Yep, they can be. : ) Reactions to said items *can* also be influenced by comments (likely) made by above co-inventor which can be construed as insulting and alienating when directed to a potential customer base.
I really like the pic of the little girl with the plastic baseball bats! The expression on her face reads very much "those boys havw nothing on meI can hit it out of the yard."
Agreed, Alan. I've always found those with less to be more giving and willing to help out others.
Yes, and no. Yes, I'm just as sick and tired of what is essentially spam being spread I don't agree that the answer is so obvious. While I'll agree that "name an ____ without letter _," can be obvious, the answers to math problems are not always so. The Slate article explains the "whys" quite succinctly. It, unfortunately, does not really take into account that naming a body part without the letter a is less likely to be a problematic challenge for someone with reading and language skill difficulties as alegrabic equation would pose for someone with a numerical and calculatory difficulty. Following that thought process, I'm curious to know what someone with dyslexia thinks of the "name a" games. I can only personally attest to how the mathematical hindrances can impact doing such an equation. Despite my disadvantages I did get what the Slate article says is the "correct" answer, but only after trying to think it through the "wrong" way twice, and having to recite the PEDMAS pneumonic. If it were any longer then I would have had to use paper and pencil and likely would have failed. A wonderful example of how we do not all have the same intelligence.
Interesting. I've been wondering how teaching children cursive script with a fountain pen versus a pencil would result. I'm guessing the pens didn't use cartridges. I used to use cheap ones (made by Pilot, I think) when I was in middle/high school and those did leak everywhere. I hadn't had one in years and then randomly found a cheap one (made by Zebra) at the drug store. It's...ok, skips a lot, sometimes doesn't write, and is too fine a point for my liking. What can you expect for less than $5? Since that rekindled my interest in them I finally bought myself a relatively inexpensive Parker pen with a medium point and I love the thing.
I've been a fountain pen lover and have used them for years. This is an awesome idea. I'm curious as to what brand of pen they used but they did a good job of trying to hide it.
I learned "cups" as a kid at summer camp. It wasn't something I did at my school or any of my friends from our town did. We bought it back with us and taught everyone at school, much to the chagrin of the school staff on lunch duty. I had mostly forgotten about it until I was out of high school and a friend of mine was talking about this video he saw on the web with a girl doing cup stacking. Which provided another opportunity to teach someone else the "cups" game. The way these kinds of kids games and songs proliferate has always fascinated me. It's like a whole little secret anthropological world open only to children. I'm not sure whether I'm sad or not that the Internet is now involved. It's laudable that these things are still being perpetuated but it's a little heartbreaking that kids are not always learning them from peers on playgrounds or around the neighborhood.
As of now, let's call it buzz with bangs but not as harsh as you'd think. Pic is similar. #3 Wahl trim, leave the bangs and fringe on the sides. Trying to grow the sides out right now. I run around in some punk circles and sort-of put the style together from there. Super easy because the only styling is the minute I spend drying my bangs so they're straight. I get tons of compliments on it. Got waaay too tired of forking out money to pay a salon to cut my slightly waved, thick hair into a manageable cut as well as spending a good half an hour on styling, ironing etc. on a daily basis. Also, realized all the product I was putting in my hair was just coating it with plastic. Color usually changes every couple months or so. I've also rocked a mohawk in recent years. : )
I believe burning a strand of hair off with a curling iron is a rite of passage almost every young woman goes through at some point in her life. It's one of those "live and learn things." Poor girl left her fine blonde hair on there way too long and I'll also say likely too hot. At least it's somewhere that's easily covered by her other hair. Good for her for putting that out for others to see they're not the only ones!
As for the heat settings, yes, some of us need them. Even some of us "Super pasty/I've got so much Irish and Northern European in me the sun mocks me" dirty blondes. Personally, I have some type of what's referred to in common parlance to as "beaded hair." The strands grow with slightly thicker segments randomly, and though it's blonde (though it's almost never it's natural color ;), it takes a lot of heat to curl or straighten. Hair is weird and seems to sometimes follow its own rules rather than what popular ancestral heritage assumptions would dictate.
Agreed, Alan. I've always found those with less to be more giving and willing to help out others.
While I'll agree that "name an ____ without letter _," can be obvious, the answers to math problems are not always so. The Slate article explains the "whys" quite succinctly.
It, unfortunately, does not really take into account that naming a body part without the letter a is less likely to be a problematic challenge for someone with reading and language skill difficulties as alegrabic equation would pose for someone with a numerical and calculatory difficulty.
Following that thought process, I'm curious to know what someone with dyslexia thinks of the "name a" games. I can only personally attest to how the mathematical hindrances can impact doing such an equation. Despite my disadvantages I did get what the Slate article says is the "correct" answer, but only after trying to think it through the "wrong" way twice, and having to recite the PEDMAS pneumonic. If it were any longer then I would have had to use paper and pencil and likely would have failed.
A wonderful example of how we do not all have the same intelligence.
I keep saying that I'm going to make bacon pancakes and I never do.
I hadn't had one in years and then randomly found a cheap one (made by Zebra) at the drug store. It's...ok, skips a lot, sometimes doesn't write, and is too fine a point for my liking. What can you expect for less than $5?
Since that rekindled my interest in them I finally bought myself a relatively inexpensive Parker pen with a medium point and I love the thing.
I had mostly forgotten about it until I was out of high school and a friend of mine was talking about this video he saw on the web with a girl doing cup stacking. Which provided another opportunity to teach someone else the "cups" game.
The way these kinds of kids games and songs proliferate has always fascinated me. It's like a whole little secret anthropological world open only to children. I'm not sure whether I'm sad or not that the Internet is now involved. It's laudable that these things are still being perpetuated but it's a little heartbreaking that kids are not always learning them from peers on playgrounds or around the neighborhood.
2. Pixelate ladies large light blue
3. zombie head decanter
And
http://books.google.com/books/about/The_day_they_parachuted_cats_on_Borneo.html?id=c3MaAAAAMAAJ
Out of print but quite a good book. Whether or not its urban legend..is..up in the air. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2636426/
As for the heat settings, yes, some of us need them. Even some of us "Super pasty/I've got so much Irish and Northern European in me the sun mocks me" dirty blondes. Personally, I have some type of what's referred to in common parlance to as "beaded hair." The strands grow with slightly thicker segments randomly, and though it's blonde (though it's almost never it's natural color ;), it takes a lot of heat to curl or straighten. Hair is weird and seems to sometimes follow its own rules rather than what popular ancestral heritage assumptions would dictate.