And cooking is the geekiest of hobbies, if you do it right. My wife and I collect tools. The geekiest? An immersion circulator. This device maintains a water bath at a precise temperature (+/-.1 Celsius). You vacuum seal your food, and cook it in this water bath. It's fascinating, because you have such precise control of temperature. For example: food safety standards were developed to be idiot proof. You cook pork to 160 F because nothing will survive 160 for more than a second or two. However, you can achieve the same effect by taking food to 130 F and leaving it there for two hours. It will still kill everything, and it is still safe to eat, but you haven't affected the proteins in the same way. If you have never had truly medium rare pork, you are really missing out. Plus, it has the added bonus of being impossible to overcook something. Your food will be 130 F now, and hour from now, 10 hours from now. I played with cooking eggs at different temperatures - you get creamy whites, and liquid yolks, then bump the temp two degrees, and the yolks go solid. Much fun.
We also invested in a propane wok burner. Commercial ranges don't put out the BTUs you need to do real Chinese cooking, and this thing is 10 times as powerful as our stove. We also have a Zoku Quick Pop - a device that makes popsicles in 10 minutes, on your kitchen table. Why is that important? Because the faster you freeze something, the smaller the ice crystal, and the smoother the texture. This is why those Dipping Dots ice creams are so creamy.
I could go on for a while - I am a geek after all.:)
Do you have any idea how cheap heroin is? You can pay for a year's supply of heroin for an addict with the same amount of money you spend to put him away for a week. You give the stuff away. That way, addicts can get as much as they want, and you know who and where they are.
Begin with data as a sequence of ones and zeros. Spend five minutes showing how you can convert alphabet into binary and back. Don't worry about making sure the students can repeat the operation; just lift the lid and show how the code works. Remove the magic.
Next, explain the difference between CPU, hard disk, and RAM. Use the chef analogy (the chef is the CPU - the RAM is the countertops - the hard drive is the pantry). Illustrate that a file has a physical location on disk. Show exactly how many places one can store a small file on a modern computer. Briefly cover the file system.
Next, show how data can be interpreted differently. A.jpg file is not a picture; it is data that can be interpreted in many different ways. Open it in a text editor and show the date time stamp information. Open the same file in a browser, in word, in paint. Hammer home the concept that the program we use to open a file does not determine what the file is. Close this unit with viruses - data that hides its true nature.
Finally, expand these concepts outside of the local system. Write a simple html file by hand and display it in a browser. Then go to a website, and illustrate how surfing the web is pulling files down from a remote computer to be displayed locally. Show how local copies are made.
To close the unit, have the class do exercises where they save data, and have them determine where that data is saved. BY the end of this unit computers are no longer magic.
Relevant material? You mean the two minutes taken out of context that when put in their proper context were completely innocent? You know, kind of like the hatchet job the right did on Obama's pastor? They are quite good at twisting the truth. Hell, Fox News went to court to defend their right to mislead. At this point, if you trust anything coming out of the right's media machine, I'd have to question your intelligence.
The first thing I learned when I became a parent was to never criticize someone else's parenting. Every kid is different. Every circumstance is unique. One child may be able to handle playing outside by themselves just fine. Other kids seem to willfully do everything in their power to get themselves killed. You just don't know until you have done the job.
I'm pushing 40 now, and the older I get, the more I realize I don't know shit. I'm considered an expert in my field - and if other experts make shit up like I do, I fear for humanity. When you are young, authority is infallible or incompetent. When you reach middle age, authority is YOU.
I'm sure the army of neurologists, pediatricians, and psychologists who have seen him were all mistaken, and their diagnosis was trumped by some dude married to a elementary school teacher. Nice work.
Yes, you are. You are not a doctor. You are not qualified to make this statement, and you make life more difficult than it has to be for the people who really do need these meds. Stop it.
You smugly point out that my kids has problems focusing while medicated. He barely knows his own name un-medicated. You have no idea so just SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Unfortunately, the absolute best diagnosis for ADD is to medicate, and see if the patient responds well to the medication. Scary, but true - which is probably why there are so many misdiagnoses.
It gets worse man. Sounds like your son has a pretty severe case. Mine too.
