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No Matter How Hard You Try, It Is Impossible To Fax A Cat #shareit
April Russo, Borneo Kratom, Apink Sipecahankaca and 716 other people liked this
LOL!
- Kol Tregaskes
That poor cat looks so confused.
- kendrak
but it's so warm on top of the scanner!
- DJF
Time for a cat scan!
- Jemm
Iz I the right way up for printing?
- Vicky
This is clearly not my cat. If this was my cat he's have one arm shoved down into the printer trying to tear up all the internal whirling bits with his bare claws.
- Soup in a TARDIS
LOL, Soup!
- Kol Tregaskes
<3
- Furkan Tunalı
Too Funny! Reminds me of the San Mateo Cat Shelter where one of the cats loves to sleep on top of the laster printer where the paper comes out...
- Greg Lato
Kitty!!!!
- Janice
keep trying!
- Morgan
FEED ME A CAT
- tehKenny
Kol, it is NOT impossible. And that's all I'm saying.
- Steven Perez
Push harder
- Josh Haley
LOL@Jemm
- AJ Batac
آخی
- یک بابک
Hehe, Steven. I won't ask. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Gosh, just noticed this post has nearly 150 likes! :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
1 closer....hilarious!
- Jeffrey Marsh
There we go 150 likes. :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm in ur faxx masheen -- sendin de faxxez....
- Stephanie Segel
thanks, i needed a laugh
- chaz2b
FAXCAT IS NOT AMUSED
- Karl Knechtel
iz dat some copycat?
- bora "head" basman
LOL, now nearly 200 likes! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Thats no fax machine, thats my new patented kitty juicer!
- Threepwood
Just one more like... please. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
it's over two huuunddreeeed
- bora "head" basman
MOAR!
- Pat Hawks
I need 9 copies please !
- Faraz Mullick
A cute cat :)
- Mohammad Abdurraafay
Haha, Faráz.
- Kol Tregaskes
Next target, 250 likes. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Friendfeed loev faxcat :o
- Karl Knechtel
;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Pussy by fax. What will they think of next?
- Mattb4rd
X))
- Neya
OMGosh, next up is the 300 likes mark. Anyone care to join in? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Honestly, i'm not generally a fan of the Cat memes... But that is classic.
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
You know this is the 7th most liked entry on FriendFeed ever: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... !!!
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol, this thread is pure genius.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
But only almost 50 comments.. :)
- Simon Wicks
Simon, there's not much to comment regarding the picture :) But meta-comments are more than appropriate!
- Ivan Zuzak
Simon, yeah we need 1500+ comments now, who wants to start? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
there we go then for the 1500+!!
- Jaap Willem
1600+ to beat the FFundercats live chat thread. I think with this real time now on all threads we're going to see some truly epic comment numbers.
- Simon Wicks
Ivan, no the picture speaks for itself. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
OK, now it's the 4th: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... - it's gonna take a huge effort to break the record of 452+ likes here: http://beta.friendfeed.com/imified...
- Kol Tregaskes
OK, now this is the 3rd most liked entry: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... :-D Crazy!
- Kol Tregaskes
Too bad I am fresh out of likes of I would do it again.
- Jason - The Opaque
I'm using this photo in the latest chapter of can haz murder
- anna sauce
Hehe, Anna. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
One more for 350 likes, LOL. This is mental! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Come on, 350 cats for a cat getting crushed? You guys are mean. :-P
- Richard A.
I'd like again if I could :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
bump
- Simon Wicks
Richard, LOL!
- Kol Tregaskes
Awesomely funny!
- Martha
Next target: 400 likes? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
theres one more for you Kol
- Toby Graham
Toby, you're very kind. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Cute *_*
- Sybelle
Hehe.
- Kol Tregaskes
Just 6 more likes for the 400 then I'll leave you alone. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
can you spare a cat 6 likes?
- Jason - The Opaque
sweet
- Eric Hofmann
Haha, Jason, wow 406 likes, madness! :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
Madness? THIS. IS. FAX CAT.
- Mike Nayyar
Well 452 likes is the record, hmm I think that is pushing it. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Awesome.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
this is underfaksink at its worzt
- pb:
Petr, I have no idea what you mean, but thank you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol .. :] that, partially, might have been the purpose.... I don't know it exactly either. :] .. was I reflecting on a cat under the fax, and that it is hard to fax that way ... /?:] ... "underfaxing at its worst" ..
