Why did the chicken cross the road?

I take attendance by asking the students a question.

Why did the chicken cross the road? (previously: 2017 2016)

• idk
• no idea
• not sure
• I don't know
• I don't know
• why not?
• exercize!
• to cry
• the chicken saw a sale
• Because why wouldn't it?
• to find its friends
• can't I just say "to get to the other side"?
• to lay an egg
• to chase innocent children
• Colonel Sanders was in pursuit
• it wanted a Popeye's chicken sandwich on the other side
• to run away from the Chic-Fil-A
• you tell me
• or did it?
• because the chicken has no free will
• determinism
• because it wanted to
• to be part of The Beatles
• to solve algorithms problems

The "non sequitur" award goes to "cuz 7 is a prime".

This post's theme word is slue (v intr), "to turn, swing, or slide in a particular direction" or (n), "such a turn, swing or slide." The chicken sped across the road and slued into the neighbor's coop!

What is your quest?

I take attendance by asking students a question.

I previously asked them their names (so that I can identify them correctly). Today:

What is your quest? (previously: 2017 2016)

Many people gave pragmatic answers:

• to get a job (4 votes)
• to change stuff at world
• to find the holy grail best Sharples meal
• to prosper
• to retire
• to sleep
• to become an invaluable engineer
• I have too many to complete
• to graduate
• to be the very best
• happy ending
• to get 8 hrs of sleep
• to get through it all
• to live my life
• to try
• to enjoy my life
• to travel

I have follow-up questions for "to find something big" --- anything big? Like, a dinosaur skeleton? An aircraft hangar? A deep-sea gyre? A star system?

The trifecta of "Lila does not think these are compatible":

• financial stability
• happiness
• CS grad school

The closest we came to "to seek the holy grail" was a tie between:

• to catch 'em all
• to destroy the one ring

... so I award these the Cultural Reference Award for the day. Since zero people are grail-seekers, I'll skip the question about airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow and ask them something else next.


This post's theme word is dree (v tr), "to endure or suffer" or (adj), "tedious or dreary." Some quests are rather dree, but grand overall.