Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?

I take attendance by having the students answer a question. I didn't manage to find her last year, so I asked again:

Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?

The unsure:

• IDK
• who dat
• no idea
• Wonderful question, I'm from the South.

I guess Carmen Sandiego might be a regional/cultural thing.

Some students suggested a good collection of places I'm totally willing to go in an around-the-world montage/vacation:

• Toledo, Spain
• San Jose
• Los Angeles
• San Diego
• Cornfield, USA (<-- --="" an="" challenge:="" finding="" have="" i="" li="" location="" might="" slightly="" such="" trouble="" underspecified="">
  

on Earth (<-- --="" ditto="" even="" li="" more="" underspecified="">

Gallifrey (<-- --="" a="" challenge:="" challenge="" distance="" expenses="" hugely="" li="" pose="" significant="" still="" time="" travel="" underspecified="">

Swarthmore-specific answers, of course:

• Clothier
• Swarthmore
• Willets 325
• on my comp in 2005
• here<-- attendance="" be="" for="" just="" li="" might="" present="" registering="" someone="">
  
• Bell Tower
• in class

The remaining answers were eclectic. On-topic for Algorithms Award goes to "unsure, but there's probably an algorithm we can use to find out." The Unhelpfullest in Searching Prize is tied between "wherever you look last" and "Have you checked under the couch?" The Trophy of Nerd Supremacy goes to "Schrodinger's Box, with the cat."


This post's theme word is retral (adj), "located at the back" or "backward." The professor calls on the retral students first, so sit near the front!

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck?

I take attendance by asking the students a question.

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck?

• As much as woodchuckily possible.
• all the wood that a woodchuck could chuck if it could chuck wood
• too much ☹
• lots
• Lot 51
• depends on if he had a snack before
• depends on his emotions
• a truckload
• a chuckload
• O(n*n)
• at least 17
• 10 pieces of wood
• some
• 2
• none 😑
• *if* a woodchuck could chuck wood

The most popular answer was "enough." Official Tip of the Cap to "to get to the other side" for making fun of the questions, and Professor's Preferred Award to "We only need to prove that the wood exists, nothing more."

Previously on: Algorithms.

This post's theme word is loblolly, "a thick gruel", "a mire or mudhole," "an assistant to a ship's surgeon," "a pine tree with long needles and strong wood", or "an evergreen." The lobllolly prescribed me loblolly made of loblolly while I recovered from my motorbike accident. What happened? Oh, I hit a loblolly and fell into a loblolly, then the loblolly fell atop me.