Mine's in middle school. He came home with homework last night - two math problems, 5 number sentences each. Should take maybe twenty minutes. It took us 4 HOURS.
Piece of advice - if your kid's ADD is a severe as mine's is, he is going to need a lot of help. However, he looks normal, and when the teacher asks him if he understands, he'll lie out of embarrassment. If you do not intervene, it will be a couple of months before the teacher figures out just how bad it is - and then you've lost 25% of the year.
Get an IEP, as soon as you can. Once you have one, it follows your son all the way through school. Don't wait until 5th grade like we did - advocate for your son now.
good luck, and have patience. As he gets older, it is going to be difficult to remember that it is not his fault. Try to keep that in mind.
If you think ADD and ADHD is a problem with kids being overactive, you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, and should shut your mouth before you embarrass yourself further.
Severe ADD is the most heartbreaking condition I have ever run across - precisely because of assholes like you that think they understand it, but do not. Let's see you spend 15 minutes trying to get a nine year old to memorize a zip code and fail. Monkeys can do that shit, but my kid can't. You do that, and then come back and comment.
Fuck you dude. I've got a 12 year old who I can't get to wipe his own ass. He can't repeat a zip code back to you, when medicated, because he can't focus long enough. I have to constantly ask him to repeat what I just said to make sure he was paying attention.
Fuck you. You have no idea what this is really like. None. Sometimes I wish my kid had Down's Syndrome - because at least then you could look at him and see he is profoundly fucked up. But it's not bad enough that I have to sit with my kid for 4 hours every night to do homework that should take him 20 minutes - I have to deal with armchair asshole doctors like you.
Fuck you.
Gore did win Florida, if a full recount had been done. AP:
A vote-by-vote review of untallied ballots in the 2000 Florida presidential election indicates George W. Bush would have narrowly prevailed in the partial recounts sought by Al Gore, but Gore might have reversed the outcome - by the barest of margins - had he pursued and gained a complete statewide recount.
In my book, the fact that Bush is the son of the former head of the secret police, the contested province was governed by his brother, and the person in charge of tallying the votes was on record as stating she would deliver Florida for Bush; counts for a few thousand extra Bush votes that he didn't really earn (or more specifically, the loss of a few thousand Gore votes). But the past is the past. The point is, a lot of people hold a grudge. Hence the eggs.
In terms of the ER - you're an idiot. You really want an ER to check for an insurance card when you are brought in unconscious from an accident? How about your kids, who are too young to carry ID? You want the ambulance to just drive off if you can't produce proof of insurance? Yeah, good luck with that.
What you idiot tea-baggers fail to realize is insurance is a method of socializing risk. It sounds like socialism because it is. And it doesn't work unless you include everyone in the pool. That's why every first world nation on the planet has a single payer system except us - because they are better at math than the Republican minority here.
It is totally your choice to "not enrich the pockets of an insurance company". If you chose not to, you do not qualify for the tax break you would otherwise. Unfortunately, if you get sick, it is not my choice of whether or not to pay for your treatment. Under our system of laws, you will get treated anyway, and I'll (as a taxpayer, and a holder of insurance that would be otherwise cheaper if we didn't have to pay for deadbeats like you) get stuck with the bill. So I see that tax as being perfectly fair. It blows my mind that you don't.
Bush stole an election. There was plenty of outrage. Hence the eggs.
I will admit, he has disappointed me in some of his positions. It is a long jump from "disappointment" to "hatred". I still maintain that he has done nothing that should inspire "hatred".
And as far as disappointments go, whenever I think of things I wish he would have done differently, I think of how McCain would have handled the same situation...
As far as I'm concerned, there is no rational hate for Obama. He may have done some things you don't like, but he hasn't killed anybody. There is no reason to hate the man.
In my opinion, most people who hate Obama just can't stand the idea of people getting something for nothing (and in their minds, the people getting something for nothing are almost always a shade of brown).
For an absolutely wonderful article on fucking proper fucking booming by an industry professional, please see this article. It is one of the most educational (and salty!) pieces I have read on this disaster.
