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It's always amusing to see that even "gourmets" are beset by, "I like the jarred stuff better" pains.
I have a spaghetti sauce recipe handed down to me over several generations, and after making it several hundred times I've got it down to an art.
My kids still prefer Trader Joe's Bolognese.
GothBard learned to make fettuccine alfredo from scratch from an Italian grandmother. It is truly divine, and I can't order alfredo sauce at any restaurant because it pales in comparison to hers.
The kids prefer Trader Joe's frozen fettuccine alfredo.
On the bright side, using the pre-prepared stuff is a LOT easier.
But... ouch!
Have you ever WANTED to find a new conspiracy to believe in, but you can't manage the energy to really invest in one? That's how I feel today.
Hang on. Let me say a bunch of conspiracy buzzwords.
5G
Vaccine Microchip
Reptilians living on the dark side of the moon
Masad
White Dragon Society
Godmen
Jesus Christ marrying a Hindu Goddess of Mercy
Illuminati
Okay and now all I have to do is hit se2-5u1n o3mrfp3jfpgwndgs;dgh;h
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For the second week in a row, Impus Minor has more homework assignments than classes. (5 classes with 2 synchronous and 1 asynchronous meetings a week = 15 class sessions a week. Last week he had 18 assignments. This week he has 21.)
If you're a teacher and you can't manage to keep your assignments to at most one per class session, then I have issues with you.
(And no, it's not, "Oh, but one of them is just, 'Sign this form." It's 30-60 minutes per assignment for 21 assignments this week, plus his class sessions.)
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I think the thing that really kills me is the way they teach statistics these days.
Since I went to school before calculators, we rolled dice, dealt cards, flipped coins, and played little betting games. It was all very hands-on, and taught us a TON about just how counterintuitive probability can be.
With the advent of graphing calculators in every classroom, educators thought, "Finally! We can show them normal curves and standard deviations! It'll be awesome!"
Instead, the homework is, "Type 'normalcdf(70,79,75,5)' into your calculator and write down the result here."
I cannot begin to express the depth of my contempt.
Sometimes I just love the Bay Area:
"The order prohibits private gatherings of any size, except for outdoor church services and political demonstrations."
Yep. God and protests. We've got our priorities straight, darn it!
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Since I went to school before calculators, we rolled dice, dealt cards, flipped coins, and played little betting games.
Urns! Urns, I tell you! Filled with poker chips! Or marbles!
True story: I don't play poker.
It was a running joke in my graduate statistics class that at least once per exam I would walk up to the proctor/professor and ask them to explain a poker term (inside straight, flush, royal flush, all those words).
After which I would walk back and complete the exam.
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My group is finally running an L5R game without me having to GM. I can be a player in Rokugan for the first time in almost a decade! It's 4e L5R, because we don't like the proprietary dice, the new timeline changes, and it's easier to teach 4e to our players familiar with d20.
Freehold will be happy to know that I will be representing the Spider with a Daigotsu bushi. I am joined by a Crane clan duelist, a Scorpion clan mage, a Dragon Togashi monk, and a Tortoise courtier.
I am psyched!
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Friend: "My kid refuses to eat fish. Can you suggest a replacement?"
Me: "A cat. Cats love fish."
Side note, as someone who gave up meat for 8 years or so until 3 years ago, if a person calls themselves a vegetarian but eats fish, they are a liar. Fish is meat. You're a pescatarian. Get your nomenclature right.
Sometimes I just love the Bay Area:
"The order prohibits private gatherings of any size, except for outdoor church services and political demonstrations."
Yep. God and protests. We've got our priorities straight, darn it!
Church services...see recent US Supreme Court rulings.
Sometimes I just love the Bay Area:
"The order prohibits private gatherings of any size, except for outdoor church services and political demonstrations."
Yep. God and protests. We've got our priorities straight, darn it!
Here political demonstrations are constitutionally protected and can only be restricted by a full Parlimentary law. I know this because it is a big issue currently in Poland. Not going into political details, though.
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It's always amusing to see that even "gourmets" are beset by, "I like the jarred stuff better" pains.
I have a spaghetti sauce recipe handed down to me over several generations, and after making it several hundred times I've got it down to an art.
My kids still prefer Trader Joe's Bolognese.GothBard learned to make fettuccine alfredo from scratch from an Italian grandmother. It is truly divine, and I can't order alfredo sauce at any restaurant because it pales in comparison to hers.
