PM me the answer.  Do not post it here.


Puzzle #4 (2/5/11)

It's a word puzzle this week.  Send the answer by next Friday.

PM me the answer.  Do not post it here.


Puzzle #2 (1/17/11)

Larry always tells lies during months that begin with vowels but always tells the truth during the other months.  During one particular month, Larry makes these two statements:

1.  I lied last month.

2.  I will lie again six months from now.

During what month did Larry make these statements?

Ok the new concert thread is here.

List your goal and progress in this thread. 



By the way, every new post I make, I go to the last one and click "modify".  Then I copy it all and paste it into my new post and make the updates.  That way I don't have to redo the codes every time.

Ok the new book thread is here.

List your goal and progress in this thread.  My goal for this year is 15.  That's what I wound up with in 2010 and I'm sure 2011 will be just as hectic...if not more so.  So make your goal and list your books here as you finish them.




By the way, every new post I make, I go to the last one and click "modify".  Then I copy it all and paste it into my new post and make the updates.  That way I don't have to redo the codes every time.

I'm curious if I'm doing it wrong.

We haven't done this in a while.  What's your total time logged in?  (Can be found in the greeting section up top if it is expanded to show the shout box.)


Total time logged in: 16 days, 22 hours and 13 minutes.

Where do you go for a good breakfast sandwich?

On Long Island, you go to any deli and get a bacon, egg and cheese on a hard roll.  Those are the best.  THE BEST, I say!

But they don't have that here.  So I'm gonna say that BK's Croissan'Wich is my favourite.  Followed by CrapDonald's Bacon, Egg and Cheese Biscuit.  I don't care for the McMuffin or the McGriddle.

Is anyone interested in participating in my NCAA Tournament Pick'em Bracket?  We'll probably do a "Losers send $5 to the winner" type thing with an opt out if you just want to play for fun.

Here's the link.

Group:  4524
Password:  hatestarwars



Edit:  Fixed the link.  Thanks Novice!!

List your goal and progress here.

I don't have a goal for this.

New year...new thread!  I surprisingly didn't make my goal last year.  But I'm still gunning for 50 movies this year and I will list them here.

So I set up an itunes account in 2007, and bought some music.  Then I upgraded my computer (Ok, I actually bought Windows XP instead of using my old "borrowed" version) and when I tried to sync my ipod it said I wasn't authorized to have the music on my machine.  I haven't bought anything from itunes since because I didn't want to lose my money when I changed OS's again.

Well...I did it anyway today.  I dropped 5 bucks on a trivial pursuit game for my ipod.

Then it tells me that it couldn't put it on my ipod because I'm not authorized to have it on this computer.  What the fuck is that??  Do I need to set up a new account for this machine and then it will work?  I know I probably just lost that $5 but can I EVER buy anything from itunes again?  Not that I want to, this pisses me off.

Others must be able to function using this stupid program and not run into this problem.  Otherwise itunes wouldn't be selling anything.

Can anyone tell me What. the. Fuck?


Edit:  I figured it out but am leaving this here for if anyone else is as dumb as me.  Or for me to find five years from now when it happens again.

I'm taking a technology class for my certification.  Our final project is to create a WebQuest for use in our classroom.  One of my assignments for this week  is to come up with some ideas for it.  A WebQuest is pretty much a self-directed online lesson for students to complete.  It can be done in one class or several.  I want to know what you guys think of my ideas and if you have any other interesting ideas. 

1.  My first idea would be one that could be a project for after the SOL testing is done in the middle of May.  We still have a month left of school but the students have pretty much shut down because SOL's are over.  Anything not fun is met with much whining.  So I thought perhaps a one period long WebQuest in the computer lab that covered some interesting math topic like fractals or how the Fibonacci Sequence can be found in music (Tool's Lateralus), art, literature/movies/TV, etc.

2.  My second idea can actually be used before SOL's since it's in the Algebra I and Algebra II content.  It would be a Linear Regression lesson.  The students would have to collect data by emailing their friends or talking to friends on a web forum (like this one) and asking them a few questions.  Something like, what is your height and your arm span?  Once they've collected their data they'd have to graph it, and using the TI-83, they'd find the line of best fit and the equation for that line.  They then would have to predict the arm span of a 10 foot tall giant.  Or something like that.  The final result would be several groups of data with several graphs and several predictions.

3.  My third idea is growing less popular in my mind already.  I know that in interviews for many of the positions in certain Fortune 500 companies, the candidate must complete one or more "cases".  A case is a really hard math problem.  Since the students love to ask "when are we going to use this in real life" on a daily basis, I figure I might give them an example of something they might see in a real interview.  The WebQuest would walk them through the process of solving the problem.  I'm just not sure it can be done and since at most, a third of the class would actually solve the problem, I'd have to come up with a way for them to get a good grade without actually solving the problem.

So those are my ideas.  Please let me know what you think.  My assignment this week is to actually post all this to the class discussion board and get feedback, but I thought your feedback would be way more interesting.