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new2thescene-
If you have any questions feel free to post them here, some of us should be able to help you.
Also if you’re a former student of mine keep in mind that I offer free unlimited tutoring for life.
I can only try-
I was just teasing you- making a reference to the comment about teaching new tricks to old dogs.
oomis1105-
Yikes!
I hope he didn’t take anything with him.
Sacrilege-
That’s one of the buildings I was referring to, I’m not sure which post you’re talking about.
I can only try-
Can I teach an old dog another new trick?
Would you like to learn how to put links in HTML?
BP Totty-
It was this week, 29 years ago, that a Russian submarine named Whiskey ran aground in Sweden.
Just thought I’d share it with you.
Josh31-
I’m assuming that the person can no longer be living.
Correct,
And let me guess how you knew that- you thought I shouldn’t go out with her and know that we can’t agree on anything? 🙂
apushatayid-
I heard that Satmar comes from St. Mary.
Have you heard that?
Ben Torah-
Oy vey, I knew someone was going to ask.
Story was- shadchan tries to set me up with a girl, I already knew enough about her to know that she wasn’t for me (not just a personality issue but a skeleton hiding in the closet). Being that there was nothing to discuss (no point in saying any loshon hora) I didn’t give any reason just a strong “no”. The shadchan, not knowing about the skeleton, just assumed I was nervous to start dating and told the girl I wanted to go out with her.
We both agreed that if it’s a strong “no” then there’s no reason to give the shadchan any reason. What we didn’t agree on was if I should have gone out with her or not.
My grandmother told me that when you feel the “click” you’ll know she’s the right one.
After a few dates with my wife I had to seriously think if she was my bashert or not. I mentally replayed all of our dates replacing her face with the face of the least appealing person I dated to make sure it was her personality that I liked and not just her looks.
I was more positive that she was the right one but didn’t feel the “click” until my wife asked me if we can have an argument to see if we can agree to disagree. We had the argument (we still don’t agree on that issue) but we saw that we can respect each other’s opinion even if we don’t agree.
That’s when I felt we “clicked”.
This story was going around in the early 90s. It probably never happened as each time there was a different ending to the story.
The teacher was late for lab and when he was heard coming some guys turned on the gas and they all slumped over (either their desk or the floor) with their tongues hanging out the side of their mouths.
Here are the different endings I heard:
1. The teacher got up on his desk and danced a jig,
2. The teacher grabbed a chair and smashed a window,
3. The teacher went home and called in sick,
4. The teacher came in, gave his lecture as usual and left.
Feel free to make up your own ending.
Ben Torah-
I can’t answer for “anon for this” since I know very little about her (although I think she’s an engineer).
What I could tell you is that when I took Differential Equations I used the outline for extra help with Laplace Transforms. Have I used it since then? Probably not.
What is the purpose of learning all these things?
There are a couple of answers:
1. It was part of a course that I was required to take to graduate, and there’s now way I could have gotten the job that I have without a college degree. The hiring manager who made me the offer said he wouldn’t consider a candidate without a college education since they can bluff their way through an interview but the only way to know for sure if they are capable of performing the tedious calculations is to see how they performed in these upper level math courses.
2. As was mentioned in a different thread last year- equations for a mathematician are like tools for a plumber. A plumber will buy some tools that he’ll never use just in case he ever needs it. There was a riddle that Squeak posted in “The Riddle Thread…” which I solved using a function that I only used in one other time.
3. Many courses are more for the discipline than for the material. These upper level math courses teach students more how to look at the equation and know how to tackle it than how to solve a specific problem.
So to answer your question- she probably doesn’t use Fourier Transforms but the learning it and understanding it is what actually helps her today.
The mean is 2/3 and the variance is 88/144 => the standard deviation is .781735959970572.
3 is 7/3 from the mean which is 2.98481002897854 standard deviations.
Can you explain what the wagon is?
Is it worth passing by on my way home?
Is this for ICOT or can I answer?
From the position that I’m in I can only see the ferry. I do pass the cupolas on a regular basis but I don’t see the building with a plane on top on a regular basis.
Did I miss the wagon?
Can you give it a try? Can you explain what “the wagon” is?
Can you be a little more specific? I don’t know what the North Building is.
Can you give me the length of two of the sides and the angle between them so I can pinpoint the location of the wagon?
Squeak-
I’m missing something.
I can only try-
Yes, it was in response to your answer.
I noticed that the posts are only being approved every couple of hours or so. When I logged on and saw that some where recently approved I wanted to send a quick post before the mod logged off for the night, therefore I only had time for a one word reply.
