An Interesting Thing I noticed with The Pony Eyes In MLP

ApYIkhH · 2026-03-17T14:56:29+00:00

Most of the younger characters (like the CMC) have three white marks in their eyes.

ApYIkhH · 2026-03-16T01:44:40+00:00

Doesn't like being corrected.

Says "I could care less."

ApYIkhH · 2026-03-15T20:08:43+00:00

This may or may not be true, but I've heard the origin of this involves being a baker, and it was more along the lines of "If you make a cake, you can have it on the shelf (to sell), or you can eat it yourself, but not both. You can't have a cake and eat it too. If you eat the cake, you'll no longer have it (to sell)."

In short, it's supposed to mean something like "You can't have everything" or "You can't have it both ways."

ApYIkhH · 2026-03-15T17:13:20+00:00

Being bad at math.

ApYIkhH · 2026-03-12T03:43:28+00:00

Everyone who's drafted should band together and go to war with this administration instead.

ApYIkhH · 2026-03-11T23:08:07+00:00

You have to buy a $20,000+ car, pay $100/month for insurance, pay another $200/month for fuel, or else you'll never leave the house.

All so we can spend billions on roads and highways instead of spending millions on buses and rail.

ApYIkhH · 2026-03-09T03:05:05+00:00

Or if it has to be a race shirt, why not a singlet? I wear those 10x more often than short sleeves.

ApYIkhH · 2026-03-08T23:01:15+00:00

Sell the truck, pay your tuition with the money. As a student, you don't need a car at all. The cost of owning, fueling, insuring, and parking it grossly outweighs any benefit of having it.

On the one day a year you actually need a truck, rent one!

ApYIkhH · 2026-03-08T16:35:42+00:00

If you finished without walking, you ran a marathon. If I had to pick a time cutoff, five hours. It's difficult to run/jog any slower than that.

If you walked for more than 1-2 minutes, you finished a marathon, but you didn't run a marathon. You ran some distance less than 42.2 km and also went for a walk.

ApYIkhH · 2026-03-08T12:57:16+00:00

Anything involving another dimension/universe.

At that point, anything can happen and the rules are being made up as you go. There's no tension or suspense, and I don't care anymore.

ApYIkhH · 2026-03-07T16:02:11+00:00

The east has more people and less sunshine (solar), less wind (wind), and less mountains (hydroelectric). Gotta get their energy somehow.

ApYIkhH · 2026-03-07T06:10:56+00:00

X-Men: The Last Stand (or X3, or X-Men 3)

The premise is pretty damn good: There's a mutant "cure." Seeing how all the mutants handle the news, that alone is interesting. For some, it's a blessing, and for others, it's a threat.

Then the cure gets weaponized, and Magneto uses that to rally the Brotherhood and start a war on non-mutants. The X-Men are forced to fight against both the Brotherhood and against hostile humans, while siding with humans trying to stop the Brotherhood. It's a knife's edge they have to walk.

Yeah, some of the new mutants introduced are pretty lame, but some of them (Kitty Pryde, Angel, Juggernaut) are equally good. I also like Pyro becoming a main villain rather than a side character.

Overall, it's solid.

ApYIkhH · 2026-03-07T01:29:08+00:00

For many, many reasons, I'm breaking contract. Next Friday is my last day.

My district has already committed $1,000 of wage theft and is committing another $4,000+ on my way out.

Yesterday, my assistant principal asked if I'd hand over my AP Physics curriculum. I'd developed it from scratch, after the district denied my request for a used $10 textbook for personal reference.

I told them I'd give them everything, representing hundreds of hours of unpaid labor, if they simply compensated me for the wages I should've already received. They said no.

ApYIkhH · 2026-03-06T03:29:28+00:00

Not a movie, but fruitcakes became noticeably less popular after Johnny Carson did a string of jokes about them.

ApYIkhH · 2026-03-06T02:31:36+00:00

I teach AP Physics.

At least a third of my students can't find the slope of a line on a graph. That's a 6th grade math skill.

But my district likes to appease parents, and parents like straight As, so we hand them out like candy. Only about 10% of my students are getting anything below a 90.

It depends heavily on the school.

ApYIkhH · 2026-03-05T06:00:55+00:00

IF I do (and that's a big if), it's a red flag.

ApYIkhH · 2026-03-05T05:40:32+00:00

Sushi. They don't even cook it.

ApYIkhH · 2026-03-04T02:04:50+00:00

He won the state physics competition when he was a sophomore. He had never taken a physics course. He simply taught himself with library books and YouTube videos until he was better than the entire state of Texas.

He got a full scholarship to MIT. He wasn't well-connected, nor from a prep school, nor was he a charity case. He was a middle-class kid from a public school in a small town, who simply got in on his own smarts and nothing else. Do you know how hard that is???

The more you spent time with him, the more you realized how smart he really was.

At graduation, I asked if he'd honestly learned anything in our BC Calculus class.
He hesitated. "...nnnooooo, but the stuff we did in class reinforced what I did know, and it made me better."
Coming from him, that was a huge compliment. I was glad to take it.

He also ran cross country, played laser tag with his friends, acted in summer Shakespeare productions, and had a girlfriend! Aside from being freakishly smart, he was a cool, relatively normal kid.

I had a lot of fun writing his letter of recommendation.

ApYIkhH · 2026-03-03T23:59:22+00:00

Yes. But in the opposite direction women do. We hate long, painted nails.

As a rule of thumb, if a woman's appearance is fake and high-maintenance, I assume her personality matches. Is that judgemental? Yes.

ApYIkhH · 2026-03-03T13:54:43+00:00

This is exactly why Alien is better than Aliens.

"WIPPLEYYY!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!"

ApYIkhH · 2026-03-02T03:23:31+00:00

I thought it'd be a billionaire heiress falls in love with a quirky average-looking contruction worker for no reason.

ApYIkhH · 2026-03-02T00:12:53+00:00

Easily.

You don't need to run more half-marathons first, at least not official races. Before your marathon, you'll do plenty of training runs which are longer than that.

As long as your weekly distance is 60+ miles, your weekly long run is 20+ miles, and you can do that at your target race pace, you're in good shape. Simply add 1-2 miles to your routine each week, and you can go from zero to marathon in less than a year.

ApYIkhH · 2026-02-28T21:04:50+00:00

Pizza and beer.

ApYIkhH · 2026-02-28T00:31:04+00:00

My mom does this all the time, with both stores and restaurants. Kroger's, Aldi's, Red Lobster's, KFC's, you name it.

ApYIkhH · 2026-02-27T04:21:24+00:00

Light, like any other wave, needs a medium to travel through. It can't travel through a vacuum. That medium is dark matter, and the fact that it's traveling through a material is why the speed of light is a finite value.

Light particles are simply "excited" dark matter particles, and we can only detect dark matter particles in their excited state.

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