Random randomness

[Blackhawk]

My kids still had boards (whiteboards, not black), but no books, and backpacks were not allowed.

[Fardaza]

My daughter and I were talking this morning about teachers slacking off before the holidays. And I said, "I bet some of them just roll a TV into the classroom and show a movie, right?"

She starts laughing hysterically and says, "Daddy, they don't "roll" TVs into the classroom, they just turn on the screen. That old-timey thing you used to call a "chalkboard" is a smart screen."

I wasn't feeling like I was turning 50 until that moment.

I retired as an elementary teacher 4 years ago. I was one of the first at my school to have a "smartboard" in my classroom. They are great! I could show a Youtube video, put a workbook under the doc camera and write on it, connect to any website, etc. The kids could then see whatever I wanted them to from anywhere in the room. The workbook and doc camera were a Godsend to me as a teacher. I could show the page we were doing as a class, write on the page so they could see it, and even walk over to the smartboard and circle or underline things as well. All while writing on the whiteboard next to the screen.

As for "slacking off before the holidays", I'm not sure that accurately describes it. It probably does for some teachers. The fact is that any tests, worksheets, essays, etc. that a teacher gives the week before a holiday have to be graded during the supposed vacation time. This can greatly affect a teacher's mindset and attitude when they're trying to enjoy a few days off just like the kids.

[LordMortis]

When sweet potatoes go in sale for $.25 a pound around turkey day I need to remind myself to buy more than 4 at a time with those new fangled digital coupons. I find that I eat one every day and then on day 5, I'm always like "I could have had another sweet potato today." They don't make a meal, but as far as snacks goes, you can't beat $.25. I'm guessing I spend more on energy to cook it than I do on the actual tuber.

That is all.

[Daehawk]

I sit at my computer in front of a double window. It has a wood divider going down the middle of the windows.

I need a light here at the PC sometimes. I want one where I could screw it flush against that wood divider there and have it shine down on the pc area.

Here lemme see if I can take a pic of the area...

Spoiler:

Is there such a thing as that? Its too big for a clamp on lamp. And I dont have room for a lamp wit ha base to sit it on there in that mess. So I was thinking of simply screwing one to the wood frame there above it all.

Unless theres a simpler / better idea Im not seeing.

Barring all else I could get a clamp lamp and attach it to the bottom of the raised window frame on the right side...that might work best after all.

Maybe something from this page might work and be cheap.

EDIT: I think Ive settled on THIS as being about what I need.

[Kraken]

My daughter and I were talking this morning about teachers slacking off before the holidays. And I said, "I bet some of them just roll a TV into the classroom and show a movie, right?"

She starts laughing hysterically and says, "Daddy, they don't "roll" TVs into the classroom, they just turn on the screen. That old-timey thing you used to call a "chalkboard" is a smart screen."

I wasn't feeling like I was turning 50 until that moment.

Haha

I have no kids so I would definitely show my disconnect with how classrooms are now. I would end up asking, "So no more AV clubs?"... and be laughed out of the room. Man, I remember being in the AV room with many boxes of bulbs to replace in film strips, overhead projectors, movie projectors, waiting for the signal to "roll" down a movie projector to a classroom. The smell of those dusty bulbs when they heat up and were as hot as the surface of the sun.

I was in the Film Club, and we got to use the video camera and tape machine (reel-to-reel, baby, newfangled cassettes were still in the future...and the camera was a huge thing on a wheeled tripod). The price of access was having to record sporting matches for the coaches to review, but for enduring that we got to experiment with the technology however we wished in our off time.