The Happy Thread V - Page 15

***Earniel*** · 01-30-2011, 08:58 PM

Wut, touring NASA exhibition?

WANT!

***Jonathan*** · 01-31-2011, 03:29 AM

Hehehe, I figured that would make your pulse go up

I don't know if they've established in which cities the exhibition will be on display. It will remain in Stockholm till November until moving on, first touring Europe before going to the US.

The focus lies on human space flight, so lots of info about the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programmes as well as the space shuttles.
I want to be an astronaut...

**Mari** · 01-31-2011, 02:43 PM

I don't, but I wouldn't pass up on a trip to the moon if offered!

EllethValatari · 01-31-2011, 09:07 PM

Had a mathematics test today-had no idea how I had done-until my professor came up to me and let me know I made a 99%! Made my day!

***Rían*** · 01-31-2011, 10:03 PM

Hooray for Elleth!

I'm happy because I tutored a kid in math for only 5 hours and he went from test scores of 48 and 47 to a test score of 75!!!

GrayMouser · 02-02-2011, 10:22 AM

Happy Chinese New Year!

Year of the Rabbit- good year for weddings and babies

GrayMouser · 02-02-2011, 10:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gwaimir Windgem

Baylor has shortlisted me for the PhD program, and they're flying me out next month for an interview! I'm sure it'll be a shock going from Toronto to Texas in mid-February, still . . . ROCK ON!

Missed this, Gwai- goodonya! What specific program?

***Jonathan*** · 02-02-2011, 10:30 AM

Happy Chinese New Year! Red envelopes for everyone

This joyous occasion called for Chinese takeaway for lunch for my part

***Rían*** · 02-02-2011, 11:04 AM

EllethValatari · 02-02-2011, 01:37 PM

Out of school on my birthday!

**Mari** · 02-02-2011, 04:07 PM

Wow Elleth! I'm positively amazed it's even possible to get such a high grade!

***Rían*** · 02-03-2011, 02:20 AM

Just got back from a fun time - we got private suite tickets for the Phoenix Suns' game (basketball) for free from my husband's work. We had one of those little private rooms about a third of a way up from the court. There's 12 seats overlooking the court, then farther back there's a bar with some bar stools, and then there's a sofa and some chairs with a large tv if you want to watch it on tv! Plus the food is free (for us, at least, but the owner of the suite pays) and it even has its own private bathroom! Also there was an assigned parking place where you could go straight from the parking garage into the suite corridor - you don't have to go down to street level, in the arena, then back up with all the common people

Now *that* is the way to watch a basketball game! Our family of 5 went, plus our wonderful fun next-door-neighbor (but only the husband - the wife couldn't come), and our daughter invited a friend (we had 7 tickets). It's so nice - you can just stand up and watch the game, or sit and watch, or stroll around and talk and watch, or watch it on one of the 2 tvs in the suite!

katya · 02-03-2011, 01:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mari

Wow Elleth! I'm positively amazed it's even possible to get such a high grade!

Maybe in America? It depends on the class too. I consistently got above 100% on my French tests but more like 40%-60% on math tests. I remember thinking when I was in Japan that test grades were lower, like getting an 85% on a test would be quite good, where if I got an 85% when I was in high school my mom would probably ask why I didn't get an A.

99% is still awesome though, Elleth.

Gwaimir Windgem · 02-03-2011, 02:20 PM

Same here. A+ = 90-100, A = 85-89, A- = 80-84. Which gets confusing when I'm talking to my friends south of the border about test grades.

katya · 02-03-2011, 02:34 PM

I should probably clarify that 40-60% on a math test is not really normal, at least not if you plan on passing the class. Even 60% is extremely low. But that class gave the option to base our grade completely on the final so I ended up with an A-.

EllethValatari · 02-03-2011, 06:00 PM

GW, where do you live? I've never seen that scale before

Here A= 90-100, B= 80-89, C= 70-79, etc. The test was worth 100 points, 99 of which I guess I correctly worked out

BeardofPants · 02-03-2011, 07:20 PM

I've often wondered about the US grading system. I spoke to a prof at my old university once, asking him what it would take to get an A+, and he freely admitted that they only gave them out once in a blue moon. The only time I ever got A+s in my arts degree was for 3 Middle Egyptian papers. Most of the time I tended to range between B+ and A-, with a couple of As thrown in there. And I don't think I'm a dumb arse.