Many people on the right are trying to brand this event as "Obama's Katrina", just as you suggest should be happening. However, I believe there is a fundamental difference between the two events: what exactly is the administration supposed to do? The fix for this was going to take weeks. Everyone reasonable knows it. New wells have to be drilled to relieve the pressure. That is the ONLY way to safely shut this thing down. Everything else that has been happening is theatre. Experts knew from the moment that this happened that we were going to have oil pumping into the Gulf for six weeks, and that the entire Gulf had just been handed a death sentence. No amount of "taking charge" was going to change that.
Obama hasn't "taken charge" because he knows that BP is going to catch the blame when none of these other "fixes" work. That's smart. Contrast this with the actual Katrina: there were known things that could have been done to relieve the disaster situation in New Orleans, that were actually the responsibility of the Federal government to do, that did not get done. Bush actually failed to act when there was work to be done, whereas there is not much here for Obama to do.
The question is whether a bachelors from a top tier school is worth the premium you pay versus a bottom tier school. I'd wager the cost of my general studies degree from podunk midwestern commuter university that it isn't.
Within 5 years of leaving college, no one cares where you got your degree. It only matters that you have one. It really doesn't even matter what it is in.
And you don't see the implicit statement in such an oath that there exist a god? And not just a god, but a being referred to as "god" instead of a god, meaning all polytheists and atheists are asked to forswear their beliefs in making such a statement.
I see an implicit assumption, but you know what happens when you assume. No one is asking anyone to forswear anything. Oaths are tricky. There is a reason our military takes an oath to defend the constitution, NOT one to obey the commander in chief.
But statement implying belief. I'm not demonizing the BSA or members, I'm just saying as an organization promoting religion the government cannot be part of that either by providing aid or preferential treatment. If you want government aid, work to change the BSA's policies or splinter from the main organization.... Of course, but it doesn't matter if some members interpret things differently. If those subgroups don't split off and form their own organization, the government cannot support them because they are part of an organization that promotes some religions over others.
The BSA is chartered by Congress. You can make all kinds of declarative statements, and we'll continue to completely ignore them. The fact is, the government gives all kinds of aid to all kinds of religious groups - or have you forgotten Bush and all his faith-based initiatives?
Speaking as an ignostic assistant scoutmaster...I've never been asked to swear an oath of religious principle. I do say the scout oath once a week - I swear to do my duty to god. Nobody ever asked me what that was, and I dare anybody to try to define it for me. Reverent simply means an attitude of deep respect, which I have. Belief is not required.
You have to remember that the BSA is a very loosely organized group. The national office can spout whatever BS they like; they still rely upon people like me to interpret and implement.
Wait a minute. We don't allow toy companies to advertise toys on shows those toys were created from (i.e. can't advertise Dora dolls during Dora the Explorer). We do this because we recognize that young children are particularly susceptible to advertising. I see giving a child a toy as part of the meal as advertising, and I have no problem limiting the kinds of advertising targeted at children. This is a small change that could have significant impact to public health.
...this is a great idea. I had to institute a rule in my house that no toys were allowed with food. I found that when I forbid the kids from having the toys, when I gave them a choice of restaurants for dinner, they were much more likely to chose one with better food. It seems that the toys were a large part of the draw...take that away, and they were much more likely to eat something healthy.
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And cooking is the geekiest of hobbies, if you do it right. My wife and I collect tools. The geekiest? An immersion circulator. This device maintains a water bath at a precise temperature (+/- .1 Celsius). You vacuum seal your food, and cook it in this water bath. It's fascinating, because you have such precise control of temperature. For example: food safety standards were developed to be idiot proof. You cook pork to 160 F because nothing will survive 160 for more than a second or two. However, you can achieve the same effect by taking food to 130 F and leaving it there for two hours. It will still kill everything, and it is still safe to eat, but you haven't affected the proteins in the same way. If you have never had truly medium rare pork, you are really missing out. Plus, it has the added bonus of being impossible to overcook something. Your food will be 130 F now, and hour from now, 10 hours from now. I played with cooking eggs at different temperatures - you get creamy whites, and liquid yolks, then bump the temp two degrees, and the yolks go solid. Much fun. :)
We also invested in a propane wok burner. Commercial ranges don't put out the BTUs you need to do real Chinese cooking, and this thing is 10 times as powerful as our stove. We also have a Zoku Quick Pop - a device that makes popsicles in 10 minutes, on your kitchen table. Why is that important? Because the faster you freeze something, the smaller the ice crystal, and the smoother the texture. This is why those Dipping Dots ice creams are so creamy.
