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[charvik]

Universities still teach VB?

 

[Kubes]

I DON'T LIKE SOME OF THE ATTITUDES HERE.NOBODY GETS THE COOKIEBLOG LINK.

I have it.

 

[Limp Ditka]

So my son misses school yesterday.

Me and the Mrs had a miscommunication as to who was going to call school to let them know he wasn't going to be there. Lunch time rolls around and the Mrs calls me. During the convo, I ask her if she called school and she basically said "I thought you were going to".

So it's after 12:00, my kid's sitting next to me, not at school, and school hasn't called to inquire where my kid is.

I'm obviously in the wrong for not calling the school, but I should have a problem with them not hunting someone down when my kid doesn't show up at school and there was no notice, right?

You know sometimes when a kid is absent from my class it is kind of a blessing and I don't question why he/she is absent. I'm just saying.

But you report him/her as absent, right? And then the front office would knowSon's 11, still in grade school. I remember my High School calling when I did a no-show back in the day. Had the bruises to prove it. I'd like to think it's still done at the grade school level.

Jesus, am I the only person who wasn't beaten by my parents? This is horrible.

Once I could see eye to eye with the old man, he started to considered me fair game. Sucked at times, but I didn't have to defend myself regularly or for no reason at all. It wasn't 'Dad had a bad day and came home and took it out on me' by any means. I knew when it was coming and I'm not saying I deserved it, but I knew when I was on the verge of setting him off more often than not.

I'm just glad it didn't carry over to me. Most my kid gets is an earful of my ranting.

 

[Kubes]

What's an easy brunch food to bring to a potluck? No booze.

Crock pot chicken.No, really. The real kind. GM has a great recipe in here. Again, a real one.

 

[Kubes]

One of the 6th grade teachers sent out a school-wide email about an hour ago...But first I should explain a little about the 6th grade teachers. They are a breed unto themselves. They are on the same campus with the 7th and 8th grade teachers but have more of a elementary school outlook on life. They are also led by a cadre of menopausal broads that turn molehills into mountains faster than you can say "barren uterus". Behind their backs we call them The Hen House. In all fairness there are about 4 fairly cool 6th grade teachers (3 guys and jockish chick in her mid-30s that doesn't get along with the older ladies). I cringe every time we have school-wide meetings that include this group because you know the meeting is going to last about 20 minutes longer than it should because they need to ask multiple questions and/or complain about something. They are also notorious for sending out school-wide emails that don't need to be sent AND 'replying all' ad nauseum. "I don't know why we can't change the time of the Book Fair to 30 minutes earlier so the 6th graders..." "I agree with Cindy!" "I agree with Cindy too!" "I agree with Cindy three!" "Haha, you crack me up, Lynn!" "I agree with Cindy, Carol and Lynn".So anyway the leader of the Hen House sent out an email, to the entire school, complaining that someone "stole" the space heater from the 6th grade ladies pisser. Apparently when the mercury drops to an unbearable 45 degrees here in Central CA taking a whiz requires a heated room. Of course the heater wasn't stolen. One of our VPs borrowed it because a group of teachers were busy creating tests in a little used meeting room that was without heat for some reason. Needless to say her email has been 'replied all' to 4 times so far "Yeah! where is out heater?"The last thing I'm doing before I leave today is replying all with "First-World Problem". I'm also going to see if the heater is still in the meeting room. If it is I'm going to hide it.

I've been in Cali for the last three days (Holywood, y'all) and you guys are whiners about weather. Of course, that's coming from someone who voluntarily lives in a state that dips below zero 438 times a year, so take that for what it's worth.

 

[Limp Ditka]

So my son misses school yesterday. Me and the Mrs had a miscommunication as to who was going to call school to let them know he wasn't going to be there. Lunch time rolls around and the Mrs calls me. During the convo, I ask her if she called school and she basically said "I thought you were going to".So it's after 12:00, my kid's sitting next to me, not at school, and school hasn't called to inquire where my kid is.I'm obviously in the wrong for not calling the school, but I should have a problem with them not hunting someone down when my kid doesn't show up at school and there was no notice, right?

