AliceTheOwl Posted November 12, 2007 Report Share Posted November 12, 2007 Re: The Last Word From the standpoint of one who liked the books, or from the standpoint of a movie lover? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 12, 2007 Report Share Posted November 12, 2007 Re: The Last Word I must say I like FotR fost of the three movies, mostly because of the Balrog. Couldn't watch the second half of RotK yesterday -- stupid dvd player refused to recognize the disc . . . Guess who's being replaced when the Tween-Days Sale hits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted November 12, 2007 Report Share Posted November 12, 2007 Re: The Last Word Josh and I watch most of our movies through Blockbuster Online. Sometimes, discs get scratched or cracked in the mail. That can be . . . disappointing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 12, 2007 Report Share Posted November 12, 2007 Re: The Last Word The disc was flawless -- I checked. The player has trouble with some movies, I think . . . Everyone's a critic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2007 Re: The Last Word The disc was flawless -- I checked. The player has trouble with some movies, I think . . . Everyone's a critic. Could you play it on the computer (if it has a dvd player)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2007 Re: The Last Word From the standpoint of one who liked the books' date=' or from the standpoint of a movie lover?[/quote'] either will do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 12, 2007 Report Share Posted November 12, 2007 Re: The Last Word Could you play it on the computer (if it has a dvd player)?Probably, or on the X-Box, but I want best possible picture quality when I see a movie, consarn it! Plus, it'd take a great while to hook up the sound system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted November 12, 2007 Report Share Posted November 12, 2007 Re: The Last Word Bah. Watching movies on the computer might be worth it with a decent chair, or enough space to work with. But why sit slumped over in a creaky chair for a couple of hours in a cold room when I could curl up with my husband and a cat on the futon under a blanket? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2007 Re: The Last Word because your parents are using the TV in the lounge room Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted November 13, 2007 Report Share Posted November 13, 2007 Re: The Last Word I'd really want to know what they're doing 1000 miles away from home, watching TV on a TV that has no cable or satellite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2007 Re: The Last Word huh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 13, 2007 Report Share Posted November 13, 2007 Re: The Last Word The students did remarkably poorly on their exam. Even if they all ace the last question (one left to be graded) they aren't gonna show well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted November 13, 2007 Report Share Posted November 13, 2007 Re: The Last Word How'd I do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 13, 2007 Report Share Posted November 13, 2007 Re: The Last Word You didn't take it. THough I spoze I could post it here tomorrow, once I'm back at my office. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted November 13, 2007 Report Share Posted November 13, 2007 Re: The Last Word Hey, I posted an offhand reply to some exam thingy you posted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2007 Re: The Last Word Hey' date=' I posted an offhand reply to some exam thingy you posted.[/quote'] I thought you did well. (but then I'm not a professional astronomer) It would be funny if your offhand reply graded better than some of the students. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted November 13, 2007 Report Share Posted November 13, 2007 Re: The Last Word Well, yes. That's what I was getting at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2007 Re: The Last Word I guess we will have to wait and see... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 13, 2007 Report Share Posted November 13, 2007 Re: The Last Word Post test! Post, I say! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 13, 2007 Report Share Posted November 13, 2007 Re: The Last Word 1. The observation of winter's occurrence in the southern hemisphere during the northern hemisphere's summer should be sufficient to show this moron that it's about the tilting axis. Full credit. 2. According to the Farmer's Almanac, the next full moon is October 26th, actually. The next new quarter looks to be November 14th, when the moon will rise at 11:23 AM. I think it'll be at its highest point in the sky at about 4:30 PM. Yes, I intentionally gave the wrong date for the full moon, intending to force people who'd memorized the phases to compute rather than recall. Expected answers were framed in terms of sunrise/sunset, since the way I have them work things out is via geometry of the Sun-Earth-Moon arrangement. 3. The Doppler Effect is the change in frequency of wavelengths as an object approaches or gets farther away, the way a train whistle sounds higher in pitch as it approaches, then deepens, and gets higher in pitch again as it moves away. Scientists can measure changes in the wavelengths of lights emitted by distant stars, or reflected by distant planets, to tell if they're moving toward or away from us. Partial credit. The Doppler effect lets you measure the speed of something along the line of sight. 4. Newton's third law states that, for every action force, there is an opposite and an equal reaction force. Exhaust in a rocket is forced backwards, causing the opposite reaction of pushing the rocket forward. Full credit. I was surprised at how many people asserted that the rocket pushed against the ground. 5. Waves behave differently depending on what they're moving through. As light consists of waves, passing through a vacuum or oxygenated air will produce different effects on this light. The diffusion of our sun's light, for example, is an effect of a dusty atmosphere with a mixture of nitrogen, carbon dioxide and oxygen. A lack of an atmosphere, or a much thinner atmoshpere, will fail to produce such an absorption, and so the light is more likely to be reflected back as white, as on our moon. Different gases will distort waves differently, and so measuring the light that does escape the atmosphere will give us a picture of what forces acted upon it. Needed to see "spectral lines" in here, and note that different elements compounds have different patterns of spectral lines, such that those patterns serve as fingerprints of substances. 6. I think this has something to do with elliptical orbits and the star's gravity having less of an effect when the planet is on its outward loop, but that doesn't sound right. Kepler only sounds vaguely familiar. During an elliptical orbit, kinetic energy and gravitational potential energy are converted into each other smoothly as the distance of the satellite from the planet changes; the sum of the two is conserved. Kepler's 2nd Law is a geometrical statement of the principle of conservation of angular momentum. 7. Considering "this class" is The Last Word, then I shall expound on the fact that L. Marcus is a kendo aficionado, and has just returned from a tournament. While he didn't win, he did have a wonderful time. Full credit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted November 13, 2007 Report Share Posted November 13, 2007 Re: The Last Word So . . . a 70? Drat. I'm really getting rusty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 13, 2007 Report Share Posted November 13, 2007 Re: The Last Word Looking at the curve for that exam, that's a B+. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted November 13, 2007 Report Share Posted November 13, 2007 Re: The Last Word Woohoo! ^ v ^ Not bad, for an exam for a class I never attended. In your FACE, nightmares! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 13, 2007 Report Share Posted November 13, 2007 Re: The Last Word This last test there were several things that NOBODY got. Very disappointing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted November 13, 2007 Report Share Posted November 13, 2007 Re: The Last Word You can lead a horse to water, but you can't cram information into a college student's head for him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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