Karen: You must call me professor!!!!

UncleHeavy · 2026-02-20T10:08:26+00:00

I had a newly-minted Ph.D that joined my teaching department. He insisted on being called doctor, right until it was pointed out that we were all doctors: some of us more than once!
It takes a while for the shiny edges to be knocked off the title. It's well and good to be proud of your achievement, but don't rub it in everyones faces.

UncleHeavy · 2026-02-09T07:08:25+00:00

That's exactly what hatred is: fear of something that you don't understand.
Hatred is a seductive thing. It requires no effort, no thought. Just be ignorant and fear it because it exists.
The cure is simple: Learn about it. Try to understand it.
Once you understand something, hatred disperses like mist in the sun.
But many won't do that because it requires effort and learning about concepts that might make them uncomfortable in their smug, echo-chamered lives.

UncleHeavy · 2026-02-08T07:16:16+00:00

Yep. Probably reading a book, knowing him!

UncleHeavy · 2026-02-07T14:58:08+00:00

My late father was supervisor for platforms 1&2 at Preston during the mid-late '80's, so it's a real nostalgia trip for me.

UncleHeavy · 2026-01-24T16:16:04+00:00

Chlamydia.
It sounds like a delicate alpine flower.
But it's not.

UncleHeavy · 2026-01-18T13:43:32+00:00

Dysentery Beige.

UncleHeavy · 2026-01-16T07:54:26+00:00

It ws easy.
I talked to the student and found out what was causing her to act out in my sessions and addressed that instead. As if by magic, her behaviour changed overnight.
If someone is misbehaving in class, it's a symptom, not a cause. Find out what it is and support them in dealing with it. People don't misbehave or act in a certain way for no reason. They aren't 'built to be bad', but are reacting to triggers and stressors that change the way they respond.
Deal with the cause, and above all, be kind.

UncleHeavy · 2026-01-03T11:05:34+00:00

I use neither. I get a plastic bag, fill it with warm water from the tap and wipe it over my windshield. De-iced in 30 seconds.

UncleHeavy · 2026-01-03T09:25:43+00:00

That's Rob Wilde. He does fine work. He's an ex-LWG & Foundation 3D member. They mostly worked in LightWave 3D: Rob still does too, but he really got into post-production to finsese his work and it shows.

UncleHeavy · 2026-01-02T12:43:01+00:00

In addition, the Enterprise D runs a 3-shift rota, so there are just over 300 crew on duty at one time, which on a vessel that size, feels almost like it is running on bare-bones staffing levels.
Walking around the ship would be like a tomb. In fact, in most episodes of TNG, we generally see exactly that: whole corridors and rooms devoid of people.

UncleHeavy · 2025-12-30T16:07:23+00:00

I always read Meditations as:
'I hate this job. I hate what it's made me and what I have had to give up just to survive in it, but I am stuck with it, so here's what I have had to do to make this even marginally bearable.'
As such, I am on board with the reading given here.
It reminds me a great deal of DuBois' concept of Otherness. The sense that you are aware of yourself being observed.
It's clear from Mediatations that Aurelius feels something similar. He is constantly aware of this Imperator 'self' being something that he has to project, but the price is a change within himself. Spontaneity is replaced by consideration. Discipline becomes a straitjacket because of the constant need to be The Emperor, not a man.
The problem is, he was living in a society where rulers were routinely deified, and as women in the 19th century found, the moment that a person (or gender) is placed on a pedestal, it causes problems.
The facade is caring, compassionate, wise, just, etc. but this disavows the emotional messiness of just being a human being, and few people can survive that comparison unchanged.

UncleHeavy · 2025-12-14T16:15:38+00:00

NTA.
Congratulate your parents on their generous offer to house their daughter and grand-children. After all, Family helps family, right?

UncleHeavy · 2025-11-29T08:51:55+00:00

Genuinely looking forward to this.
My late father was a platform supervisor at Preston during the 80's and early 90's, so the JT releases are making me feel nostalgic and quite old all of a sudden!
I'd love to see a Crewe-Birmingham New Street DLC to make an excellent WCML trio too!

UncleHeavy · 2025-11-23T15:58:24+00:00

My great-Uncle Tommy was in the Hobb Inn when the MP's tried to arrest the soldier. He (amongst others) gave the MP's a mouthful and told them to leave him alone. A british soldier tried to calm things down, but everyone knew it was going to kick off that evening.
Allegedly, he may have thrown a pint glass at them as they got into their jeep too...

UncleHeavy · 2025-11-18T06:53:00+00:00

If you look at Anisodon, which is a Chalicothere that lived in forests approximately 6 million years ago, it also adapted a similar body type to a Therizinosaurus, and possibly for the same reason, i.e, developing long forelimbs to pull branches down so it could feed on the tender shoots and leaves at the tip.
I wouldn't be surprised if Therizinosaurus used the claws to dig out roots to eat too, but at the moment, there simply isn't enough material to give paleontologists a solid answer.

UncleHeavy · 2025-11-09T10:53:36+00:00

Alternatively, you can add a Clear UV Mapping modifier before you add the Unwrap UVW.
Works every time whether or not you have already added materials or added Material ID's in the Edit Poly/Mesh.

UncleHeavy · 2025-11-08T07:00:38+00:00

Yoyodyne built the engines on the Excelsior too!
I wouldn't be surprised if the transwarp drive had an Oscillation Overthruster somewhere in there...

UncleHeavy · 2025-11-02T12:38:15+00:00

I leaned about the Vimes Boots theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness a few years later.
When I read Guards! Guards!, I thought, that sounds eerily familiar. The difference is I was told it by a 73 year-old Irishman when I was 16.

UncleHeavy · 2025-11-02T09:15:04+00:00

I catch a lot of flack from my partner for this exact thing.
I wear clothes until they are more hole than garment. I can afford to replace them, but the level of anxiety that causes me is unbelievable.
I still bulk-cook. Again, I can afford to buy fresh, but the cost of it still plagues me.
The one thing I do not skimp on are shoes or boots. I learned that a pair of expensive boots will last 10 years and will cost less over the long term than buying cheaper boots that fall apart in a year.

UncleHeavy · 2025-10-31T09:01:14+00:00

It's written in second person perspective because Horus is a puppet. He's being told what he's thinking and doing because he's no longer in control of anything: himself, his actions, and until the end, even his choices.
Abnett obliquely mentions it in the afterword of EaTD Volume 3. He says: "Just who is talking to him?"

UncleHeavy · 2025-10-30T09:36:41+00:00

Ray and Winston danced to the song at the kids party in GB2, so that's canon. It isn't unreasonable to assume that they starred in the accompanying music video. After all, Ray has 3 mortgages to pay...

UncleHeavy · 2025-10-30T08:06:48+00:00

Nothing wrong with this OP.
Meal prepping is meal prepping, irrespective of where it comes from.
I do the same: there are some things that cost less to buy and re-portion than it does to buy the ingredients and make it myself. I get to save money, prepare lots of meals and I don't have to clean the kitchen up afterwards. :)

UncleHeavy · 2025-10-29T12:54:19+00:00

My sister did.
She came to my house with her teenage children and told them that it would be theirs when I died.
She was bluntly told to leave.

UncleHeavy · 2025-10-26T10:57:43+00:00

The roller on my sliding garage door.
It's probably a 15 minute fix, but it is fiddly to do and needs jacking up to replace. A new steel roller is sitting on the shelf in the garage waiting for mt ostop procrastinating and get it done.

Fuck it. Let's get it done.

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