I was sort of surprised that I wasn't having more anxiety about having my father visit.
Then it hit. I am now incapable of completing multi-step tasks.
It's always surprising that knowing why I am freaking out doesn't, in fact, help.
I was sort of surprised that I wasn't having more anxiety about having my father visit.
Then it hit. I am now incapable of completing multi-step tasks.
It's always surprising that knowing why I am freaking out doesn't, in fact, help.
...and the milk's in me.
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Losing is like fertilizer: it stinks for a while, then you get used to it. (Tony, Hibbing)
... spoon?
...Good experiment, duke.
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I was trying to prove a theory (about how the mind reacts to certain words and how people are drawn to certain words after another word precedes it)but the evidence in this thread suggests my theory was incorrect. I mistakenly forgot about how different parts of the country use different words for the same meaning. I need to conduct this experiment in 1 region.
We play a game here at work every morning. I have a daily calendar that gives ten clues to reach an answer. The fist clue is the most generic clue such as, "I am a singer" or "I am a US state". Sometimes it's easier like. "I am a great lake". We need to write down what we think the answer is based on the first clue even if it's as generic as "I am male". If you get it correct, you get a point. Person with the most points at the end of the year doesn't have to pay when we go out for our Christmas party. The game started getting more complicated and we started making rules. One of the rules is you need to have written down your answer EXACTLY as it is shown on the calendar or you do not get a point. I wanted to make the argument that certain words should be considered as the correct answer.
For example, the other day the clue was: "I am a fictional place". Someone wrote down "Oz" and the answer was "The Land of Oz".
Another example is "I am a phenomenon"; someone wrote "Northern Lights" and the answer was "Aurora Borealis"
Both of these people did not get a point, and I wanted to make the argument that they should.
Going forward I'll post the first clue of game every morning to see how everyone does (I can even make a new thread and we could have our own little game). Obvious rule is you can't use Google. But most of the time google won't help you, unless you don't know all of the great lakes, states, oceans, mountain ranges, etc and Google would save you.
Kinda agree, but I can see why people won't.
You can give the correct answer on Jeopardy, but if you don't do it in the accepted format then it doesn't count. Them's the rules.
OTOH, for a year long office game where the prize might be worth ~fifty bucks, it seems unnecessarily strict.
Marion
Losing is like fertilizer: it stinks for a while, then you get used to it. (Tony, Hibbing)
Even in Jeopardy, they still have leeway. If the answer is "Who is Joseph Stalin?" and a contestant says, "Who is Stalin?" they will accept it as correct.
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That's one rule we kept the same. If the clue is a person, and you only have the last name written down, that counts.
Jeopardy will also accept alternate answers sometimes. Trebek tells the contestant 'no', but they then go back and review it and retroactively reward the points.
I was pointing out the nature of the rules between the two games, and how they're based on formatting.
In Jeopardy, you don't get credit unless you answer in the form of a question. In Duke's game, you don't get credit unless you state the full answer as he described.
These are both arbitrary rules. There is no leeway with them at all. They may or may not be fair, but if you agree to them beforehand and still play the game there isn't much basis for complaint.
Answer to Berry:
Blue.
"I am a sport"
Rugberry?
"MOO"
Losing is like fertilizer: it stinks for a while, then you get used to it. (Tony, Hibbing)
Your mom?
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“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
Cricket!
...and the milk's in me.
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
I finally ate at this local hotdog restaurant today. Sat down, had a brat and a beer with a side of fries. It was pretty good, or at least different from the usual stuff I eat for lunch.
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Few things are more soul-crushing as a teacher than realizing that students never understood material properly. A class just turned in their final assignments, the last two of which required two (academic) sources cited in APA-style. We went over these principles and they nodded expectantly. So I didn't belabor the point. Looking at their essays today revealed that they basically all flamed out, fully bungling any notion of in-text citation and leaving me bewildered as to when they weren't just reciting a source.
The highest grade on an assignment worth 175 is a super-low C, and she glossed over the idea of academic sources. One plagiarized her intro and conclusion, and another did a sucktastic 109/175. I hate myself and my belief in these students right now. :sad:
The Boat People - 9
The Power of the Dog - 7.5
The King of Pigs - 7
What age are they?
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