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Teaching Marine Biology undergraduates types of mutualistic behaviour meant I had to try keep a straight face whilst explaining how the pearl fish (sometimes more than one!)likes to live in the rectum of a sea cucumber. I managed a dead-pan delivery but always finished with the comment that whilst the benefits to fish in the form of shelter and protection were obvious there were no obvious benefits to the sea cucumber, other than a cheap thrill.8 stiffies
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OK, couldn't resist sharing this story (it's true). While teaching my high school adolescents the meaning of "aphorisms," the assignment was to share the beginning of one and to see if students could finish the rest. When a young man said, "Giver a man a fish...." an innocent girl said, "But teach a man to use his pole..." I lost it; so did the class. The poor young lady had to have her friend explain her response to her, amid blushes. And, no, she wasn't a dumb bond, but a naive brunette, the same one who asked me while trying to read Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, why if it took place in Roman times was Caesar entering "followed by his train." I lost it, stepped into the hall to howl, drawing the attention of my fellow teachers from adjacent classrooms, all of who came to see what was going on, and then create the "hallway comedy club."7 stiffies
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A great source of material that's free and it is YOUR choice to read or not.....and not someone choosing what you may or may not peruse.6 stiffies
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me replying "romantically" on Valentine's Day π sorry boys, but I don't have time to cuddle6 stiffies
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One view of Tucker Carlson's recent and much-hyped "interview" with Czar Vladimir the Great (at least in his own mind):6 stiffies
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That looks like an IBM-026 model keypunch machine. In those days, whether you were programming in Fortran IV, PL-1, Algol, or whatever, first there was the intellectual challenge of figuring out how to solve the problem put to you by your instructor and writing out the computer-language code for it. Then came the tedium of keypunching your code onto the standard 80-column Hollerith computer cards. Our computer center had IBM O-29 model keypunch machines like this one: If you made a typo while keypunching a card, too bad! Even if the error was in column 60, you had to start completely from the beginning. No autocorrect, no backspacing and typing over, because...well...the card already had the wrong Hollerith code physically punched through it. So you ejected the card and started over. Keypunching a large number of cards with numerical data for input for your program to use was especially tedious without a 10-key numeric pad. I mourn the number of trees I must have wasted in those years long before paper recycling became available. Then came the eye-straining task of proofreading your punched cards to see if you'd made any typos that you'd missed while keypunching your cards, then keypunching new ones to replace them. I always had to chuckle to myself when other students would take their card decks directly to the dispatcher/receptionist without proofreading them first. Oh, your program didn't run the first time? I'm shocked! I can't imagine why not.π But I know exactly how to relieve your stress! π If only we'd been free to cruise the computer center for pickups in that era! My state university had only begun admitting women students a year or two before I started, so hot guys were numerous and were very distracting. But back then, such open cruising would have been so extremely risky that it was out of the question for all practical purposes.5 stiffies
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