Don't be that parent

Really don't want to be. I haven't contacted them about it, I was just figuring it was protocol to follow up. And since there are teachers and parents that frequent this fine thread, thought it was a good place to ask. If it's not the norm, so be it. But like I said, I remember High School hunting down my parents when I no showed. So if that happened, grade school must certainly do the same thing if not more. I honestly find it pretty alarming if it isn't the norm at a grade school level. 'It takes a village' and all of that crap. If the people at the school aren't watching out for my kid when he's supposed to be there, who is?

 

[Kubes]

I went indoor skydiving for our firm Christmas party today. That was freaking cool!!!!

Gotta say I went to the best Christmas party ever for Go Daddy. On the field at bank one ballpark, free booze, food, taxis, for 5000 people.It was an american theme, Statue of Liberty in the middle of the place, a new orleans area, mini Vegas with free blackjack, poker, Craps. Live music from 2 country guys (not my style), cheerleaders, godaddy girls, etc.Throughout the night they gave away so much money. He started with $500 named off about 30-40 people, $1000 another 30-40, then more live music, $2500 more people, $5000 more people, more music. $10000! more people. It was incredible. They slowed down at $10,000 how fast they were reading them off. Usually throughout the night it was a new name every second or 2.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GectGB5srsA&feature=relatedToward the end of the night there were rumors about a secret tourbus outside.All of the sudden BAMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcvaYqw_H5Y&feature=related20 feet away from the stage you could sit at a table with a drink and enjy your almost private concert. IncredibleEnd of the night bussed to the hotel, tons of people, ton of fun, found secret pool on the 4th floor, yada yada Back at the room around 4am for a bunch of I was blown away

That's awesome. I miss that kind of thing. One of the companies I used to work for once rented out Sea World and also once had us have a chili cook-off on the field at the Rose Bowl, but not after having us walk through the locker rooms where we all had jerseys with our names on the back. Man that was a great compnay.

 

[Kubes]

For those of you with ratrugs, here's a really cool site where you can make a personalized message from Santa. http://www.portablenorthpole.tv/watch/mHfd1HH7uP-e-sMJiBznrsw

I did this at a similar site for my 3.5 year old. She lost her mind. It was awesome.

 

[Kubes]

I'm grading finals, conservatively over 100 of them (about 8 pages each), and it's funny to read the little comments they throw down on paper, usually in a state of horror or resignation. I'll post a few.

"My favorite quote from Hamlet: 'Words, words, words.'" The rest of this page was left blank. Oops.

On one of the exams, the students have to write a program in Visual Basic. Here is the name of his function: "Sub Not_Cool()" Another student named his function "Sub Winner()" which I thought was a little more optimistic.

He continued to rant elsewhere: "I'm not familiar with Euler's method and don't exactly know when to stop, whether it's at equation 1 or 2. Either way, the method is either perfect or way off." How true that is.

Later, he responded to the question "What will [the matrix] U look like at each step?" with :(

In the same section, another kid wrote of this problem "I understand. Not really."

A girl in the class invoked a higher power and wrote the Latin "Soli Deo Gloria" in frilly script with an accompanying bland starburst reminiscent of a 6-pointed version you'd find standard in PowerPoint document. God can't help you here, Megan.

I got a "Yo Dawg" on the front of another's cover page where this phrase was pointing to the word "Final." Apparently he was excited to be rid of this class. Previously, this semester, we had a five-ish minute discussion of the "Yo Dawg" Xzibit meme which these 18 year olds were shocked that someone twice their age was even aware of. The discussion morphed into some light 4-chan/Anonymous talk, and I think it was that day when they discovered I was deeply entrenched in the Matrix and probably shouldn't be messed with.

The oddest thing I've seen (to this point, I'm about 1/3 of the way done) was someone who wrote "5% ≠ 20%" next to a problem which was declared to be worth 20%. He wrote this once, erased it, and re-wrote it. Is there some niche Occupy movement I'm not currently aware of?

More to come, probably..

Yes, more please.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

I DON'T LIKE SOME OF THE ATTITUDES HERE.NOBODY GETS THE COOKIEBLOG LINK.