Here’s the formula I used in Excel
=BINOMDIST(3,8,(1/12),FALSE)What subjects?
Generally speaking I’d recommend Schaums Outline.
Look it up on Amazon.com.
I found them to be better than the textbooks and about %10 of the price.
Exactly!
Moderator-80-
OK, give it a shot- you just might give him the hint he needs to figure it out.
I was asked to sub a kindergarten class and had about one minute to prepare.
Getting up in front of all these 4 and 5 year olds I asked who knew what was special about that day.
One kid raised his hand and said it was Rosh Chodesh. I was very impressed and asked how he knew. “My Tatty went to shul this morning!”
Then I explained how they could tell it’s Rosh Chodesh by seeing that there’s no moon in the sky…
Next Question: Why was it important to know when Rosh Chodesh was? (I was hoping someone would answer that since I didn’t know what to tell them.)
One kid raised his hand and said, “So that my Mommy will know if she has to put a white shirt on me.”
I had lots of fun that day, but I can’t imagine doing it full time.
BP Totty-
I walked by that building many times but never noticed what anything above the ground floor looked like.
BP Totty-
I just noticed another interesting building very close to that building. I think the address is 15 Park Place (J & R Music is on the bottom floor). The building has around 30 floors but the top three are two three-floor cupolas at either end of the building.
The bottom floors are offices for J & R, 11 to 26 are apartments, I’m not sure what’s on 27 but floors 28,29 and 30 are the cupolas which are empty. If I had $60-80 million to burn I’d sooner move in to one of the cupolas and just fly first class if I ever need to travel.
This building might have once been the tallest building in the world. If anyone has any way to find out I’d appreciate it.
This is for ICOT (but anyone can feel free to give a shot at it).
You buy an 8-pack of 20oz. soda. The package says that 1 in 12 wins a free 20oz. soda- check under the cap to see if you win.
What are the chances of exactly three of the caps winning?
Ben Torah-
I respectfully ask if you can please keep the posts shorter and to the point, I had a hard time following it.
After quoting my post you (bluntly) said “Wrong”. Was that referring to the whole post or just part of it? I know it’s just my opinion (and I’m not trying to push it as fact) but I’d be surprised if you don’t agree with most of it.
It all depends on where the money comes from. If his parents are supporting him or if his wife is supporting him then yes it is a 100% legitimate form of income.
I hope you agree with this, I can’t imagine why anyone would have a problem.
If the money is coming from other sources, which is beyond the scope of this thread, then no, it is not a legitimate source of income.
I’m apologize for being purposely vague over here, I was hoping that other would realize I was referring to fraud with out explicitly spelling it out.
The difference between being a baseball player and being supported by your fans and learning in Kollel and being supported by the community is that fans decide based on ones performance if they want to pay to watch you play. It’s totally their decision.
Again, over here, I was being vague. The “community support” that I was referring to was in the form of extra tuition and the likes. You’ll probably agree that this form of “payment” is forced regardless of whether or not one “employs” the Kollel fellow. (The reason I chose to be vague was that I didn’t want other posters with different agendas to hijack this thread.)
Of course I agree that if one has a relationship with another where the agreement is that one supports the other in Kollel then it is between the two of them and no one else’s business.
You deserve credit though for the comparison although I don’t like the way it skews the importance of learning verses playing professional sports (if you were to compare their salaries).
(Sorry if I just violated what I asked you not to do.)
Ben Torah-
Learning in Kollel is 100% a legitimate parnasa. If I become a baseball player and I have people pay to watch me play ball, that’s OK, but if I become a scholar and have people pay me to learn – that’s not?? If I got a job in a think-tank thinking of stuff all day, that’s wonderful – but if I get a job in Kollel thinking of Chidushei Torah that’s not?? Why should learning be any less?
It all depends on where the money comes from. If his parents are supporting him or if his wife is supporting him then yes it is a 100% legitimate form of income. If the money is coming from other sources, which is beyond the scope of this thread, then no, it is not a legitimate source of income.
The difference between being a baseball player and being supported by your fans and learning in Kollel and being supported by the community is that fans decide based on ones performance if they want to pay to watch you play. It’s totally their decision.
squeak-
I’m glad you got a good laugh at that. I owed you two laughs after the red stapler comment (one for me, one for my wife).
I guess I still owe you one.
Squeak-
If you need to learn how to write a link in HTML Moderator-80 offered to show how to. Click here.
Today we’re getting a visit from the Bobs,
Consultants who wish to slash jobs,
But I have people skills,
and lots of bills,
What a bunch of snobs!
Can you make a mark on the jug?
