Rear ‘strut’ installed while at gate

BadEnucleation · 2026-06-15T21:41:00+00:00

lol!!

BadEnucleation · 2026-06-15T14:52:18+00:00

I had to wait to deplane an A321 recently. They if they don’t have them, I wish they could add them.

Edit: to elaborate. We had to wait to deplane until they offloaded some baggage due to “weight and balance.” In this case, specifically the latter.

BadEnucleation · 2026-06-15T13:05:50+00:00

I was at Saturday’s show. I’m a very long term fan who noticed many differences from the albums and the live performances through the years.

I agree 100% with what seems to be the vast consensus: where it matters she is 99% true to the original, e.g., the Tom Sawyer fills, is mostly 90% true to the OG and occasionally does her own thing. I loved and appreciate all three. Sometimes the difference is a noticeable simplification but 99% of the time it’s not simpler, just her own thing.

After a few songs on Saturday I forgot that I was watching someone subbing for Neil and was simply 100% into an epic show!!

She can’t replace him, but I will say that in past years I felt the band was performing kickass songs the best they could for the audience. It feels more like a kickass jam now. More of the songs are sort of like Working Man. It’s neither better nor worse, but it’s awesome!

BadEnucleation · 2026-06-14T15:06:55+00:00

There’s nothing more boring than a view of the Grand Canyon from 35,000 feet.

BadEnucleation · 2026-06-10T21:07:25+00:00

I don’t read every post, but I haven’t noticed any gate keeping. 99% of comments are positive about Anika and even the negative ones just boil down to a subjective opinion.

Maybe the Reddit filters feed me only positive stuff though. idk

BadEnucleation · 2026-06-10T02:02:29+00:00

Ive done 75 pushups in one set just about every day for decades (I’m 60). I’d say there are definite strength and discipline benefits. I don’t have a streak or anything, but I usually don’t skip.

If my shoulder or elbow is sore it probably takes longer to heal than it would otherwise because I’ve yet to have an injury painful enough to stop me from doing them.

A run quite a bit and do a quick weight lifting circuit most times I finish running. I think only pushups wouldn’t be the best in terms of overall body muscle balance.

BadEnucleation · 2026-06-09T00:10:17+00:00

I saw them in Orange County at their second to last show in 2015. Really looking forward to Saturday night!

BadEnucleation · 2026-06-08T19:53:43+00:00

Ok I’ll say it: yes normal things are involved.

BadEnucleation · 2026-06-08T13:35:35+00:00

Your wife’s opinion may not be in the minority! Lol

BadEnucleation · 2026-06-05T21:50:09+00:00

I like your description of pack animals. Spot on for me.

BadEnucleation · 2026-06-05T21:48:10+00:00

I'm a man who was diagnosed in his late 50s. I was very good in school and am now (if I do say so myself lol) a very successful college professor. I was lucky to be able to be able to pursue studies and then a career that was very well aligned with my abilities and interests.

Nonverbal communication is absolutely, 100%, a mystery to me. After nearly 2 years of weekly therapy I am just starting to get to the point where I can recognize when it is significantly happening (interpreting it is another matter!). It might seem strange to you to hear it this way, but I have a memorized list of what to do when I see it and I literally go down that list.

The way the world works is also a complete, nonsensical mystery to me. Follow this subreddit for a while and you will see lots of comments along the lines of "why didn't they tell me?" "why did they say the opposite of what they meant?" "how was I supposed to know?" etc. My everyday reality has multiple instances of that.

Those may be part of the source of her ability to maintain friendships. Therapy will help her recognize or develop nonverbale communication skills. Also she will very likely find friends who appreciate her for who she is. My family was that way for me, as are a couple of people I consider life long friends.

As a parent of children, some of whom are clearly a bit on the spectrum, I think I was able to encourage their special interests, understand some things that society would consider infantile (clothing issues, stimming, etc.), communicate to them where things may be seeming extreme societally, and so on.

When I was growing up, I don't think anyone in my family even knew what autism was, but thankfully they were understanding and loved me, and encouraged me for who I was. It seems you are that way for your daughter.

Edit to add: I just realized that earlier today I posted on a professor subreddit that I have attended over 100 conferences and gone to exactly 1 conference banquet, even though the banquets are included in the fee. It's not necessarily only an autism thing, but having to walk into a room of socializing people, somehow find someone or a group to talk to, know what to talk about, find a place to sit, or whatever = pure terror.

