perfect score is 100, but if you answer the bonus question you'll get 110 or whatever.
But again, it could simply be an extra question, not necessarily harder, just different. Another opportunity for points basically. A really common case that happened to me a lot is the teacher going "I wrote this test but then I realized it's probably too long, so the last two questions are optional." It rewards the kids who know their stuff and can make it all the way through, or the ones who maybe struggle on one question but can abandon it and show their knowledge on the optional part.
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Spent the day on driving practice and nerding down on food safety.
That and planning a meal for mothers day. I was thinking of making a tomato soup with herbs and mozarella for a starter, and a big hearty stew out of oxtail and root vegetables for the main. With some hazelnut and cocoa truffles as kind of a light dessert.
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Today I had the randomest asthma attack out of nothing, and then a thunderstorm immediately followed. Weird, I wonder if changes in atmosphere affect asthmatics?
In other news: Omg I am so over having long hair. This week I need to get a haircut with probably 10 inches cut. I measured, longest strands from my roots is 23 inches. Guys/girls who have short cuts are damn lucky to be able to have short hair suit them, you don't know what it's like to haul around probably like half a pound of hair on your head in the name of FASHIONNN.
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Spent the day on driving practice and nerding down on food safety.
That and planning a meal for mothers day. I was thinking of making a tomato soup with herbs and mozarella for a starter, and a big hearty stew out of oxtail and root vegetables for the main. With some hazelnut and cocoa truffles as kind of a light dessert.
You gotta take photos of that.
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You are missing something really straightforward. If you don't answer a bonus question, you don't lose points. You don't punish "normal" people for missing the hard question. In other words, a perfect score is 100, but if you answer the bonus question you'll get 110 or whatever.
But if there are 110 marks available, 100 isn't a perfect score :|
I don't think I will ever get my head around this lol.
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But if there are 110 marks available, 100 isn't a perfect score :|
I don't think I will ever get my head around this lol.
It's… not complicated... I don't get why you're confused. It's a perfect score from the perspective of grading. Getting a 110/100 is the same as 100/100 for that purpose.
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Got involved in an extremely stimulating debate with a 14 year old student off mine from Iran about the treatment of women in her homeland. It's amazing to be a teacher and learn from your students every once in a while. Makes me appreciate the younger generation so much more.
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My life's kinda leading me in the direction of going to bars often at night. I have fun but I'm not sure if I like this lol. Some people are really douchey in that scene, making drama for the sake of it or to fill a void. The person I go with and her girlfriend are really cool though and I sync with their eclectic flow well, so.
I'll ride on this wave a while. See what happens.
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My poor precious grandpa bought tickets for a six-day trip to Malta for two in September, thinking that my grandma who is badly demented and whom the doctors have instructed to be kept active could cheer up from something like that. He just didn't remember to stop to consider the fact that her pelvis has fractured twice and that the surgeries have made it practically impossible for her to walk at all.
So instead of just returning the tickets for the full price, which he could have still done, he asked me whether I would be willing to join him. So I guess I just lucked out on a free Mediterranean holiday. e_e
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Got involved in an extremely stimulating debate with a 14 year old student off mine from Iran about the treatment of women in her homeland. It's amazing to be a teacher and learn from your students every once in a while. Makes me appreciate the younger generation so much more.
oh that's neat!! I wrote a paper on Iranian media last quarter and focused a section on Iranian women. Some of the stuff I read was really rough, but you really have to admire the tenacity of both Iranian women and the filmmakers there.
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oh that's neat!! I wrote a paper on Iranian media last quarter and focused a section on Iranian women. Some of the stuff I read was really rough, but you really have to admire the tenacity of both Iranian women and the filmmakers there.
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@Monkey:
ahhh that's so beautiful to see!!
The hijab is such a facinating subject of discussion. In Iran, it's a subject of control and conservatism, in America, it's a sign of culture and rebellion. Should it be culture or a fashion? i really hope we can all get to a place one day where we see anybody wearing one (or not wearing one) and simply accept it without any kind of weird goofy backlash
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Today was meh. I went to school, bought some food from costco, and then created an account on here.
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ahhh that's so beautiful to see!!
The hijab is such a facinating subject of discussion. In Iran, it's a subject of control and conservatism, in America, it's a sign of culture and rebellion. Should it be culture or a fashion? i really hope we can all get to a place one day where we see anybody wearing one (or not wearing one) and simply accept it without any kind of weird goofy backlash
I was going to write "Those places exist," but then I suppose you mean a time when everyone would be like that.
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Few people are going to be completely cool with it as long as the stigma caused by the "women must wear this to be protected from men who can't control themselves" logic is in any way still involved, though, which is slightly problematic.
I absolutely love the hijabs that some muslim women wear over here because they can be incredibly pretty and nice-looking garments, but I cannot help cringing whenever the fundamentalist reasoning comes up. It's kind of sad in and of itself because so many people immediately associate that same feeling with the entire religion and culture, without realizing that to many women who choose to wear it it's just a symbol of their identity as muslims and nothing else.
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