I have it.

First post I read references an episode of Friends. This chick is right up your alley.

 

[Limp Ditka]

I went indoor skydiving for our firm Christmas party today. That was freaking cool!!!!

Gotta say I went to the best Christmas party ever for Go Daddy. On the field at bank one ballpark, free booze, food, taxis, for 5000 people.It was an american theme, Statue of Liberty in the middle of the place, a new orleans area, mini Vegas with free blackjack, poker, Craps. Live music from 2 country guys (not my style), cheerleaders, godaddy girls, etc.Throughout the night they gave away so much money. He started with $500 named off about 30-40 people, $1000 another 30-40, then more live music, $2500 more people, $5000 more people, more music. $10000! more people. It was incredible. They slowed down at $10,000 how fast they were reading them off. Usually throughout the night it was a new name every second or 2.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GectGB5srsA&feature=relatedToward the end of the night there were rumors about a secret tourbus outside.All of the sudden BAMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcvaYqw_H5Y&feature=related20 feet away from the stage you could sit at a table with a drink and enjy your almost private concert. IncredibleEnd of the night bussed to the hotel, tons of people, ton of fun, found secret pool on the 4th floor, yada yada Back at the room around 4am for a bunch of I was blown away

That's awesome. I miss that kind of thing. One of the companies I used to work for once rented out Sea World and also once had us have a chili cook-off on the field at the Rose Bowl, but not after having us walk through the locker rooms where we all had jerseys with our names on the back. Man that was a great compnay.

Wife used to work for a pharm company and they did some pretty big company parties. Remember one out in San Diego with Maroon 5 performing.Another company my wife worked for rented out Milwaukee Zoo for a company event. That was pretty cool, but not on the scale of this stuff.

 

[Mr. Pickles]

Universities still teach VB?

This class is for entering freshmen, and it's run by this relic of a woman whose only responsibility is to coordinate about 10 sections of this one course. The class is woefully outdated, has a pace that a snail would find lethargic, and some of the lecture materials were developed around the time I was in high school. This was my first time teaching this particular class, and I just used what was put in front of me. Next semester I'm going rogue and teaching MATLAB exclusively. So to answer your question, I guess they do in some cases, but usually not. This isn't a course for computer science majors. Those guys learn actual code.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

So the cookie blog is just pics of cookies with no recipe/instructions? Wtf frndslvr?

 

[Mr. Pickles]

Do you teach VB code? Or is that like a prereq?

I teach VBA which is even more watered-down than Visual Basic. Actually, the course is kind of a get-your-feet-wet engineering problem solving class. Now that I've seen the trainwreck from the inside (this course should be taken out back and shot, but absent that option...) I'm restructuring it to my own specifications. My top priority, frankly, is to be amused.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Everybody skipped school when I was in high school. Nobody ever called our parents to narc us out. That would be lame.

 

[Mr. Pickles]

Everybody skipped school when I was in high school. Nobody ever called our parents to narc us out. That would be lame.

Yeah, man. How about you, me, and Koya go huff some paint?

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

So the cookie blog is just pics of cookies with no recipe/instructions? Wtf frndslvr?

Update: she's giving recipes now. PHEW!

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Everybody skipped school when I was in high school. Nobody ever called our parents to narc us out. That would be lame.

Yeah, man. How about you, me, and Koya go huff some paint?

 

[Kubes]

Update on the 22 year old:

Sorry Lou Gehrig, but "today I consider myself, the luckiest man on the face of this earth"

The only bad things about her is her lack of pretty much any knowledge about 80s/90s pop culture and that her favorite actor is a tie between Ryan Reynolds or Mark Wahlberg.

She's actually quite intelligent (she's in Grad school) and she's funny and has a lot of witty comebacks which are usually about me being old (which is funny because unlike Tanner, I'm not old) She's also ridiculously flexable. She is also majorly concerned with keeping our "relationship" a secret. I completely feel like I'm playing with house money right now. At some point, she's going to wake up and wonder why she wasting her time with me. I'm completely fine with this. I've already gotten more out of this than I deserve. Did I mention she's ridiculously flexable? Anyways, I feel like I need to share the following story, though it obviously has to be PG rated and it's probably not that entertaining, but everything with this girl has to remain a secret in real life so I need an outlet to share something about her.

