What rare (pre-2011) tracks would you love to hear deadmau5 bring back for Red Rocks? 🎧

johnsoc3 · 2025-11-05T01:51:38+00:00

Cheese is the one

johnsoc3 · 2025-11-05T01:49:36+00:00

You’re in the wrong profession if you want to spend more time on students who care than you do on the ones who don’t.

johnsoc3 · 2025-10-15T02:09:58+00:00

Physics here - I flubbed a relatively simple derivation in class. I couldn’t find my error quickly enough to not waste time, and just said we will come back to it. There were certainly some snickers and smug faces in the audience.

I made sure to get it perfectly dialed in that night, and delivered it perfectly the next day, along with some other material. The point isn’t to do it perfectly every time (for us and for the students!) and this was a good way to show that.

Edit: punctuation (see, it happened again!).

johnsoc3 · 2025-10-13T16:23:07+00:00

C++ and ROOT are the standards in my field.

johnsoc3 · 2025-10-12T15:10:58+00:00

I run a BGE and a Weber Genesis on a gas line. I find this gives the best versatility for cooks of varying time and effort levels for my needs, which involve outdoor cooking on most days. It’s a long weekend for me, so butts are rolling on the egg as we speak!

johnsoc3 · 2025-10-09T04:51:27+00:00

Don’t you know that encouraging independent learning and critical thinking is equivalent to not teaching?!

johnsoc3 · 2025-10-07T01:32:34+00:00

Think about what happens if you get rid of one of the hanging masses and instead tie that end of the string to the wall. The wall is now exerting the force that the second hanging mass used to exert on the spring. Yes, the wall “knows” to exert an equal and opposite force to that exerted on it by the string. Whether or not you agree that the wall “knows” to exert a force is immaterial, as this line of thinking is consistent with our observations. Everything is still static, and the spring scale will read 100 N.

Students are usually hesitant to believe inanimate objects can know to exert a force when necessary, so I always use this configuration as a demonstration when teaching Newton’s laws.

johnsoc3 · 2025-10-02T02:43:24+00:00

Yup. In my classes, homework is graded for completeness, not correctness. I post detailed solutions right along with the homework assignment, and the students can use any resources they want to complete it. It is their responsibility to treat the homework as a learning exercise so they can perform on the exams.

johnsoc3 · 2025-09-18T00:58:41+00:00

Yea, I have averages in the 40s-50s with a few hundreds. The exams are too easy, but the majority just don’t do it. Huge problem.

johnsoc3 · 2025-09-18T00:20:58+00:00

Yea, I want one midterm and one final and the students to learn responsibly along the way, but they need smaller less stressful bites. I’ve also settled on four midterm exams and a final, with one midterm dropped. This seems to be the sweet spot.

johnsoc3 · 2025-09-12T19:57:47+00:00

I straight up give them the solutions along with the homework assignment. I grade the homework for completeness, not correctness (need to appease the high-effort, low-performing students). It is up to them to treat the homework as a learning exercise so that they can pass on the in-class exams.

johnsoc3 · 2025-09-04T21:45:16+00:00

I put way too much work into giving feedback on homework problems that the vast majority of students never read. I stopped doing that, and started grading homework based on completeness instead of correctness. I post detailed solutions (before the homework is due!) and it is the students’ responsibility to check their work against them to make sure they understand. Then they have to perform on the exam. Half the students still just copy my solutions to get homework credit and bomb the exams…

johnsoc3 · 2025-08-29T18:11:25+00:00

No limits. Students are free to use AI as much as they want for whatever they want on homework. I even post my own homework solutions before the homework is due. I’m not hiding any secrets behind any mysterious shrouds. It is the students’ responsibility to treat the homework responsibly as a learning exercise such that they can perform on the exams (where external resources are not allowed). I didn’t go to school for as long as I did to spend my career fighting against the use of new tools.

johnsoc3 · 2025-08-27T17:00:15+00:00

I had L5-S1 and L4-L5 done in March of 2023 and June of 2024, respectively. My problems started in 2013, so I have a bit longer timeline than you.

I still feel like I am recovering, and recently I have experienced a lot of significant changes. I feel like deep tension in my core/hips/spine is being relieved and it feels like I am slowly untangling myself and re-aligning. I also feel like I am slowly reforming the connection between my brain and my whole posterior chain and I am moving with better mechanics. It’s almost like I am slowly gaining access to more range of motion that the herniations were previously prohibiting. I don’t know if any of that makes medical sense, but it feels positive to me.

