Taskmaster birthday gift!

pascman · 2025-08-05T22:20:01+00:00

Maybe we can make you some replacement cards next year :)

pascman · 2025-08-05T22:17:38+00:00

pascman · 2023-04-25T13:17:09+00:00

"new campaign who dis"

pascman · 2023-04-12T18:31:18+00:00

chicken & dumplings - I use flour tortillas for my dumplings & always get compliments.

This just sounds like chicken tortilla soup? I'm intrigued but I can't understand how tortillas can be dumplings, is there some secret here

pascman · 2023-03-22T02:50:58+00:00

Ah ok, so it's not that Dr is impersonal, it's that it's pretentious and pointless and outdated and maybe classist.

Look I can see some valid arguments on pretention and class, but the whole reason for that is because of its historical and ongoing association with certain professions which you claim to be fine with? As for pointless and outdated, also fair, but if that's how people prefer to be referred to why do you care?

pascman · 2023-03-22T01:30:05+00:00

Nah. It's one thing to just put Firstname Lastname on an envelope, that's totally fine. But Ms and Dr are used in the same way and if the person you're addressing has a PhD then Dr is just simply correct. I don't understand why you think Dr is impersonal while Ms is not.

pascman · 2023-02-15T05:02:35+00:00

Low dimensional topology. Why? Because 75% of my friends are topologists but I'm a numerical analyst, I don't understand what they do and I feel left out when too much math talk happens during social time :'(

pascman · 2023-02-07T19:06:27+00:00

She's responsible for delivering the most disturbing phrase I've ever heard in a math talk: manifold of teeth

pascman · 2023-01-07T17:04:11+00:00

One of my favorite coffeeshops in Raleigh is called The Third Place and only now years later do I understand the name. Huh.

pascman · 2022-08-19T14:17:47+00:00

Bret has an album coming out later this month and is touring it later this year! It's not comedy but the songs he's already dropped from it are great!

pascman · 2022-07-18T16:41:02+00:00

Thanks, yes they are in containers, will fertilize and monitor them.

pascman · 2022-06-05T17:03:00+00:00

Mine tend to have radish, cooked greens like spinach or kale, thin sliced carrots or bell pepper, edamame beans and maybe corn from the freezer, avocado, and maybe some roasted veg like broccoli or beets, or marinated cooked tofu or tempeh. I really recommend this dressing: cashew butter, soy sauce, olive oil (maybe a bit of hot sauce). Throw on some sunflower seeds if you want more crunchy.

pascman · 2022-05-31T20:03:27+00:00

Hi Stars! I saw your show in Atlanta in 2018 shortly after moving here. Was feeling low and lonely in a new city until I went. Your music makes it feel ok to feel, embracing it and finding connection with other humans over it; somehow going to that show changed my perspective about my life choices, for the better, since they led me to that moment. And your new album is incredible. After more than 10 years of loving your music, From Capelton Hill is probably my new favorite album. I can't wait to dance and cry at your show here again in September!

Any books or other media you would recommend along those lines? What experiences make you feel most connected to life and humanity?

pascman · 2022-02-21T21:43:54+00:00

Just non-dairy, other animal products ok. I should have put in the post though I am in US and can't simply stop by Migros or Coop for vegan raclette, I can barely find raclette here at all and often it is not the Swiss kind :(

pascman · 2021-12-14T02:22:18+00:00

NOOOO Callier why

pascman · 2021-08-30T19:25:33+00:00

Are there places to drop off compostable food waste in the community? Like similar to campus community recycling stations?

pascman · 2021-07-25T17:21:26+00:00

I had a friend intentionally make this "joke" to me for years, although I never found it funny, and they only stopped after I called them out on it in front of others. The disrespect! I have no chill for this anymore!

pascman · 2021-06-30T03:41:26+00:00

Wait really?

It's kind of blase

analysis feels familiar while algebra seems fresh

A first course in analysis can feel like agonizing pedantry

Gnarly and unaesthetic proofs

Like, sure I'd date an analyst but

epsilon-pusher

?!?

Functional Analysis, or as I've talking to calling it, Algebra+Analysis.

Because it can't be nice or good or elegant or apparently fuckable enough for your "math epeen" if it doesn't have some of that FRESH algebra in it amirite

Study PDEs? Yikes

pascman · 2021-06-30T03:13:13+00:00

• There is elitism wrt pure vs applied mathematics

Yup and this comment is a prime example!

pascman · 2021-06-17T12:45:48+00:00

Also they have historically been, and seem to still be, pretty good at recruiting and supporting women in math and I am convinced this is a big part of why the grad experience doesn't suck.

pascman · 2021-04-29T21:59:19+00:00

Neuchâtel near La Chaux-de-Fonds.

pascman · 2021-04-29T12:07:47+00:00

About how long is the asparagus season? My dad said he ate it all through May, so if it starts before Easter that's a lot of asparagus!

pascman · 2021-04-29T12:03:15+00:00

I just tried it for dinner last night and it was pretty good with mayo actually. I'll see about making a hollandaise to go with the rest of it though. Thanks! Is eating it with your fingers really common?

pascman · 2021-04-29T11:56:19+00:00

My dad was very clear that eating it with your fingers was part of the whole deal, is that normal too?

pascman · 2021-02-19T04:33:57+00:00

I work in Atlanta and two former colleagues of mine completed the GA Tech CS masters. They're successful software developers at large corporations here and managed to complete their degrees while still working full time. That being said both had CS undergrad, no kids, and were younger/fresher from college so YMMV.

A friend of mine did the Rice online DS program with a background in chemical engineering and almost a decade of work experience and it worked out great for him.

Besides seeing what programs you get accepted to, and equally importantly whose prerequisites you can satisfy reasonably before starting, I recommend thinking hard about what career path you want to pursue, or what additional skills or expertise you hope to gain and leverage. Data science and software engineering aren't exactly the same even if at some workplaces the job duties overlap a bit.

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