tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20717535.post8836492989923011214..comments2023-11-02T19:46:44.577+11:00Comments on Fumbling Towards Geekdom: New policyStyleyGeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10287051608503966129noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20717535.post-80376095070523451562008-11-30T12:10:00.000+11:002008-11-30T12:10:00.000+11:00Any chance the kid was just yanking your chain?Any chance the kid was just yanking your chain?Reynoldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07316048340050664487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20717535.post-12981318662676420492008-11-28T09:11:00.000+11:002008-11-28T09:11:00.000+11:00I think maybe your students are clones of my stude...I think maybe your students are clones of my students. Or vice versa. Either way, somethin' bad happened during elementary math class.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20717535.post-26925754791434294292008-11-27T17:23:00.000+11:002008-11-27T17:23:00.000+11:00Oh and HairyFarmerFamily, I just went back to see ...Oh and HairyFarmerFamily, I just went back to see which verses were yours and they were some of my favourites too! I am totally in love with the line:<BR/><BR/>"I’d go farty farty farty every time you have a party"<BR/><BR/>Because I'm three years old at heart. Also, I had a dog like that.StyleyGeekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10287051608503966129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20717535.post-27590998157059629632008-11-27T17:19:00.000+11:002008-11-27T17:19:00.000+11:00Joanna, it's true, it's not. But honestly, the gr...Joanna, it's true, it's not. But honestly, the grade distributions were in a table. In numerals. And if Stu understood enough of the sentence underneath to see that SOMETHING could count as the final grade, Stu should have been able to match the word EXAM in that sentence to the word EXAM in the table of grade points.<BR/><BR/>I'm pretty sure most people could do that in a foreign language even with worse language skills than Stu's (which are actually not at all bad).<BR/><BR/>Hairyfarmerfamily: thanks! And welcome! I loved that competition at Flotsam's. I had a great time reading everyone's verses.StyleyGeekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10287051608503966129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20717535.post-24813116412798393302008-11-27T11:24:00.000+11:002008-11-27T11:24:00.000+11:00Oh, how superb! Someone else was obviously using t...Oh, how superb! Someone else was obviously using the family braincell.<BR/><BR/>I followed you back (generally, no nice sentence starts that way) from your fabulous verses on Flotsam. I liked!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20717535.post-78126828656676387662008-11-27T10:45:00.000+11:002008-11-27T10:45:00.000+11:00at least it's not a maths major....at least it's not a maths major....KaosSmurfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10670187562316015592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20717535.post-73139119696579864352008-11-27T10:27:00.000+11:002008-11-27T10:27:00.000+11:00Poor kid. Maybe English wasn't his/her first langu...Poor kid. Maybe English wasn't his/her first language?<BR/><BR/>I've seen kids bring their parents to enrolment day. Ok, kind of understandable for undergrads (although I was left to fend for myself). But this was on postgrad enrolment day...Joannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12063333905643806673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20717535.post-52815612744350022882008-11-26T23:55:00.000+11:002008-11-26T23:55:00.000+11:00oh. wow. how did they get into college? i could ca...oh. wow. how did they get into college? i could calculate grades before the end of grad school. oh wait, they parents probably did that for them all these years! that means, you'll probably be hearing from mommy or daddy soon....(i actually can't believe some parents of undergrads will call and complain about they kid's grades, but i've heard stories.)quietandsmalladventureshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13882640501776166034noreply@blogger.com