On Tuesday night we both attended a Chamber of Commerce Holiday themed Fun at 5 networking event. She texted me earlier in the day saying how nervous she was about going because she would be the youngest person there and she would have to act like she didn't really know me. I usually get completely hammered at these things and a wear a self made "Cat Fish Bill" name tag to amuse myself. But this time I didn't really drink alot and spent the first hour chit chatting with people and occasionally exchanging some glances with the 22 year old from across the room. She kept sending dirty texts to me. The secret flirting was fun. She seemed a little uncomfortable as she kinda clung to her co-workers on one side of the room. I know her co-workers so I made my way over to talk to them figuring it would add to the excitement of our secret flirting. Her co-workers introduced me to her since they assumed we didn't know each other. For some foolish reason I felt like I had some kind of cool George Clooney thing going on, I said "oh yeah, I think I know you, you do the marketing over there right? That christmas ad you ran last week was really good" She was kind of blushing and would not make eye contact with me. I was thinking that I liked the fact that I was making her nervous, it was like she was purposely not engaging me so no one would know about us.

Now earlier in the day I told her that I was wearing a kind of funny xmas tie and she said something like "of course you are, that what old people do". So as we're standing there with her co-workers, I felt like this super cool older guy making funny and witty comments as this young girl was all nervous and excited by my charm. Then she suddenly stepped closer to me and gently grabbed the bottom of my tie and said "I really like your tie". For some reason this completely threw me off. I'm not sure if it was the sudden change in her demeanor where she went from quiet and nervous to suddenly confident or the fact that she did the sexiest thing with her eyes as she slowly raised them from looking at my tie to looking me dead in the eyes while she displayed a boner-inducing sexy smile with just the corner of her mouth. I completely melted. It was the strangest thing, I suddenly went from George Clooney to George Costanza. Her co-workers also looked and complimented the tie. I stood there speechless, knowing that I should at least say thank you or something somewhat cool, but all I could do was make some sort of Beavis and Butthead grunt/laugh. After another awkward minute of me making weird noises, my boss called me over to introduce me to someone so I was able to get away before I did or said anything else stupid.

After a couple minutes the 22 year old walked by and said good night to me. I kinda walked away from my boss and the client he introduced me to and tried to say something charming to her but I think I said something like "yeah, have a happy christmas and stuff". She then quickly walked up close to me and whispered "I'm so horny right now, meet me at your place in 10 minutes" So I went back to my boss and said I had to leave. I then got in my car and said a little prayer thanking God and or Tebow for the kindness he has bestowed upon me. Got home and in the middle of sexy time, she got a text message from her mom telling her that there was a plate from dinner in the fridge ready for her to re-heat when she got home. I love that she appreciates the humor in that. So after finishing, I laid there smiling and exhausted as she left to go home to mommy and daddy's house.

I really think this is all a true Christmas miracle.

I heart you.

 

[Kubes]

I DON'T LIKE SOME OF THE ATTITUDES HERE.NOBODY GETS THE COOKIEBLOG LINK.

I have it.

First post I read references an episode of Friends. This chick is right up your alley.

what's that supposed to mean?

 

[Kubes]

Scary Movie is on MTV (one of them, but Anna Faris is involved) and I have three more Coors Light tallboys in the sink. Life is good.

/kubing

 

[Mr. Pickles]

Kubes is a fantastic alias, but Dungeon Master is also first rate.

 

[Limp Ditka]

http://www.wgntv.com/videogallery/66789435/News/Wilco-front-man-forecasts-the-weather

 

[Samuel L Bronkowitz]

Kubes is a fantastic alias, but Dungeon Master is also first rate.

 

[commisholio]

Stupid new job, seriously cuts into my internet time. FINALLY caught up. Carry on.

 

[Kubes]

Kubes is a fantastic alias, but Dungeon Master is also first rate.

