[09:13] <JonathanD> Morning
[09:56] <rmg51> Morning
[10:00] <JonathanD> Hey rmg51
[10:01] <rmg51> o/
[10:11] <JonathanD> schools are open.
[10:11] <JonathanD> Early dismiss?
[10:13] <rmg51> will it even snow?
[10:14] <rmg51> will the baby sitter make it home or have to sleep over...... again?
[10:33] <JonathanD> dunno
[10:48] <JonathanD> neighboring district just called early dismiss.
[11:33] <waltman> snow, schmow
[11:35] <waltman> Radnor Township schools are closed
[11:35] <rmg51> for free rides in a snow storm, just cal waltman ;-)
[11:35] <JonathanD> will do.
[11:36] <JonathanD> my mercury has kinda crap poor weather performance compared to the saturn.
[11:37] <JonathanD> so I might have to have waltman pick me up after work.
[11:38] <rmg51> waltman, be at my apt. by 5pm to drive the baby sitter home
[11:38] <waltman> Sadly Drexel is still open.
[11:39] <waltman> And unless things get cancelled later on today, I'll be there through my boss's 5-6:20 class tonight.
[11:39] <JonathanD> I'm planning on going in and seeing how things go.
[11:40] <rmg51> details, details
[11:41] <rmg51> the waltman snow storm taxi service cares nothing about those little details
[11:42] <waltman> That's not all the waltman snow storm taxi service cares nothing about :)
[12:54] <pvl1> waltman u teach?
[13:06] <waltman> https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~walt/se102/
[13:08] <teddy-dbear> Morning peoples, dogs, turkeys, hamsters and everything else
[13:46] <InHisName1> Gee with SE102 only 50% 'right'
[13:46] <InHisName1> gets you a passing grade ??? !! ??
[13:47] <InHisName1> Is this one of those push over classes ?
[14:20] <waltman> you need 55 for a gentleman's C- :)
[14:36] <lazypower> Morning Everyone
[14:37] <lazypower> LOL @ gentlemans C
[14:46] <pvl1> hm I can handle the course material methinks
[15:04] <MutantTurkey> waltman: what was the motivation for that scale??
[16:01] <InHisName1> waltman: do some frosh not understand that a 49 is WAY better than a 00 ?   Maybe same letter, but much more damaging to the average.
[20:17] <waltman> MutantTurkey: You'll have to ask Spiros. I didn't come up with it.
[20:18] <waltman> But if I had to guess, I'd say the motivation is that you can take everyone's scores and plug them into a spreadsheet, and it tells you what everyone's grade it.
[20:18] <waltman> is
[20:19] <MutantTurkey> ...
[20:19] <MutantTurkey> i mean like, why is 50% = C
[20:20] <MutantTurkey> instead of most schools where C = 73-76, C+ is 77-79, B- is 80-83 and so on
[20:21] <waltman> beats me. maybe because there are like 24 different ways to get points, and nearly impossible to get all of them.
[20:21] <MutantTurkey> ah
[20:21] <waltman> nothing's worth a lot of points other than the final, but there are a LOT of things that are graded
[20:22] <MutantTurkey> it's crazy the final is so much
[20:22] <MutantTurkey> all my classes were like that too
[20:23] <MutantTurkey> i wish it was more focused on your skills rather than mental lookup abilities. Giving assignments to me seems better than tests
[20:23] <waltman> the quizzes and finals are the only things we can be sure they worked on themselves
[20:23] <MutantTurkey> because you structure it that way
[20:23] <MutantTurkey> just make an in class 'test' assignment
[20:23] <MutantTurkey> in the final lab
[20:26] <waltman> I have to confess I'm appreciating the "easy to compute grades" thing after discovering I only had 48 hours after my final to submit the grades for 32 students.
[20:28] <SamuraiAlba> Good bacon to all!
[20:28] <waltman> mmm, bacon
[20:28] <MutantTurkey> lg flex is insane
[20:28] <waltman> lg flex?
[20:29] <MutantTurkey> curved phone
[20:31] <SamuraiAlba> I want a Moto X
[20:32] <SamuraiAlba> Though, I must say, my Cyanogen modded Nook HD+ 32GB is kid of sexxeh
[20:32] <MutantTurkey> i'm rocking the S4 stock
[20:32] <MutantTurkey> which is finee for me
[20:33] <SamuraiAlba> MuTu, how is everything?  Long tiome no see!
[20:33] <waltman> I didn't know you could Cyanogenify the nook. Does it still do all the Nooky stuff after that?
[20:34] <SamuraiAlba> No
[20:34] <SamuraiAlba> But I'm using a N2A card, so I can just pop it out and go back to Nook
[20:59] <waltman> I have an e-ink Nook. I believe it can be rooted, but I'm not sure why I'd want to.
[21:06] <rmg51> waltman, I have two Nooks
[21:06] <rmg51> I never rooted either one
[21:06] <rmg51> never wanted to
[21:19] <waltman> I wish they had a few text-friendly apps for it, something like instapaper.
[21:50] <rmg51> that is one reason to root it
[22:01] <SamuraiAlba> Dem snows.
[23:20] <InHisName1> Snow with bacon, yummy  SamuraiAlba ?
[23:30] <InHisName1> waltman:  I was in a Microcircuit design & fabrication classes.  The design final was handed out on first day.  "Open World" exam.  2 rules:  1. no teaming with classmates.  2. can't ask professor about exam contents.  The rest of the poplulation is open game along with ALL written materials are allowed to be consulted.   13 weeks to complete. Final was 75% of the grade.  Most took an incomplete and finished the next term.  --> design a 3 input nan
[23:34] <SamuraiAlba> Snow bad
[23:34] <SamuraiAlba> Spotify Awesome
[23:43] <InHisName1> Spotify some bacon for me......
[23:53] <waltman> InHisName1: Cute, but I'm not sure how well that would work for an intro freshman course
[23:55] <waltman> also, what's a nan?