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Not too bad today. Tomorrow is supposed to be in the mid 90's with high humidity. It's the kind of heat where after a half hour your "pouch" feels like it's floating in a bowl of soup. Not comfortable at all.
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Try getting grades on a hot mix of a residue in petroleum refining and that consists chiefly of hydrocarbons... I love the smell of hot asphalt in the morning... 101 degrees here today, calling for 103 tomorrow. Drink water... SWISH!
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finally cooling off here, even had a few little showers the last few days. i guess its only fair you guys get beat up for a while..
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It's fargin hot. It's only 80 outside right now but I just went outside with the dog and within 5 minutes, I was wet. It's nasty out here.
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Thats a pretty high humidity index. Screw it, I'm gonna set up a cot in the basement and sleep down there, damp but cool.
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Did you drink the beer before you sat in the ice chest? You really shouldn't notice the heat if you had enough beer in it.
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We had a pretty bad storm last night. They say a tornado might have touched down in Brooklyn. Im gonna have to call some friends make sure all is well.
we aints familiar wit dem dere dings.....
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I saw some pictures of that on the noon news, with comments that they had not yet determined if it was a tornado.
Actually, who'n'ell gives a rat's azz if it was officially a tornado if it acted just like one and tore down your whole world.
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Manhattans FCUKED...mass transit is bogged down from flooded rails causing comuter HELL. They say this is the third time in 7 months this happened
Once again Infrastructure....
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As of 2:53 p.m. today, on the date of Wednesday, August 08, 2007, the official temperature was recorded as 99 degrees in Munchkin Land.
The Munchkin Man has a math tutoring appointment at 5:30 p.m.
The heat will not stop the Munchkin Man from honoring and keeping this appointment.
Come rain or shine, day or night, global warming or global cooling, the Munchkin Man rides off into his Toyota when duty calls, to the homes of those students whose precious minds are starving for the enlightenment and understanding that the Munchkin Man's expert math instruction provides.
Good luck to all.
Best Wishes,
Munchkin Man
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I got a math question for the munchkin man....
If the MM dorve his toyota 47 MPH for 17 miles made a Uturn and went back 2 miles to pick up a crack-whore then proceeded to drive an additional 8 miles until coming to a complete stop in the grill of a peterbilt...how long would this take?
Im kidden MM be safe!
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Only 72 right now buy the humidity is way up there. Still feels like the tropics around here. Much needed rain has fallen in the last two nights with more supposed to come in tonight. Damn, that means I've gotta cut the grass pretty soon.
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we need rain... i just lost one of my two pumpkin plants even tho i've been watering (too much sun i guess)... the other gets shade all afternoon and is doing well...
it's starting to get dusty here...
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greater intelligence? how about just less ignorance?
can you recommend a good beginning algebra work-book for me to do with my kid? the schools here are, well a little questionable... it needs to be an introductory level since the brat won't be in algebra class for a couple years yet...
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quote:Originally posted by glassman: greater intelligence? how about just less ignorance?
can you recommend a good beginning algebra work-book for me to do with my kid? the schools here are, well a little questionable... it needs to be an introductory level since the brat won't be in algebra class for a couple years yet...
Hi Mr. Glassman!
Thank you very much for writing to the Munchkin Man.
The Munchkin Man would be delighted to share some Algebra textbook and workbook recommendations for you.
The Munchkin Man can very well relate to your comment about the schools in your area.
The Munchkin Man also finds that the vast majority of "government schools", as Neal Boortz calls them, are either "questionable" at best, or unquestionably bad.
The Munchkin Man will now provide you with his personal and highly qualified recommendations:
The Munchkin Man owns both their Algebra I and their Algebra II book and also their solution manuals. As the description says:
"Our books are written in a friendly and non-intimidating workbook-like format."
These books were also written with home schoolers in mind. About one-half of the Munchkin Man's students are home-schoolers. During the past few years, the Munchkin Man has developed a great amount of respect for the home schooling movement.
Here is a link to another series of Algebra books which are very "kid friendly" and which do a very good job at "breaking the ice" for math phobic students:
Here is another excellent book, one which bears the name of Margaret Lial as the lead author. Any mathematics textbook which bears her name as the lead author comes highly recommended by the Munchkin Man.
For another rigorous series of mathematics textbooks, the Munchkin Man would recommend anything which bears the author's name of Mary Dolciani. The following is a description of a private school that uses her textbooks:
The Munchkin Man considers the above-mentioned first year Algebra books to be the very best.
You will be hard pressed to find any of these excellent textbooks in any of America's "government schools."
That's because the vast majority of these schools are government indoctrination centers whose agenda is to dumb down their curriculums, promote the values of socialism, and eventually train them to vote for liberal Democrats.
It's a sad commentary, but it's true.
Whether you share the Munchkin Man's beliefs on this point or not, the Munchkin Man is confident that you would find any of these textbooks to be of exceptional quality.
The Munchkin Man might suggest that you order the first one mentioned in this post. This is the one from A+ Educational Services.
After reviewing this book, this should convince you of the Munchkin Man's high standards of textbook quality and excellence for his students.
The Munchkin Man insists only upon the best for his students.
Good luck!
Best Wishes,
Munchkin Man
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quote:Originally posted by glassman: LOL.. Munchie...
i went to one of the most well-thought of military prep schools in the country for high school..
they dumbed it down too... cuz the parents were paying cold hard cash for those grades to get into ______________ (place name of college here) ...
and cheating was rampant...
schools are for learning social skills... if you want to raise kids that can think for themselves? you have to do it yourself...
The Munchkin Man has heard similar tales about other "prestigious" private schools as well.
It's a darned shame that so many students are not getting a good solid mathematics education from a teacher of honor and integrity like the Munchkin Man.
It's enough to make the Munchkin Man cry.
Best Wishes,
Munchkin Man
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GLASS!!! I am scolding you for calling your kid a brat...but good job on helping him learn what the schools won't teach! One of the reasons i friggin have to pay $8500/year/kid..for a private school...because I am not smart enough to get an algebra book and teach it to them...no wait...it's not the smarts..it's the patience...have none...LOL
quote:Originally posted by glassman: greater intelligence? how about just less ignorance?
can you recommend a good beginning algebra work-book for me to do with my kid? the schools here are, well a little questionable... it needs to be an introductory level since the brat won't be in algebra class for a couple years yet...
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