I could go on for a while - I am a geek after all.
Have to root the phone first, which requires the sdk.
Do you have any idea how cheap heroin is? You can pay for a year's supply of heroin for an addict with the same amount of money you spend to put him away for a week. You give the stuff away. That way, addicts can get as much as they want, and you know who and where they are.
Next, explain the difference between CPU, hard disk, and RAM. Use the chef analogy (the chef is the CPU - the RAM is the countertops - the hard drive is the pantry). Illustrate that a file has a physical location on disk. Show exactly how many places one can store a small file on a modern computer. Briefly cover the file system.
Next, show how data can be interpreted differently. A .jpg file is not a picture; it is data that can be interpreted in many different ways. Open it in a text editor and show the date time stamp information. Open the same file in a browser, in word, in paint. Hammer home the concept that the program we use to open a file does not determine what the file is. Close this unit with viruses - data that hides its true nature.
Finally, expand these concepts outside of the local system. Write a simple html file by hand and display it in a browser. Then go to a website, and illustrate how surfing the web is pulling files down from a remote computer to be displayed locally. Show how local copies are made.
To close the unit, have the class do exercises where they save data, and have them determine where that data is saved. BY the end of this unit computers are no longer magic.
Relevant material? You mean the two minutes taken out of context that when put in their proper context were completely innocent? You know, kind of like the hatchet job the right did on Obama's pastor? They are quite good at twisting the truth. Hell, Fox News went to court to defend their right to mislead. At this point, if you trust anything coming out of the right's media machine, I'd have to question your intelligence.
The first thing I learned when I became a parent was to never criticize someone else's parenting. Every kid is different. Every circumstance is unique. One child may be able to handle playing outside by themselves just fine. Other kids seem to willfully do everything in their power to get themselves killed. You just don't know until you have done the job.
I'm pushing 40 now, and the older I get, the more I realize I don't know shit. I'm considered an expert in my field - and if other experts make shit up like I do, I fear for humanity. When you are young, authority is infallible or incompetent. When you reach middle age, authority is YOU.
Just sayin' - you're an asshole. Stop it.
You smugly point out that my kids has problems focusing while medicated. He barely knows his own name un-medicated. You have no idea so just SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Unfortunately, the absolute best diagnosis for ADD is to medicate, and see if the patient responds well to the medication. Scary, but true - which is probably why there are so many misdiagnoses.
Mine's in middle school. He came home with homework last night - two math problems, 5 number sentences each. Should take maybe twenty minutes. It took us 4 HOURS.
Piece of advice - if your kid's ADD is a severe as mine's is, he is going to need a lot of help. However, he looks normal, and when the teacher asks him if he understands, he'll lie out of embarrassment. If you do not intervene, it will be a couple of months before the teacher figures out just how bad it is - and then you've lost 25% of the year.
Get an IEP, as soon as you can. Once you have one, it follows your son all the way through school. Don't wait until 5th grade like we did - advocate for your son now.
good luck, and have patience. As he gets older, it is going to be difficult to remember that it is not his fault. Try to keep that in mind.
Severe ADD is the most heartbreaking condition I have ever run across - precisely because of assholes like you that think they understand it, but do not. Let's see you spend 15 minutes trying to get a nine year old to memorize a zip code and fail. Monkeys can do that shit, but my kid can't. You do that, and then come back and comment.
Fuck you dude. I've got a 12 year old who I can't get to wipe his own ass. He can't repeat a zip code back to you, when medicated, because he can't focus long enough. I have to constantly ask him to repeat what I just said to make sure he was paying attention. Fuck you. You have no idea what this is really like. None. Sometimes I wish my kid had Down's Syndrome - because at least then you could look at him and see he is profoundly fucked up. But it's not bad enough that I have to sit with my kid for 4 hours every night to do homework that should take him 20 minutes - I have to deal with armchair asshole doctors like you. Fuck you.
