Self-tutoring: the tutor inquires about the origin of the popular saying “That’s all she wrote.” Apparently “That’s all she wrote” originates from WWII: if an American serviceman received a letter saying only “Dear John,” he’d been deserted by its writer. …
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Self-tutoring with Excel: the tutor shares a tip about extending text over multiple columns. Let’s imagine you want to title a spreadsheet. You probably want to center the title at the top: likely it will run across more than one …
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Design self-tutoring: the tutor wonders how close colors can be while still providing enough contrast. Happy Mothers Day:) Source: 24ways.org w3schools.com Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.
Tutoring English, familiar words can hold surprises. The tutor mentions such a case with the words sanatorium and sanitarium. I almost never hear sanatorium, but rather, sanitarium. They have the same meaning: a facility promoting patients’ recovery, possibly from long-term …
Tutoring English, new vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor brings up tintinnabulation. tintinnabulation “sound from the ringing of bells” – Collins Source: Gilmour, Lorna et al. Collins Essential Canadian English Dictionary and Thesaurus. Glasgow: HarperCollins, 2006. www.w3schools.com Jack of Oracle …
Tutoring chemistry, naming acids might arise. The tutor brings up a time to use hypo in naming an acid. From a simple point of view, the hypo acid has one less oxygen than the -ous acid. For example: chlorous acid: …
More self-tutoring about technology: the tutor shares the term bounce rate. bounce rate percentage of visits that view a single page on a site, then leave. Source: support.google.com blog.kissmetrics.com Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.
Self-tutoring about color theory: the tutor mentions perhaps the first color wheel. Apparently, Isaac Newton devised a color wheel in 1666 – perhaps the first ever. It was based on red, green, and blue, from which he decided all colors …
Self-tutoring about color: the tutor looks more closely at beige and a related color. The web version of beige is rgb(245,245,220) Beige background What if a similar formula is followed, but using less red while almost full green and blue? …
Self-tutoring about electrical consumption: the tutor looks for the typical power rating of baseboard heaters. Investigating energy consumption, I was compelled to inquire about the wattage of baseboard heaters. Baseboard heaters, because of their variable length, are often discussed in …