Subj : Re: PING Question To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Tue Apr 07 2020 19:11:32 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 31-Mar-2020 10:29 <=- BM>>> Accolades to that teacher! My only 'quirkie' assignment request was BM>>> asking two of my professors if I could use one paper for both of their BM>>> assigments. Fairly certain one was for English and the other a BM>>> natural science. Both knew who I was, both had experiences with my BM>>> skills in research and language, etc., so they agreed. ...I did well. NB>>> Nice. :) BM>> Probably worked out better for all of us; on the surface me as "one BM>> paper instead of two" but the three of us essentially knew by getting BM>> rid of one assignement I'd throw myself into the other. NB>> And this way you'd be in a good position for whatever came next from NB>> either teacher... ;) BM> Probably true: no other recollections of special requests. Maybe they BM> corroborated so I couldn't combine. Doubt it. You mean collaborated....? Probably there just weren't two topics assigned at the same time that lended so well to dovetailing them together.... ;) BM> NB>>>> Richard is also taking it to slow his heartbeat... BM>>> Both of us have 'hummingbird hearts'?! NB>>> Controlled Afib, in his case.... ;) BM>> If the medication cuts out the low-level heartbeats, leaving only full BM>> level ones, could see that to control irregular beating. (I know: BM>> really sloppy concept!) NB>> It doesn't really change the irregularity of the heartbeats, but NB>> it does keep them from being so fast as to be ineffective... BM> Right: mine was closer to every other beat being a partial contraction BM> so effectively got rid of the half-level contractions. Ah... a little different, then... BM>>> ...Sort of with misplaced BM>>> letters and assignments, I did one where I typed 'equiptment' -- this BM>>> was in the days of typewriters and simple four-banger desktop BM>>> calculators. The professor commented to me every time she read that BM>>> in my paper her brain read it with a bit of a backfire! NB>>> You used it multiple times in the same paper, then... when did NB>>> you catch on to your creative spelling...? ;) BM>> When the instructor told me! Abbreviation was "eqpt" and I guess BM>> instead of thinking the 't' was the final letter I thought it was at BM>> the end of the first half. Maybe heard something like "the car is BM>> equipped with" as 'equipted'.... NB>> That sounds like a plausible explanation.... ;) And if you'd not NB>> (or at least often) seen it written out..... ;) BM> It looked right to me. Not that I'm a fantastic speller, but didn't BM> look wrong. ...Of course can't prove that based on some of my typos! BM> (Though there is a difference between typing casually here and typing BM> for school or work.) More likely to check it against a dictionary when for school or work... although I do often check, especially if after I've typed it, it looks wrong.... sometimes that's all it is, that it LOOKS wrong... BM>> ...She's off from school so far through April 10th. NB>> So, spending more time with you...? Around here, I think they may NB>> have gone to online learning and virtual schoolrooms... and possibly NB>> for the rest of the school year.... I know the colleges have been NB>> doing this semester online now... BM> Schools (and just about everything else) have been closed for some BM> time, doing everything on-line. The good news (of sorts) is her mother BM> works for a college and they have closed down so she can take care of BM> Autumn plus do schoolwork and her Dad does recess. That works out for her, then... :) BM> We more or less go BM> with the flow: Autumn will sometimes want to play school - sometimes BM> with us, sometimes with the stuffed animals. She seems (briefly) BM> fascinated by the 'hard math' she will throw at me: "one hundred and BM> three plus one hundred and three?!" "Two hundred six!" (Thinks - not BM> sure if she calculates or just assumes I'm right.) And yes, does help BM> to do the add-left-to-right trick! She might actually be adding it... and doing the trick, for that matter... ;) Just have to picture it in one's head... ;) BM> I have forwarded a few posts I've received on things like virtual BM> tours of museums (dinosaurs have some interest), Shedd Aquarium, they BM> listed the one in Boston plus panda bears in China. No idea if Autumn BM> has seen; they have a huge TV so would be almost like being there! Those could be an interesting sidelight to home lessons... :) ttyl neb .... Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .