Re: Forged Headers?
- From: Allison Turner- <betonica@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 2 Sep 2005 06:01:27 -0400
on 1 Sep 2005 20:20:53 -0400, songbird stated:
>
>Allison Turner- wrote:
>> tom stated:
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>> Lookie here. A canned message made it through the bot.
[...]
> i didn't see it here, so i'm not sure what wisdom he
>was trying to share.
A rant. Not necessarily stuff I disagreed with, at least
in part, but poorly argued, doing no justice to the topic.
I saw the same thing in a completely unrelated newsgroup a
week or so ago; it's probably making the rounds.
>> In other news, classes have started. In three hours,
>> I get to meet a few dozen bright-eyed freshman, and see
>> how many of them dare to risk taking a class from the
>> Evil Mutant Math Teacher. (Never did get the T-shirt,
>> though; I'll have to work on that.)
>
> often just being a grrl and saying that you like
>math will convince almost anyone that you are an
>alien with plans of world conquest.
Excellent line. May I quote you? It might need to be
added to the as-yet unstarted collection on my office
door.
>> I'm working on ways to make y=mx+b into something that
>> sounds interesting. Me, I get how this math stuff is
>> like a huge net, holding everything together, and I
>> kinda like the patterns it creates. They sparkle at
>> the intersections. But I don't know that I have the
>> words to portray that to students.
>
> this sounds like algebra one?
It's a collection of math, starting at basic arithmetic
laws (a + b = b + a, etc) and getting the students
through trig and other precalculus, plus a smattering
of statistics, by the end of the second semester.
Former teachers and fellows put together a wonderful
series of web pages with all of the material, so I don't
have to reinvent the wheel and can just play with it.
>> Then after that is the PKD/genetic diseases/alternative
>> treatments class, but I'm teaching that as a "tutorial",
>> which in my lexicon means I get to make the students do
>> (almost) all the work; I get to sit back and learn stuff.
>
> heheh, you teechures are tricksy creetchures.
I was thinking this was my trademark, but I think I
must have learned it from the profs here; I was sitting
in on the general bio intro lecture yesterday, and the
teacher explained to his wide-eyed neophytes (phrase
curtesy my grad program advisor) that this was just
how he was going to run that class. With, I suppose,
slightly more direction from him than I'll give my
advanced class. But I like it in general.
(e.g., one of the topics for a class might be 'why are
plants green' - one student finds information, assigns
reading to the rest of the class, and reads up on it
very carefully; class discusses it and the specific
student makes sure they're all on track. Prof tries
not to talk most of the time; a neat trick for some of
us.)
>> And there are two or three or four labs I'll be helping
>> out with or designing and running entirely, to be
>> determined.
>
> oh, now that would be a hoot.
Well, yes. But a helluva lot of work, too. I just
realized (lying awake at 5 am with nothing better to do)
that the one time I'd set for the bio lab is during the
biochem lab. The only person with a conflict would be
me, and I can work around that, but there's currently
only one decent biology/chemistry/etc lab in the
building. Perhaps I can convince the powers that be
to accelerate work on the renovation of the actual bio
lab, which is currently a charming, if totally chaotic
and fairly dirty, home to snakes, birds, turtles,
uninvited field mice, and old boxes of skeletons of
same, shells, decaying beetle specimens, dusty slides....
>> I've also just received a bunch of new medical bags and
>> supplies from our local ambulance, for our fire co.'s
>> rescue operation. I intend to spend some time today
>> pawing through it all and sorting it out. (Christmas!)
>
> and not delivered via E-Bay!
Hey! No snide comments on my addiction, now.
I'll have you know my antique book collection is the
envy of many a flaky herbalist!
> heehee, enjoy... :)
Things were pretty hectic yesterday, so by the time
of an afternoon event of tables displaying to students
what local things they could join / volunteer for, I
hadn't even looked at it. We brought in the whole
lot of stuff, and dumped it on our table, and I let
the two college kids who are on the fire co. sort
through it and partition it out into our mostly-empty
jump kit bags. (Nothing like having a medical bag in
a fire truck with almost nothing in it; glad that's not
true any more.) The kids had a great time, though it
did distract them from talking to students who came by
with questions. Still, I got eight people to sign up,
including a woman with past EMT training (she'll need
to retrain, but her experience will be very welcome).
Yesterday was definitely eventful. I didn't need
to start the day until 9:30, when I met the math
students (a great mix of math haters and math
lovers, with freshmen through seniors present).
Following that was my tutorial on genetic diseases,
which also went well. Then, just as I was walking
down the hill to go to lunch, my pager went off.
It wasn't an alarm sounding for burnt food - it
was real. Very large, very new looking RV that
was, by the time I got there, a huge ball of
smoke. The only guy in it got out fine - it
started in the back. We were big meanie-heads and
shut down traffic for about an hour on the main
road through town.
I got back to school only ten minutes late for
the next intro class I was scheduled to be at
(one I'm doing a lab for), managed that and the
bio one, and then the setup for the table. When
we were done with that and attempting to return
the fire/ems equipment to the firehouse, there
was an injured college student on a back trail.
I got to run incident command on that one, being
the first one there. Didn't make too many
mistakes, but despite 18 months of listening in
on the radio transmissions, I still need some
practice to get it right and comprehend it all.
My sister was very forgiving that I showed up
an hour late for her birthday party. Later in
the evening I found out that a friend was having
a going-away-party thrown for him, but the day
had been long enough already, and the power had
gone out. (If it isn't one thing....) So I
read a trashy novel for a bit, and went to bed.
I think we're getting many more fire/rescue calls
than average; I'll have to check. Exciting, and
good training for us newbies, and so far nothing
really nasty (except for one call last spring
that I might have posted about). But if things
keep up like this, we're definitely going to
need those eight new volunteers.
I wonder if I've done enough 6-am babbling to
be able to go back to sleep for an hour or so?
-at
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