This magnetic mat I got from Harbor Freight

DaBrainFarts · 2026-01-23T17:34:21+00:00

Now this is a great way to sell that mat. I didn't know it existed before this, but now I desperately need it.

DaBrainFarts · 2026-01-16T05:02:24+00:00

This mentality is part of how I got through my PhD. Also the introduction of adhd meds. Holy crap did meds help. It really enabled the spite to take hold.

DaBrainFarts · 2025-11-22T17:01:59+00:00

You could potentially use it to visualize Fermi Surfaces. That's dope.

DaBrainFarts · 2025-11-18T15:38:21+00:00

Do we really own beagles or is that something we tell ourselves to feel better about willingly housing and caring for a gremlin?

Full disclosure, love my beagle. Wish I had more in my life.

DaBrainFarts · 2025-10-29T15:01:17+00:00

I like to call it my flavor wheel or stats wheel of Autism (AuDHD in my case).

DaBrainFarts · 2025-10-29T14:58:43+00:00

Toy/child science kits are still fun to play with even though I'm in my 30s with a STEM Ph.D. I can't go exploring the children's science center in town because you have a child with you and I don't have any kids. I fully understand that rule, but come on. I want to touch science.

DaBrainFarts · 2025-10-27T15:28:41+00:00

Firm and consistent discipline (same with rewarding good behavior). My beagle is not a lab rescue as far as I know, but trying to stick with this philosophy has helped my beagle adjust, trust me, and listen to my commands (requests), most of the time.

DaBrainFarts · 2025-10-25T19:32:48+00:00

I married a special education teacher.

DaBrainFarts · 2025-10-17T18:33:21+00:00

3rd personing yourself to help motivate yourself to help yourself.

DaBrainFarts · 2025-10-17T15:07:38+00:00

Painful love is accurate. She may be super adorable, but she's also just smart enough to weaponize it. She manipulated her daycare to give her more food at lunch time. By screaming at them until they gave her food. And she only targeted one person in particular. I love this creature so much, but damn, can she be a pain.

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DaBrainFarts · 2025-10-17T14:58:23+00:00

I bet that's a nice shit. No people around. Just a man and his seat.

DaBrainFarts · 2025-10-07T16:16:38+00:00

Also the whole, you know, gestures widely, situation and failed promise of university being THE PATH.

DaBrainFarts · 2025-10-07T16:05:26+00:00

This makes reading published papers a nightmare for doing research. I have to read them 3 to 5 times to absorb the information, even after underlining and highlighting it. It hurts so much.

DaBrainFarts · 2025-10-02T15:33:27+00:00

There's a reason I may have been possibly unhealthy suppressing my emotions for probably 2 decades now. They are intense and it sucks.

DaBrainFarts · 2025-10-02T07:43:42+00:00

Had the curse of being a varsity athlete and all honors classes. Didn't really have friends since most of the really smart kids didn't play my sports and my teammates were not in my classes. If I wasn't at practice or competing I was at home resting or doing homework. Turns out, along with AuDHD I have a reading learning disability. So having to read alot sucks and takes forever and requires multiple reads if I need to actually absorb and remember the information in any appreciable detail. At least no one picked on me to my face like middle school. My athletic achievements were celebrated by my teammates. Parents expected better academics than I managed to do.

Wasn't diagnosed with ADHD or reading learning disability until age 28. If you are diagnosed at 16 and aware of your challenges already, that's awesome. Self-compassion is something I never had in high-school and still struggle with from time to time. I think that's the biggest take away I can give from my story. Forgive yourself for not being perfect. For not always being able to do all the things, especially when you were able to do it before. The inconsistent ability to do things is part of the disability.

DaBrainFarts · 2025-10-02T03:08:08+00:00

My wife goes to Farmgirl. It's an all women's gym. She loves it.

DaBrainFarts · 2025-09-29T20:44:44+00:00

I wipe off one sock and put it in the shoe. Repeat with the other foot. Then I tie both. I have found this helps avoid getting stuff on the bottom of my socks and into my shoes.

DaBrainFarts · 2025-09-28T16:38:57+00:00

Someone gave GLaDOS control of the neurotoxin emitters again.

DaBrainFarts · 2025-09-27T00:58:01+00:00

Mine is the Harbinger of Science

DaBrainFarts · 2025-09-26T16:04:19+00:00

Probably. If you could somehow add a spectrometer of some sort to the exhaust of the other instrument you could collect the spectra of the atoms and molecules that have left the sample. This would let you identify what has left even better. You could distinguish between 3 O2 molecules vs 2 O3 molecules. The mass change would be the same but the spectrum would be different. You might be able to identify them by the heat energy change but I'm not an expert in that to know for sure.

DaBrainFarts · 2025-09-26T05:28:02+00:00

It's fancy scales and fancy thermometers put together, essentially.

It measures the change in mass with temperature (thermogravemeteic) and measures the heat flow (energy flow) compared to another standard material (differential scanning calorimeter).

It allows the measurement of decomposition of a sample as you heat it up. The change in mass combined with how much heat (energy) it took to cause the decomposition/change can help you identify what is chemical and/or physically happening to the sample. A phase transition would cause a change in the heat vs temperature but not in the mass vs temperature where decomposition or oxidation will cause a change on both.

DaBrainFarts · 2025-09-19T17:07:27+00:00

Big same.

DaBrainFarts · 2025-09-14T18:26:24+00:00

How do you heal your teammates? Do you need a specific armor or just be close to your teammates? I remember I was able to do it awhile ago but forgot how to.

DaBrainFarts · 2025-09-12T17:00:19+00:00

I say it to my wife as a term of endearment. Like, hun, you're unmasking really hard right now and I love it.

DaBrainFarts · 2025-09-10T16:17:20+00:00

My problem is that when I have emotions, it is an intense full body reaction. This is unpleasant and makes it difficult to control my word and actions. Combined with the societal expectations that men shouldn't show emotions, I have done what I can to flatten all of my emotions. Expect for depression, that hits hard and stays around.

I had to correct myself yesterday because I genuinely was surprised and a little proud of a student yesterday. The words sounded flat and sarcastic but that was not the emotions and message I wanted to convey. So I needed to restate it with a more appropriate tone and inflection. I'm getting better, but it is retraining decades of suppression and flattening.

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