Recent content by TNT

Here's me about a month ago:

I will be teaching my kids math every darn night. They will not grow up ignorant. They will be doing 2 equations 2 unknowns in fifth grade and understand derivatives by high school. No math, no dinner. You logic for your food. ETA: this is hyperbole for those who will find this and try to...

The problem with common core is that the morons who designed it are forgetting that you need the basics BEFORE anything else. Yes, there are rules to mathematics. It is a language, like any other, except that it is more precise. This precision allows us to do great things with communication...

Yeah, at step #3 you got 0 = 0 and then went haywire with it. I'm teaching college calc and still trying to convince kids they can't divide by zero and that they shouldn't divide by variables for which they are trying to solve.

Wrong war(s). I think the Spartans basically were just put into the "not very relevant anymore" category after the Macedonians came along. They didn't quite conquer the Spartans, but the Macedonians had the rest of Greece with them (those they didn't conquer allied with them), and Sparta made...

and who was the ultimate winner of that one?

I'm just hoping that in setting that up, the police car didn't suddenly get traction and oreo cookie that guy's double stuffs.

I was about to say the same thing.

I agree that you really can't romanticize a desk. But I think the point many were trying to make is that blindly romanticizing anything is foolhardy. Be proud of who you are and what you do, but don't tie your entire identity to it. While you may disdain others for not doing what you do...

I think I can understand what you're trying to say, but filling the kid's head with all sorts of "be this or you're nothing" bravado isn't going to do him any favors. I know a guy who got rolled back and eventually out of BUDS because he got femur'd twice during training. You can be the best...

Best of luck to you. Just know that even if you do everything you ought to in order to prepare, are the best boot in the class, become the best infantryman in your unit, ace every PFT, and save a whole pre-school class from a building fire, you still may not get selected. Things happen...

I think it's pretty neat stuff - yes a devastating weapon used for destruction is not just macabre but depressing; however the means by which the weapon was achieved, and what we discovered to make it possible is an absolutely astounding achievement. Humans going from stone tools to splitting...

Well, thanks to the internet, I finally have the formula for beating the virus level in Plague on hard difficulty. Using this computer simulation (a.k.a. phone game) as incontrovertible evidence, I have proven that we have a 90+% chance of wiping out the entire world via ebola bio aerosol.

The shooter is an animal, no doubt; however what disturbed me as much as the violence was the gaggle of people that walked by only bothering to note the guy on the ground, dying in front of them, in order to step around him. I'm a bit surprised that, as human beings, we can care so little about...

I don't row, but my fiancé does. We met in high school while we were both on the crew team. She rowed in college and still coaches. It's a fantastic workout, just gotta be careful with form. She was at a D1 school so worked pretty hard. She has some minor back issues now, but if you are out...