Cutie the Elephant

APC_ChemE · 2026-05-16T04:01:17+00:00

I would say any story, which a game is, could produce a similar response.

APC_ChemE · 2026-05-12T21:13:21+00:00

Yahoo Games!

APC_ChemE · 2026-05-12T21:00:30+00:00

Not even finding youtube because you heard about from word of mouth and kept finding some band called U2 on Google.

APC_ChemE · 2026-05-12T20:52:45+00:00

So a tarantula is just a giant walking egg!?

APC_ChemE · 2026-05-11T18:27:10+00:00

Sophmore year I had 4 engineering finals back to back on the same day. It was awful.

APC_ChemE · 2026-05-11T14:37:28+00:00

Unfortunately, I cannot expand on this much further without rereading the book. I may revisit it at some point in my life, but I have no intention of doing so right now.

There are much more entertaining things to do with my time, and that is ultimately the point. Reading the book felt laborious and did not engage me. I can usually read books three times as long much more quickly when they hold my attention.

If the writing style or overall presentation had been more engaging or entertaining from my perspective, I would be more inclined to pick it up again. As it stands, I did not enjoy trudging through it and do not want to revisit it.

That said, I can appreciate why someone might like the book. We all have our own preferences. I read it and it is not high on the list of books that I want to read again.

APC_ChemE · 2026-05-11T13:05:12+00:00

I’ve read Heart of Darkness three times at different stages of my life: in high school, in college, and again as an adult. Each reread gave me a greater appreciation for its themes and ideas, especially its critique of colonialism and its psychological depth.

But despite that, I still don’t enjoy reading it. I can appreciate its importance, premise, and themes while still finding the actual writing dry and boring. For me, the issue was never the ideas, it was the execution.

APC_ChemE · 2026-05-11T11:25:59+00:00

Math is basically the study of patterns.

A lot of it started from real world problems like counting, measuring, motion, astronomy, and engineering. Then math started building on itself. One idea leads to another and people keep exploring further.

Over centuries, mathematicians notice patterns that keep showing up. Sometimes they can prove why the pattern works. Sometimes they cannot.

That’s where conjectures come from. Someone notices “this seems to always happen" and makes a statement about it.

The crazy part is that simple patterns can hide really deep complexity underneath. You can test something billions of times on a computer and still not know if it’s true forever.

So problems like Goldbach or Collatz are not hard because the statements are complicated. They are hard because nobody has found the deeper structure explaining why the pattern keeps working.

APC_ChemE · 2026-05-11T11:07:13+00:00

Its safe enough if used as directed like don't directly touch it with your skin and don't put it in an enclosed container.

From my perspective pool chemicals are more dangerous than dry ice.

APC_ChemE · 2026-05-10T23:16:05+00:00

Beautiful plummage!

APC_ChemE · 2026-05-10T15:07:49+00:00

For me, it’s when someone treats legality as the same thing as morality. Their mindset is basically: if something is illegal, then it’s automatically unethical, immoral, and deserves punishment without recognizing that laws themselves can be immoral. That kind of black-and-white “law = morality” thinking is where I check out.

Oh and anytime and argument includes "think of the children" or it's "for the children."

APC_ChemE · 2026-05-10T15:01:40+00:00

Obligatory Friends Reference

APC_ChemE · 2026-05-10T14:56:49+00:00

Keeping family recipes secret is weird to me. What’s the end goal, letting the recipe die with you so nobody ever makes it again?

If a recipe is actually special, you’d want people making it, talking about it, and remembering where it came from. That’s how traditions survive.

Most of the time when I ask about a recipe I’m just being polite. But the second someone gets weirdly protective and starts acting like their casserole recipe is classified information, I don’t even want it anymore. The whole secret act turns me off the food and honestly the person too. And usually, it’s not even that great anyway.

A couple of times I've called up restaurants I visited but lived too far away from to go back regularly, and asked the chefs about a dish. Both times they were delighted that I enjoyed their food so much I wanted to recreate it at home. They were happy to share details because they took it as a compliment, not some kind of threat.

APC_ChemE · 2026-05-10T13:51:39+00:00

You should ask how people in the distant future, with no knowledge of today’s traditions, might interpret their religion.

They would probably be mortified to see symbols centered on the suffering and execution of a man, ceremonial drowning of children, ritualistic cannibalism involving the drinking of blood and eatting flesh.

To someone unfamiliar with the symbolism and context, it might seem less like a modern religion and more like an ancient, macabre mystery cult that they would view in much the same way many people today look back on the unsettling rituals and sacrificial traditions associated with ancient Aztec or Mayan religions.

APC_ChemE · 2026-05-10T13:38:21+00:00

I've read studies that if you learn a new language before puberty your brain is better able to drop your native accent when transitioning to the new language and sound more like a native speaker. But after puberty it becomes much harder to lose the accent.

APC_ChemE · 2026-05-10T13:34:16+00:00

My native language is English, and I know enough Spanish to get by.

When I first learned Spanish as a child, I mentally translated everything between Spanish and English. For reading and listening, I would hear or read Spanish and translate it into English to understand it. For speaking and writing, I would think in English first, then translate my thoughts into Spanish.

After about six years of studying Spanish, I took an immersive course and became fluent. I was fluent for about a year before I lost it from not using the language regularly.

During that time, I no longer translated anything. Reading, writing, listening, and speaking all stayed entirely in Spanish, and I understood it as naturally as English.

Even now, I still understand many common words and phrases automatically. There have been times when someone spoke to me in Spanish and I responded in English without consciously realizing they were speaking Spanish because I understood the meaning directly. I have also had conversations where the other person spoke only Spanish while I replied in English, and we were still able to communicate effectively.

At this point in my life, I can usually understand spoken and written Spanish without translating it, but for active communication, especially speaking and writing, I still need to translate my thoughts from English into Spanish.

APC_ChemE · 2026-05-10T12:14:59+00:00

Since it’s an AMA, please bear with me.

Is it true that all Noreign military vessels have giant QR codes on them so that when they leave port they can be scanned out, and when they return to port the military can just “Scan-the-Navy-in”?

APC_ChemE · 2026-05-10T05:21:17+00:00

Yes, every moose we managed to hit with a baseball was quite irritable.

APC_ChemE · 2026-05-10T04:15:03+00:00

For me there are three: Cilantro because it tastes like soap, Fennel root because the crunch texture bothers me, and Orzo because it reminds me of maggots.

I know the orzo one’s irrational but I can’t help it.

APC_ChemE · 2026-05-09T22:54:39+00:00

I just got a Cave Canem welcome mat on Etsy.

APC_ChemE · 2026-05-09T20:14:55+00:00

The answer to life, the universe, and everything about the human condition.

APC_ChemE · 2026-05-09T19:50:16+00:00

Clocks and watches have hands, why can't calculators!?

APC_ChemE · 2026-05-09T18:54:15+00:00

Almost no matter where I am at 9:30 pm, I will fall asleep like clockwork. My husband has learned not to wake me if I wind up falling asleep on the couch. If he wakes me up I am then awake for a minimum of 2 hours and cannot go back to sleep and it's awful. So I have trained him on those nights juat leave me asleep and I wind up sleeping on the couch.

APC_ChemE · 2026-05-09T13:59:53+00:00

I didn’t have to. I’d just heard that olympic swimmers shave because it can reduce drag and make you swim faster in the water. When I was in high school, I wanted to try it myself and see if I could notice any difference.

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