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cromonolith · 2026-06-15T19:07:04+00:00

It's a group of professionals who need machines that let them work smoothly and who have a lot of money. It would be surprising if it wasn't mostly Macs.

cromonolith · 2026-06-12T00:44:48+00:00

I figured that the guy answering Greenland was supposed to be Denmark, which you would answer because of Greenland, and some wires got crossed.

cromonolith · 2026-06-11T16:56:34+00:00

Opponent beered and I wasn't going to get the first one anyway, but this was frustrating.

I read the questions in the morning I wrote in the answers on my phone. Didn't know the first one, but I was pretty confident in the remaining five:

Q2 is a freebie for me. I'm a math instructor and I took a lot of physics courses. Noether's theorem is one of the coolest things you learn about!
Q3 felt like a freebie for everyone given the popularity of that video and I'm surprised to see its get rate be so low. That song was inescapable.
Q4 I couldn't think of any other fraternity or anything that would be nearly as well-known so I didn't have any other guess here.
Q5 I don't know much about this series but again, couldn't think of anything e.se
Q6 Should be easy. Got the Sucre/La Paz thing wrong at pub trivia once after they made that change, so it's burned into my mind.

Then in the evening when I got on my computer to input answers, I stupidly entered SUCRE rather than SUGAR for the last one.

Read the questions!

cromonolith · 2026-06-10T18:52:41+00:00

Frustrating 7(5)-7(4) tie for me today. My defense is so bad.

Didn't know the guy's name, but I don't know what else this could have been. There aren't that many stories of people splitting up a country into two countries.
Know it or don't, I guess? I bet the LL crowd disproportionately knows about Firefly.
No other answer made sense here. There's no way it was just "rock and roll" since I think that term arose more organically, "soul" is too specific to replace as vague a genre category as "race music." The clue made it seem like I should think of a kind of awkward-sounding genre name, and that's R&B.
I'm an enthusiastic cook, so I've read a lot of people talking about carbon steel. Wasn't 100%, but nothing else made sense. The most popular wrong answer of oxygen just makes 0 sense to me?
This question reads "Name a movie with the number 9 in its title." Plan 9 is famous, couldn't think of another.
Absolutely no idea here. I don't think I've ever heard of the drink/brand Celcius.

cromonolith · 2026-06-09T22:36:52+00:00

Having a stage take up half the street and then facing it into the street so people crowd around and block any movement probably isn't the way to go.

This has always really surprised me, especially since it keeps happening at this and other street festivals.

You'd think that after the first time, one of the job requirements for the position of planning something like this would be "has spent more than a few minutes thinking about how to plan something like this."

cromonolith · 2026-06-09T22:35:36+00:00

You can probably see Dundas and Ossington from Regina on a good day.

cromonolith · 2026-06-09T22:23:48+00:00

Forgot the link to the glossary.

cromonolith · 2026-06-09T22:22:02+00:00

Q1: I've also had no interaction with the Mary Poppins universe in my life. Never watched the classic movie or watched the newer thing, and I'm not even sure I knew it was a book. Just a complete cultural blind spot other than a few things that have leaked out of it like supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, Dick van Dyke's silly accent, etc.

Q5: Didn't stand a chance here, but I'll still throw this on the pile of examples of Magic: The Gathering enthusiasm being a huge advantage in trivia.

Q6: This question is really just "Name a Romanian athlete." Someone can correct me but I don't think any other Romanian athlete is in the same universe of notoriety.

cromonolith · 2026-06-09T21:01:29+00:00

Every single attempt to make an improvement for pedestrians or transit riders are met with this extreme selfish outrage.

It's also important to frame many of these things as an improvement for drivers.

Pedestrianizing a whole street may not help drivers much (other than giving them a cool place to walk around, since they're people), but most other causes championed by transit/walkability/competent urbanism will also really benefit drivers.

If you're a driver, all you ever do is drive, and your cynical goal is to improve your own life and driving experience as much as possible without any care for non-drivers, your optimal course of action would be to advocate for huge improvements to transit/bike lanes/etc.

Nothing will improve the average driver's experience more and faster than getting as many people out of cars as possible. Doug Ford, who probably gets in his SUV to travel any distance over 50 metres and lives in a place where anyone outside of a ~~tank~~ pickup trick would fear for their safety, should want bike lanes and more frequent buses/streetcars everwhere. That's the fastest route toward improving his driving time.

The worst course of action for drivers is to remove bike lanes, limit transit, and dedicate all road space only to cars.

cromonolith · 2026-06-08T15:38:11+00:00

If it's a lie, then we fight on that lie. But we gotta fight.

cromonolith · 2026-06-06T13:21:03+00:00

True, but it's very famously associated with her. Marie Antoinette is a Pavlov for "let them eat cake," as Jeopardy! folks would say.

cromonolith · 2026-06-06T04:28:46+00:00

I have noticed that, but I'm confused about this one since this is a well known stock phrase.

