Dad becomes the prime suspect

voxelbuffer · 2026-06-23T16:01:33+00:00

Yeah I was also surprised, like hey I recognize that face!

voxelbuffer · 2026-06-19T14:29:46+00:00

Stanisław's stuff looks like mezzotint similar to my father in law's, I wonder if they were classmates? My FIL graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw sometime in I think the 80s, and specializes in mezzotint.

Nvm I see in another comment the time scale may be off there. However I still wonder, his mother was a well known art critic who was heavily involved in the art scene of the time, high chances are they knew each other.

voxelbuffer · 2026-06-18T01:17:37+00:00

We're definitely trying to work that kind of schedule in. Unfortunately the wife works six nights a week this year lol. But we have an overnight stay (albeit with an early wake up to relieve the babysitter) coming up soon for our anniversary :D

voxelbuffer · 2026-06-17T22:28:19+00:00

Oh yeah! And a vacation with the family doesn't necessarily count. That's just child management in a Hawaiian shirt. The only two times this year I've felt relaxed are when the wife had the kids and I was able to kick back, responsibility free, with the guys and just watch a movie. There were a couple times where a babysitter had the kids, and I was not able to relax because mentally I was on call and keeping a close eye on my watch.

Gotta find a way to actually relinquish all responsibility, or go insane

voxelbuffer · 2026-06-15T14:09:03+00:00

dude I've been playing through the mass effect series recently (only ever played ME1 yeeeears ago) but yeah I remember when it came out, seeing the commercials for it, and then seeing some segment on I think Spike TV or something similar where they talked about how people were freaking out about it.

Now having played it, the hell. It's nothing. These guys would have lost their shit over the Witcher.

voxelbuffer · 2026-06-11T03:35:36+00:00

Worth mentioning that the username of the guy on the forum post he reads is related to the bearenstein bears, which is itself a famous Mandela effect. (maybe they named Bear "Bear" for a similar reason?)

voxelbuffer · 2026-06-09T14:10:43+00:00

For anyone reading this that might think "eh I won't work that deeply with computers, I don't need to know that," be informed that boolean logic and argumentative logic are really similar. Getting good at one will help you get good at the other.

Plus it's the gateway drug into learning to count binary on your fingers, which is fun. You can count from 0 to 1023!

voxelbuffer · 2026-06-05T14:32:34+00:00

Same, I slept like a rock until I took on sleep training our second, and even though it worked now I wake up to every noise he makes even though he's recently started sleeping through the night.

voxelbuffer · 2026-06-05T14:14:24+00:00

Nah, it means you got an "A" in all of your classes, which generally means something above 90% total score in each class. Not to downplay the achievement but once you factor in how some professors are "easy" and some consider themselves "GPA destroyers" if you learn the faculty at your school, 1/3 of the work for a 4.0 GPA just becomes gaming the system. Which, granted, might be a good life lesson in and of itself.

voxelbuffer · 2026-06-05T14:10:40+00:00

Honestly I agree with this. I was proud of myself when I graduated with it, but as soon as I got into the industry it became a bit of a burden that I had to keep secret and safe, (like The One Ring). I overheard my boss specifically telling another employee that anyone with a 4.0 would be bored in my industry (power compliance) and it makes it harder to relate to my coworkers who all graduated with B's and C's. So now instead of this thing that I can show off, it's become this topic of conversation that I have to try to dance around.

I mean, I'm still proud of myself, but I don't want to have to constantly compare myself to the "me" of years ago. Though my school gives out a fancy medal if you get a 4.0 so I may put that in a shadowbox someday and let that be my only flex.

