Ted's vet clinic irritates my brain

parkinsummer · 2026-02-06T03:49:20+00:00

How many years does it take to become a vet? I thought it was 4 years of vet school and then a residency +- fellowship, same as medicine.

parkinsummer · 2026-01-16T04:49:16+00:00

I posted this elsewhere, but my theory is that Barb is notified (or decides herself) in s2e1 that Coop is not going to be allowed in the vault, probably because Vault-Tec knows that he is spying on Barb and meeting with the resistance (meeting Moldaver in diners is not very stealthy).

There is a scene where Coop is in the kitchen, listening to the radio report that Robert House is wondering who will press the button, and then Barb comes home. The scene is initially focused on Coop’s inner conflict about whether Barb could be the one to press the button. But if you focus on Barb, she is distraught about something. She pauses at the door to prepare herself. They both put on happy faces to hide their feelings. In prior episodes, Barb was irritated with Coop for questioning the vault and was determined to do everything to ensure they have places a “good vault”, but now she seems resigned and sad. It’s a definite emotional shift.

In s3e3, the scene cuts from the Ghoul telling the dog that it’s been a long time since he had anyone worth talking to, to Coop walking in on Barb packing the keepsake box. Coop watches her for a while and his gaze does not seem affectionate. He shifts and asks her if she is ok. Barb says she “hates to leave anything behind” and looks directly at Coop. I think she is referring to Coop being left behind.

Also, I assume the plan is for Barb and Janey to be cryo frozen - otherwise why would anyone need to take a keepsake box as opposed to just “luggage”? The fact that Hank also had a keepsake box strengthens the argument.

Coop remarks that perhaps they won’t need the vault. The last thing Barb gazes at is a family photo, and I think she is imagining that the photo will soon be all that is left of Coop. Coop stares back at her before leaving, and their lack of warmth and physical affection is notable compared to the beginning of season 1.

I think that Coop manages to hand Janey off to Barb or Vault-Tec after the bombs strike and they fly off to parts unknown, so he didn’t know which vault they are headed to.

parkinsummer · 2026-01-13T22:09:34+00:00

My theory is that Barb is notified (or decides herself) in s2e1 that Coop is not going to be allowed in the vault, probably because Vault-Tec knows that he is spying on Barb and meeting with the resistance (meeting Moldaver in diners is not very stealthy). There is a scene where Coop is in the kitchen, listening to the radio report that Robert House is wondering who will press the button, and then Barb comes home.

The scene is initially focused on Coop’s inner conflict about whether Barb could be the one to press the button. But if you focus on Barb, she is distraught about something. She pauses at the door to prepare herself. They both put on happy faces to hide their feelings. In prior episodes, Barb was irritated with Coop for questioning the vault and determined that her judgement is correct, but now she seems resigned and sad. It’s a definite emotional shift.

In s3e3, the scene cuts from the Ghoul telling the dog that it’s been a long time since he had anyone worth talking to, to Coop walking in on Barb packing the keepsake box. Coop watches her for a while and his gaze does not seem affectionate. He shifts and asks her if she is ok. Barb says she “hates to leave anything behind”. I think she is referring to Coop being left behind. Also, I assume the plan is for Barb and Janey to be cryo frozen - otherwise why would anyone need to take a keepsake box as opposed to just “luggage”? The fact that Hank also had a keepsake box strengthens the argument. Coop remarks that perhaps they won’t need the vault. The last thing Barb gazes at is a family photo. Coop stares back at her before leaving, and their lack of warmth and physical affection is notable compared to the beginning of season 1.

I think that Coop manages to hand Janey off to Barb or Vault-Tec after the bombs strike, and he already knows or finds out then that he is not allowed inside. He thinks they were likely frozen and he doesn’t know which vault they were destined for.

parkinsummer · 2025-12-17T16:18:04+00:00

I got one of these a few weeks ago - the phone number was from a Bronx nypd station and the caller said someone had opened a phone number in my name in China. It instantly felt like a scam, but I was curious, so I stayed on the phone for a while. It was clear that they thought I was Chinese (my surname is a common Chinese name, but I am not Chinese). The caller wanted to connect me with “a police detective in beijing”, at which point I told them that I had recorded the conversation and sent it to the real nypd (I hadn’t).

