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The New Hobbit Hole
Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: 2Jedismom
Have a great time 2J!
To: 2Jedismom
Well, we're getting ready to go...we're heading to Silver Dollar City for the weekend... Have lots of fun!
To: rightwingreligiousfanatic; HairOfTheDog; ksen; RMDupree; g'nad; RosieCotton; Overtaxed; ...
"Corin Honest Snaig" fit nicely in the keywords...
To: Corin Stormhands
OH PUHLEEEZE!
To: All
Hullo! - I haven't read all the posts so I don't know what mischief you are making! - A friend stopped by and we have been chatting and now we are going out for red meat off the bone! - See y'all later!
To: HairOfTheDog
Hello!
A! in Database Class! It's only because of the extra credit, true - but it's an A and it's mine!
Wow, those sneaks were really, really bad today, weren't they?
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10/17/2002 3:11:01 PM PDT
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JenB
To: Overtaxed; Corin Stormhands; Bear_in_RoseBear; RosieCotton
Pinging the NaNoWriMoites and Rosie cuz she's considering it.
I had some spare time today and did some research. A plain-text 50,000 word document with minimal formatting, run through Microsoft Outlook, creates an HTML file that's almost one MB. Now, true, doing it by hand means less of Outlook's garbage, but that's still a large file. So... Bear, you were offering space, right? How much space are you offering?
Also I'm hoping to whip up a real simple "frame" for my story so that I can organize it by day and make things easier for me to publish it online; also I can add images, if I want, and table of content, etcetera. If anyone would like me to make a similar page for them, and then use it wherever you're posting your story, let me know and it up. We can even customize it to suit your story!
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posted on
10/17/2002 3:17:25 PM PDT
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JenB
To: g'nad
You know, g'nad, that Volcano cake would be a great dessert for Entmoot! Get some little Frodo and Sam figures to put along one side like they're making their way back down!
To: SuziQ
That's kinda sick, don't you think? Can't we stick to lembas and miruvor?
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posted on
10/17/2002 4:40:27 PM PDT
by
JenB
To: RMDupree
"The food was mostly in the form of very thin cakes, made of a meal that was baked a light brown on the outside, and inside was the colour of cream. Shortbread?
To: JenB
VERY GOOD, Jen B.!!
To: JenB
Can't we stick to lembas and miruvor?Yeah, but that's boring! It would be fun to have something to commemorate the climactic moments of the last movie!!! And I'll bet under all that goop, it actually tastes good!
To: SuziQ
All right, then Wings and Pints it is!
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posted on
10/17/2002 4:49:04 PM PDT
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JenB
To: JenB; Corin Stormhands; Overtaxed; RosieCotton
Evening, Jen!
Congratulations on the A!
I've got close to 200 MB of webspace not doing much at the moment, so we shouldn't have any problem with space... I'd be very interested to see the HTML frame you design, as well. Have been thinking of doing my own, but I'm not a real whiz at graphic design, so things like that can give me trouble....
To: SuziQ
Shortbread?That was how I first imagined it when I read the books for the first time, partly because we ate shortbread so often - it was about the quickest "cooky" Mom could make, especially as she did it in one big cast iron pan instead of cutting them out.
However, I think it's a)too sweet and b)too crumbly. So probably not quite it...
To: SuziQ; All
Hullo! - I am back From dinner!
You hit on much of what ticks me off about the attitude in that "give me your horror stories" post. I went to good schools, I guess... where I am. It never occurred to me that anyone would do anything else, except for my one friend who went to Catholic school for half of high school. But it wouldn't have occurred to my family to home school, and we didn't feel cheated or oppressed or threatened by anything offered in my public school. Where my schools better than average? - Probably. I don't know.
But my dad said one thing that was true. When a school system talked about changing bus routes or eliminating bus stops, the school board meetings would be packed and the parents were involved. (his work at the state involved transportation funding so he would be there then) but when they got to the second agenda item, curriculum, the room emptied and all the parents went home.
In other words... There is all kinds of room for caring parents to impact curriculum in their local schools. Schools are very much locally controlled, and if yours is messed up, it might be messed up because only a few very liberal involved folk are impacting the board... and the conservative folk abandoned the schools for religious school or home school. Who do we really blame then if the liberals are the only ones left who still go to the meetings?
I think it is great that there are parents like 2J and yourself, and Jen's folks, and the others, who can homeschool and provide a whole education for your kids. A lot of parents don't have that kind of talent, or the ability for one parent to teach full time. That is a fact. One death, one divorce, or one imperfect family, and the whole idea of home schooling goes out the window. It is a luxury afforded by a few, not a standard everyone can live by. So I don't loathe the public schools. They are going to be the only option for most, and I don't think they are a bad thing. It ain't a disease, it's school. And I have heard the stories that person is hoping to find... the horror stories, but I don't think they are the rule. I don't think they have to be the rule. Looking back, I don't hear that any of you that home school would change a thing.... It worked for you. Well, I feel the same way. I wouldn't change a thing about the way I grew up either. It worked for me.
To: HairOfTheDog; SuziQ
Reading back through that post, it still reads like I believe only imperfect families send their kids to public school.
I don't mean that. Maybe I am living in a bubble, but there isn't a thing wrong with my local schools. Every single one of my friends is sending their kids to the very schools I went to.... and if I had kids I wouldn't hesitate to do the same.
I can't picture the scene now, because I am not even married. But I can say that I would assume when and if I have kids, I would send them to those same schools. I just don't fear them.
If I were in a situation where I could home school, I suppose I would consider it, but I don't see a compelling reason to in my climate. I know that I don't think I can't replace the school system I went to on my own.
To: HairOfTheDog
Here is another review of the Extended version, with a few new screenshots... Found the story at TORN....Wow, I just finished wading through this review. Pretty exhaustive to say the least (much like the DVD itself is, I guess). I think it comes to over 20 hours of special features!!
To: ecurbh
Yes, the Extended Edition appears to be a very big commitment! Can we handle it? Are we up to it?
To: JenB
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