(note: this was Arts, it's entirely possible to get A+s in Mathematics or other disciplines which are less argued, and more factual, if you know what I mean)

katya · 02-03-2011, 07:22 PM

The only A+ I ever got on my college transcript is for my French class, which I got something like 105% in. Most my high school teachers said 99-100% was an A+ but in college they are quite rare. In my experience.

***Tessar*** · 02-04-2011, 04:08 AM

IT'S SNOWING! IT'S SNOWING!!! HOLY CRAP YOU GUY'S IT'S SNOOOOOOOOOOOOWIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAH! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've never SEEN snow on the ground before! It's there! A good half-inch and steadily falling! OH MY GOD! I made a tiny snow man, and melted my handprint onto my car, and went for a little walk in the falling snow, and listened to the snow fall, and caught snow flakes on my tongue, and IT WAS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's just so perfectly white, and everything is so still and quiet, and you can hear the snow hitting the ground, and you can hear it crunch under your feet.

My life is complete.

I have SEEN SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's so weird. You'd think it would be REALLY cold outside, but it's totally not! I just went out for a good long while in just jeans, a thin hoody, and a sturdy all-weather jacket, and when I kept the hood up I wasn't very cold at all. I thought it would be, like, SUPER freezing, but it didn't feel as cold as the "cold" weather we typically get.... I think because usually our cold weather is accompanied by really hard wind. But there was no wind tonight. O_o It was just super quiet. Except for the snow falling.

***Jonathan*** · 02-04-2011, 04:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tessar

I've never SEEN snow on the ground before! It's there! A good half-inch and steadily falling! OH MY GOD! I made a tiny snow man, and melted my handprint onto my car, and went for a little walk in the falling snow, and listened to the snow fall, and caught snow flakes on my tongue, and IT WAS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Awwwww

I'm happy for you

01-30-2011, 08:58 PM	#281
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	Wut, touring NASA exhibition? WANT! __________________ We are not things.

01-31-2011, 03:29 AM	#282
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	Hehehe, I figured that would make your pulse go up I don't know if they've established in which cities the exhibition will be on display. It will remain in Stockholm till November until moving on, first touring Europe before going to the US. The focus lies on human space flight, so lots of info about the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programmes as well as the space shuttles. I want to be an astronaut... __________________ An unwritten post is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry that’s ever been written. ☻

01-31-2011, 02:43 PM	#283
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	I don't, but I wouldn't pass up on a trip to the moon if offered! __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

01-31-2011, 09:07 PM	#284
EllethValatari Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: United States Posts: 401	Had a mathematics test today-had no idea how I had done-until my professor came up to me and let me know I made a 99%! Made my day! __________________ Elleth Valatari "We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil." — J.R.R. Tolkien

01-31-2011, 10:03 PM	#285
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	Hooray for Elleth! I'm happy because I tutored a kid in math for only 5 hours and he went from test scores of 48 and 47 to a test score of 75!!! __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

02-02-2011, 10:22 AM	#286
GrayMouser Elf Lord Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ilha Formosa Posts: 2,068	Happy Chinese New Year! Year of the Rabbit- good year for weddings and babies __________________ Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals."- Winston Churchill

02-02-2011, 10:30 AM	#288
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	Happy Chinese New Year! Red envelopes for everyone This joyous occasion called for Chinese takeaway for lunch for my part __________________ An unwritten post is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry that’s ever been written. ☻ Last edited by Jonathan : 02-02-2011 at 04:10 PM.