The fax machine next to us always jammed
and made noises we couldn’t stand
we ripped off the thing
and each took a swing
and two co-workers were canned.
For those of you who didn’t remember- I was trying to replay the conversation from when the question was first asked.
Click here.
I didn’t say to get rid of it, I said to disregard it. (Keep it there but move it when you rotate the rest of the word around the y-axis.)
Same thing.
Disregarding the first letter- the word is a palindrome.
SJSinNYC
I couldn’t agree more, I was just explaining why it’s easier said than done.
BP Totty-
I’m still in shock at how close I came to meeting you and your family on the ferry last week. I think we also took the 2:30 ferry back. I would have loved to introduce you to my wife and kids, I’m sure they would have gotten a kick out of you. (I’m sure you must be more interesting than a houseplant.)
Well anyway, I didn’t know where to post this so I guess I’ll put it here since it happened on the ferry.
There was this really cute British couple there with their two kids, the kind of family you’d love to have over for supper. (No, it wasn’t their humour that gave it away, it was their accent.)
The wife asks me if I’m a native and if so can she have permission to ask me a question. I respond in the affirmative to both.
Pointing to the Brooklyn Bridge, she asked if it was built by England. I answered that it was designed by a German named John Roebling but built by Americans, possibly immigrants but not by the English per se.
“Wasn’t that the bridge that was built in England and sent here by boat in pieces?”
At this point her husband interrupted and said, “Sweetie, you’re mixing up the Brooklyn Bridge with the Statue of Liberty and England with France!”
“But Honey”, she countered, “wasn’t there a bridge built in England?”
“Yes Sweetie, it’s called London Bridge, but it’s in London, not New York.”
“But Honey, didn’t we give one to New York as a present?”
“Sweetie, please stop, you embarrass me every time you open your mouth.”
(They were both giggling at the end and she still insisted that one of the bridges was a gift from England delivered here by boat and assembled.)
Sacrilege-
Same here, we brought in those old film strips (without sound) as the bulb in the projector blew out and there aren’t replacements anymore.
They did a great job but it can be very expensive if you have hours and hours of family videos.
But if you are going to do it I reccomend Reel to Real.
SJSinNYC-
You can’t help someone unless they are willing to be helped.
Trust me.
That’s why in a different thread regarding what kind of Chesed Organizations would I like to see I suggested an organization that helps people help themselves. Expanding on that it should also teach people how to receive help when they do need it.
aries2756-
I was a little naive when my oldest started kindergarten and I assumed that the tuition contract included everything. On the first day of school she brought home a letter saying that we had to pay $50 or so for trips throughout the year. When they actually went on the trips we had to send in money for the trips as well.
When it came time for PTA the letter said to bring your checkbook, which I (being naive) assumed was for a bake sale or something. The school had a desk set up right when you walk in where they wanted $50 from us. The person explained that $15 is for a Chanukah present for the teacher and $35 is for PTA dues. When I asked what “PTA dues” are she explained that it’s for when they go on trips so that they don’t have to collect for each individual trip.
Later that night she stopped by our house to have a little talk. She explained that $15 goes towards the teachers gift, but since more than 2/3 of the fees aren’t paid, those who do pay are slapped with the mysterious $35 fee. This clearly shows how a small amount can quickly spiral out of control as the amount gets higher and higher as less and less people pay.
(By the way, I remember from my years as a teacher how important it is for a teacher to feel appreciated and I had no problem paying the extra amount once I found out what it really went for. I’m not getting into what is right and wrong, I’m just saying what happens. We also got the teacher a more expensive gift on our own because we felt she did a great job and wanted to show our appreciation.)
Now oomis1105 if you can end the debate
about bringing ===>Purses on a Date<===
between me and Squeak
we’re up the creek
Thanks, that would be grrreeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaat!
oomis1105- I was just trying to rhyme
by recalling a post not seen in a long ===>time<===,
I thought it would fly
So I gave it a try
but please forgive me for my crime.
Sorry Blinky, I didn’t realize that there were rules about the length of the lines. Let me try one again:
oomis1105 is thrilled to go on the date,
The Shadchan promised that the guy is great,
But the guy’s a math wizard,
Who’s proud of his lizard,
oomis1105 begins to plan her great escape.
I hate rhyming, oh how it hurts,
I’d rather be out playing sports,
my supervisor is back from getting juice,
and is running around on the loose,
got to get back to the TPS reports.
Y.W. Editor-
Thanks for posting that, I didn’t think they had any followers other than themselves.
Also I’m sure you weren’t trying to hurt anyone but I’ve heard that parents of special children take serious offence at the “r” word being used to describe others. Would you be able to choose a different word?