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Sending you love, friend. Thank you for sharing some of his story. A generous and curious man passed those traits onto his kiddo.

08.02.2026 14:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

K8 reposted something of yours and I was delighted to see your name pop up!

02.02.2026 20:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I used to always start on the last page that had no name for the same reason.

18.12.2025 13:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mine loves the Ranger's Apprentice series. I'll look into Method for Magic!

18.11.2025 14:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

saaaame

05.11.2025 03:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

*If A is true and B is true, what else could be true!?

05.11.2025 03:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Great point. Aligned with "riding in the wagon."

14.10.2025 14:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm wondering if the language is mimicking horse riding lingo more than car lingo. Horse, motorcycle, and bike passengers can't be totally passive the way car passengers can (well, a small child could be given proper buckles). Super curious about the other languages take!

14.10.2025 14:44 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
K-pop Demon Hunters explained by a Korean teacher 😈🧑‍🏫
K-pop Demon Hunters explained by a Korean teacher 😈🧑‍🏫 YouTube video by Talk To Me In Korean

I also just got looped in. Listening to the sound track on repeat. Pondering how to get tiger/magpie merch. I love the language/culture breakdowns, like this one: youtu.be/qCmpU3ssip8

19.08.2025 14:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That sounds sub-optimal. Mostly I'm just using light rail to go to/from the airport when I'm in Seattle, so I'd not noticed that quirk.

29.07.2025 15:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You can get an ORCA card and it works on all of these. I'm not sure on how the end-to-end fare works these days, though.

29.07.2025 15:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I love his work! magical.

10.07.2025 14:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Preview
Iran Join Rick as he explores the most surprising and fascinating land he's ever visited: Iran. In a one-hour, ground-breaking travel special on public television, you'll discover the splendid monuments of...

In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.

17.06.2025 21:17 👍 12078 🔁 3390 💬 198 📌 216

The majority of my taste in humor is thanks to Mel Brooks movies. Cannot wait.

12.06.2025 20:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I think a 4. Slightly worse that "mid".

Semi-related: In college I ran into one of my maths professor post final and he cheerily said that I did <Scottish accent>"Amazingly satisfactorily."</Scottish accent>
I'd no idea what that meant until I got my grades (it was positive).

13.05.2025 23:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I avoided putting the final total anywhere on the paper to make it easier for students to dig in and discuss with one another with out the letter-status so front and center. (I also didn't post the grades till the end of the day so kiddos didn't come to class having already looked)

03.04.2025 14:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

wontons (pork and vegetable filled, fried)

12.03.2025 15:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"Allowing other people who are not you to decide what matters to you."
37 minute video. Worth it.

27.02.2025 20:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh yeah! Ground News is also fascinating since they'll show how different sources position the same story. Reading the headline differences is wild.

27.02.2025 17:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I've been following Jessica Yellin, who does News Not Noise, on substack and insta for national coverage. A friend of mine started getting the local paper and recommends it and I found a local indie news source on substack, but ymmv depending on locale.

26.02.2025 15:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That list and your last sentence are🔥

25.02.2025 18:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Students also formalize the notion of a transformation as a function
from the plane to itself. When the transformation is a rigid motion (a translation, rotation, or reflection) it is useful to represent
it using transparencies because two copies of the plane are represented,
one by the piece of paper and one by the transparency.
These correspond to the domain and range of the transformation,
and emphasize that the transformation acts on the entire plane, taking
each point to another point. The fact that rigid motions preserve
distance and angle is clearly represented because the transparency
is not torn or distorted.

Students also formalize the notion of a transformation as a function from the plane to itself. When the transformation is a rigid motion (a translation, rotation, or reflection) it is useful to represent it using transparencies because two copies of the plane are represented, one by the piece of paper and one by the transparency. These correspond to the domain and range of the transformation, and emphasize that the transformation acts on the entire plane, taking each point to another point. The fact that rigid motions preserve distance and angle is clearly represented because the transparency is not torn or distorted.

Then for HS it has this:

19.02.2025 17:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Initially, students view rigid motions as operations on figures
(“transformations in the plane”). Later, students come to understand
that it is not the figure that is translated, rotated, or reflected, it is the
plane that is moved, carrying the figure along with it. Students start
thinking, not of moving one figure onto another, but of moving the
plane so that the first figure lands on the second (“transformations
of the plane”) without moving the coordinate grid. This change in
perspective is makes it possible to describe the effect of a given
rigid motion on any point in the plane.

Initially, students view rigid motions as operations on figures (“transformations in the plane”). Later, students come to understand that it is not the figure that is translated, rotated, or reflected, it is the plane that is moved, carrying the figure along with it. Students start thinking, not of moving one figure onto another, but of moving the plane so that the first figure lands on the second (“transformations of the plane”) without moving the coordinate grid. This change in perspective is makes it possible to describe the effect of a given rigid motion on any point in the plane.

The CCSS progressions has this:

19.02.2025 16:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

I'd be interested for a take on this from topology or differential geometry. There is something odd with these nuances, but I don't know the right question to ask to get at the distinction. And I know some folks say the plane is just a reference and it's the object that moves.

19.02.2025 16:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

new question: are those two sets of instructions actually different when both involve coordinates, which implies both are on a coordinate plane?

19.02.2025 16:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I feel the same. "transforming figures" feels more "low floor" to me while a transformation of the plane is like a function F that takes each point P to a point F(P). I've yet to find a straightforward way to think about the delta between these ideas, though

19.02.2025 16:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I read the 2nd instructions as getting the same result as the 1st instructions were they for, say, a grade 8 student. Sounds like you are thinking about transformations as movements of figures vs transformations as functions from the plane to itself?

19.02.2025 15:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I say they are the same since the center of rotation is based on the figure and not the plane. I did not calculation, but played with objects on my desk to think it through. east-->north-->pivot = pivot-->east-->north

19.02.2025 14:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What's the center of rotation?

19.02.2025 14:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A goose, it says "I think I will cause problems on purpose."

A goose, it says "I think I will cause problems on purpose."

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