The kids prefer Trader Joe's frozen fettuccine alfredo.On the bright side, using the pre-prepared stuff is a LOT easier.
But... ouch!
I'll gladly come visit post-plague to try them both.
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FIRST DAY OF WINTER VACATION!
NO MORE SCHOOL UNTIL JANUARY FOURTH!
I think the thing that really kills me is the way they teach statistics these days.
Since I went to school before calculators, we rolled dice, dealt cards, flipped coins, and played little betting games. It was all very hands-on, and taught us a TON about just how counterintuitive probability can be.
With the advent of graphing calculators in every classroom, educators thought, "Finally! We can show them normal curves and standard deviations! It'll be awesome!"
Instead, the homework is, "Type 'normalcdf(70,79,75,5)' into your calculator and write down the result here."
I cannot begin to express the depth of my contempt.
I do remember some people having an issue with schools teaching statistics as a lead in to gambling. Some parents were relieved we used calculators, but the questions were never phrased assuming we had them.
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ITS SNOWING!!!!
My group is finally running an L5R game without me having to GM. I can be a player in Rokugan for the first time in almost a decade! It's 4e L5R, because we don't like the proprietary dice, the new timeline changes, and it's easier to teach 4e to our players familiar with d20.
Freehold will be happy to know that I will be representing the Spider with a Daigotsu bushi. I am joined by a Crane clan duelist, a Scorpion clan mage, a Dragon Togashi monk, and a Tortoise courtier.
I am psyched!
FOR THE SPIDER!!!!
What a wonderful party you have there. I love the Tortoise.
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They thought that teaching statistics would lead to gambling? Surely a better understanding of statistics would make people less likely to waste their money like that.I do remember some people having an issue with schools teaching statistics as a lead in to gambling. Some parents were relieved we used calculators, but the questions were never phrased assuming we had them.I think the thing that really kills me is the way they teach statistics these days.
Since I went to school before calculators, we rolled dice, dealt cards, flipped coins, and played little betting games. It was all very hands-on, and taught us a TON about just how counterintuitive probability can be.
With the advent of graphing calculators in every classroom, educators thought, "Finally! We can show them normal curves and standard deviations! It'll be awesome!"
Instead, the homework is, "Type 'normalcdf(70,79,75,5)' into your calculator and write down the result here."
I cannot begin to express the depth of my contempt.
You have met the general public, right? Particularly the types with Opinions about How Them There Schools Are Ruining Everything(tm)?
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I try my best not to interact with the public. Which is somewhat difficult considering my job.You have met the general public, right? Particularly the types with Opinions about How Them There Schools Are Ruining Everything(tm)?They thought that teaching statistics would lead to gambling? Surely a better understanding of statistics would make people less likely to waste their money like that.I do remember some people having an issue with schools teaching statistics as a lead in to gambling. Some parents were relieved we used calculators, but the questions were never phrased assuming we had them.I think the thing that really kills me is the way they teach statistics these days.
Since I went to school before calculators, we rolled dice, dealt cards, flipped coins, and played little betting games. It was all very hands-on, and taught us a TON about just how counterintuitive probability can be.
With the advent of graphing calculators in every classroom, educators thought, "Finally! We can show them normal curves and standard deviations! It'll be awesome!"
Instead, the homework is, "Type 'normalcdf(70,79,75,5)' into your calculator and write down the result here."
I cannot begin to express the depth of my contempt.
You work third shift though, it's not that hard avoiding the public when you work third shift.
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Even after coffee, I'm feeling a bit disoriented and having a hard time convincing my brain that today is not Saturday.
This is vexing.
Apparently the amount of days co-worker can go without someone to talk to is two.
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I decided to do the math and it turns out in the winter I have anywhere between 12-17 pockets.
I decided to do the math and it turns out in the winter I have anywhere between 12-17 pockets.
I realized an interesting little side note the other day: The reason Bay Area residents complain about how cold it is in both mid-summer and the depths of winter is that we never bother actually trying to adapt to the weather.
We've moved to relatively normal "winter" temperatures: Highs in the mid-50s, lows in the high 30s or low 40s.
And I'm still wearing exactly the same clothes as I wear in the summer. Sure, I put on a sweatshirt, but otherwise we don't tend to have a set of "winter wear" and a set of "summer wear". So when the indoor temperature drops by about 5°F and the outdoor temperature drops by about 15°F and you've made no adjustments, of course you're going to feel cold.
