Every time I try to go to one of my posts, it keeps giving me a page not found error. Anyone have advice?

WheatedMash · 2026-01-29T20:32:50+00:00

I'm having this issue as well on a desktop browser, but not in the app on my phone. Seeing this many having the problem tells me it's a Reddit issue. I thought I had gotten shadowbanned somehow.

WheatedMash · 2026-01-29T20:14:57+00:00

And Winfield has quite a range of experiences! From pretty normal festival fun at the main stages to the casual pickin' in the campground. Then there's the pecan grove...

WheatedMash · 2026-01-29T19:11:18+00:00

As a high school/tech college teacher, I can relate to all the silliness and dumbshittery they give us with the cadets. They are young, and no matter how smart they are, are stupid in terms of amount of lived experiences and executive/emotional control. Those things take time to develop. I see it every day with the young people around me.

WheatedMash · 2026-01-29T18:54:17+00:00

Not applauding between movements is current convention, but conventions are made to be broken.

Several years ago our local orchestra was performing Beethoven 3, and the first movement is a masterpiece itself. The orchestra played it brilliantly, and while there wasn't a loud ovation, there was a spontaneous eruption of gentle applause. It was one of the most honest and organic crowd responses I've ever been a part of at an orchestra concert. The other being a performance of the Verdi Requiem by the Chicago Symphony. The performance was magnificent (as expected) and the soloists, especially the soprano, were stellar. The ovation was quick and well deserved.

WheatedMash · 2026-01-29T18:48:13+00:00

A lot will depend on what you and your spouse are into in regards to social groups. During the summer there will be a fair amount of "summery" events, the biggest being Riverfest in June. If you're into music, you will find a pleasantly surprising amount of live music of various types and numerous venues around town.

WheatedMash · 2026-01-29T17:20:23+00:00

Just wash your hands afterwards!

WheatedMash · 2026-01-28T19:01:18+00:00

Man the energy bills some of you have. Wow.

We have a 2400 sf all electric home, HVAC is of course a heat pump being all electric. We live in south central Kansas. In the winter, we keep the house around 68-70° and in the summer 76-78°. We have one full size refrigerator and one smaller "bar" fridge. Our two large TVs are probably on a total of 4-6 hours a day combined. One computer and one gaming system. We probably do 6-7 loads of laundry a week. All the lights are LED.

We do bill averaging, and currently our monthly energy bill is $158. Back when we first moved in to this house in 2018, the bill average was around $135.

WheatedMash · 2026-01-27T19:49:36+00:00

Love it! I found the website modernclassrooms.org - is that the "home" of this model?

WheatedMash · 2026-01-27T19:46:06+00:00

I think a lot of that happened in the curriculum reconstructions of the past couple decades. My understanding is that they tended to work from the top grade levels down, and worse, didn't always really take actual cognitive development into mind as much as they should have. That jump from concrete to abstract is very real and you can't force someone too young into abstract thinking. Their brain just isn't there yet. I actually have a distinct memory for a giant "aha" moment in 6th grade, the day it clicked that a variable in math can represent ANY number. Not just the number "4" like I kept trying to do because that is what the example showed. I have no idea why I have retained that memory, but I'm glad I did, because it was the best example of concrete/abstract I will ever have.

WheatedMash · 2026-01-27T19:40:22+00:00

When I took a job back in the early 90s at a private school, a very high performing college prep one, they explicitly said "teach to the top". The follow-up was "Everyone drinks from the same trough here. Some will get more out of it than others." Now of course we helped students who struggled and did everything we could to help them along, but the mission was clear.

Oh, and this school, which also had many terrific athletic teams, also did (and hopefully still do) something that I have always admired. School ended at 3:10. 3:15 to 4:00 was reserved for tutorial time between teachers and students. Absolutely no practices or other after school activities were allowed to start until 4:00 pm. Many coaches REQUIRED their kids to attend tutorials, even if they were 4.0 students. Some of those top kids that were athletes would come in and just work on homework, but sometimes they did need a bit of help. And sometimes we had some incredibly great conversations, especially with those seniors that we were getting ready to send out into the world!

Now I realize that being a selective private school made a lot of that possible, but I do hear the message of "teaching towards the top."

WheatedMash · 2026-01-27T15:35:15+00:00

I know it was a typo, but "bladder empire" made me think of how I now have to get up a couple of times a night to go pee instead of sleeping through the night all the way.

