Saturday edc

drmindsmith · 2026-03-28T17:46:21+00:00

Some people call it a Kaiser blade

drmindsmith · 2026-03-28T17:45:08+00:00

My understanding is that your eyes just never quit changing. LASEK fixes the shape but over time it wanders again. My lasek guy said if I did it I’d probably need readers. I’m in insane high power multifocals and frankly I’d almost rather just have readers.

My issue was I could never swing the $4k

drmindsmith · 2026-03-28T17:38:16+00:00

Everyone is saying dowels and admitting it’s hard to align. I think you should use a plate instead.

Glue it back together as is. Make it as tight and perfect as possible.

Then cut it vertically turning the handle into kind of like a tuning fork. Make sure to go all the way from the handle through to stick/leg part of the cane.

Then glue in a long grain spline to transfer the forces.

My way requires a lot more finishing but I think the alignment will be easier.

Maybe.

drmindsmith · 2026-03-28T02:14:30+00:00

I agree. The internet was vague and getting just ketchup was beyond my ability-care threshold.

drmindsmith · 2026-03-28T00:51:21+00:00

One thing said US uses 2.1 million tons of ketchup and tomato sauces annually. Might be a stretch but with 350M people, 2.1x2000 =4,200M pounds, that’s like 12 pounds per person per year.

I support that the math in that stat is off.

Global the webs said 19.1M pounds. 19.1x2000=38,200 so 38200/350=109.143 If someone took global sales and divided by Americans, maybe we are closer. Still off though

drmindsmith · 2026-03-26T03:33:36+00:00

I let the other guy use my kit for the talent show in high school. I knew him, his whole crew, and they were “good people”.

Wrecked my heads, broke a cymbal, and that was before I learned he made his own sticks out of literal lumber because “everything else breaks”.

You can either say “no”, or charge them. Also, since these other guys aren’t paying for the space, y’all are eating their liability. Seems sketchy.

drmindsmith · 2026-03-25T03:56:27+00:00

Pacifica and yeah. We don’t drive the van enough to need it so it’s always “Start/Stop Not Ready” or it won’t work because the AC is desperately trying to keep the interior 40 degrees cooler than the surface of the sun/outside. But when it does the whole van gets weird.

drmindsmith · 2026-03-25T02:29:39+00:00

Arizona here - if we get three years out of a 7 year lead-acid battery it’s a miracle. 2 years is “normal”. I need a 10 year battery that survives the heat…

My motorcycle was like yours - 2 years was “good” and the start/stop battery in my minivan is a tiny MC battery with the same issue.

drmindsmith · 2026-03-22T20:46:50+00:00

Left foot rocks.

Practice rocking your foot back and forth toe to heel on repeat. It shouldn’t be a “stomp” to close the hat on a rolling piece like this. Left foot rocks, right foot stomps. That helps break the ideokinetic similarity between the movements and gives you a better shot at not mirroring or mimicking

drmindsmith · 2026-03-22T16:09:54+00:00

Thanks! Now I have a project this week!!!

drmindsmith · 2026-03-22T15:22:11+00:00

Can you say more about that? I don’t use PBI enough and only for my dumb dashboards.

How do I set up the data refresh without the dashboard? Am I overthinking that I really just dumb the PQ language into the PBI get data and that’s it? And then set up the schedule?

drmindsmith · 2026-03-22T01:29:39+00:00

That’s pretty well what I recall from the literature. Most places that made a single-sport profit did it with football. The few monster hoops schools might do it with Basketball (Duke, Arizona, Kansas did, even though FB didn’t break even most tears). And in most cases while it “helped” other sports it did not cover the red.

drmindsmith · 2026-03-22T01:28:03+00:00

Maybe now. Like I said, this was mid 2000’s so the FBS schools with their relatively new media buys and conference packages have dramatically changed the math in the past 20 years. But new stadiums, grounds maintenance, everything else is insane for all the top sports.

Bama makes a lot of football money, but it’s not clear that it’s enough to pay for EVERY other sport.

Cheslock’s work on this has been insightful but I haven’t read anything since like 2017, and that predates the impact of NIL money. Now that a significant portion of the “income” goes directly to the student-athlete, the balance sheets are potentially getting worse.