 

[Kubes]

What's an alias I mean?

also these guys at the hotel bar were talkin Tebow, and one guy was all like, "I don't care about stats or wins, he's just a moral guy who does things the right way" and the other guy was all like "I don't care if he's 7-1 or 1-7 he's what's right with sports" and I was all like shuked.

 

[Samuel L Bronkowitz]

What's an alias I mean?also these guys at the hotel bar were talkin Tebow, and one guy was all like, "I don't care about stats or wins, he's just a moral guy who does things the right way" and the other guy was all like "I don't care if he's 7-1 or 1-7 he's what's right with sports" and I was all like shuked.

FantasyChat I can handle. BaseballChat I can handle. Even ShowerPoop I can handle. But if you bring TebowChat into this thread I will kill you until you die from it.

 

[Osaurus]

Off to Daytona.

 

[Mitch Robbins]

Universities still teach VB?

This class is for entering freshmen, and it's run by this relic of a woman whose only responsibility is to coordinate about 10 sections of this one course. The class is woefully outdated, has a pace that a snail would find lethargic, and some of the lecture materials were developed around the time I was in high school. This was my first time teaching this particular class, and I just used what was put in front of me. Next semester I'm going rogue and teaching MATLAB exclusively. So to answer your question, I guess they do in some cases, but usually not. This isn't a course for computer science majors. Those guys learn actual code.

I experienced similar nonsense with composition 101. The department guidelines were written decades ago, with examples from the former chair three chairs back. I was lucky though because my composition coordinator was a very hip and incredible teacher who actually bothered keeping up with current pedagogy by attending workshops, presenting papers at conferences, etc. He had no qualms with tossing the guidelines out the window. So going rogue was more like not being a burnout like 3/4ths of the department and teaching like the/a boss.

 

[Mitch Robbins]

More Anthony awesomeness -

[QUOTE='Anthony]Hey, Conservatives, there's a way of making your case using just the facts. Hey, Liberals, if someone is misinformed, there's a way of informing them of the facts without being a condescending d-bag.
[/QUOTE]

 

[Gadzooks]

Wait, so she read the text during sexy time?

She's a flexible 22 year old.I'm a 36 year old divorced single Dad who makes 2 batches of crock pot chicken a day.

She could file her taxes during sexy time and I wouldn't care. I probably wouldn't notice either.

 

[Osaurus]

Does the decor at Cracker Barrel imply pity for old people and the ###### things they used in daily life?

 

[phishphan]

Universities still teach VB?

This class is for entering freshmen, and it's run by this relic of a woman whose only responsibility is to coordinate about 10 sections of this one course. The class is woefully outdated, has a pace that a snail would find lethargic, and some of the lecture materials were developed around the time I was in high school. This was my first time teaching this particular class, and I just used what was put in front of me. Next semester I'm going rogue and teaching MATLAB exclusively. So to answer your question, I guess they do in some cases, but usually not. This isn't a course for computer science majors. Those guys learn actual code.

I had to take a VB class for a degree in MIS. Seemed like a good way to learn a little about how programming worked without getting too deep.

 

[Captain Quinoa]

I'm on the verge of becoming really pissed off about fantasy football. I'm playing my brother this week, he doesn't pay attention to ####, barely made any moves all year, squeaked into the playoffs with a 6-7 record and was probably bottom 3 in total points scored. He's got Ryan and Roddy, and through one half of one game I'm already down 30 points. Worse, I hate myself for even caring.

Guy I'm playing has the same two guys. Vomit.

add Roddy to the list of guys who have had their best game of the season against me. oh well, it was a run.

 

[phishphan]

This day in history for Tanner -

200 years ago today an earthquake along the New Madrid fault line caused the Mississippi river to briefly run backwards

 

[Thorn]

,s

 

[GroveDiesel]

Wait, so she read the text during sexy time?

She's a flexible 22 year old.I'm a 36 year old divorced single Dad who makes 2 batches of crock pot chicken a day.

She could file her taxes during sexy time and I wouldn't care. I probably wouldn't notice either.

This is either bragging, or she's filing a 1040EZ.