Yeah, because it worked so well under Bush. Oh wait...
A vote-by-vote review of untallied ballots in the 2000 Florida presidential election indicates George W. Bush would have narrowly prevailed in the partial recounts sought by Al Gore, but Gore might have reversed the outcome - by the barest of margins - had he pursued and gained a complete statewide recount.
In my book, the fact that Bush is the son of the former head of the secret police, the contested province was governed by his brother, and the person in charge of tallying the votes was on record as stating she would deliver Florida for Bush; counts for a few thousand extra Bush votes that he didn't really earn (or more specifically, the loss of a few thousand Gore votes). But the past is the past. The point is, a lot of people hold a grudge. Hence the eggs.
In terms of the ER - you're an idiot. You really want an ER to check for an insurance card when you are brought in unconscious from an accident? How about your kids, who are too young to carry ID? You want the ambulance to just drive off if you can't produce proof of insurance? Yeah, good luck with that.
What you idiot tea-baggers fail to realize is insurance is a method of socializing risk. It sounds like socialism because it is. And it doesn't work unless you include everyone in the pool. That's why every first world nation on the planet has a single payer system except us - because they are better at math than the Republican minority here.
Bush stole an election. There was plenty of outrage. Hence the eggs.
And as far as disappointments go, whenever I think of things I wish he would have done differently, I think of how McCain would have handled the same situation...
In my opinion, most people who hate Obama just can't stand the idea of people getting something for nothing (and in their minds, the people getting something for nothing are almost always a shade of brown).
I thought the Puritan movement died out in the 17th century, obviously I was wrong.
No, they moved to the US. Europe didn't want them, and now we are stuck with them.
For an absolutely wonderful article on fucking proper fucking booming by an industry professional, please see this article. It is one of the most educational (and salty!) pieces I have read on this disaster.
Obama hasn't "taken charge" because he knows that BP is going to catch the blame when none of these other "fixes" work. That's smart. Contrast this with the actual Katrina: there were known things that could have been done to relieve the disaster situation in New Orleans, that were actually the responsibility of the Federal government to do, that did not get done. Bush actually failed to act when there was work to be done, whereas there is not much here for Obama to do.
Within 5 years of leaving college, no one cares where you got your degree. It only matters that you have one. It really doesn't even matter what it is in.
I spoke correctly the first time.
And you don't see the implicit statement in such an oath that there exist a god? And not just a god, but a being referred to as "god" instead of a god, meaning all polytheists and atheists are asked to forswear their beliefs in making such a statement.
I see an implicit assumption, but you know what happens when you assume. No one is asking anyone to forswear anything. Oaths are tricky. There is a reason our military takes an oath to defend the constitution, NOT one to obey the commander in chief.
But statement implying belief. I'm not demonizing the BSA or members, I'm just saying as an organization promoting religion the government cannot be part of that either by providing aid or preferential treatment. If you want government aid, work to change the BSA's policies or splinter from the main organization.... Of course, but it doesn't matter if some members interpret things differently. If those subgroups don't split off and form their own organization, the government cannot support them because they are part of an organization that promotes some religions over others.
The BSA is chartered by Congress. You can make all kinds of declarative statements, and we'll continue to completely ignore them. The fact is, the government gives all kinds of aid to all kinds of religious groups - or have you forgotten Bush and all his faith-based initiatives?
You have to remember that the BSA is a very loosely organized group. The national office can spout whatever BS they like; they still rely upon people like me to interpret and implement.
Wait a minute. We don't allow toy companies to advertise toys on shows those toys were created from (i.e. can't advertise Dora dolls during Dora the Explorer). We do this because we recognize that young children are particularly susceptible to advertising. I see giving a child a toy as part of the meal as advertising, and I have no problem limiting the kinds of advertising targeted at children. This is a small change that could have significant impact to public health.
...this is a great idea. I had to institute a rule in my house that no toys were allowed with food. I found that when I forbid the kids from having the toys, when I gave them a choice of restaurants for dinner, they were much more likely to chose one with better food. It seems that the toys were a large part of the draw...take that away, and they were much more likely to eat something healthy.