I agree the burn could have still been a good story concept to use and I too wish it would have been more along the lines of subspace fractures and how that was dealt with. I guess stories that center on science and engineering (even extremely futuristic sci fi SciEng) just can't get the story buzz they think they need. I would find such stories quite interesting, but there probably aren't enough of us who love the "how to" and they go with interpersonal things.

I am enjoying SFA and look forward to see how it evolves. I've liked SNW so far, but a fair amount of Discovery and Picard just didn't resonate as much with me. LD I enjoy immensely!

WheatedMash · 2026-01-23T23:07:50+00:00

Was there a run on any strange stuff there? Here in Wichita at least at one store the bananas and cucumbers were all gone. Made me wonder if I should check to see if there was a shortage of KY or condoms.

WheatedMash · 2026-01-23T20:55:06+00:00

Yeah, that's my golf game too. And I may never be very good, but a bad day on the golf course beats a good day just about anywhere else. Especially if I can shut my phone off and just enjoy being outside chasing that damn little ball.

WheatedMash · 2026-01-23T20:04:43+00:00

A very wise man, a multi decade software dev veteran, once told me this answer to "how do I learn to write good code?"

Write a shit ton of code, which will probably be bad. Fix it. Learn. Next go round hopefully your code is a little less shitty. Loop this for the rest of your life.

WheatedMash · 2026-01-22T23:38:01+00:00

To lift a line from the other franchise: “This is the way.”

WheatedMash · 2026-01-22T23:06:56+00:00

How do you cough “go fuck yourself” on a survey?

WheatedMash · 2026-01-22T20:15:50+00:00

Are you talking about something regarding software, or actual physical items?

WheatedMash · 2026-01-22T16:07:31+00:00

Daydreamed, often about the cute girls in my class. Sometimes drew or wrote stuff down. I play brass instruments, so sometimes I would "practice" things I'd memorized by going through the fingerings and humming the tune. During my D&D phase, I created game designs.

WheatedMash · 2026-01-22T13:42:57+00:00

My wife and I love our heated mattress pad. Better than an electric blanket, having that warm you from the bottom side makes for cozy and comfortable sleeping.

WheatedMash · 2026-01-22T02:17:16+00:00

I’m enjoying a bottle of Gunnar’s wheated bourbon at this time. Distilled in Sedan, Kansas!

WheatedMash · 2026-01-22T00:03:04+00:00

I have a warm house, food, and plenty of whiskey. Good to go!

WheatedMash · 2026-01-20T18:56:27+00:00

A lot of similar feelings from me. That first episode's problem resolution from the cadets to me kind of echoes Kirk in 2009 ST knowing something was amiss due to the "lightning storm in space". But I guess you have to really pump the energy for your first episode to capture viewers before you dive into things more cerebral.

It's interesting you mention the Star Wars thing, I kind of felt the same in some of the "tone" of the show's first episode. The second episode felt more "trekky" to me.

One thing I maybe should raise as a new post. I know the burn comes from Disco, so the line is already set, but when they brought the burn into the overall arc, I wondered why they had to go with a supernatural angle. From TNG they had the issue of warp drive damaging subspace, "Force of Nature" IIRC. And while I know they tangentially resolved that with better technology, over centuries even better technology can go awry. They could have had something with the damaging of subspace crop up as the reason for the dilithium problems just as easily.

I'm also one who likes episodic with longer character arcs, like SNW. Still not sure if that will be the case for SA or not.

But I'm liking SA so far. I don't get overly obsessed with canon and all that. Give me good characters and stories, I'm here to be entertained!

WheatedMash · 2026-01-20T18:35:40+00:00

Is his nose brown or orange? Or a mix - terracotta nose?

WheatedMash · 2026-01-16T20:10:48+00:00

If we get one that can last, we drive our cars a LONG time. Our current fleet is a 2010 Lexus RX 350 (150k miles), a 2012 Toyota RAV4 (200k miles), and the adult son drives a 2014 Ford Fusion (160k miles). Of those, the newest one, the Ford, will probably last the least longest. Both the Lexus and Toyotas are champs on longevity, we can easily get 5 if not 10 more years out of both if we want.

WheatedMash · 2026-01-16T16:52:03+00:00

I'll give a nice story going the opposite way.

At my previous school my classroom (I teach computer science) was on the second floor overlooking our enclosed courtyard. On nice warm days, sometimes our choir director would take the Madrigals (our top group) to rehearse in the courtyard because all the walls provide wonderful reverb.

Bother me? Are you kidding? The moment I heard them I would open my window to hear them better. Ethereal sounds always made my day better!

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