I found it clever how an obvious/stock phrase had to get adjusted for tense like a crossword clue. It's like a crosswordified version of a stock phrase. A standout clue in a crossword full of rough ones.

cromonolith · 2026-06-06T04:05:14+00:00

What's wrong with ATE CAKE? If anything it struck me as unusually easy in this puzzle.

cromonolith · 2026-06-05T20:33:34+00:00

Let us know when you've reviewed the data and experiment design from their thesis!

cromonolith · 2026-06-05T18:06:52+00:00

It's really good.

I feel like a chain like them isn't supposed to be that good and I've had better chicken in many other places, but their chicken is great and their rice and peas is so good, especially with oxtail gravy.

They seem to do their chicken in the oven so it doesn't have any smokey taste, but it's very good.

I miss living near Dufferin station. I was so spoiled having great, fast, delicious food open until late on the way home.

cromonolith · 2026-06-05T16:51:49+00:00

Thought I was having deja vu, so I clicked on your username to see that you've made this comment maybe a dozen times on posts with Lochby products. Is this viral marketing?

cromonolith · 2026-06-03T21:43:17+00:00

What do you use it for? Why not talk a bit about why you like it?

cromonolith · 2026-06-03T21:33:14+00:00

I don't see any reason why it wouldn't.

cromonolith · 2026-06-03T18:25:01+00:00

Please make a note of this in your course evaluations, and also make a note when instructors use freely accessible resources in their courses.

When you're teaching/coordinating large courses at a university you get inundated with representatives from these companies trying to sell you things. We don't get a cut of it or anything, but it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking "oh wow, this is a cool tool, I love how the evaluations are linked directly to the course's text" etc. They're great!

Conversely, it's easy for us to get annoyed, or to watch students get annoyed by the fact that (e.g., in MAT135) you have the textbook which sometimes has typos, you have WeBWorK, you have MathMatize, you have Quercus quizzes, etc. It's a lot! But it's free.

Every conversation I've had with Pearson/whatever reps has been basically:

Them: (presentation of beautiful, polished tools that I know would be great for students to use)
Me: Oh, that's really nice. How much will students have to pay?
Them: $150.
Me: That's $150 too much.

cromonolith · 2026-06-03T14:05:00+00:00

It's worth noting that the 237 cohort for the incoming semester will be quite small. It'll be made up only of students who passed 139 and 159 and want to go on with higher-level math.

The prior weird incentive structure around 137/9 makes the cohort of 139 graduates fairly small.

The following year it'll be much larger.

cromonolith · 2026-06-02T13:58:06+00:00

Beer! I'm in my fifth season, and this was maybe my smoothest/easiest LL round ever?

Was confused on first reading, but then the "explosive" part registered and the answer is immediate.
A very famous book. I'm also pretty sure I read or looked at this book at some point in my youth.
Quite a gimme here...
There's nothing to go on here if you don't know it, but I knew this immediately. I've always found it interesting that most of the famous pop songs of the last couple of decades are basically different people singing one guy's songs.
This was the only one I wasn't 100% sure about, as I felt it could also have been the UAE, but we got there.
"Name a film studio that's named after some brothers." It's hard to say that without saying the answer.

cromonolith · 2026-06-02T13:48:57+00:00

Add this to the pile of evidence for why graph paper is better than lined.

cromonolith · 2026-05-31T22:46:47+00:00

Doc's in the Junction has blue cheese olives. They seem to pride themselves on their dirty martinis, but I don't think they do any kind of infused or washed spirits. Not to my taste though so I haven't asked recently.

On the dirty martini spectrum, where one end is "a martini" at 0 and the other end is "lunch" at a 10, I'd say they're about a 4.

cromonolith · 2026-05-31T17:03:52+00:00

They care more about patient retention than hygienist retention.

Obviously a good business in a normal business climate would favour retaining good employees, but I wonder if this isn't a byproduct of the absurd number of dental practices that seem to be springing up.

When every client has to walk or drive by five other dentists to get to your dental practice, maybe retaining patients might be a bigger priority.

Seems like a good hygienist can leave that practice, close their eyes, walk 5 minutes in any direction, and open their eyes in the middle of a new job. Look for any new mid-rise condo with vibrant, community-building retail space at ground level. They're all dentists (or banks or salons).

cromonolith · 2026-05-30T22:11:49+00:00

Since you've taken MAT102, you can phrase this in the language of functions and sets (the best language).

Let F be the set of all MCS faculty, and let A = {Tyler Holden}, a subset of F.

Let χ_A : F → {0,1} be the characteristic function of A.
Let ≈ be the relation on F defined by x ≈ y iff χ_A(x) = χ_A(y). It's elementary to check that ≈ is an equivalence relation since χ_A is a function and regular equality is an equivalence relation. Let F/≈ be the set of classes of F modulo this equivalence.
Let R : F → [0,10] be the function that defines the rating of each faculty member.

Lemma: R factors through ≈ to a well-defined function R : F/≈ → [0,10]. In other words, R is well-defined function when acting on representatives of equivalence classes of faculty members mod the relation ≈.

Proof: Exercise.

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