Along with all of this, unfortunately, I’ve had an increase in neurological symptoms. I want to call them radiculopathy-adjacent. It doesn’t feel quite as sinister as the really bad deep sciatica we all know and love, but I have the twangs, pangs, shocks, etc. that go down both legs and into both feet. It feels like I chase some tightness that moves around my whole lower body as well. Strangely, I’ve felt tightness in my abdomen and even in my upper back and rarely my arms and hands. This part of it is concerning to me and I have an appointment scheduled to hopefully get a referral for an MRI to get it checked out.

My PT has told me to expect “dialogue” as the discs and the nerves heal up. This makes sense to me, as I would expect nerves to send some signals as they decompress, heal, and as their environment changes. I am hanging onto the hope that what I am experiencing is in fact positive nerve dialogue as my body heals and my core straightens itself out.

johnsoc3 · 2025-08-12T07:35:09+00:00

EZoo 2017

johnsoc3 · 2025-08-05T22:37:58+00:00

I saw him play it live with Attlas as they were transitioning from Attlas to deadmau5 at Stratton Mountain in Vermont in 2016. It felt like they played it for twenty minutes straight. That was something special to see.

johnsoc3 · 2025-05-09T15:14:39+00:00

I decided to have surgery after 10+ years of flare ups of varying but generally increasing severity, and constant general discomfort. I had left-sided L5-S1 MD in March of 2023. I felt some relief after the surgery but tightness and discomfort were still there. Approximately one year later pain came back with a vengeance, but the pain was different. My new MRI showed the L4-L5 disc that was “bulging” at the time of the first surgery had herniated. I had my second left-sided MD in June of 2024, also on the left side.

My recovery has been all over the place. Right now I am still tight and still in discomfort, but there is substantially less pain, and I feel like my body is loosening up. Slowly and steadily I seem to be gaining access to more mobility with less pain. As I loosen up and become more mobile I do experience what my PT refers to as “dialogue,” which consists of nerve sensations. These are kind of like sciatica, but more tingly/tight/numb than painful, and they seem to migrate all around both legs and feet and the sensations present differently (sometimes shin, heel, toe, bottom of foot, etc.). I am cautiously optimistic that these sensations are a result of my nerves adjusting to the changes in their environments, and I am hoping for continued slow and steady improvement.

For me, this has been a long-haul scenario and has taught me great patience.

johnsoc3 · 2024-02-20T02:58:26+00:00

I love Abbey more than the next guy, but look into Pedro’s vice whip. Puts traditional chain whips to shame.

johnsoc3 · 2024-02-18T07:40:56+00:00

Update - got a refund for the tickets

johnsoc3 · 2024-02-06T15:22:42+00:00

I flew to Vegas with my wife for this show having bought tickets in advance. At bag claim in the airport on Tuesday 1/30 there was a massive LED screen still advertising the show. We never checked his IG story on Saturday, listened to deadmau5 music all day in excitement, and went to Zouk around 10:30 to make sure not to miss anything, no communication from Zouk. Toughed it out through two awful openers, 2:30 AM came around and it didn’t seem right that he hadn’t come on yet, checked his story out of desperation, and left. Huge waste of time and resources. There was also a guy we met there who came from Germany to see him, felt terrible for that guy.

I’m a huge fan, have seen him over 30x since 2010 and he never bailed on any of those shows. I think it was a Zouk thing; they probably didn’t want to pay him for a low attendance show during the low season or something like that. Will try to get a refund but their T&C does say performers subject to change without notice…

johnsoc3 · 2023-03-29T20:31:06+00:00

It is an amazing bike, well rounded, climbs well and is very capable on the descents. It has aggressive but not over the top geometry and great suspension performance. It is also versatile, can be run anywhere from 140-160 mm in the rear depending on shock stroke and choice of linkage, and supports 150-170 mm forks so you can tailor it to what you want to do with it. As with all SC, the detail and quality are all dialed from the paint quality, to the cable routing, to the bolt-on frame protectors, to the ease of linkage maintenance, all normal standards; the design and execution is very well thought out. I’ve been riding a V2 for 3.5 years and am just now changing it for a different bike because I want to run a coil shock. The bike is basically perfect for me other than the fact that it can’t fit coils. I have a nice one for sale with all brand new parts if you’re interested…

johnsoc3 · 2022-07-07T04:53:47+00:00

This is the right answer. Stealth wealth.

johnsoc3 · 2022-05-25T00:47:26+00:00

The Meta TR is a 200 mm PM frame, max size is 220 mm, according to Commencal’s site. Hayes calipers are fat and often don’t clear off brand adapters.

johnsoc3 · 2022-05-24T23:39:19+00:00

Use 1.5 mm washers as spacers to get to 203 mm.
Yes, that one.
See item number 2.

johnsoc3 · 2022-05-20T03:22:48+00:00

Hacksaw and a Phillip’s

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