I don’t travel 250,000,000,000 miles per year, so I don’t get free airline tickets or first class upgrades, but every once in a while I do get free stuff like some decent magazines. Yes, now these evil corporations have my address, but I’m sure they already have that and much, much more.
I probably should have posted this a while ago, when I actually finished painting it, but I have completed my first canvas. The canvas is 24″x36″ and the design comes from the Fibonacci sequence where n = 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13. Enjoy.
In case anyone out there is shopping for my quarter birthday coming up, I need Clocky, a wandering alarm clock robot! In case you haven’t noticed, I enjoy sleep, and I don’t like it when the alarm clock goes off. I’ve already had to resort to putting my alarm clock 8 feet from my bed so I have to get out of bed to hit the snooze button. I may even have to set the clock even farther forward (its already 16 minutes fast) so that I continually get up at the same time.
Clocky will wander around my room until I can find the evil sound and step on it to go back to bed. Remember, my quarter bday is coming!
I’m not a fan of the whole politically correct movement, but this CNN story about the red ink teachers use to correct papers being “stressful”.
Karwoski’s teachers grade papers by giving examples of better answers for those students who make mistakes. But that approach meant the kids often found their work covered in red, the color that teachers long have used to grade work.
Parents objected.
Maybe I’m blowing this out of proportion, but I think this signifies a much bigger problem with students and parents today, no one wants to take responsibility for their errors and take the opportunity to learn from them. Instead, they’d much rather complain about having their feelings hurt because they didn’t study. Now parents won’t have to worry about being offended when signing their kids’ failed tests with a big red F, instead it will be sparkly purple with little hearts and stars showing that even though your child showed up to class, they couldn’t answer more than ~70% correct. That will definitely encourage them. (Oh, and if I had never learned from my mistakes, I would have spelled that definately, which of course is WRONG!!!) If teachers are taking their time to give examples of the correct answer(s), use the occasion to better yourself/child and be glad you live in a school district where the teachers are, what’s the word for it, teaching! Why don’t you take the time to sit down with your child and help them out with their homework instead of going to complain to the school board.
Hell, I sound like a bitter old man, and I’ve only been out of school for 11 months, or maybe it was the way I was raised. Thanks Mom and Dad.