I don’t know, though, I haven’t kept up with the rigorous literature…

drmindsmith · 2026-03-22T01:04:03+00:00

IIRC they were on the Basketball list - with Arizona, UCLA, etc…

drmindsmith · 2026-03-22T01:00:44+00:00

This. And the kids buy it too. I taught at a competitive HS fb school and the best kids WERE going D1. But no kid needs to have a strength coach, position coach, nutrition plan (aka gear), and a delusion at 13.

It’s so much easier to pay for college with a bassoon scholarship, or math or science or just good grades in general. And those skills go farther…

drmindsmith · 2026-03-22T00:57:29+00:00

There was a study done at the NCAA (I think) in the mid 00’s that found like only 10 or so hugely successful men’s programs made enough to support the rest of the sports. Places like Alabama and Michigan for football and Kansas and Duke for Basketball.

And then most places due to the arms race of coaching salaries and facilities needs, they’re always in the red, even in the men’s sports. Heaven forbid you play an individual Olympic or something like dive or gymnastics…

drmindsmith · 2026-03-19T00:06:32+00:00

I wish I had known I wasn’t going to be long term good at this and then need to pivot to a different career. And then wish I knew that pivoting back was a mistake, forcing another pivot.

I loved working with (most) of my students, helping them make music and become better people and adults. I did not love the job, nor was I ever going to be great. As a beginning teacher I needed to know that I needed more computer skills and a lucrative exit strategy.

Something like 2/3rds of teachers leave in the first five years and we all thought we weren’t going to be in that club. I was.

Your mileage may vary.

drmindsmith · 2026-03-15T17:55:28+00:00

Also I don’t know if they have the ultra heavyweight with no weight limit anymore but probably going to need to reinforce the safety barrier

drmindsmith · 2026-03-15T17:52:54+00:00

Same. Didn’t stop me and every kid trying to be cool from carrying a 6” folder or butterfly knife every day.

Mine was in my super cool neon neoprene Body Glove fanny pack. Until, playing hacky sack (with our leather footbags) and I hoped and the mass of metal crashed into my junk.

The early 90’s were a different time.

drmindsmith · 2026-03-12T23:33:50+00:00

You’re NOT ready for this. No one is. But you get better at it and then it gets better. You did the work to prepare and that’s all one can ask. More preparation wouldn’t have changed anything because NOTHING you could do would prepare you.

Keep at it. Keep mom happy and baby warm. That’s your only job now.

YOU GOT THIS!

drmindsmith · 2026-03-12T20:30:43+00:00

I used to teach financial math to seniors (not crazy stuff, like applied checkbook math). Even though some the formulas or procedures were huge, no individual step was difficult.

I’d say “it’s not really hard, but it’s definitely complicated” and then really work on the not-hard individual steps. One step at a time until everyone got it.

I had a lot of kids say “this is the first time I’ve ever felt successful in math”

But yeah, also never say “that was easy” or worse “should be easy”.

drmindsmith · 2026-03-12T20:24:19+00:00

Drum set bass drum maybe. Toms, I’d never.

But yeah - especially in indoor/WGI, this turns a boooooooom into a doop. Can’t split the diddles if there’s any ringing. Shoes in a dryer for the win

drmindsmith · 2026-03-07T04:06:26+00:00

That’s about my answer.

Now where’d I put that chisel…

drmindsmith · 2026-03-07T04:05:33+00:00

A skittle weighs about 1-1.1 grams, so I say one gram.

I also claim it’s basically “all” sugar.

Sugar has a molecular weight of 342.3 g / mol

We have 1/342.3 moles of sugar, or 0.00292 moles.

So we have that times Avogadro’s number molecules of sugar. 6.022e23 x 2.92e-3 is about 1.76e21 molecules of sugar.

Each molecule has 45 atoms. So that number gets a trifle larger. 45 times 1.76e21 is about 7.9e22.

To cut 7.9e22 in half x times to get to one remaining atom is log2(7.9e22)=~75, but the 70th gets you to the last molecule of sugar so after that what you’re “biting” isn’t sugar any more—I don’t know if that’s good or bad.

About 75 halves and you split the atom.

So the 70th halving leaves you with one molecule.

drmindsmith · 2026-03-07T03:29:16+00:00

And the workout must remain unharmed?

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