Notices by Algot (algot@mastodon.art), page 25

Students benefit most from earning their way through their studies, not by simply borrowing another student's skills and then earning their grade based on that.

It amounts to "fooling" the person evaluating the work. It has elsewhere been called "cheating".

Why I dislike using "leverage" as a verb in education:

1) it refers to the use of borrowed assets, not earned assets, to accomplish something.

2) it is primarily a word from business use, implying education should be "run like a business".

#buzzword
#vocabulary
#education
#verbing

Pushing the season, window beside the bed open overnight. Woke up at 4:00am to find blanket on the floor. 58 degrees in the room.

Rectified the blanket arrangement, pulled it up to my chin, and slept 'till 7:30, later than usual, but cozy.

#SmallStories

#WordOfTheDay

fingerling

/ˈfɪŋɡəlɪŋ/
noun
1 A salmon parr.
2 US A variety of potato having a pink, yellow, blue, or light tan skin and flesh.

Origin
Middle English (in the sense ‘finger of a glove’): from finger + -ling.

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There's a palindrome-like life cycle for salmon: egg, fry, parr (fingerling), a trip to the ocean and back to a particular stream, where it's caught and fried for breakfast with some eggs. For the complete cycle, the fish bust barely avoid being eaten by a bear.

#WordOfTheDay

bascule
(also bascule bridge)

/ˈbaskjuːl/
noun
1 A type of bridge with a section which can be raised and lowered using counterweights.
1.1 A movable section of road forming part of a bascule bridge.

Origin
Late 19th century: ‘see-saw’, from battre ‘to bump’ + cul ‘buttocks’.

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Bob pedaled along on his bicycle until he reached the bascule bridge. He crossed the slippery span, in its down position, on foot, pushing the bike, Then he continued rolling on home.

Some days I'm a snow shoveler.
Today I was a snow pusher.
(NO, not the drug.)

#WickedWonderfulWordies

REBUS STYLE

A fortuitous wrinkle in my brain makes this alternate version possible. Same idiom as
https://mastodon.art/@Algot/101726406924870620

but in rebus format

As always CW or DM guesses.

#WordOfTheDay

specie

/ˈspiːʃiː//ˈspiːʃi/
noun
mass noun
Money in the form of coins rather than notes.

Origin
Mid 16th century: from Latin, ablative of species ‘form, kind’, in the phrase in specie ‘in the actual form’.

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It is wise to note that the value of all money, whether digital bits, notes of rag paper or specie, is an agreement we make with one another. I could choose to deliver your salary in urns of salt, as was once apparently done.

What a quaint phrase: "writing letters".

I've been reading my great, great grandmother's journal. She was such a funny lady.

Of course, what else would one do but use letters transcribed as words from what I say to my dija. The thing I can't understand is why they thought the individual letters were so important for communication instead of words or sentences.

Sometimes I despair trying to understand things from the past.

#MicroFiction
#SmallStories
#Language

@GinnyMcQueen

The Shadow knows that Fibber McGee and Molly would think that podcast "radio" dramas would be a very cool thing to refresh!

@Spiceinvaders

Good luck with your thesis.
Monkey with it like a Rhesus.
Well known: a small Macaque
Can make up for all you lack.

Say hi to all those new south whales!

@jamesvasile

OpenSCAD.org

especially by way of the link from the software to an online "CheatSheet" page which links to examples of how to use each command.

#WordOfTheDay

Holocene

/ˈhɒləsiːn/
adjective
Geology
Relating to or denoting the present epoch, which is the second epoch in the Quaternary period and followed the Pleistocene.
Also called "Recent"

The Holocene epoch has lasted from about 10,000 years ago to the present day

Origin
Late 19th century: coined in French from holo- ‘whole’ + Greek kainos ‘new’.

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The most recent one percent of the Holocene epoch is being harshly marked by the species Homo sapiens

Morning errands were done in sneakers
It's way too cold to entertain streakers.
Working now, I see the sun is gone,
Hidden above the clouds since dawn.

Beside me my boots are waiting.
They've gotten warm beside the grating.
Later today, they'll be on my feet
As I go outside, the snow to greet.

This year, there's been little snow
For me to joyfully shovel or blow.
But by later today the white stuff will show.
Then boots will go on, and outside I'll go.

#SmallPoems

#WordOfTheDay

ternary

/ˈtəːnəri/
adjective
1 Composed of three parts.
1.1 Mathematics Using three as a base.

Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin ternarius, from terni ‘three at once’.

Though terns do not gather in large groups it would not be odd to see a ternary collection. [Unabashed Pun]

@dogtrax
Yes, of course. Seems to be my "seasonal" oversight with haiku.

Johnnie Walker is aged for 12 years...twelve...

Now, I would be impressed so much more if it were thirteen.

furnace overnight
morning sun is very bright
snow in the forecast

#SundayHaiku
#CLMooc

#WordOfTheDay

carlin
(also carling)

/ˈkɑːlɪn/
noun
Scottish
1 A witch.
1.1 An unpleasant or disliked old woman.

Origin
Middle English: from Old Norse kerling ‘old woman, woman’.

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Grace belied her name, consistently being a grumpy carlin. The big mole on her nose didn't help attract others, of course.