- pb:
Ah, OK, Petr. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
there ya have me ! :] .... see, to be honest with you, i saw this pic couple days ago, but i let it go, without posting it ..... what does that make me? :]
- pb:
:-)
- Kol Tregaskes
OMGosh, just 23 more likes to beat this: http://beta.friendfeed.com/imified... ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
433 Like ! Wow !
- Like
Freemor, yes very cute! :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
cute~
- Chan Pen
that's why is called a cat scan and not a cat fax.
- Phil Maxwell
oh ... a scan. not fax?! .... it looked to me like she was faxink
- pb:
Just 5 more likes needed. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Fax, Petr. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
even a flat cat... faxes just can't handle the hair. You'd have to shave the cat first, else the hair will burn and stick to the drum... a mess! (I am extrapolating from transparencies, mind, i don't have access to a cat to test)
- Iphigenie
Hehe, Joelle. This is now tied for the 'likes' top stop. One more then, hehe. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Hehe, Greg. Blimey! Erm, is that not far from 500 likes now? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Bloody marvelous, Kol. Wish I could like it again... too cute (and help u to 500 likes).
- Roberto Bonini
I couldn't believe it when I logged on from the morning over posting it and saw it was at something 200 likes! You all have a strange fetish with cats and fax machines, hehe. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Am I the only one who saw this and their first thought was - My goodness did someone break that cats neck? It still freaks me out a little
- SteVe C
Steve, it does look a little out of place, but cats are pretty bendy. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
They fax much better if you flatten them first. What?
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
LOL, Kevin.
- Kol Tregaskes
i can also imagine the cat going there cause it is snug and warm
- Iphigenie
Ey, it would be a tad warm on there, especially after a long working day. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Caption which needs to be said aloud: Uh Ohz, I'm totally FAXED!
- sofarsoShawn
Hehe, Shawn. 10 more for the big 5-0-0. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Countdown! 8 more now!
- Mike Nayyar
bump for more likes
- Josh Haley
bump
- Roberto Bonini
One more!! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I took mine away, too much pressure.
- SteVe C
Wow, there we go, 500 likes!! Thank you all!! :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
I think Fax Kitty deserves a prize for that.
- kendrak
меня, признаться, подзаебал этот кот
- Парадокс Смейла
Kendra, absolutely. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all!
- Kol Tregaskes
did 3 people really un-like this? now at 506. wtf (edit: uh, oh, yeah, me and 2 + 506 others makes 509. dammit, jim, i'm an artist, not a mathematician)
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
wish I could double like!
- metalerik
Wish I could just like it at all. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
This is also still on the Best of page. That must be the longest running best of post? :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
But it's a cat being crushed...
- Richard A.
برای چی این همه لایک خورده؟؟؟؟؟
- نصرآبادی
Hehe, Richard.
- Kol Tregaskes
copy cat
- gibilix
518 like! most liked post?
- Lu Tao
ay yerim yaa çok tatlı kedicikk :))
- Arzu
Lu, yeah but a long way now. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
*bump*
- Andre
Blew past 500 likes - LIKE!!!!!
- Roberto Bonini
OMGosh, nearly heading to 550!!
- Kol Tregaskes
So we know how many people use this site.
- Richard A.
So that's what Paws Printing means.
- Jack&Cleo
Richard, we getting there. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Jack, hehe.
- Kol Tregaskes
this thread is making history.
- vijay
Indeed .. this is a most epic thread
- Mattb4rd
Hehe. 9 more for 550!
- Kol Tregaskes
8...
- sofarsoShawn
7. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Actually only 5...cuz "You, Earl E Morningwood, yasin ghasemi and... 542 liked this"
- sofarsoShawn
Who wants to bet how many likes this thead is going to get???
- Roberto Bonini
Gosh, no idea.
- Kol Tregaskes
take some bets then come back in a year to check?
- Iphigenie
:)
- SokooteDel
Holy smokes .. this pussy cat is approaching 600 likes!
- Mattb4rd
552 now, so there are some unlikes going on, hehe, oh well. Still an amazing amount of likes. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
560!
- sofarsoShawn
And back down to 559. Hehe.
