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I hear them call the tide
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Perpetual Chaos
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Bri's breezed back in. allegedly.
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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I have perfected the art of the microwave baked potato. Even faster than a sandwich!
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polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
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Snow forecast! Ooooooooh!
Mum says if she wakes up to let the cat out (their cat) and it's snowed, she'll wake me up. We'll probably get it Sunday night. I am very snow-wary - it's always promised and rarely delivered, but I'm allowing myself to get excited this time. |
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#3305 |
Encroaching on your decrees
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland
Posts: 7,016
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Oh! Please share!
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#3306 |
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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For a medium potato, 4 and a half minutes on full power (don't forget to poke it full of holes,) then let it sit for another 5 minutes--the inside will continue to cook. Cut it open and dump any number of delicious things inside.
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Encroaching on your decrees
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland
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Thank you!
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#3308 |
polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
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But... but... but...
The skin is all nasty and soft! I'll stick to the long slow cooking, thanks. |
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#3309 |
Glutton for Gluttony
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Tampa, FL
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I have to spend the weekend creating a lesson unit for my freshmen (which really should be in the "What's mildly irritating you today?") but what's making me happy is that the unit is centered on media. As a kid I wanted to work as a cinematographer, so it makes me happy that I can use what little knowledge I have for a good use. All of the other teachers in the department are a little freaked out by this unit because they feel they don't know much about film.
The main film we've been asked to use is Edward Scissorhands, and as a Tim Burton/Johnny Depp fangirl this is very helpful because I already have a book with storyboards for The Nightmare Before Christmas, the soundtracks for Edward and Nightmare, and a handful of movies that I plan to use for demonstrating shots/camera angles (namely Big Fish and Pirates of the Caribbean). I think this is going to be a really awesome unit if I can just convince the kids to get on board. |
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
Join Date: Jun 2006
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How awesome Chocolatl. I am a huge Depp fan: without saying a word he nailed Edward Scissorhands.
What a great teacher you must be. ![]() On a side note: have you seen Ed Wood?
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Glutton for Gluttony
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Tampa, FL
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Keep your fingers crossed that my students think it's great, too! The classes I'm teaching it to are all sophomores and juniors that failed freshman English and are repeating the class so that they can graduate. One would think it might mean higher motivation, and for a handful it does, but the grand majority of them feel that if it wasn't interesting for them the first time around it sure as hell isn't gonna capture their imaginations this time around. They've never had a media unit before, though, so I'm hoping I can grab them by working in recent movies.
I've seen the first half of Ed Wood, but for whatever reason I didn't have the chance to see it all the way through and don't remember much of it except for something about an angora sweater. It's on my list of movies to see, when I have time in my next life. ;-) |
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
Join Date: Jun 2006
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It's one of my favorite movies.
Good luck. I bet you grab a lot of them. ![]()
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Encroaching on your decrees
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland
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[threaddrift]Thanks for the warning! I read somewhere that if you cooked it (baked potato in a microwave) wrapped in kitchen paper the skin'd be crispy? Does anyone know?[/threaddrift]
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
Join Date: Jun 2006
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I do like a nice baked potato from the oven...but a quick microwave potato will do.
I eat the skin...so many people I know leave it. It's the best part!
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