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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Sept 9, 2012 10:06:48 GMT -5
Sorry I missed the PR chat. Just watched it this morning so I'm caught up! I am so sick of Elena. Her drama is so...dramatic. Annoying!!! I will miss Alicia. I like her quiet style. I'm not sure she was really cut out to be a contestant on the show though. Spring, I am laughing at your comments about the 16 year old's PP. PowerPoint is just an invitation for bad design! Have you heard of Prezi? It's a different way of giving presentations that is very cool, but it has options for the slide to make sudden flips and zoom and turns that can make the viewer nauseous. Oy. I have never heard of Prezi. Well, the 16 yr old - whom I will call Nicole - finished her powerpoint. It has 9 slides, with 7 different backgrounds. She added a "bounce in," and some other animated entries. She found some clipart for several of the slides, and added AUDIO to each slide! Everything from music to bubbling to monkey chatter to a baby crying. The last slide has thunderous applause. She had me laughing. She kept asking me for my opinion on the audio clips, and I kept saying "I don't think you should have them at all . . ." She gave me several big, dramatic sighs, gave up on me ever understanding how to make an interesting presentation, and kept on plugging away. I have to hand it to her, she has quite a show there. Tell her I think it sounds AWESOME, but, sadly, a presentation few other people will appreciate.   |
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Sept 9, 2012 10:07:49 GMT -5
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Sept 9, 2012 10:16:38 GMT -5
Went to visit Jacob and Jesse and Val after work on Friday. On the way back and I stopped by the house where thy used to live and hung out for a few hours hoping to see Yuri, but he didn't show. Of course, it was pouring rain, so that didn't help.
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Sept 9, 2012 13:49:40 GMT -5
Icky tummy today. Still managed a pickup of some of the housemess. There is unlikely to be much of anything accomplished today.
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Post by Michelle on Sept 9, 2012 19:37:31 GMT -5
Went to visit Jacob and Jesse and Val after work on Friday. On the way back and I stopped by the house where thy used to live and hung out for a few hours hoping to see Yuri, but he didn't show. Of course, it was pouring rain, so that didn't help.  |
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Post by Anne, Old S'cubie Cat on Sept 9, 2012 22:11:50 GMT -5
Another absolutely stellar Leverage. They are really rolling this season. Parker sure has grown over the seasons - she has empathy for others now, and she's making friends, not as part of a con, but as herself. I hope Amy gets to stick around, and I love what Parker and the pub staff did for the doctor at the end.
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Post by beccaelizabeth on Sept 10, 2012 0:27:58 GMT -5
#wavey#
first day back to college today.
first lesson 0900 Monday.
I must catch the 0730 bus.
one more semester of this.
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Post by SpringSummers on Sept 10, 2012 8:44:32 GMT -5
 first day back to college today. first lesson 0900 Monday. I must catch the 0730 bus. one more semester of this. |
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Post by SpringSummers on Sept 10, 2012 8:46:56 GMT -5
I have never heard of Prezi. Well, the 16 yr old - whom I will call Nicole - finished her powerpoint. It has 9 slides, with 7 different backgrounds. She added a "bounce in," and some other animated entries. She found some clipart for several of the slides, and added AUDIO to each slide! Everything from music to bubbling to monkey chatter to a baby crying. The last slide has thunderous applause. She had me laughing. She kept asking me for my opinion on the audio clips, and I kept saying "I don't think you should have them at all . . ." She gave me several big, dramatic sighs, gave up on me ever understanding how to make an interesting presentation, and kept on plugging away. I have to hand it to her, she has quite a show there. Tell her I think it sounds AWESOME, but, sadly, a presentation few other people will appreciate. I am really curious to see what kind of grade she gets on it. The content is fine, and I don't know what to expect from the teacher on how she will react to the imaginative part. It is definitely way, way, way overdone, but then again, she has demonstrated some proficiency in ppt, and a lot of imagination. |
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Post by beccaelizabeth on Sept 10, 2012 9:13:10 GMT -5
first day back to college today. first lesson 0900 Monday. I must catch the 0730 bus. one more semester of this. and now I'm home again. |
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Sept 10, 2012 16:20:30 GMT -5
Me too. Workout #3 had some odd side effects. One was appetite. Bob took me to Panera. I ordered a sandwich and a salad. I'm not that much of a salad eater BUT
I could not stop eating the salad. When it was gone I ate the greens off my sandwich. Then I ate the greens off HIS sandwich. Then I scraped the bottom of the salad bowls--his and mine--with a piece of bread.
I still have half a sandwich. but what does a craving for greens after a workout mean?
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Post by Queen E on Sept 10, 2012 17:52:02 GMT -5
Me too. Workout #3 had some odd side effects. One was appetite. Bob took me to Panera. I ordered a sandwich and a salad. I'm not that much of a salad eater BUT I could not stop eating the salad. When it was gone I ate the greens off my sandwich. Then I ate the greens off HIS sandwich. Then I scraped the bottom of the salad bowls--his and mine--with a piece of bread. I still have half a sandwich. but what does a craving for greens after a workout mean? I have a thought about that. I think that the human body is a wonderful machine, in many ways, and when we listen to it, it is pretty excellent at sending us messages. I can't remember where I read it first, but there's this idea of foods as either "hummers" (insert joke here) or "beckoners." If I remember correctly, "beckoners" are foods we see and then want, and "hummers" are foods we want without seeing them first. So, if I have a craving for, say, bananas, out of the blue, I assume it's my body's way of telling me I need potassium. I'd bet that there was something in the greens that you sweated out during your workout (eg, one of the water-soluble vitamins) that your stomach was saying: "Hey, give me some more of that!" |
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Sept 10, 2012 18:32:34 GMT -5
Long, long, long damned week already. Julia, also it was supposed to rain, and it didn't rain, so the dust is getting worse. |
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Sept 10, 2012 21:13:15 GMT -5
Is anybody watching "Wagner's Dream"? I'm an opera lover from way back and PBS is running the entire Ring cycle this week. Just hearing those themes is enough to send chills down my spine.
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Post by Karen on Sept 11, 2012 8:53:12 GMT -5
((((((Scubies)))))))
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