-- you're talking to a guy who thinks a yard is the sod you lay out on the roof deck --
Cool. You know over in Europe they are big on sod roofs. Not sure if that is just commercial buildings or houses too. I know Chicago is big on commerical buildings downtown, and here in Atlanta they are doing some tests. It cuts down on that urban heat island effect, reduces cooling/heating costs and reduces runoff when it rains. I need a new roof and was trying to figure out if I could do it to mine. If you're roof is to steep of course you couldn't do it. I have a fairly shallow roof though. Researching it a few months back, I never was able to figure out if it was doable. Looked like it would be to expensive. I'm sure my neighbors would love it if I had flowers growing on my roof. What the hell is that crazy guy doing now. <bg>
Looks like I'll probably just go with a regular old roof. I have to pick a color though. Brown or green. Light brown or dark brown .... I need to decide soon. It's not leaking yet, but parts of the shingles are starting to blown off in the wind. <g>
Now if I can only figure out vowels and consonants I could go to bed. Oh, you think it's simple do you. How many vowels are there? You sure it's just five? And what's this about short vowels and long vowels? Which ones are which? Wait a minute, doesn't that give us ten vowels? And looking in my dictionary, there are 20 something vowel sounds. In the college level stuff I'm running across on the internet, they admit it's just a bunch of voodoo witchcraft gobbly gook. An yet the grade school phonetics crowd is, it's so simple. There's these nice little rules and a few exceptions of this, and exceptions for that, and exceptions for .... There aren't any rules.
Take mat and mad. Supposedly both "short" vowel a sounds, but the a in mad is pronunced for a longer time than the a in mat. Why? And the e in chest sure sounds like the a in mat and mad. And if you look at what your month is doing, it's doing the same thing to make all three a sounds. Simple my eye. And we haven't even got into letters like h, j, y, w and maybe l, r, n, and m that at times can act like vowels. Why do they even bring this nonsense up in school when they are teaching kids to read? Obviously you don't need to know about vowels and consonants to learn to speak. Ask any five year old, he has no clue about vowels and consonants and yet he can talk. And if you had to know about them to read, then I would have to stop reading. <g>
I'm trying to teach a third grader how to read. We even got the orignal book that was used to teach her how to read to find out what she didn't understand and hence where she became stuck. Was doing great until about the tenth page where they suddenly threw in short vowels. She about threw the book out the window at that point. <g> After spending most of the weekend researching it, I can't blame her. The experts can't agree about it amongst themselves. How are little kids suppose to understand it? And the phonetics crowd that has it so simple and easy only have 33,000 exceptions. You were standing on your left foot, and not your right, and you weren't hopping, and you were facing southwest instead of east, so that means ....
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