I forget what triggered it, but "winter wear" and "summer wear" are the same thing around here...
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I still see far more than I would like.You work third shift though, it's not that hard avoiding the public when you work third shift.I try my best not to interact with the public. Which is somewhat difficult considering my job.You have met the general public, right? Particularly the types with Opinions about How Them There Schools Are Ruining Everything(tm)?They thought that teaching statistics would lead to gambling? Surely a better understanding of statistics would make people less likely to waste their money like that.I do remember some people having an issue with schools teaching statistics as a lead in to gambling. Some parents were relieved we used calculators, but the questions were never phrased assuming we had them.I think the thing that really kills me is the way they teach statistics these days.
Since I went to school before calculators, we rolled dice, dealt cards, flipped coins, and played little betting games. It was all very hands-on, and taught us a TON about just how counterintuitive probability can be.
With the advent of graphing calculators in every classroom, educators thought, "Finally! We can show them normal curves and standard deviations! It'll be awesome!"
Instead, the homework is, "Type 'normalcdf(70,79,75,5)' into your calculator and write down the result here."
I cannot begin to express the depth of my contempt.
Not a big threshold to pass, though...
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I decided to do the math and it turns out in the winter I have anywhere between 12-17 pockets.I realized an interesting little side note the other day: The reason Bay Area residents complain about how cold it is in both mid-summer and the depths of winter is that we never bother actually trying to adapt to the weather.
We've moved to relatively normal "winter" temperatures: Highs in the mid-50s, lows in the high 30s or low 40s.
And I'm still wearing exactly the same clothes as I wear in the summer. Sure, I put on a sweatshirt, but otherwise we don't tend to have a set of "winter wear" and a set of "summer wear". So when the indoor temperature drops by about 5°F and the outdoor temperature drops by about 15°F and you've made no adjustments, of course you're going to feel cold.
I forget what triggered it, but "winter wear" and "summer wear" are the same thing around here...
Sigh. It's pretty crazy that we get better winters here in Texas. If I don't get sweater season, I get grumpy. er.
They thought that teaching statistics would lead to gambling? Surely a better understanding of statistics would make people less likely to waste their money like that.I do remember some people having an issue with schools teaching statistics as a lead in to gambling. Some parents were relieved we used calculators, but the questions were never phrased assuming we had them.I think the thing that really kills me is the way they teach statistics these days.
Since I went to school before calculators, we rolled dice, dealt cards, flipped coins, and played little betting games. It was all very hands-on, and taught us a TON about just how counterintuitive probability can be.
With the advent of graphing calculators in every classroom, educators thought, "Finally! We can show them normal curves and standard deviations! It'll be awesome!"
Instead, the homework is, "Type 'normalcdf(70,79,75,5)' into your calculator and write down the result here."
I cannot begin to express the depth of my contempt.
It happens. I know people who count cards in their head and learned it from math class. As much as I hate math, this isn't to say it's all math fault and its corrupting the youth, only that I see how some could be upset by it.
Not a big threshold to pass, though...I still see far more than I would like.You work third shift though, it's not that hard avoiding the public when you work third shift.I try my best not to interact with the public. Which is somewhat difficult considering my job.You have met the general public, right? Particularly the types with Opinions about How Them There Schools Are Ruining Everything(tm)?They thought that teaching statistics would lead to gambling? Surely a better understanding of statistics would make people less likely to waste their money like that.I do remember some people having an issue with schools teaching statistics as a lead in to gambling. Some parents were relieved we used calculators, but the questions were never phrased assuming we had them.I think the thing that really kills me is the way they teach statistics these days.
Since I went to school before calculators, we rolled dice, dealt cards, flipped coins, and played little betting games. It was all very hands-on, and taught us a TON about just how counterintuitive probability can be.
With the advent of graphing calculators in every classroom, educators thought, "Finally! We can show them normal curves and standard deviations! It'll be awesome!"
Instead, the homework is, "Type 'normalcdf(70,79,75,5)' into your calculator and write down the result here."
I cannot begin to express the depth of my contempt.
The only possible solution is to gouge out your own eyes.
Wait.
No.
Statistics...um...uh...
The only probable solution is to gouge out your own eyes.
Wait...
Hang on...I'll get this right eventually...my understanding of statistics is the only possible problem here, I'm certain of that much...
Seriously, Boeing?
