what's up with the homepage images?

sparkybennett · Post by **sparkybennett** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 8:36 am

S-K-N-I-G-S-I

JoannaChildsface · Post by **JoannaChildsface** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:45 pm

So "words can hurt" is referring to Josh/iamcool?
"dont be led astray" is probably referring to Mayati. Its obvious that Ms Kelly considers her a threat.
and "not jumping to conclusions" is maybe talking about herself and her newfound trust of her students?
But maybe the file names also tie in with the captions under the pictures...can anybody post those? I can't remember and my internet is fritzing out b/c of the tropical depression.
->J

missthemystery · Post by **missthemystery** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:20 pm

They are no longer on the homepage, unless I'm missing them.
here's what i remember (may be off)
The last pic of a light bulb was Don't K, K?
the middle pic of a pencil was the dates (june something thru sept something i think)
the first of the ham said something like i dont have 4 months to spare.

sparkybennett · Post by **sparkybennett** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:17 pm

when I search for all three sayings (words can hurt,no jumping to conclusions, and do not be led astray) I come up with Richard feynman's
The Meaning of it all- A collection of 3 lectures he gave in 1963.

Has anyone read this? I can't quite make the xonnection, and I don't have the book.
I don't know if these were points he covered.
Feynam was left handed (the picture of the left hand writing) And he is one of Bree's heros , whom she has mentioned a bit.

Post by **twjaniak** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:27 pm

sparkybennett wrote:when I search for all three sayings (words can hurt,no jumping to conclusions, and do not be led astray) I come up with Richard feynman's
The Meaning of it all- A collection of 3 lectures he gave in 1963.

Has anyone read this? I can't quite make the xonnection, and I don't have the book.
I don't know if these were points he covered.
Feynam was left handed (the picture of the left hand writing) And he is one of Bree's heros , whom she has mentioned a bit.

Very interesting observation. Perhaps Bree learned of him through her time with the HSA?

taiya · Post by **taiya** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:34 pm

I've read it I think, but it's been awhile. I'll have to see if it's in the library. It's possible that those are phrases he would use.

Feynman is a great read btw. I just looked him up and found this quote:

"In general we look for a new law by the following process. First we guess it. Then we compute the consequences of the guess to see what would be implied if this law that we guessed is right. Then we compare the result of the computation to nature, with experiment or experience, compare it directly with observation, to see if it works. If it disagrees with experiment it is wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It does not make any difference how beautiful your guess is. It does not make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is -- if it disagrees with experiment it is wrong. That is all there is to it "

sparkybennett · Post by **sparkybennett** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:12 pm

I really enjoyed his website
http://www.feynman.com/
well not "his" but the one dedicated to him

great anecdotes.

missthemystery · Post by **missthemystery** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 8:26 pm

twjaniak, err, i mean ms kelly, posted new images on the website. "step 1"" and "step 2"

S is for Summer · Post by **S is for Summer** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 8:44 pm

missthemystery wrote:twjaniak, err, i mean ms kelly, posted new images on the website. "step 1"" and "step 2"

On a hunch I google imagesearched "chinese character love" and came up with nothing. But then I googled "chinese character loyalty" and came up with what looks like, to my untrained eye, a match for the first image:

The image from Ms. Kelly's site:

The image I found via google, "loyalty":

I have to go for a few hours, but maybe that will give someone a starting point?

Also, I vaguely remember something about certain Chinese characters being very similar to characters in other asian languages, so it might not DEFINITELY be Chinese... hopefully one of you knows more about asian languages than I do.

missthemystery · Post by **missthemystery** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:00 pm

try google images and look up chinese symbol fidelity (ms. kelly uses this word on the classroom notebook page, telling us will be rewarded for our fidelity. the first symbol also looks similar to the image on hsao.net

edit: i think i must be tired. on second look, they look kinda different

taiya · Post by **taiya** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:03 pm

That definitely looks like loyality. I think it must be step 1. Good job!

S is for Summer · Post by **S is for Summer** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:07 am

Okay, I still think that's definitely loyalty, but now I kind of think it's Japanese. The directions of some of the brush strokes are more similar to the japanese characters for loyalty that came up in google.

Look:
From HSAO:

Japanese character found via google:

I'm still working on the second one.

missthemystery · Post by **missthemystery** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 10:43 am

I consulted an expert who id them pretty quickly:

"The top character is "zhong" which means "loyal, devoted". The bottom
character is "ren" which means "endure, tolerate"."

Much thanks to Erik.

Post by **twjaniak** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 10:47 am

missthemystery wrote:I consulted an expert who id them pretty quickly:

"The top character is "zhong" which means "loyal, devoted". The bottom
character is "ren" which means "endure, tolerate"."

Much thanks to Erik.

Great job you guys. Ms. Kelly will be most pleased to see you working together and remaining true to the objectives.

sparkybennett · Post by **sparkybennett** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:05 pm

I wonder what will have to be endured......dun.dun.dunnnnn