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I bailed out of the classroom right after I hit the magic number 70 (age + years experience). And now I'm subbing all over Houston. It gets me out of the house. It's mostly great work. No faculty meetings, no lesson plans, no IEPs, no grading, no "see me" notes in my box. And if I have a p...

zeno wrote: ↑Mon Feb 02, 2026 12:55 pm We have btdt on this subject

My IT department was unavailable (i.e. my 40-something daughter) so I had to Giggle up this term. Maybe I just need to stay home more surfing the web.

[T]here seems to be a generational change in the expectations for grandparents. . . The idea seems to be that, since the grandparents are retired and have nothing to do, there is no reason that they can't take care of the grandkids. The flip side of this is is when parents withhold the grandkids, w...

Wait until you get grandchildren, and everything they do reminds you of him all over again. Keep a box of tissue handy. I use a lot of 'em.

I once sat in a room where the results of a series of experiments were being discussed. . . Holy cow! I read this twice to make sure I got the whole thing. I could have read it 4-5 more times. I mean, it wasn't exactly Moby Dick . Plus, it was interesting. Anyway, this confirms my worst suspicions ...

Not how, but why?

The Liturgy of the Hours is very much a traditional book. The Enchiridion is a collection of indulgenced prayers and acts. It's been revised since 1968. The most important change regards the partial indulgences. In the past, certain prayers/acts carried an actual number of days. To whit: "A par...

I have the Enchiridion. Close enough?

A more accurate statement would have been that 97% of all scientists surveyed who specialized in global warming and who were published in periodicals that supported the concept of global warming (and which excluded all other disciplines, such as biology and geology and history, from the survey) agr...

Don't let it be said I didn't contribute my part.

Look into Net Nanny.

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Highlander wrote: ↑Thu Jan 08, 2026 10:30 am It seems to have impressed you. From the snippets you posted, it doesn't seem my cup of tea.

Nor mine. At all. Is there any redeeming value to this work? At all?

The name of the tool? I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess "Bubba."

Doom wrote: ↑Thu Dec 25, 2025 6:01 pm I like going at Midnight, but every year it is a little harder to stay up late enough to attend.

Shoot. I gave that up years ago. The only real draw would be the choir singing for 45 minutes before Mass begins.

Clearly, the Cookie Monster failed to induce your son to the life of crime. As we all know, kids start with chocolate chip, then graduate to oatmeal and raisin, and before you know it, they're filching Double-Stuft Oreos.

This is a topic that was covered by Thomas Cahill in "How the Irish Saved Civilization". Cahill was more of an inflammatory firebrand in his book than Morris (the non-Christian) is in this book. You'll have to point out examples of Cahill's firebrandery. I've read it twice and I don't rec...

Highlander wrote: ↑Tue Dec 16, 2025 11:51 pm Go to Chat GPT, an AI, and ask it something like . . .

Thanks for the tip. I refuse to talk to machines other than to leave a message. I'm just cranky that way.

Highlander wrote: ↑Tue Dec 16, 2025 1:39 am I'm not gonna report the results, as they are detailed and massive, but, if you're interested, you can do the same.

Can you provide a link for those of us - okay, me - who are just too lazy to do it thems - er - myself?

anawim wrote: ↑Tue Dec 16, 2025 3:44 am [Y]ou have to get up pretty early in the morning to pull one over on a Pre-Vat II nun.

They still exist?