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[Xantalos]

eh, this is better

[NAV]

Today was my girlfriends birthday. I got her a bunch of old books about aliens and ufos. And some chocolate.

[Graknorke]

Woke up with a clear nose today.
Suck it, immune system!

[Itnetlolor]

This got me wanting to play Tie Fighter again. Just played it again for a moment to break off some of my piloting rust, and made it to level 9 in the training simulator for the Tie Fighter on my first try in ages (first badge already, and I just started), with a pretty nice score while at it. Those later levels get brutal, and popping a few targets at a time can only buy you so much time. Crashing really costs you big time by the end there, especially when the narrow ports are freaking rotating, and you have to weave between 2 of them with orbs blocking the way while at it. Serious reflexes needed for those kinds of maneuvers. Didn't expect to divert power so many times to get the best time/score. Still, that was fun. Now to see if I can reach and beat the Dodec Squadron in Mission 1 for the Tie Fighter again (12 Z-95s. Ugh. And I only knocked out half of them before being fried. Not bad for no shields and no warheads the entire time.), and this time, destroy more than half of them, in fact, complete the whole mission, secondary and all on Hard difficulty again.

[Tiruin]

A friend shared a very nice video on facebook!

[Yoink]

Just bought my ticket to see Iron Reagan next month.
Gonna be a rad time. Who's coming?!

[hops]

Is that like a play about a politician in a mech armor?

[Yoink]

You'll just have to come along and find out.

[hops]

Okay, give me a moment to swim over.

[MonkeyHead]

It is nice to win, to be vindicated and supported by those in authority.

So, the accusations of incompetency levelled against me by the parent of a particular student were thrown out by a disciplinary panel. They declared that based on their full and thorough investigation that there were absolutely no grounds for the complaint, going as far to call it an unreasonable witch-hunt against a member of staff with a proven track record.

BOOM.

[Baffler]

And this was from the parents of the kid who did best in the class? Methinks someone is just a bit too used to success. I've known shitheads like this, pissed out of their minds that they got 96% instead of 98% or some other inane bullshit like that, who think the professor is "screwing them over" by giving them a lower A than they "deserve." I can't even imagine the frustration that must be inherent in being on the receiving end of that sort of vapid nonsense.

[FearfulJesuit]

And this was from the parents of the kid who did best in the class? Methinks someone is just a bit too used to success. I've known shitheads like this, pissed out of their minds that they got 96% instead of 98% or some other inane bullshit like that, who think the professor is "screwing them over" by giving them a lower A than they "deserve." I can't even imagine the frustration that must be inherent in being on the receiving end of that sort of vapid nonsense.

An A's an A, idiots. I've got a nearly flawless transcript, and a couple of those are 90.9s and the like.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

And this was from the parents of the kid who did best in the class? Methinks someone is just a bit too used to success. I've known shitheads like this, pissed out of their minds that they got 96% instead of 98% or some other inane bullshit like that, who think the professor is "screwing them over" by giving them a lower A than they "deserve." I can't even imagine the frustration that must be inherent in being on the receiving end of that sort of vapid nonsense.

An A's an A, idiots. I've got a nearly flawless transcript, and a couple of those are 90.9s and the like.

Well.
Now I feel really embarrassed.

[Rolan7]

Pretty sure that at my high schools, A was 4.0 and A+ was 4.3.  Consider that honors classes added +1, and I could definitely see overachievers crying for getting a mere 5.0 in a class.

The trick was that the honors classes simply had more homework.  From everything I gathered, the tests were identical.  So I always chose the honors classes, even though I tended to forget homework assignments, because I could still get a B and it would count like an A.  I tried to tell other students about this but they didn't believe me.  They didn't seem to think they "belonged" in honors, and I was really bad at communicating.

And maybe AP classes added 2?  Not sure, that seems too much.  AP classes were already an amazing deal for potentially granting college credit.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

What is this whole college credit thing, anyway?
I keep seeing it mentioned, but...