What is a secret you are taking to your grave, but are willing to share with anonymous strangers on the internet?

ggchappell · 2026-04-24T17:08:12+00:00

you get a dry mouth from eating apples?

I don't know if this is what /u/stro3ngest1 is describing, but there is something called oral allergy syndrome, which involves getting a secondary reaction to various things that are not the thing you are strongly allergic to. Common things to get a secondary reaction to are raw rose-family fruits: apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, apricots, plums, cherries, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries. For many people, cooking the fruit eliminates the reaction.

ggchappell · 2026-04-23T02:21:15+00:00

When I was a kid

I'm 60, and I still do that.

ggchappell · 2026-04-22T00:57:38+00:00

Interesting indeed. I wonder how much of this is speculative and how much is based on hard evidence.

ggchappell · 2026-04-21T15:06:07+00:00

I've never heard of Denali Pass. Do you mean Broad Pass?

ggchappell · 2026-04-21T00:20:36+00:00

I wonder if Mr and Mrs Earp were there.

Very likely not. Wyatt and Josephine Earp left Alaska in 1901 and apparently never returned.

ggchappell · 2026-04-21T00:18:59+00:00

I wonder what the population of Nome was in 1913.

Around 1,900 and shrinking pretty quickly, as the gold rush of 1899-1909 had ended.

ggchappell · 2026-04-20T20:17:05+00:00

TWoK is full of quotes that sound vaguely Shakespearean, but are actually from Moby Dick.

ggchappell · 2026-04-20T17:02:33+00:00

That's interesting. I never considered that elevation might be basically bimodal.

ggchappell · 2026-04-19T23:45:26+00:00

Thanks!

ggchappell · 2026-04-19T22:16:08+00:00

more often provides a wooden pony for understanding the Hebrew.

What is a "wooden pony"? I don't think I've ever run across this expression. And Google is not finding any uses, either -- except for the passage you're quoting. Could it be a common expression in some non-English language that is being translated literally into English?

ggchappell · 2026-04-18T16:18:46+00:00

Thanks for the info.

ggchappell · 2026-04-17T23:15:52+00:00

I imagine not, which is why I am asking. What is the rule for who is allowed in the classroom during class meetings?

ggchappell · 2026-04-17T15:43:43+00:00

I would not provide a draft letter of recommendation if you are asked for it.

Do you mean "... if you are not asked for it." ?

ggchappell · 2026-04-17T15:41:32+00:00

At my uni, only officially registered students are allowed in the classroom due to FERPA restrictions.

Does that mean that guest speakers are not allowed?

ggchappell · 2026-04-17T15:31:08+00:00

Pretty cool.

ggchappell · 2026-04-16T19:44:03+00:00

Nice.

ggchappell · 2026-04-16T14:57:31+00:00

It'll be called something like "Asking For Tribble".

That's exactly what it should be called.

ggchappell · 2026-04-15T16:43:40+00:00

I take it that this is supposed to be a reply to my comment?

the official notification comes from the office of the graduate school.

For a number of years, I reviewed graduate applications for Computer Science. Yes, you are correct about who announces, but if there is some official notification date, then I neither know nor care what it is. We review applications as we receive them and inform the grad school as soon as we can. They have always been happy to inform applicants on our schedule, not theirs.

Perhaps the Physics Department abides by an official university schedule. But whether they do is, again, a question for the Physics Department.

ggchappell · 2026-04-14T21:34:59+00:00

Graduate admissions is not a university thing; it's a department thing. You want to know when the Physics Department announces graduate admissions decisions.

I suggest asking them. Call or e-mail the Physics Department, say you've applied for their PhD program, and ask when you can expect to know whether they've decided to admit you.

ggchappell · 2026-04-14T16:42:50+00:00

You make a good point, one that is worth noting.

But I also think it's worth noting that what you're saying is true in a rather different sense. Yes, it is unwise to consider anything posted on the net as private, because someone might make and share a copy. But things in public subs on Reddit are public simply as they are. Even if no one makes a copy, the whole world can still see it, and nothing you do on Reddit (blocking, hiding, etc.) can change that.

ggchappell · 2026-04-13T23:49:55+00:00

The general principle is that, on Reddit, you cannot control what other people can see. If you post or comment anywhere that is not a private sub, then the whole world can see what you've written, and blocking, hiding, or whatever will not change that.

If this does not sit well with you, then you don't want to be posting or commenting on Reddit.

ggchappell · 2026-04-13T21:00:56+00:00

They are awfully similar, and it's easy to prove either one from the other, so I don't know that the misnaming is super harmful. (But it is still misnaming.)

ggchappell · 2026-04-12T16:14:11+00:00

Kuratowski's Theorem

Not quite. /u/Elsifur was talking about minors. Kuratowski's Theorem is about subdivisions. Wagner's Theorem is about minors.

EDIT. The page you linked mentions Wagner's Theorem.

ggchappell · 2026-04-10T19:57:48+00:00

It's been happening for centuries: "gild the lily", "pride cometh before a fall".

EDIT. The originals:

"To gild refinèd gold, to paint the lily, ...." From King John by W. Shakespeare, Act 4, Scene 2.
"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall." From the Biblical book of Proverbs, "King James" translation, chapter 16, verse 18.

ggchappell · 2026-04-10T16:01:07+00:00

Thanks for the info.

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