- Kol Tregaskes
And how could anyone not love kitties after seeing this photo?
- Susan Beebe
I liked it without reading this discussion - evidentially we have a lot of people who like the idea of faxing a cat!
- Rich
Rich, yes, worrying, hehe. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
564!
- sofarsoShawn
I think we'll have to recruit more ffeeps before this record will ever be broken
- Jason - The Opaque
maybe a good way to clone cats :)
- Roberto
Hehe, Roberto.
- Kol Tregaskes
This surely couldn't hit 600 likes, could it!?
- Kol Tregaskes
It could! Keep bumping it up!
- imabonehead
It will :)
- Roberto Bonini
My next cat post: http://beta.friendfeed.com/the-fun...
- Kol Tregaskes
Wow, not even 600 Likes? Feh. ;-)
- j1m
No yet. Close though. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Stuck on 581.
- Kol Tregaskes
One of the best funny cat pictures I've seen! :-)
- John Collis
Kristian, it appears to be. Hehe, John.
- Kol Tregaskes
ای بابا این پیشول بی خیال نمی شود، بابا پاشو برو دنبال یه بازی دیگه ، از هفته پیش تا حالا تو فکس ولو شدی حوصله ات سر نرفته، پاشو اقلا بپر رو کیبوردی چیزی
- Maryaminaa
11 more to 600. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
داداش كوتاه بيا، مي خواي ركورد بزني!؟
- Exir
هستم بره این کامنتتو ترجمه کنه اکسیر ! :))) داره از فضولی میمیره الان ! :D
- Shayan
Hehe, 6 more likes. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Need 1 more like, by my calculation, to get to 600
- Josh Haley
Another unlike then, back down to 598. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
it's 598+3, at the moment ;-)
- Andre
There we go, 601!! Wow, can't believe it. :-D Thanks everyone!!
- Kol Tregaskes
3 people un liked :(
- Roberto Bonini
I think there have been made unlikes over the last week, oh well.
- Kol Tregaskes
too many likes, the kitteh is burning up..stop the madness...;)
- Jason - The Opaque
Haha, Jason.
- Kol Tregaskes
614!!!!!
- sofarsoShawn
Whoa! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
man! ..Kol is gaining ... and I saw that pic one day before Kol posted it :X ..and i let it go! :[)]
- pb:
Petr, who's he?
- Kol Tregaskes
omg, this post passed 600 likes!
- imabonehead
@Kol ..well the man .. Mr Photographer .. ok .. let me go there ..
- pb:
I see. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
631 likes, amazing stuff. :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
Day 11 and this thing's still going!
- Phil Maxwell
Why fax yourself when you can get famous via FriendFeed? :-)
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
whereas a cat *scan* is totally feasible
- Megan Craig
Kol, congratulations, you won the Friendfeed Award for the most likes entry!
- Jérôme
Kol is this from your rival: Squashy Cat Photography?
- sofarsoShawn
Haha, Shawn. Have you really bumped this one again? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
LOL I was actually looking at best of month and I thought I'm going to be clever :-)
- sofarsoShawn
this makes me laugh every darn time I see it
- $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian
Who is this NShawnFW? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
kitties do like to find new spots to nap :)
- Maryam
LOL, now over 650 likes.
- Kol Tregaskes
این هنوز در نیومده از لای این دستگاه؟
- Maryaminaa
Wow. this is good..... pleased, Kol?
- Roberto Bonini
Pleased? About the number of likes? I'm happy regardless. :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
So do we think it will go to 700 likes? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
what do you mean by "it" ? say "he" or "she". :)
- Maryaminaa
Haha, I was referring to the entry. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
lol
- Maryaminaa
I see someone already posted 'Copy Cat' !! LOL Great picture
- Kevin J Hatton
:-)
- Kol Tregaskes
O HAI! I IZ WATIN FR COOPONZ, KTHXBYE.
- WYRD 101
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- Mattb4rd
Hehe.
- Kol Tregaskes
10 more likes for 700! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
7 more by my count!
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Oops, yes you're right, Bec. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
It's really only social convention which regards it as inappropriate, same with Xeroxing it, like one does with their b__tocks. Wait are we still talking about cats cats here or...
