Long time no post! I just haven’t been on the computer much. Here are my weekly notes:
- Just got back from dinner at 4th and Vine downtown. Every Sunday they show movies during the dinner, and tonight they showed Who killed the electric car? Dinner was quite good, but the movie could have been better. It felt like an extended commercial, and the people involved seemed like fanatical environmentalists. Oh, and when they realized they couldn’t answer the question properly, they just blamed everyone.
- I also went to the Edmonton Oilers Super Skills competition today. Rexall Place was nearly sold out, it was amazing. There was easily double the amount of people that attended last year.
- All the wonderful technology we have at our fingertips is usually a good thing, unless you’re a bad teacher.
- Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve done trig. All I remember is SOHCAHTOA.
- I was very disappointed this week to learn that the Xbox Live Video Marketplace is only available in the United States. Then with news of all the problems, I realized that it should have all the bugs worked out by the time it comes to Canada!
- An article I read yesterday claims that tweens are the new teens. I would be surprised if this is the first time such an argument has been made.
- Megan invited me to a performance of Macbeth at my old high school on Friday. It was pretty well done, and incorporated professional and student actors. It all came back to me with the line “my dearest chuck” which I incorrectly read as “my dearest chunk” in front of the entire class in high school. Good times!
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Why are you doing trig again?
Actually I wasn’t, Sharon’s sister was. I was very unsuccessfully trying to help!
Should have asked me!! Trig is my absolute favourite!! Well, high school trig anyways. I actual ravage through internet forums just to look for people who may need help in math, JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT.
And I cannot believe those 13 year old girls got suspended. Students try to provoke teachers ALL THE TIME. Sure it didn’t have to be recorded or posted on the internet, but the teacher got what he/she deserved. 3 decades of experience later and you’d think the teacher would realize that’s what jr. high kids do. They do everything in their power to try to set the teacher off. When you have to resort to yelling at 13 year old kids, I do believe it’s time to quit.
You are more resourceful in this area. Do you think you could maybe find a copy of this clip? At the very least I’d like to know how exactly this student provoked the teacher in what would appear to be a huge rage. Until then, I will not take the teachers side on this one.
Here’s the CBC video segment on this story. In it they say the original clip has been removed from YouTube…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm0ax5Pg95E
Back in November I saw the documentary Who killed the electric car? with Sharon. I remember being less…
Back in November I saw the documentary Who killed the electric car? and I remember being less than impressed,…