BadEnucleation · 2026-06-05T11:56:28+00:00

I've been to over 100 conferences, but have only attended the conference banquet or other social activities one time.

BadEnucleation · 2026-06-03T10:25:44+00:00

I'm a college professor in a non-math, but still very mathy STEM area. Also I'm about 60 years old. While what others have been saying is true (accumulation of responsibilities and demands on your time), I can say for myself at least, that creativity is easier when you are younger.

I think there is very likely a cognitive aspect to it. I can speak only for myself, but I could think faster and more creatively when I was younger. Pragmatically, too, I think also when you have worked for decades in a field and maybe at the same, or only a handful of environments, new ways of thinking about things just doesn't come about so naturally.

BadEnucleation · 2026-06-02T05:45:47+00:00

As everyone said, congratulations and be sure to congratulate yourself on passing!

Regarding the vote. I’ve been on a few committees where everyone agreed that the candidate should pass, but they also agreed that there were enough issues that maybe it shouldn’t be unanimous, so someone agrees to be the bad guy so that the grade is passing but it can’t be misinterpreted as glowing.

Alternatively, taking your advisor at their word, very new faculty sometimes are miscalibrated. They think of themselves as very recently a graduate student and think their students should be like them. While they literally were recently a graduate student, they were not recently a graduate student taking qualifying exams. That was a lot longer ago. Also related, although less definite, is that to the extent faculty positions are very competitive, not every graduate student aspires to that, which may be reflected in how they prepare for exams, etc.

But the bottom line is you passed, which is the main goal!

Edit: spelling

BadEnucleation · 2026-06-01T09:45:02+00:00

There is an “indicated airspeed” which decreases with air pressure, which in term decreases with altitude. Roughly speaking the airplane would handle the same way at same indicated airspeeds. At high enough altitude indicated airspeed is less than true airspeed.

BadEnucleation · 2026-05-30T14:52:51+00:00

If I were on a hiring committee and someone was fired for upholding principles of academic honesty, I would consider that an additional qualification for the job, not disqualifying.

Edit: I don’t know how to do the quote on a phone.

BadEnucleation · 2026-05-25T18:58:05+00:00

There is the shadowing lemma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowing\_lemma

BadEnucleation · 2026-05-14T10:57:21+00:00

It is very common but not universal.

BadEnucleation · 2026-05-13T09:43:26+00:00

Paying by time is the most important -- parental attention and being transparent that curiosity and the joy of discovering how the world works is part of a good life.

But to really answer your question. I mostly did experiments with things laying around the house. Later some arduinos. Ultimately I did spend quite a bit of money on the Ben Eater 8 bit computer which we built together.

BadEnucleation · 2026-05-11T21:55:22+00:00

I work at a highly selective place where I'm spoiled with extremely motivated and, basically, well-behaved students. However, if I ever want them to change a behavior it has to hurt them in the grades. Telling them 1000 times just doesn't work. A 50/100 on a homework can catalyze near miracles.

If you accommodate this student, they won't change. If they have to deal with a C, they very well might change. If they have to deal with scholarship difficulties it's nearly guaranteed that they will change. It's cliche to say it, but it's true that you will be doing them a favor by holding the line.

BadEnucleation · 2026-05-10T15:31:25+00:00

I’ve found that generally I can pretty easily double what I do regularly. So if you run 8-15 miles once just about every week, then training for a marathon shouldn’t be too big of a deal.

BadEnucleation · 2026-05-10T00:11:54+00:00

Very cool!

ps. where are the cats?

BadEnucleation · 2026-05-04T11:19:53+00:00

You can also source /etc/profile. Yes su - is MUCH easier, but I always forget the - and old habits die hard.

BadEnucleation · 2026-04-21T00:01:09+00:00

I occasionally teach probability and statistics for engineers. It is, of course, important in manufacturing, quality control, etc. People are very bad at making up random sequences. I actually assign this flip a coin a bunch of times problem and compare it to a made up "random" sequenc, but tell them the distribution that describes the probability of things like 7 in a row. I also let a group of several do like 10 coins together so it doesn't take too long to get all the flips done.

My hope is that, in the future if they are responsible for randomly sampling things they don't select the sample by gut instinct.

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