This was the result of a thread at the NaNo forums asking how non-gifted kids reacted to gifted kids, and well, I went off on a tangent a bit.My brother and I are (were, I suppose, as we're both in college) gifted, whatever that means. My brother slacks off in school and still passes his classes. He's certainly smart, but he doesn't work to ( Read more... )

There's a thread on the NaNoWriMo forums asking why we write. My response ( Read more... )

As a comment in otf_wank:

http://www.livejournal.com/manage/settings/

The adult content settings are at the very bottom. The text cracks me up:

Not all content on LiveJournal is appropriate for everyone. These settings let you rate your journal as well as determine the ( Read more... )

Inspired by this post in blog_sociologyI have a journal. I write whatever is on my mind, whenever it's on my mind. Whether it's once a day or seven times a day doesn't matter. I don't bother to split it up into topics because otherwise I would have seven posts a day, and I have a life outside the Internet (or so I like to convince myself). Yes, this leads to ( Read more... )

So our new class mascot is the Gold Diggers.

... *blink*

Let the double entendres begin.

EDIT 11:18am: I wrote this as a comment in agnesscottLook at it this way. 40% of the class voted for the mascot, meaning that 60% didn't. This means that while 40% of the students are going to celebrate over the new mascot, 60% are going to be unhappy because of it, ( Read more... )

Over at nanowrimo there was a call for Nanowrimo tips for newbies. Here's what I wrote. Okay, a lot of you are from Nanowrimo, so you'll benefit from this too, even though not all of you are new to Nano ( Read more... )

In case you've been living under a rock over the past week or so, Pluto isn't a planet. This has all sort of non-scientific effects, such as a new mnemonic for second-graders to learn the planets by (My Very Excellent Mother Just Stopped Unicorn Neglect?), gifts that still show nine planets, textbook revisions that contain Pluto as a planet, ( Read more... )

HereSome non-mathematically inclined people have been taught that problems in math (from their experience) have one and only one solution that can be obtained by the "plug and chug" method. As we know so well, though, this method fails over time. I've discovered that the more I learn about math, the less I know about it. It's an adventure of sorts ( Read more... )

Someone asked this question in embodiment, and here's my answer ( Read more... )