http://thelnie.com/blog Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:33:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So I'm walking around in one of my classrooms, and this girl is doing binomials. (x^2 - 2x - 15) Okay, so we know the answer is (x+3) (x-5), but this girl had the signs mixed up for many of her answers, and she was rewriting them on her homework. Plus for ... http://thelnie.com/blog/2008/12/03/mad-about-math/ So I was walking around tutoring again, and I pass by this kid I've known since last year, who likes to talk to me sometimes, or hail me down for a question that he might not actually need the answer to. Kid: Want to hear a joke? Me: Sure! Kid: (to Kid 2 ... http://thelnie.com/blog/2008/12/03/ill-never-find-out-the-ending/ I've been really spotty lately. Last week I was really sick so I didn't get to go to a lot of the schools I work at. I think I had the flu, and I think the flu is going around. Have to be careful...But if I've had the flu already ... http://thelnie.com/blog/2008/11/25/spotty-and-update/ I did ones of those, buy one day get the whole year free. So I went to Universal Studios again...I don't even remember the first time I went. But it's free, so what the hey. This was after Halloween and they still had some props up from their Halloween...Horror...thing. I ... http://thelnie.com/blog/2008/11/19/universal-studios-zombie-style/ Am I the only one that was almost floored when I saw these? I saw a guy wearing it at Disneyland and had to ask him where he got it, and his friend with him said that her friend worked at Macys so she told them when the jackets came ... http://thelnie.com/blog/2008/11/11/star-wars/ In a 9th grade class, I notice one girl has a big book for Bronte books. Me: Hey, what is that book? Girl: Oh, I'm reading it for silent reading time. Me: <grabbing the book and leafing through it> man...it's huge!.......That's what shhh....<gasp> Boy: (that I've taught since his 8th grade last year): That's ... http://thelnie.com/blog/2008/11/05/i-lose-myself-sometimes/ When I go to Taiwan in the summer, I look forward to the computer expo in Taipei. They usually have Intel there, which presents WoW. This video was from 2005. I dug it up. It's pretty lols. My favorite part is the gnome kids. [flashvideo filename=http://www.thelnie.com/assets/video/wowexpo.flv /] At this time, Taiwan hadn't ... http://thelnie.com/blog/2008/11/01/rememberingcomputer-expo-in-taiwan/ Trying to do the MC Hammer/ Male Orc dance. Can't touch this! Daa na na naa. na na. nana. Can't touch this! Well, I didn't intend on dressing up. I really didn't. But I had the paper mask laying around from BlizzCon, and the tabard is something I made for last ... http://thelnie.com/blog/2008/10/31/halloween-2/ OoooooOoOooh yeeeeeeah. While carving this I had sudden outburts of imitating The Joker. "Wwwhhhhhyyyy sooOOoooo Sssserrioussssssaaah!" Kind of creepy actually. WRU Heath Ledger <: ( Dear Parents, Don't worry, the kitchen is still clean. http://thelnie.com/blog/2008/10/31/pumpkin-time/ At a middle school today: Boy: Hey, smell my cheek Me: ...@_@...uh...no thanks! Boy: Just smell my cheek! It smells like cologne! Me: ^_^... <walks away> To be fair, another boy had been spraying cologne, and this boy must have gotten some on his finger...and then smeared it on his face...and he might have been ... http://thelnie.com/blog/2008/10/28/no-thanks/