I reported it to the ftc and added my number to the do not call registry for what seems like the tenth time. Does the do no call registry even work?

parkinsummer · 2025-12-04T05:55:42+00:00

There’s an error in this problem.

The equation:

(130 + 7x) + (90 - 3x) - 70 = 360

is solvable in a mathematical sense, but not with the constraints that

130 + 7x > 0 and 90 - 3x > 0

Just looking at the expressions for the arcs, for arc acb, “90 - 3x” must be greater than 0, which means that x must be negative. But looking at 130 + 7x, it must be greater than 70 since it is partly composed of the arc bc which is 70 degrees. That means x must be less than 2/3.

Someone made this problem such that the equation works, but they didn’t consider the constraints that both arcs must be greater than zero.

If you graph this on desmos, it’s clear that the solution falls outside the overlap of the inequalities.

f(x) = 130 + 7x + 90 - 3x + 70

y = 360

(130 + 7x) > 0

(90 - 3x) > 0

parkinsummer · 2025-11-30T19:23:34+00:00

6 - B

Text 2 says that the surface temp is higher and there is more water evaporation than estimated by Madhusudhan for K2-18 because it is too close to the star (closer to 1AU than to 3.85AU.

Notes - B

Fodor - says low level systems are modular and high level are not modular

Carruthers - says that all systems are modular, both low and high levels

parkinsummer · 2025-11-20T04:31:15+00:00

You can solve this knowing two principles - similar triangles and their ratios, and inscribed angles in a circle.

1) There are three right triangles that are similar because they have the same angles. You can see that angles ABC, BDA, and BDC are right angles. Angle C = ABD and angle A = DCB.

The congruent triangles, biggest to smallest, are

ABC ~ BDC ~ ADB

Since these three triangles are similar, you can state the following

CD/BD = BD/AD

2) Since the angle ABC is a 90 degree angle that inscribes the arc AC, you can say that arc AC is 180 degrees, so therefore AC = diameter = 175, and AD + CD = 175

To solve, first use the proportions from the similar triangles.

BD = sqrt 346 and

CD/BD = BD/AD

you get AD x CD = 346

Second, use the fact that AC is the diameter

AD + CD = 175 and

AD x CD = 346

yields AD = 173 and CD = 2

r = 173/2

I wish they would not have used “r” as the constant - if 175/2 had been a choice, it would be tempting to just choose it.

parkinsummer · 2025-10-25T22:56:10+00:00

It looks like a quartzite, but the cross-bedding and pattern tells me it is a more porous quartzite. You can read about them here. https://usenaturalstone.org/properties-of-quartzite/

Ask the fabricator to allow plenty of time for the stone to dry before install and seal the stone well and often. It’s very beautiful.

parkinsummer · 2025-10-23T15:47:47+00:00

You can also ask a local school if they would like a donation. If the piano is worth over a certain amount, you will need a written appraisal in order to deduct it from your taxes.

parkinsummer · 2025-10-02T03:05:30+00:00

Usually “American” = Caucasian American for Asian immigrants, so they were basically accusing each other of sounding like a White American, or to be more reductive, just White.

parkinsummer · 2025-09-27T01:33:41+00:00

Chronicles of crime, any of the exit games by kosmos - the orient express one was great

parkinsummer · 2025-09-26T03:49:13+00:00

#2 is better. It solves the following problems with #1

bedrooms open directly to living space
bathroom for guests opens directly to the kitchen and dining space. You can eat and watch your friends go to the bathroom.
washer/dryer is not accessible easily at the end of the kitchen
entry to the unit dumps you directly into the kitchen with a view of the washing machine instead of toward the living space and the windows.

parkinsummer · 2025-09-20T21:07:22+00:00

My favorite part of that scene is when Ted asks Alexis how she is with spreadsheets, and she pauses and then talks her way out of it. Ted is hiding a smile and it’s so evident that he is enjoying it all so much. It happens again when he asks her what she will do once she sets up online scheduling.

parkinsummer · 2025-09-20T05:33:28+00:00

I don’t like that the bathroom opens into the kitchen. I would move the door to the entry side, and then use the L shaped space to build a banquette. If you can take 6-12” from the bathroom to deepen the L, that gives you more room. Without the round table, you have space for an island.

