The Off Topic Topic

[Malthus]

I thought you were quite pretty Fredo.

I guess I blew my chance with the Yister.

Habbaku, Yi can fill you in.

It may have been cheaper to invest in convincing the ladies that male beauty is entirely subjective and a balding head can be beautiful. 

[HVC]

just tape hundred dollar bills to your head. cheaper and just as effective

[Maladict]

Dutch Marine Corps decides they're going to move their base to a new location about 100km away.
Over half of the marines are threatening to quit the Corps, citing work-life balance. 

[grumbler]

So, today my AP European History class took their exam.  Seems to have gone very well (universally, they felt the class was harder than the test).  But I still was bummed.  This was a great class, and we had some of the best class discussions I can remember.  Alas, they are all seniors and I'll never teach them again.  I think that this class was peak AP Euro, and I actually wish we still had a month more of school so I could keep that class going.

[mongers]

Dutch Marine Corps decides they're going to move their base to a new location about 100km away.
Over half of the marines are threatening to quit the Corps, citing work-life balance. 

Oh my friends son is in the Corps, I wonder what he feels about it.

[HVC]

You could always fail them so that have to come back next year. Just an option haha

[Eddie Teach]

You could always fail them so that have to come back next year. Just an option haha

Unless it's an elective.

[PDH]

So, today my AP European History class took their exam.  Seems to have gone very well (universally, they felt the class was harder than the test).  But I still was bummed.  This was a great class, and we had some of the best class discussions I can remember.  Alas, they are all seniors and I'll never teach them again.  I think that this class was peak AP Euro, and I actually wish we still had a month more of school so I could keep that class going.

I had a class my second year of teaching summer session - a class of only 12 people who were in the first semester of Western Civ.  It was lively, engaging, 3 hours each day for 15 days.  The students read, talked, discussed, digressed, and generally made the class a joy.  The insight on their papers was among the best...and I think for years after other classes suffered in comparison as I was waiting for a repeat.

Of course it never happened, but it did inspire me later to reach the students so I could recapitulate some of that feeling.

[mongers]

For the first time every, I've bought a mountain bike, cost me all of 30 bucks.

I shall spent double that on some decent tyres for it. 

British made, nicely welded/brazed, but hilariously oversized tubing, I've seen flimsier piping on a industrial engineering site. 

[KRonn]

So, today my AP European History class took their exam.  Seems to have gone very well (universally, they felt the class was harder than the test).  But I still was bummed.  This was a great class, and we had some of the best class discussions I can remember.  Alas, they are all seniors and I'll never teach them again.  I think that this class was peak AP Euro, and I actually wish we still had a month more of school so I could keep that class going.

This is so good, great going for you and your students! I've had college classes like that, history and literature are two that come to mind. I still remember so much about both of those classes and what I learned. So I'm sure your students will have similar memories and experiences of that class. 

[Liep]

For the first time every, I've bought a mountain bike, cost me all of 30 bucks.

I shall spent double that on some decent tyres for it. 

British made, nicely welded/brazed, but hilariously oversized tubing, I've seen flimsier piping on a industrial engineering site. 

The cheapest Nobby Nic from Schwalbe is pretty good. Approved for the Danish Fall.

[Richard Hakluyt]

So, today my AP European History class took their exam.  Seems to have gone very well (universally, they felt the class was harder than the test).  But I still was bummed.  This was a great class, and we had some of the best class discussions I can remember.  Alas, they are all seniors and I'll never teach them again.  I think that this class was peak AP Euro, and I actually wish we still had a month more of school so I could keep that class going.

Forty or more years on and I still have fond memories of the classes I participated in that were like that 

Shame they are so few and far between.

[mongers]

For the first time every, I've bought a mountain bike, cost me all of 30 bucks.

I shall spent double that on some decent tyres for it. 

British made, nicely welded/brazed, but hilariously oversized tubing, I've seen flimsier piping on a industrial engineering site. 

The cheapest Nobby Nic from Schwalbe is pretty good. Approved for the Danish Fall.

Liep thanks for the suggestion, funny enough I was working my way through their catalogue only last night, always my first point of call.

Still need to decide exactly what type of terrain im gonna used it on, or is it only for back roads to the railway stations and then city centres/London.

[Admiral Yi]

Anyone here know anything about golf range finders?

[The Brain]

Anyone here know anything about golf range finders?

I hear the phone GPS thing with data for all the golf courses in the world works well, but I don't play myself.