> Good day - ​Hope this weekly update finds you well. We wanted to address the questions around the grading policy in the time of COVID-19. Simply put, Badger Administration and Staff wanted to ensure that with all the uncertainty our families and students are living with at this time, we do no harm in our grading process. To that end, Quarter 4 of the 2019-20 school year can only grow the Semester 2 grade for our students.

@tchrist What? I’m having trouble making this track.

Er. Um. Mate.

This is not a site where I receive advice. This here site is where I give advice.

You ask a question, I answer it. I don't need an answer to my answer.

Some people.

Prost.

Serves me right for reading comments. I forgot I never did that.

Too rude?

I don't care.

@Cerberus can always change his name to "Cerberus reinstates RegDwight" when push comes to shove.

That will fix all the things.

Prost again.

@RegDwigнt Hello.

Where?

Don't worry: SE will only sack over over PC stuff.

Dello.

But my PC is over. Notably, over 9000 years old.

Kinderspeelplaats.

Sorry, just getting that out there.

Read it on Vlieland once, could never tell anyone.

Do let me know when you're looking to buy a new one!

You can build a really cheap one that still works well enough for office work.

Yes. I shall promise to not not tell you. But not today.

Fair enough.

What's so funny about kinderspeelplaats?

Who said it was funny?

It's Dutch, it can't be funny by definition.

The thing about Dutch is that it's hilariously funny in its totality, but each single piece of it is really really sad.

You know what I bought on Vlieland? I had saved up all my pocket change and bought all the packets of all the different varieties of Rooiboostee I could find.

Don't ask.

Ah, to be young and foolish again!

Anyway. I really, really didn't mean to wake up no hellhounds.

My sincere apologies for the disturbance.

I must go back to writing music and playing Animal Crossing. Or playing music and writing Animal Crossing. I forget.

musescore.com/user/27897310/scores/6166523

Here's a new waltz for you. I'll go drink.

Cheers.

@RegDwigнt Most original.

Have fun!

I'll open it in a tab and listen later.

@Jasper Instructions unclear!

"Just write whatever you want, tell the truth and impress them." are three different things that all contradict each other as well as themselves.

I am most very confused.

@Cerberus thank you. And happy listening.

@RegDwigнt I like it.

Interesting changes in tempo.

If only you could record a performance with your musical friends!

@Xanne They're saying that your Fourth Quarter grade can only improve your Second Semester grade from its standing Third Quarter grade, and that it will not count otherwise. That way if for whatever reason you bomb during the covid-triggered online-only Fourth Quarter, this poor grade cannot negatively affect your overall standing — no questions asked. It's a special dispensation, a form of grace. Or mercy, if you would.

Our school has done a somewhat similar thing.

It wouldn't be fair to fail pupils who cannot cope well with online schooling.

A force majeure clause.

“To grow the grade”. As in “I grew my grades, dad!”

But, that’s Wisconsin. Just a regionalism, then.

Hard to hope for anything less from a farm state.

But you are unlikely to be right.

The two halves of a dyad are a dy and an ad; also, of Addy.

@Jasper I have checked a dictionary so much these days. Sometimes that doesn't clarify my puzzle. In addition, I think checking a dictionary too often would delay the progress of doing real things, so sometimes we need to put aside some uncertainities.

Actually I have checked the difference between "rhyme" and "rhythm" long ago, and jot the information somewhere, but I forget it somewhat. This is the main difficulty of linguistics - a lot of things would be sunk into oblivion long (something not easy to remember doesn't need to be long to forget) after learning them.

@RegDwigнt LOL.

@tchrist The two halves of houseboat are house and boat and also of boathouse.

@CowperKettle I don't get it

I feel economy/economics a very boring topic.

> Most folks are afraid to go to the dentist. Personally, I find it boring.

A great deal of academic work involves understanding and suggesting solutions to problems.

That's to say, academics are problem solvers.

There are so many different problems in this world.

Therefore there are so many academic disciplines with each dedicating to solve problems in a catergory.

It sounds like this world would be nice with academics in various disciplines to solve various problems.

But it's not actually the case.

why?

Because a lot of practical problems require labor to solve while intellectual problems don't.

most people would be glad to exercise their intellectual power to make the world better but few people would be willing to contribute labor to solve the world's problems.

that's why money is devised.

people are mostly motivated to provide labor by being rewarded with money.

Though not everyone is concerned about a certain intellectual problem, everyone would be affected by practical problems.

That's why everyone needs money.

But the difficulty level of getting money is different for everyone.

People doing things catering to more people's needs get money easier than people doing things catering to a esoteric group of people.

how much money one makes isn't a norm to evaluate her/his achievements.

one makes less money just because what she/he does caters to fewer people's needs.

works catering to fewer people's needs aren't necessarily worse.

often they are more exquisite or sublime or profound.

> Three blondes walked into a building. You'd think one of them would have noticed it first.

I don't get this joke

@CowperKettle Walk into ~= collide with.

Or that is how I read it.

@CowperKettle The idea is blondes are stupid, so they ran into a building

Hmm, where does that originate from, BTW?

Was it just because the normal guy hated how blondes are often considered handsome, or?

It's filled with stereotypes. I'm gonna take a break

eyestrain

if people suffering from psychiatric problems can apply for unemployment aid, then anyone who can't get an employment of their flavor should all be qualified to apply for unemployment aid.

@M.A.R. In order for it to be funny, you'd have to assume that they were walking abreast and none of them noticed the wall and they hit it at the same time.

The "first" is redundant. The joke doesn't seem generally well-worded.

I take it back. It's not funny even if you make those assumptions.

hello

what does it mean

the quote from MObidick book

" It is not down on any map, True places never are !"

It is not visible on any map (so nobody knows where it is). Truly interesting/important places are never marked on maps.

Or that is how I would read it, without context.