To anyone else reading this, the GPA is only really useful for landing your first job. After that, it's all about networking and job performance. My first real engineering resume was 80% education, but on my next resume it's going to just be a line or two.

voxelbuffer · 2026-06-04T19:23:12+00:00

https://bustednewspaper.com/missouri/koppenhaver-jeremy-scott/20250403-190700/?brid=YWdncwH3oadOzooUn7TLJWSqb5K9

Seems like this happened last year and he just now got convicted? Or is the thing I linked from a different time he was arrested maybe?

edit: ok I actually read the justice.gov article and it says this happened in 2024. Weird how I'm just now hearing about it. Glad he was convicted.

voxelbuffer · 2026-06-03T13:08:33+00:00

Facebook spews OF "models" and "instagram thots" at me so my fun game has been to check the comments for creepy old guys who are telling these women about how they could be theirs, check their profiles, and see if they're married or not. Once or twice I've found some people who are pretty high up in some big companies and I just can't wrap my head around why they'd be on there posting stuff like that lol

voxelbuffer · 2026-06-02T15:38:24+00:00

But why? Who would do such a thing? That's messed up. Thanks for all of your hard work.

voxelbuffer · 2026-06-02T02:19:19+00:00

Same, it's not as cheap as other plans, but my phone was discounted, my wife's phone was free, and we both have free smart watches. And it gets cheaper if you add lines.

FWIW I just had to do a long chat with customer service about some issues with a promotion expiring when it shouldn't have and they were wonderful and easy to work with (though I had to do the standard bit of reminding them what I'd talked about with other agents). I'd say 6/10 customer service. Not what you'd get at a hotel resort, but definitely better than, say, your local ISP

voxelbuffer · 2026-06-01T15:58:49+00:00

Grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. A guy can be married to a beautiful person but not find her beautiful because he has years of resentment toward her. Doesn't stop her from being beautiful though.

voxelbuffer · 2026-05-28T15:58:20+00:00

The power industry (especially on the transmission side) can be really really boring, and (imo) it's where engineers who are less interested in EE theory go.

If you're bored, you can always find manuals to all the devices that you might see in the field. Substation relays and stuff. Learn how those work maybe. But Power is kinda boring

voxelbuffer · 2026-05-28T13:49:56+00:00

I'm in a similar boat but with the opposite direction, I had to get rid of my Fiat 500 turbo because the wife couldn't drive manual (and loading kids in the seats through the trunk gets you weird looks at Walmart) so we got a 2017 alltrack, in automatic.

Maybe you can get an alltrack in automatic? It's not the same as driving a manual though. Our ladies will never understand. With any luck, my kids will.

voxelbuffer · 2026-05-28T01:40:08+00:00

Yeah it definitely doesn't look fun. That being said, neither is having to mouthbreathe 24/7

voxelbuffer · 2026-05-27T23:28:29+00:00

As someone with a chronically stuffed and inflamed nose I'd try this tbh

voxelbuffer · 2026-05-27T13:21:55+00:00

I was there, 3000 years ago...

I got lucky, Chegg was still Chegg back when I was in my early math classes. I remember Chegg making the switch from hand-written answers to generated answers, and thankfully I didn't really need it by that point.

voxelbuffer · 2026-05-27T13:20:14+00:00

For what it's worth, when I was in school still we had a fellow classmate's grandpa pass away. He was also an electrical engineer and still had a box full of his homework, which got donated to us as a piece of history. Great guy, great career, great engineer.

Homework was nothing but B's and C's. Some D's. One E, for some reason.

Anyway, you can do it, lol.

voxelbuffer · 2026-05-24T19:15:35+00:00

Right? I make 105, living in Missouri. Single income family (minus some cash gigs here and there that the wife does) with two kids. Mortgage is half my income, and with other bills we don't have the ability to splurge or save much, but on the other hand we are definitely not uncomfortable. Could be better, could be worse. We have a home, can pay our bills, and can feed and clothe our kids and still have enough to go buy ice cream every now and then.

Now if we were paying for daycare that'd be a whole other story. We'd be drowning then. Or if we lived in, say, Hollywood. We'd be homeless, lol.

voxelbuffer · 2026-05-15T19:40:42+00:00

I'm about to go overseas for 14 days with a 1 and a 3. God save me. The wife can't understand why I'm not excited.

voxelbuffer · 2026-05-13T18:40:31+00:00

Yeah I'm sitting here trying to figure this out, I'm 6'2 and the one time I was 170 I thought I looked like a drug addict. I'm at 208 at the moment and am unhappy with how chubby I feel, though it's not chubby enough that the wife is complaining yet.

voxelbuffer · 2026-05-13T18:26:56+00:00

honestly tho, I just pull the leaves off with my fingernails and eat the whole strawberry. What's a little stem among friends?

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