The Pot Belly Stove

[Donovan]

I strongly agree with you, Patrick. It's a shame too these days, that teachers only care about their salaries. Another thing that makes me upset is that the classes often teach students "to the test". The purpose for us to attend school is to learn. Should what we learn during 4 years in high school be wasted on a 4 hour SAT or ACT exam? We should be learning for the sake of knowledge, not test-taking.

It's also why people are failing state tests, because they expect everyone to know whats on it WHEN THEY NEVER LEARNED IT

One of my last public school classes was my 8th grade science course, a class I will forever call a trainwreck.

-Teacher was the epitome of stress. I saw her recently at a Kohl's department store with a coffee cup in one hand, cell phone in another, and "I <3 SD" sweatshirt. Catchphrase? "Oh my lanta".
-An aide had to be added midyear. There were many struggling/troublemaking students, including one who's always had an unjustified grudge on me. There were almost always people sent to detention.
-We were behind enough that an entire unit on ecology and Darwinian principles had not been covered by the time we took the AIMS science exam (which included questions on them).
-I felt like I was in an insane asylum half the time.
-It was a RELIEF to leave that class. No, really. It actually made me feel bad emotionally.

That class, among other things, was the reason I decided to make the move to Catholic school.

At my middle school, it was like this. I passed SC History with 98% Average, while everyone else didn't care. The teacher was in some mental  :wacko:state that she didn't even notice it what went on right in front of her. The kids always did rude things to her and they never showed a desire to learn. That's what made me furious. I hate how you try to learn and other kids hinder you from doing so, not to mention that the school had been given best in county/state or something. I was too happy to get to high school because everyone cared about their grades and classes were actually interesting.

[Donovan]

Found a great new software today that can be used to setup live data in a map system and animates like google earth, put has presentation features built in. You can add your titlebars, graphics, etc to it and it is free! Its called ArcGis Explorer (search on google for free dwnld)

Here is an image below of it.

[Charismatic Applesauce]

OMG! My tweet made it to TWC! Did anyone see it?

[Donovan]

OMG! My tweet made it to TWC! Did anyone see it?

Yes I did sir. Congratulations! 

[Charismatic Applesauce]

OMG! My tweet made it to TWC! Did anyone see it?

Yes I did sir. Congratulations! 

Thanks! I never thought it would happen. It seemed like a random stroke of luck. I was so excited when I saw my tweet!

[Donovan]

OMG! My tweet made it to TWC! Did anyone see it?

Yes I did sir. Congratulations! 

Thanks! I never thought it would happen. It seemed like a random stroke of luck. I was so excited when I saw my tweet!

Now, You should get some award right? lol I wish I was on there. Maybe I should actually do something...

[Donovan]

This guy is a dead ringer for Chris Warren. Caution: Video is probably for anyone older than 13, due to it being comedy and a little offensive. Only watch if you are of age. There is minimal bad language.

Best of CCN Part 5

[curtjr4]

That was pretty funny just from the first few seconds

[kpetree10]

Off topic but I just want to comment on how stupid some people are...

I bought a PowerMac G5 off craigslist, I booted it up and the fans always run at full speed because the plastic air deflector was taken out and never put back in by the previous owner. Upon inspection apparently they got annoyed with the noise and unplugged all the fans they could instead of figuring out what was wrong and why there is a bright red light lit on the mobo (or I guess Logic Board because Apple has to be different).

Another one... a friend of mine was given a computer to fix because it wouldn't boot. He took the memory out and noticed that someone had bought the wrong memory (I believe DDR2 instead of DDR1) and decided that since they wouldn't fit they should file down the memory stick to make it fit because... that is the only logical thing to do.

[phw115wvwx]

Kyle, you can't underestimate the stupidity of some people.  There's far worse things that could be done in that department.

By the way, hello from Norman, OK.  I've made it through the flight just fine, and it's a warm sunny day here.

[TWCToday]

I just got back from a trip to DC this morning. It was a fun few days but back to reality. Wow I can not believe how warm its going to get later this week! Where did winter go?

[Anistorm]

Off topic but I just want to comment on how stupid some people are...

I bought a PowerMac G5 off craigslist, I booted it up and the fans always run at full speed because the plastic air deflector was taken out and never put back in by the previous owner. Upon inspection apparently they got annoyed with the noise and unplugged all the fans they could instead of figuring out what was wrong and why there is a bright red light lit on the mobo (or I guess Logic Board because Apple has to be different).

Another one... a friend of mine was given a computer to fix because it wouldn't boot. He took the memory out and noticed that someone had bought the wrong memory (I believe DDR2 instead of DDR1) and decided that since they wouldn't fit they should file down the memory stick to make it fit because... that is the only logical thing to do.

NEVER. EVER. EVER. Buy anything on Craigslist. Never.

[Tyler]

NEVER. EVER. EVER. Buy anything on Craigslist. Never.

Why? I buy and sell on Craigslist all the time. Awesome tool for getting rid of older electronics and video games.

[Zach]

Where did winter go?

It came to Florida but honestly, Im waking up to my  freezing now at 31°!

[TWCmatthew]

Where did winter go?

It came to Florida but honestly, Im waking up to my  freezing now at 31°!

I woke up to temperatures 12 degrees warmer than you, 43.