Having taught math to young kids, I used cubes at the beginning to give a real feel to the numbers. Having tangible items to play with gave them a real world demonstration of how numbers work.

And when the kids grasped the physical manipulation, I would transition to paper exercises like you are looking at. And I would call those squares “cubes.” because doing so linked the physical with the abstract. And for some students, to suddenly switch terms could be confusing at first.

Teaching is about linking back to things the student already knows and is comfortable with.

(arch btw)

Well there’s your problem. Can I interest you in TempleOS?

The length is a null value.

The word “nothing” is the English word describing the concept of nothing. And I have to use the word to describe the concept. So yes, you are correct the word is itself “something”. So that is probably one point for “nothing” to not exist.

I have now consumed 3 cups of tea. And my head now hurts from thinking about nothing. I should never have stepped into this post.

That’s funny. I have a pair of Converse tennis shoes that are 27 years older than that list…

Be gone! Foul Spirit! Take your Co-Pilot and leave this innocent place.

That way lies madness!

Asking for a friend.

If you can recognize “nothing” then “nothing” must be something right? So if nothing is a file, because /dev/null says so, then nothing MUST be something to be a file. And therefore /dev/null can’t be nothing.

Or do I just need more tea? Or maybe whisk(e)y?

What’s this “back far enough” shit, I’ve used punch cards and punch tape.

Fuck me I’m old.

Well fack my spell checker and lack of tea. But to be fair, there was a LOT of unlawful sex involved too.

Get some. There is a reason Darjeeling is often referred to as the “Champagne of Teas”.

I’ve got a recipe from my Ojibwa neighbor’s Grandmother for roasted grouse made with nothing more than honey, salt, and cranberries roasted in duck fat. Served with wild rice cooked with cranberries. The subtleties of the dish will blow your mind. It makes delicate Japanese dishes look like all show and no go flavor. The smokiness of the hand parched wild rice set against the tart cranberries is to die for. A meal meant for kings, (And Queens if you swing that way)!

And she can’t get enough potato klub, lefse, and lutefisk when I make those Norwegian dishes I learned from my Grandmother and Mother.

It’s like there is no accounting for food tastes.

And Chinese and interestingly Indian food is catching on also.

No, no it was all about subagitation and money. You know, the thing us crackers do best.

Dammit Hony, now I need to order yet another good Darjeeling Fall leaf tea…

I ain’t got the time to wait for Gentoo to finish compiling. I’m old and don’t have that many years left to live. And LFS, well madness lies on that path. I have seen it and barely escaped.

Debian is kind of cool again in a hipster sort of way if you aren’t running a bunch of servers. I do wonder why Slack has faded so. It was the Arch of it’s day.

You must not pay much attention to what is placed on your burger then. Burger King or McDonald’s is all the same stack of crap on a bun. They both smother the patty with all the stuff I listed to hide the low quality. No matter if it’s a beef whopper or the impossible whopper. If you don’t believe me, buy one of each and take them apart to compare.

It took me longer than I care to admit that I no longer needed a full office suite. And for me, Abiword and Gnumeric meet my light and simple needs.

I still have feelings for LibreOffice though.😰

The buns, the catsup, mustard, “special sauce”, the onions, the pickles, the cheese, lettuce, and don’t forget the sesame seeds! You could put a piece of cardboard in that McDonald’s hamburger and not be able to tell the difference…

Hey, I like adobe sauce. No wait, isn’t that adobo sauce? I get so confused in my old age…