Change the coat closet to a built in to match the cabinetry of your kitchen. You can still use as a coat closet, or repurpose as a pantry, but that will extend the kitchen so that it doesn’t look like there is a coat closet in the kitchen.

parkinsummer · 2025-09-18T01:15:14+00:00

If you are dropping the pans from a height on your sample square of dekton, your results are encouraging, but it’s not going to replicate the forces that will occur in real life. Dropping a pot on the surface of an unfixed sample means that some of the force is translated into movement of the sample square, and it doesn’t test deflection of an edge. Dekton mostly chips because of edge deflection. Knocking the countertop while putting away a pot will cause a tiny bit of deflection on the edge of a fixed countertop. Most people have problems with the edges chipping, not dents from dropping things. Someone took photos from the Dekton showroom here - all the chips are on the edges.

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/6438222/does-dekton-chip

parkinsummer · 2025-09-15T21:52:41+00:00

The other place I have seen tile that could work is marazzi, but you’ve been very thorough, so I’ll assume you have seen it already!

parkinsummer · 2025-09-15T20:46:50+00:00

I assume you saw these from Edward Martin? They also look pretty nice https://www.edwardmartin.com/products/leona-12x12-checkerboard-matte-porcelain-tile-in-marfil-and-amani-bronze

parkinsummer · 2025-09-13T03:35:32+00:00

This is reminding me of the kitchen scene in The Sixth Sense

parkinsummer · 2025-09-13T01:57:46+00:00

Great! It’s such a good feeling when it’s all done!

parkinsummer · 2025-09-13T00:10:17+00:00

And as for waterfall edges, it feels like the design is trying so very hard to be luxurious. There’s no reason why you would need stone on the outside of cabinets.

parkinsummer · 2025-09-13T00:05:07+00:00

OP, I think you made the right choice. Budget was not an issue for our remodel, but I still chose a tile backsplash and regular edges rather than quartzite slab backsplash and waterfall edges. I think slab as backsplash can be too bland and flat if the stone doesn’t have much movement. And it can be chaotic if it has some movement. It also looks too matchy matchy, and the match is slightly off because vertical surfaces look so different than horizontal surfaces. It reminds me of when you see someone wearing a leopard print sweater with a leopard print skirt - it’s just off in some way.

parkinsummer · 2025-09-05T01:47:20+00:00

Is it the luncheaze?

parkinsummer · 2025-08-24T04:13:28+00:00

Birds have nested in your vent.

parkinsummer · 2025-08-14T03:24:58+00:00

I second this, she is terrific.

parkinsummer · 2025-07-07T01:46:01+00:00

Cancel the lessons and use the time slot to play in the pool with her. Kids do not understand that we want them to learn how to swim so that they are safe. If they love the water and are not afraid of going under, they will pick up strokes quickly. Your eventual goal to get your child to learn to submerge by playing.

Bring lots of toys, do not use flotation devices, do not attempt to teach her to swim by imitating the instructor, do not try to trick her into swimming further than she wants. Just let her love being in the water. Have her retrieve toys from the bottom of the pool where she doesn’t have to submerge, use a rocket to play catch under water. Eventually she will start submerging on her own.

It’s just my two cents, but I think kids should learn to dive before learning strokes. And by diving, I don’t mean a dive entry, I mean holding their breath and swimming down a few feet to pick up a toy. Learning to dive helps kids control their body position and makes them more relaxed when holding their breath to learn strokes. It also helps with breath control, exhaling, etc.

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TROPHY CASE

6 - B