05 April, 2008:
Does Anybody Here Speak English?
Category: Editorial : 
Posted By: CMills : 
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Post Comment: Admin OnlySo, it was later in the evening and I was hungry but nothing sounded good. I stopped at McDonald's, more for convenience than anything. I payed $8 for a Chicken Club and a Big-n-Tasty. Pricy, I thought, but that's what I get for wanting a convenient meal. Every employee, including the manager, was not an english speaker. When I ordered my Big-n-Tasty, I asked for it without mayonaise (I can't stand the stuff). I get all the way home and discovered that the sandwich had the bun, the beef, ketchup, and mayonaise! It didn't even include the tomato, pickle, lettuce, or the onions! I drove all the way back and the manager blamed the issue on me, didn't offer me anything for my trouble, and acted extremely rude on top of it all.
I know I'm going to appear like a racist with some remarks I make, but I assure you that race has nothing to do with it. If a person is going to come to my country, I believe they should be capable of carrying on a conversation in english, regardless of what race they are. Having grown up in California, I know that if a hispanic person walks into a store, they can request a spanish speaker to help them. Would I be wrong to request an english speaker if the situation were reversed? I would think not! From now on, I will be asking for an english speaker wherever I go, or I will take my business elsewhere.
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson
14 March, 2008:
Happy Pi Day!
Category: General Updates :
Posted By: CMills :
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Post Comment: Admin OnlyHappy π Day to all! Every year on March 14th (otherwise known as 3/14, or 3.14) my classes celebrate Pi-Day. We talk about the areas of circular foods, such as pizza and pies. The only stipulation is that the pies and pizzas they bring in for the celebration need to be square. This brings up lots of discussions with parents and friends about the reason for them being square. I tell them that, I know the grammar is bad, but the formula for the area of a circle is A = π r2, or that "pie are squared." Thus, we celebrate Pi Day with square pies! Until next year!
"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few... or the one." - Spock, ST II.
11 March, 2008:
Samuel A. Peeples Quote
Category: Quotation :
Posted By: CMills :
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Post Comment: Admin Only"This is our galaxy - a gigantic cloud of suns and planets, in which our Earth is but a pinpoint, one speck of dust. The galaxy is so vast that even traveling at millions of miles per hour it would still take millions of years to cross through it. And yet, incredible as it seems, our galaxy is itself only one of untold billions of other galaxies, separated by voids of emptiness so vast that time, matter, and energy may not even mean the same out... there."
An original narration from writer Samuel Peeples back in a 1965 draft of the first episode of Star Trek.
06 March, 2008:
What Are We Sending Into Space?!
Category: Editorial :
Posted By: CMills :
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Post Comment: Admin OnlyWell, I was sitting down watching a TV show this last week where people purposefully make fools of themselves while on camera and the reactions of passers-by are the main focus of the humor. It occurs to me when I watch programs like this that all this information is being broadcast into space! The very first thing potential alien civilizations are going to find out about us are old comedic radio shows. The next thing will be Adolph Hitler opening the 1938 Olympics. Aliens will get intrigued that they're not alone in the universe and they'll respond by sending their own broadcasts at us. Sometime after, they'll start receiving Bob Sagget's old TV show, America's Funniest Home Videos, and wonder to themselves why they ever responded to our broadcasts! They're going to be scared to death that they've invited a war-hungry, idiotic, race of beings that make fools of themsselves for entertainment! And, yeah, as if YouTube is making it any better!
"Never give up! Never surrender!" - Cmdr. Taggart, Galaxy Quest (Film, 1999)
24 February, 2008:
The New Site Style Adopted!
Category: General Updates :
Posted By: CMills :
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Post Comment: Admin OnlyOkay, well, I know that I said I'd stare at the changes for a while before enacting them, but I couldn't resist. I liked the new style so much that I spent a half an hour making the changes permanent. I would still like to come up with some alterantive to the message boards. I'd like to ahve a place for people to go to but that wouldn't allow all the spam in. Of course, I don't have a whole bunch of people on the boards, so they're practically a waste of time.
Anyway, the rest of the site is great and looks real nice. THe education pages get used the most, but that's great! That's what they're there for. I wish there was some way I could determine what other kind of page would be used a lot on my site. I've had a "games" page in the past, I wonder if I could put up another that would get used!
Until next time!
22 February, 2008:
New Site Style Proposed!
Category: General Updates :
Posted By: CMills :
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Post Comment: Admin OnlyI've been working on some updates to help pages load faster. If I can get this to work, the page style you see here would be the new style. I'd like to ask for some opinions, but nobody visits my site anyway, and even if they did, they wouldn't got to the message boards to comment! So, I'm going to leave this on the site for a while and visit it every day for a week to see if I like it. If I do, then I'll start updating all the pages with this new style.
Thanks!
21 February, 2008:
The New Blog Page!
Category: General Updates :
Posted By: CMills :
Last Edited: Never :
Post Comment: Admin OnlyWelcome to the update blog at the Teach and Discover Network. Instead of putting all the updates on the main homepage as I had done before, I'll keep everyone informed of what's going on right here. The blog will include information on site updates as well as anything I wish to post. It can be used for school and sports announcements as well. I hope you're finding the site useful and friendly.
If you have any questions, comments, or ideas, please feel free to leave your input in the Forums And Boards (link found at right, above). Your comments will be welcome.
Also, I elected to delete the last board. It was stupid. I had gone through the process of installing Nuleus Blog software on my server, but it just kept giving me problems. I had also tried other blog software installs and I was not very satisfied with them either. So, I've decided to install my own handwritten blog page. It doesn't have as many bells and whistles, but it will be nice and easier to maintain.
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