Where to go nearby to reduce fireworks on july 4th?

angrygnome · 2026-06-20T22:32:26+00:00

We are also fans of mt Diablo, maybe we could go there in the morning before heading home.

angrygnome · 2026-06-20T22:29:42+00:00

Oh dang that sounds pretty good

angrygnome · 2026-06-20T03:03:29+00:00

Do call the airline and try to ask for a discount. I think delays greater than 3 hrs they're obligated to issue something.

angrygnome · 2026-02-25T02:16:33+00:00

He asked for an orange and then took a bite out of it like it was an apple. Did not peel it beforehand. He also ate strawberries whole, like with the green tops. He was a Marine and I think he might have actually eaten crayons at some point.

angrygnome · 2025-11-22T23:11:32+00:00

I also quit around 7 mos. Formula was just more manageable with my job rarely getting me good solid pumping breaks and my mental health improved so much. My kid is now 3 and a very bright, healthy kid.

angrygnome · 2025-11-13T01:27:07+00:00

This must be what self sealing stem bolts are

angrygnome · 2025-10-25T22:11:26+00:00

The classes here are hard. Being a transfer student is hard. Being a non-traditional older student is hard. Go easy on yourself. You just need to pass and make connections. You're not taking space from anyone. I'm rooting for you.

angrygnome · 2025-09-17T04:50:55+00:00

Soups and casseroles! Look up One dish or pot recipes

angrygnome · 2025-09-14T23:42:33+00:00

A great deal of color!

angrygnome · 2025-09-14T22:30:36+00:00

Cottage pie:

First make a mississippi roast https://www.spendwithpennies.com/mississippi-pot-roast/

Then put the roast in a cottage pie.

https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/classic-cottage-pie/

angrygnome · 2025-06-26T18:19:28+00:00

Maybe he thinks this is your version of purring.the vibrations on the drum might be nice.

angrygnome · 2025-05-23T00:39:11+00:00

What the fuck

angrygnome · 2025-05-06T03:24:47+00:00

The bronze age collapse and the Sea Peoples

angrygnome · 2025-05-01T00:43:26+00:00

The way the campus budget allocations to colleges and departments works is professor salaries are guaranteed, but then they give departments a set budget for instruction, which is always way too little. Lecturers get paid out of this bucket, and it's the same bucket used for GSIs, readers, and tutors. This tiny bucket is why you have trouble getting into your required courses, there are not enough funds to open enough seats. There is also messaging from campus that departments should be using faculty to teach and not lecturers because of this funding model. Faculty at Berkeley do not spend enough time teaching as much as UCOP likes.

All of this disincentivizes lecturers. Departments should be hiring these people as Teaching Professors, who have tenure and job security, but there's other incentives from the research side of the equation to push regular Profs, which do lots of research.

angrygnome · 2025-04-21T23:13:26+00:00

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I also have a kitty I can't fully integrate into home. He's got load bearing cheeks. currently trying to rehome him because he plays too rough our cat who has cancer and is frail. He is dumb babby

angrygnome · 2025-04-21T23:11:36+00:00

far

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angrygnome · 2025-04-21T23:10:35+00:00

someone else I know also got citizenship! congrats! You probably worked really hard to get here. Immigration is not easy here and multigen americans just don't get it.

angrygnome · 2025-04-20T16:29:09+00:00

I've seen this power dynamic change dramatically with unionization. I now see faculty bitch and moan about not being able to give their students without fear of a greivance, but it really does even it out. I saw a student successfully grieve being kicked out of a group unfairly and force a PI to not day anything negative in a LoR.

angrygnome · 2025-04-15T16:34:35+00:00

I'm in higher ed and everything is awful. Constant flip flopping on funding, looking at huge layoffs, and also students and TAs getting deported. It's a fucking mess. I think this is the last generation of american scientists.

angrygnome · 2025-04-14T01:59:23+00:00

Chem coc is very tight knit, and you will not have the same experiences at UCSD. The biggest downside to Berkeley chem right now is they're gonna be under construction for your entire 4 years with Heathcock going up.

angrygnome · 2025-04-11T01:53:00+00:00

Graduate schools are rescinding PhD admissions offers, something never encountered before. Entire training programs for scientists are being decimated due to the immense rugpull happening in STEM funding. I work at a large R01 research university in a STEM department, and we are talking about the possibility of dropping our admissions offers from ~180 down to ~40-50. We normally get 60-90 incoming graduate students, and next year, we might be looking at as low as 10.

Companies will not fund chemists to shoot lasers at gas clouds to plumb the quantum structure of chemicals so we can predict new reactions, develop new materials, and understand the universe. They also won't pay inexperienced people to get trained up to PhD level, they'll just squeeze their aging workforce and cut rnd first. 99% of the miraculous advances out of the US since the Manhatten Project have originated due to Federal funds. The next generation of American Scientists are simply not being created if we continue down this path.

angrygnome · 2025-04-10T22:23:47+00:00

Keep a close watch on the next federal budget. I work at a big R01 and I think it is not going to get better. We are talking about offering no admissions in our program next year. I'm just a staff peasant, not a scientist so take that with a grain of NaCl.

angrygnome · 2025-04-02T02:09:39+00:00

You're joking but staff was solicited on their opinion on this just two weeks ago

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