The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread!

[Shadow Wolf]

I wish I had real options for internet, rather than very unstable wireless DSL. It's that or dial-up (but I don't even have a land-line) or satellite which is just too expensive for the speeds it offers.

 

[ChristineES]

I wish they'd do away with DST. I felt like I was getting up at 5 am this morning and it was 6 am.

 

[BeckyRose1998]

Man you guys post a lot on here. I was gone 3 days and I had to look through 5 pages (;

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I have a job interview today. I really hope I get this one, as it is at a Game Exchange, which is a used-video game retailer that has everything from the NES up to the current generation of consoles.

A snippet of some of the geometry stuff I've been doing lately:

As you can see, it has to do with parallelism and proportion between polygons. Here's another:

And a circle.

There would have been a time when I wouldn't have understood a single thing on any one of those, and I wouldn't have even known how to start a problem or even what to look for. But now I can look at it and realize it's really not that hard at all as long you know the basic rules for geometry.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Actually what I have found odd, I have gotten through my math class this semester with no real problems, until we got to a problem that is figuring out how much a person would owe on their taxes.

Totally. It's all stuff that's covered in high school math. It's just that most schools don't do a good job of explaining how the math they're teaching is useful.

In my school the "college algebra" class I'm in has been mostly of what I was taught in high school. But instead of struggling with the subject, this time I'm confused as to why I struggled so hard with it the first time around. But this time, all three of my math teachers have been engineers and one was even a commercial pilot, so I'm being taught by people who have a very firm grasp of math themselves.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

I'm pretty sure that whatever you've seen or will see today, this will be the cutest thing you'll see all day - a red panda practicing his ninja skills on a pumpkin:

[youtube]7jWYUtQZhK0[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7jWYUtQZhK0#!

 

[BeckyRose1998]

Everybody makes mistakes, everybody has those days, everybody knows what I'm talking about, everybody gets that way! Nobody's perfect, I've got to work it! xD
Oh Hannah Montana..:O

 

[Renji]

"Anna Banana I love you a lot... Anna Banana baby, I love you a lot "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OcOiT_cmJ0
http://www.religiousforums.com/forum/www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OcOiT_cmJ0

 

[ChristineES]

My poor daughter BeckyRose1998 blew out her knee in PE class today. She wants me to write "I'm in pain!!" (whine, snivel)

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

My poor daughter BeckyRose1998 blew out her knee in PE class today. She wants me to write "I'm in pain!!" (whine, snivel)

That really sucks. I hope she's back up and around soon.

 

[dawny0826]

I'm pretty sure that whatever you've seen or will see today, this will be the cutest thing you'll see all day - a red panda practicing his ninja skills on a pumpkin:

[youtube]7jWYUtQZhK0[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7jWYUtQZhK0#!

Okay, that is cute. Looks like a super charged fuzzy cat-like thing. Those acrobatics are pretty darn impressive.

 

[dawny0826]

My poor daughter BeckyRose1998 blew out her knee in PE class today. She wants me to write "I'm in pain!!" (whine, snivel)

Poor thing. Hope she feels better soon.

 

[Renji]

Get well soon Becky..

 

[ChristineES]

Thanks guys, Becky is at the doctor now with her father.

 

[BeckyRose1998]

I strained my knee and I can't do PE for 2 weeks, I have to wear a knee brace and I have physical therapy. *sarcasm* This is gonna be great!

 

[rageoftyrael]

Well, unless you are a very physical gal, i can't imagine that it'll be that bad, lol.

 

[DreadFish]

For my non-religious friends, I thought I would share this

Are you tired of your DVD player trying to preach to you or calling you out for being non-religious?

 

[Draka]

Anyone else know how hard it is to keep a sick 5 y/o in bed? My son has a bad cold and an awful cough and scratchy throat. It's been getting progressively worse over the last 3 days so I'm trying to keep him bed bound today with plenty of fluids and rest. Unfortunately, his cough medicine seems to work so well that as soon as he realizes he's not coughing so badly he wants to pop out of bed and declare himself "better" and run outside to play. 5 y/o boys just do NOT want to spend the day in bed no matter how sick they are. It's like I'm punishing him by wanting to keep him in bed to get better.

 

[DreadFish]

Anyone else know how hard it is to keep a sick 5 y/o in bed? My son has a bad cold and an awful cough and scratchy throat. It's been getting progressively worse over the last 3 days so I'm trying to keep him bed bound today with plenty of fluids and rest. Unfortunately, his cough medicine seems to work so well that as soon as he realizes he's not coughing so badly he wants to pop out of bed and declare himself "better" and run outside to play. 5 y/o boys just do NOT want to spend the day in bed no matter how sick they are. It's like I'm punishing him by wanting to keep him in bed to get better.

Give him a computer or video games and he'll just sit there all day

 

[Draka]

Give him a computer or video games and he'll just sit there all day

Oh, he has his Leapster game pad and a couple cartridges, so that works for a little while, thing is, he keeps wanting to get up to show us what he's doing on it.