 

[GroveDiesel]

I'm on the verge of becoming really pissed off about fantasy football. I'm playing my brother this week, he doesn't pay attention to ####, barely made any moves all year, squeaked into the playoffs with a 6-7 record and was probably bottom 3 in total points scored. He's got Ryan and Roddy, and through one half of one game I'm already down 30 points. Worse, I hate myself for even caring.

Guy I'm playing has the same two guys. Vomit.

add Roddy to the list of guys who have had their best game of the season against me. oh well, it was a run.

Last week my buddy set a league scoring record by 20 points while he was on a bye. This week I've staked a 20 point lead on him with Roddy vs. MJD.

 

[wadegarrett]

OMG

that's ####### terrible...what's the matter with those people?

 

[wadegarrett]

Zooks you're my hero...ride that train for as long as the conductor lets you stay on my man

 

[Bogart]

I want to be Zooks when I grow up.

Those sausage balls are tasty.

My work blocking You Tube makes me want to find a new job when this thread goes super linky.

 

[charvik]

Universities still teach VB?

This class is for entering freshmen, and it's run by this relic of a woman whose only responsibility is to coordinate about 10 sections of this one course. The class is woefully outdated, has a pace that a snail would find lethargic, and some of the lecture materials were developed around the time I was in high school. This was my first time teaching this particular class, and I just used what was put in front of me. Next semester I'm going rogue and teaching MATLAB exclusively. So to answer your question, I guess they do in some cases, but usually not. This isn't a course for computer science majors. Those guys learn actual code.

Interesting, and troubling at the same time. It would explain to some extent why graduates are so far away from actually contributing after graduation. We have to invest about 6 months of training in younger guys/gals post graduation in order to even get them to contribute, and that's on CS degrees.I guess VB could be a good introduction for freshmen, but I would be concerned with them picking up bad habits.

 

[charvik]

Universities still teach VB?

This class is for entering freshmen, and it's run by this relic of a woman whose only responsibility is to coordinate about 10 sections of this one course. The class is woefully outdated, has a pace that a snail would find lethargic, and some of the lecture materials were developed around the time I was in high school. This was my first time teaching this particular class, and I just used what was put in front of me. Next semester I'm going rogue and teaching MATLAB exclusively. So to answer your question, I guess they do in some cases, but usually not. This isn't a course for computer science majors. Those guys learn actual code.

I had to take a VB class for a degree in MIS. Seemed like a good way to learn a little about how programming worked without getting too deep.

What skills did you pick up in MIS that's applicable to the job market? Just curious, since I don't know and am trying to decide if I want to invest the time and money to hire 20 or so grads over the next 6 months.

 

[Tecumseh]

SS came through. Huge .

Thanks!!

 

[shuke]

Scary Movie is on MTV (one of them, but Anna Faris is involved) and I have three more Coors Light tallboys in the sink. Life is good./kubing

1. Why in the world are you drinking Coors Light?2. Why were they in the sink? Were you in a hotel room?Totally baffled on both counts.

 

[shuke]

I'm a 36 year old divorced single Dad who makes 2 batches of crock pot chicken a day.

This is pretty impressive.

 

[Thorn]

This day in history for Tanner - 200 years ago today an earthquake along the New Madrid fault line caused the Mississippi river to briefly run backwards

I had a teacher explain to me that the Mississippi flowed south because of gravity, and that gravity pulled all rivers south. This was in high school. In AP History. I asked her about the St. Lawrence and she explained to me that it wasn't a true river.

 

[Thorn]

Catching up from yesterday and I have a few questions.

1. Who carpets a bathroom? :X

Next. Who licks faces? :X

Then. What is it with women and space heaters? We had an email go around this summer that warning that space heaters were being left on overnight were a fire hazzard.

6. How many chamber of commerce events does Zook's podunk town have? Unless "chamber of commerce" is a euphemism.

 

[phishphan]

This day in history for Tanner - 200 years ago today an earthquake along the New Madrid fault line caused the Mississippi river to briefly run backwards

I had a teacher explain to me that the Mississippi flowed south because of gravity, and that gravity pulled all rivers south. This was in high school. In AP History. I asked her about the St. Lawrence and she explained to me that it wasn't a true river.

that teacher should not be teaching.