Chebucto Regional Softball Club

One of the oldest errors of war– they invaded The Winter People in the middle of winter.

@meltedcheese

I remember when I was working two jobs and in grad school. I got home from teaching my night course at the community college and stayed up studying Galois theory till three am convinced I'd do poorly on the comp the next day.

I woke up and the whole city was silent, covered in soft sparkling white snow.

I went right back to bed after reading the email... then studied in a more healthy way that weekend.

Those snow flakes were the most beautiful things I've ever seen.

@hallvors

OMG

That's very cool!

@barrygoldman1

If they don't have a "remote learning day" then they need to tack an extra day on at the end of the year to make up for time.

I think that admins and posh parents who want to buy plane tickets early are behind all of this.

@hallvors

What do ya'll have? "Not Snow Days" when you can't cross country ski to school or whatever happens up there?

Cat owners. Which of the following apply to your "cat"?

Not all cats are also "kitty cats" IMO I think this applies to those pet cats that are cute and manipulative OR innocent.

Of course not all cats are "moggies"

And not every cat is even a cat.

@gbargoud

They just add another day at the end of the year. It's not that bad.

@donray

I could see maybe MAYBE making it a day where kids who need extra help can set up small meetings to get extra help.

Something like "office hours all day"

But you are correct that the kids who need that most? They don't have wifi at home that's working right now. They don't have a laptop.

@gbargoud

IDK. I think a lot of people are on board with it for some unfathomable reason. Maybe I'm being too old fashioned.

I did remote teaching for a year and I did not like it very much. It's so much harder to teach, to hear the students, to even learn their names. I just wasn't a big fan.

I'm glad we did it I suppose, but the words "remote learning" give me battle flashbacks.

I'm VERY anti "Remote Learning" on snow days. Snow days are magical and young people should play video games and have snowball fights.

Or go sledding.

And pester their parents who are doing remote office work to make hot chocolate.

Hmph.

@independentpen @temptoetiam

I assumed it was a fabulous auntie who picks you up at college and takes you shopping because she's singe, has no kids and lots of money.

@temptoetiam

I long to hear the sound of the ants marching through the tropical forest.

@temptoetiam

If a "birddog" is a guy who chases the ladies too much and to his own demise, then what is an "antbird" ?

I think this is the "God please take me from this place now." pose.

Four bird in the bush equivalent.

This has been me reading the news for two days.

I just walk around NYC with my arms like this now.

@SteveThompson

Thank god.

Most striking in this video was the plea that people "get to know the project and the people" --

Open issues, known bugs, feature requests... it's like some people think that you could just run AI and close them all and the development would be done. But software development is a conversation: something people do together, code is just the medium.

It's like saying "I have solved birthdays since birthday bot will give everyone a cupcake and card automatically."

No you ruined birthdays.

Computers may run code, but code is written for humans to read.

This is why there is a limit to the utility of things like "python one-liners" (although they are fun puzzles and brain teasers)

Just like an article, an essay or a story code needs to make sense to the people who read it. Hard to understand code is bad code.

IDK I'm just a HS CS teacher, I'm no dev. But the example in that video was a likely horror show.

But then I grade some messed up code so I'm sensitive.