The training and licensing required to become a pilot for a small 2-4 seat aircraft (Cessna, Piper, etc) is *rigorous* and expensive. The training and licensing required to become a commercial airline pilot is, rightfully, exponentially more stringent.
Now imagine that kind of software failure cutting throttle to idle to our barely trained drivers on the road. Meanwhile car and tech companies are chomping at the bit to have self-driving cars and cut the human driver out of the equation. In the name of safety.
Can't we just start with actually training our drivers?
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Seriously, Boeing?The training and licensing required to become a pilot for a small 2-4 seat aircraft (Cessna, Piper, etc) is *rigorous* and expensive. The training and licensing required to become a commercial airline pilot is, rightfully, exponentially more stringent.
Now imagine that kind of software failure cutting throttle to idle to our barely trained drivers on the road. Meanwhile car and tech companies are chomping at the bit to have self-driving cars and cut the human driver out of the equation. In the name of safety.
Can't we just start with actually training our drivers?
I don't know about in Europe, but in the US the culture is that cars are a right and not a privelage. The carless are mocked, and most cities and almost all non metropolitan areas have little public transportation and far too much urban sprawl.
Add that to a culture that prides itself in ignorance, insists on blame shifting everything, and you have basically an impossible proposition.
We can't even be bothered to put a piece of cloth on our face in public. You want us to do WORK?!?
Besides. We're the best at everything already. Our propaganda machines cannot be wrong.
Unclear on the Concept:
Impus Major's friends essentially vanished starting Thanksgiving week. They were all doing stuff with family, hunkering down, or whatever.
The area-wide full lockdown started on December 6, where even walking outside with someone from outside of your household is "forbidden".
So of course, this week every single day one of Impus Major's friends has called. "Let's hang out!" "Let's go to a restaurant!" "Let's do SOMETHING together!"
They are apparently living in Opposite Land. "There's going to be a shutdown soon" = "Hunker down in your own home". "There's a full shutdown now" = "Let's go out!"
*SIGH*
Unclear on the Concept:
Impus Major's friends essentially vanished starting Thanksgiving week. They were all doing stuff with family, hunkering down, or whatever.
The area-wide full lockdown started on December 6, where even walking outside with someone from outside of your household is "forbidden".
So of course, this week every single day one of Impus Major's friends has called. "Let's hang out!" "Let's go to a restaurant!" "Let's do SOMETHING together!"
They are apparently living in Opposite Land. "There's going to be a shutdown soon" = "Hunker down in your own home". "There's a full shutdown now" = "Let's go out!"
*SIGH*
That may explain why I have (still*) fun playing X-Morph Defense, eradicating those pesky Earthlings...
Coincidentally, I just finished Berlin, and the guiding mind (or whatever it is) noted that the super tank used by humans caused more damage to the city than us, benevolent alien visitors ruthless space conquerors.
*I am expecting it become more and more tedious though, the last two Berlin waves were strenous
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People act like corona ended here. I see fewer masks every day. Even outside of Okeechobee in "normal" Florida. I think they assume herd immunity set in? Nah. It's just tourist season.
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People act like corona ended here. I see fewer masks every day. Even outside of Okeechobee in "normal" Florida. I think they assume herd immunity set in? Nah. It's just tourist season.
UGH!!! That sucks! River Street is the same up here in Savannah, GA. One of my friends works at a shop on the river and we both complain about people not taking this seriously. ~shrugs~ Oh well. I guess we are due for ANOTHER flare up.
Most people still wearing masks, though you can now tell the out of towners apart by how awkward they look wearing masks.
Why yes I am building today, theoretically, no one else is at the shop yet.
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I shoveled snow at work today.
It was heavenly.
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Why yes I am building today, theoretically, no one else is at the shop yet.
Hello, Building Today.
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Why I Love My Manager, Reason #238:
NobodysHome: Yeah, I'm mildly irritated. The whole family has next week off and I didn't take it off because I figured we wouldn't be doing anything. But I'll be sitting there at work while everyone else is hanging around the house.
Manager: So take next week off!
NH: But I have no plans and nothing to do, and I want to get this project out of the way before I go.
M: The project's not due until the end of January, you're always working your tail off anyway, and all of management is out next week anyway. Take the week off!
NH: OK!
Yes. I have a manager who insists that I take time off to be with my family. I am a lucky man.
Unless I had gran's family, of course... the stories I hear about his wife and kids...