- sofarsoShawn
OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Wow, not so bad huh? \u)
- Zu from AOD
Before faxing it, you have to flatten it out a bit. You're going at it all wrong! :-)
- Rick Cogley
Must try this at home!
- Anthony K. Valley ©
Bumping some old great posts. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Now THAT is a classic!
- Allan Besselink
you have to flatten it first!!! ;)
- Neda S.
This is very good humor!
- TrafficBug
Hey, we've hit the 700-like mark. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
just a couple thousand to go
- Jason - The Opaque
LOL
- Smeerch
__awesome__
- scotu (V)(°,,,,°)(V)
and it got resurrected once again!
- Iphigenie
I managed to do it once, but I don't think I'm going to do it again. The results were a little fuzzy.
- Seth Greenblatt
Bump.
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm so glad this thread has been revived. The cat in the fax machine never fails to delight.
- Michelle Jones
I've heard of cheap paper but this is ridiculous!!
- Neda S.
Copy the cat
- Alyn William
And there I was thinking this was the most liked post on FriendFeed. Darn, just 3rd. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Just 100 more likes to go. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Missed this the first time around.
- John (bird whisperer)
:-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Wow, over 700 likes. :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
715 likes and counting.
- Kol Tregaskes
Fax Yeah!
- Хозяин строки
:-)
- Kol Tregaskes
who revived that one?
- Iphigenie
Me, sorry.
- Kol Tregaskes
Just 40 more likes. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
all right let's do it...
- Iphigenie
Love this one!
- Fossil Huntress
:-)
- Kol Tregaskes
#aaaf
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Sidetick?
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...touching and passionate posts about what he was going through and what she was going through. Kevin had the idea of naming the kittens in memory of Zoe. Only down side is we already had a Zoey over the summer and we didn't want to name another with the same name. The grey kittens name came to us pretty quick after this idea, we would name her Coraline after one of our favorite Neil Gaiman books. Naming the black kitty was harder. I looked up the meaning of the name Zoe and it turned out to be Greek for life. That seemed perfect since we were going to name her in memory of the wonderful kitty life of Zoe. Still it needed to be different. So I looked up other names that also meant life, but I still couldn't find anything that fit. Finally I came up with Zora. It mean Origin. Origin and Life, Zora and Zoe... it all seemed to fit. Like most foster kittens, it is not likely they will keep their names when they get adopted, but for now these two kittens are full of life and a beautiful...
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- Rachel Lea Fox
Bokeh kitty is cute!
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I read those posts as he was posting them - so sad! And yay for kitteh names!
- Katy S
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Afternoon Kitten Attack!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
I have to admit, seeing the pictures of your kittens while all of that was going on made me feel better too :)
- Jennifer Dittrich
My heart was breaking, reading Neil Gaiman's tweets and blog posts. I think the names are very lovely and a wonderful tribute!
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Thanks Jennifer and vicster!
- Rachel Lea Fox
so cute!
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Thanks Anna!!
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All US PhD's are coursework heavy compared with the majority of the rest of the world...or at least as it was ten years ago - things have changed now but if you suggested a year of coursework in the UK people would laugh at you - before quietly taking you outside in case someone else heard...
- Cameron Neylon
On the other hand the average UK PhD is way too short...
- Cameron Neylon
Hmm, does the UK PhD come after a Masters or after a Bachelors? (the Indian PhD is preceded by a Masters)
- Deepak Singh
Masters are traditionally thought of as "off the academic route". Classic path is three year bachelors, three year PhD. There are now however many four year bachelors (unhelpfully called Masters, which they're not) and more people doing masters as a way of getting into PhDs but in most cases you can still find a 3+3 route (Those who spend too much time worrying about European education pathways may be amused to note that I am currently making a Bolognaise sauce...)
- Cameron Neylon
That's a heck of a short time to do a PhD :). I have a non-classic path (although pretty classic for most Indians who come to the US); 3 year bachelors and 2 year masters in India and then 4 years (which is on the short side) for a PhD in the US. What I got from the institution was (a) funding to do interesting research (b) facilities (c) a group of collaborators to work with and (d)...
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- Deepak Singh
D0r0th34. if you this as openly as she suggests, how can anyone deny that she has contributed ? I do not agree that you need "institutional backing" to get recognition - you can earn recognition online. And, we can help with ideas, - from the post: "Will this work? Can it be done? Can we make it rigourous enough to be equal to an actual online Ph.D program? Join me on this journey. Your feedback and suggestions are welcome!"
