Chit-Chat: What's On Your Mind Today?

[oliviabenson]

41 minutes ago, Ancaster said:

Thanks for the suggestion for White Bird.  I checked out of curiosity and my library does have the DVD, but I don't have a DVD player!  I did reserve the book though.

Some libraries still have old computers that have a DVD drive. You can at least reserve the computer and watch the DVD there. Man technology is way faster than me. I too don't have a DVD player at the moment. 

Also maybe ask your friends etc maybe someone has a portable DVD player to loan you! 

[shapeshifter]

The college library where I worked until 2019 had little DVD players available for check-out. The professors still had some required videos for their students to view that were not yet available online, but I'm guessing they are now?

[Dimity]

10 minutes ago, oliviabenson said:

Also maybe ask your friends etc maybe someone has a portable DVD player to loan you! 

Also they are really cheap to purchase now.  A quick look on Amazon showed a lot of choices many under $50.  Probably too much for just one movie but not a lot if you think you are going to want to borrow from the library regularly or are prepared to purchase when you can find a DVD you want.

[EtheltoTillie]

3 minutes ago, Dimity said:

Also they are really cheap to purchase now.  A quick look on Amazon showed a lot of choices many under $50.  Probably too much for just one movie but not a lot if you think you are going to want to borrow from the library regularly or are prepared to purchase when you can find a DVD you want.

You can get the players that are external to a laptop.  You can still watch on the laptop screen.  These are very inexpensive.  You don't have to get a player that has its own screen. 

[Dimity]

1 minute ago, EtheltoTillie said:

You can get the players that are external to a laptop.  You can still watch on the laptop screen.  These are very inexpensive.  You don't have to get a player that has its own screen. 

I also saw one marketed as "for the elderly" because apparently this is a selling point.

[StatisticalOutlier]

On 11/22/2024 at 11:05 AM, Anela said:

My dad will be home on thanksgiving. We’re just trying to figure out what to eat.  The one thing we both liked, every year, was the stuffing cooked inside the turkey, but neither of us likes turkey, anymore.

I've always made dressing without a turkey. I use two packages of chicken thighs in it, so I'm definitely not missing the meat angle.  A plateful of that plus some fruit salad and canned cranberry sauce make for a very fine holiday dinner.

[Anela]

29 minutes ago, StatisticalOutlier said:

I've always made dressing without a turkey. I use two packages of chicken thighs in it, so I'm definitely not missing the meat angle.  A plateful of that plus some fruit salad and canned cranberry sauce make for a very fine holiday dinner.

Dad usually makes it in the turkey, and more in a pan. I’ll tell him what you said.  I have chicken thighs in the fridge. Editing to add a thank you. :)

I know what I have in mind, but I don’t know how much I’ll actually make.  Small pumpkin cheesecake for me, pumpkin pie for him.  Mashed potatoes, roast potatoes, maybe scalloped instead.  Yorkshire pudding.  Peas in a cream sauce.  A big salad.  I live on chicken soup, so I’ll be making more of that. (Pinch of yum healing chicken and rice soup, with a lot less rice.)

dad is getting a roast of some kind.  I might try short ribs next month. I had the strongest craving for a basic baked beans on mashed potatoes, last night, so I’ll probably do that tonight.  I need to get baked beans first.  

Edited 5 hours ago by Anela

[Quof]

2 hours ago, EtheltoTillie said:

The LSAT was a bit scary.   I took a Kaplan prep class to learn how to do the logic puzzles.  I then proceeded to practice hundreds of them to build up speed.  So they use the LSAT for Canadian law schools? 

I did not do well on the LSAT. Well, I did fine, just not up to my standards.  I aced the logic puzzles, but did you know multiple choice questions are designed for people of average intelligence? Those of above average intelligence over analyze the question and say "well, it's probably (a) but if you consider it from this angle, it could be (b)".  

And we wrote the LSAT in the old engineering building at my university, built before there were female engineering students, so the few female washrooms were an after thought way down in the basement.  That was a treat when hundreds of test writers were sent on a 15 minute break at the same time. 

I got into law school on the basis of my 4.0 GPA

[EtheltoTillie]

1 hour ago, Quof said:

I did not do well on the LSAT. Well, I did fine, just not up to my standards.  I aced the logic puzzles, but did you know multiple choice questions are designed for people of average intelligence? Those of above average intelligence over analyze the question and say "well, it's probably (a) but if you consider it from this angle, it could be (b)".  

And we wrote the LSAT in the old engineering building at my university, built before there were female engineering students, so the few female washrooms were an after thought way down in the basement.  That was a treat when hundreds of test writers were sent on a 15 minute break at the same time. 

I got into law school on the basis of my 4.0 GPA

I'm the opposite.  I was a fuckup in college and had a poor GPA. But I had a later successful career.  I studied really hard so I could ace the LSAT. 

[fairffaxx]

I took the LSAT in 1978 & barely remember it.  My impression was that it was just the regular SAT test with a few legalese terms & concepts added.  There was nothing that could be called a puzzle & the only specific item I recall was the word "tortfeasor", which I failed to define correctly.   I had taken the regular SAT when I graduated from high school in 1965 & had the same results with the LSAT:  flunked the math section but aced the other parts because I'm good with words (except for that one word).    

[StatisticalOutlier]

2 hours ago, Quof said:

I got into law school on the basis of my 4.0 GPA

At my law school, there was a formula for GPA + LSAT that determined whether you automatically got in.  (I managed to figure out what it was based on a discussion with a dean when I was trying to decide whether I should start in the summer or the fall.)  Anything under that line got looked at for things like whether you're from out of state, what you majored in, etc.

I started law school in 1981, and took the LSAT just like I took the SAT and the GRE--just signed up for it and showed up.  I remember absolutely nothing about it, including where I took it.  But there are lots of movies from decades ago where I remember where I sat in the theater, including one in 1966, when I was 9 years old.  And I remember where I sat when I took the GRE (and where the guy was who was snoring). 

I do remember that on the bar exam day for procedure, everyone came out wondering what a "capias" was.  One guy said he answered, "a type of chicken."  🤣

[fairffaxx]

I just had to look up the definition of "capias", a term I've never heard of until tonight.  I passed the Calif bar exam the first time I took it, after 4 years of nightschool while working fulltime, & had a successful career for over 20 years until I had to retire in 2005 due to illness.  I expect that the stress of practicing law may have contributed to my cancer, which cleared right up as soon as I retired.  I'm much happier with volunteer work rescuing cats.

[Bastet]

28 minutes ago, StatisticalOutlier said:

I started law school in 1981, and took the LSAT just like I took the SAT and the GRE--just signed up for it and showed up. 

I prepared more than you, but not by much -- I took it on a Saturday morning after a Friday evening return flight from a business trip, so I prepared by going through the info/practice booklet they sent when I signed up.  I started in my hotel room, got hungry, did some more in the hotel bar, and finished on the plane.  When my alarm went off, I almost skipped it, but powered through.  I did well, but not great.  The thought of taking a prep course or even doing a bunch more practice tests on my own in an effort to get a higher score was just too exhausting given how busy and obnoxious work was (part of the reason I was ready to move on to a different career), so I figured it was good enough given my college GPA and being a second career student, and it was.  (I mean, I didn't go to Harvard Law, but I wasn't trying to.)

[EtheltoTillie]

TIL what capias means.  ????  Never taught in any class.  Never seen in my practice.