02-02-2011, 11:04 AM	#289
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	__________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

02-02-2011, 01:37 PM	#290
EllethValatari Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: United States Posts: 401	Out of school on my birthday! __________________ Elleth Valatari "We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil." — J.R.R. Tolkien

02-02-2011, 04:07 PM	#291
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Wow Elleth! I'm positively amazed it's even possible to get such a high grade! __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

02-03-2011, 02:20 AM	#292
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	Just got back from a fun time - we got private suite tickets for the Phoenix Suns' game (basketball) for free from my husband's work. We had one of those little private rooms about a third of a way up from the court. There's 12 seats overlooking the court, then farther back there's a bar with some bar stools, and then there's a sofa and some chairs with a large tv if you want to watch it on tv! Plus the food is free (for us, at least, but the owner of the suite pays) and it even has its own private bathroom! Also there was an assigned parking place where you could go straight from the parking garage into the suite corridor - you don't have to go down to street level, in the arena, then back up with all the common people Now that is the way to watch a basketball game! Our family of 5 went, plus our wonderful fun next-door-neighbor (but only the husband - the wife couldn't come), and our daughter invited a friend (we had 7 tickets). It's so nice - you can just stand up and watch the game, or sit and watch, or stroll around and talk and watch, or watch it on one of the 2 tvs in the suite! __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! Last edited by Rían : 02-03-2011 at 02:22 AM.

02-03-2011, 02:20 PM	#294
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Same here. A+ = 90-100, A = 85-89, A- = 80-84. Which gets confusing when I'm talking to my friends south of the border about test grades. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

02-03-2011, 02:34 PM	#295
katya Elven Maiden Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 3,309	I should probably clarify that 40-60% on a math test is not really normal, at least not if you plan on passing the class. Even 60% is extremely low. But that class gave the option to base our grade completely on the final so I ended up with an A-. __________________ ~~eat until you can't anymore, play until you drop, sleep the day away, laugh, cry, yell, just live live live!~~

02-03-2011, 06:00 PM	#296
EllethValatari Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: United States Posts: 401	GW, where do you live? I've never seen that scale before Here A= 90-100, B= 80-89, C= 70-79, etc. The test was worth 100 points, 99 of which I guess I correctly worked out __________________ Elleth Valatari "We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil." — J.R.R. Tolkien

02-03-2011, 07:20 PM	#297
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	I've often wondered about the US grading system. I spoke to a prof at my old university once, asking him what it would take to get an A+, and he freely admitted that they only gave them out once in a blue moon. The only time I ever got A+s in my arts degree was for 3 Middle Egyptian papers. Most of the time I tended to range between B+ and A-, with a couple of As thrown in there. And I don't think I'm a dumb arse. (note: this was Arts, it's entirely possible to get A+s in Mathematics or other disciplines which are less argued, and more factual, if you know what I mean) __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords Last edited by BeardofPants : 02-03-2011 at 07:21 PM.

02-03-2011, 07:22 PM	#298
katya Elven Maiden Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 3,309	The only A+ I ever got on my college transcript is for my French class, which I got something like 105% in. Most my high school teachers said 99-100% was an A+ but in college they are quite rare. In my experience. __________________ ~~eat until you can't anymore, play until you drop, sleep the day away, laugh, cry, yell, just live live live!~~

02-04-2011, 04:08 AM	#299
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	IT'S SNOWING! IT'S SNOWING!!! HOLY CRAP YOU GUY'S IT'S SNOOOOOOOOOOOOWIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAH! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've never SEEN snow on the ground before! It's there! A good half-inch and steadily falling! OH MY GOD! I made a tiny snow man, and melted my handprint onto my car, and went for a little walk in the falling snow, and listened to the snow fall, and caught snow flakes on my tongue, and IT WAS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's just so perfectly white, and everything is so still and quiet, and you can hear the snow hitting the ground, and you can hear it crunch under your feet. My life is complete. I have SEEN SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's so weird. You'd think it would be REALLY cold outside, but it's totally not! I just went out for a good long while in just jeans, a thin hoody, and a sturdy all-weather jacket, and when I kept the hood up I wasn't very cold at all. I thought it would be, like, SUPER freezing, but it didn't feel as cold as the "cold" weather we typically get.... I think because usually our cold weather is accompanied by really hard wind. But there was no wind tonight. O_o It was just super quiet. Except for the snow falling.

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