- Nils Reinton
it should be noted that very few actually finish within three years - but everyone thinks they will when they start :-)
- Cameron Neylon
from twhirl
You can't forget the recognition angle too. In general we need some kind of stamp to indicate a certain minimum amount of knowledge and experience as well as the nature (PhD to me indicates that you should know how to design and conduct experiments, and interpret and write their results in a way that can be used by others and be extended to additional research). It's an artificial...
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- Deepak Singh
Agreed - but as the person hiring someone in, say, four years time. How much are you going to worry about what they've done and how well and how that is documented vs the origin of a piece of paper. And how will that be different from how you see it today. I've been writing "PhD or equivalent experience" on person specifications for a while now - never seen anyone show with equivalent experience yet but it would be interesting to see how someone might demonstrate that.
- Cameron Neylon
I think this should be done, and its a great idea. I agree you don't need institutional backing to get recognition. Its just easier if you have the institution behind you. Other than to have a hands on laboratory , you can move a lot of research and everything else involved with a PhD online. During my PhD I learnt as much ( if not more) online, participating in bulletin board...
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- Hari
Cameron, after the first job it shouldn't really matter. The only other situation I've seen it matter is things like business where a PhD in an analytical field gets you through the door without sufficient experience or "appropriate" education. I've actually seen the "equivalent experience" in action. Had a colleague with a Masters but years of experience in industry running labs and as...
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- Deepak Singh
But why should someone need the job to get over that hurdle. If someone comes to you with e.g. coursework for a range of relevant areas, a stonking stack overflow karma, and a self motivated research project with say one big conference paper, and a strong development record then would they be seen as on a equal footing with a PhD. Does the conference paper matter vs a self-motivated...
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- Cameron Neylon
Cameron, for most jobs you get x number of resumes. Often you have multiple job listings available (this is the non academic recruiting process). In the absence of a resume and referrals from someone in your organization, how do you filter, especially when there is little to no experience. Your assumption is that having done a PhD there is a certain minimum quality threshold that must be met. Is it the perfect system? Not at all, very flawed actually, especially if you want to work at a non-startup
- Deepak Singh
In general though, I completely agree with you.
- Deepak Singh
I hesitate to say it but that sounds like filter failure...I guess it depends a lot on how specific the job is...if it could be done by a lot of people then use a crude quality filter that may be lossy but will get you the quality level you need. But if you really need the best person then you need a different type of filter and to decide whether the extra resources it will require are...
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- Cameron Neylon
In my experience referrals are the best filter. I don't really trust letters of recommendation
- Deepak Singh
Just thought I'd pop in here and say hello. I am Lisa Chamberlin - the "openphd student" of OpenPhd and a recent FriendFeed newbie. I just happened to stumble on this feed while exploring the Future of Education group. Do know that I appreciate all the interest in my experiment and I truly recognize it as that - an experiment or action research, perhaps (that's a throwback term to my...
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- Lisa Chamberlin
Am I Playing Schoolhouse, or Growing a Community of Learners? - http://joelzehring.edublogs.org/2009...
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The fundamental assumption of professional learning communities is this: students grow more when teachers work together toward a common goal. Many teachers, however, did not sign up to work with other teachers.
- Joel Zehring
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Hi, Joel. How are you defining "cohesive community"? Just curious, here -- I've been impressed at my kids' school by how much teachers interact with each other and each other's students -- teachers confer about students as they move from one grade to the next. The school curriculum is loosely bound (for instance, everyone started science with "matter" with lots of variation b/w grades)....
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- Mickey Schafer
Shane Hipps mentions four elements of authentic community: 1. Shared history 2. Proximity 3. Permanence 4. Shared vision of the future. This is roughly what I am considering as cohesive community, but I'm still refining my definition. I'm currently reading "Professional Learning Communities at Work" by Richard DuFour to firm up my thoughts.
- Joel Zehring
Ultimately, my ideal is that a cohesive school staff is more valuable and effective than the sum of it's individual teachers.
- Joel Zehring
I've been nice to people and cheerful all day. This is completely out of character. What the hell is wrong with me? Do I have a brain tumor?
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