Respectfully sir, I think you’re overlooking the obvious as well:
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Eh…Leatherface is a bit of a grey area
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Leather face is the ultimate in apron wear. Until I found the pyramid head from silent hill with the assless half apron
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The only difference is someone else is cancelling your prior commitments at the last minute
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I didn’t want to leave anyone in suspense, so I figured I’d share the solution to my burger cooking dillema: something even smaller than a foreman grill
Go internet.
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Black smithing is bad ass. I’ve streamed forged in fire, and it is a pretty cool show. Gets a bit redundant though.
That makes more sense than trying to microwave meat. Heck, it might even be pretty decent.
If I ever get to hobbiest/side gig territory for metal working, forging is first on the list, aside from the heat it & beat it fit ups, hot tacking, and cold forging (read: beat it with a hammer) that I do sometimes anyways.
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Yeah, I think it’s going to answer the mail. With a 4" diameter, I can pack it in my luggage without issue compared to an actual Foreman grill. And this opens up an avenue to buy straight up grassfed beef vs the Bubba Burgers. Be able to cook a few other things too. I’m becoming quite the hotel living pro, haha.
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And people are shocked when I say I thought it was a comedy when I first watched it. Remember the part where the cook knocks the girl out by hitting her multiple times on the head with the broom? Laughed my fucking ass off.
And FTR the sequel by the same director WAS a comedy.
Real skills. Beats the heck out of the too typical “Travel for work: get drunk, eat crap, blame job, die” paradigm people have been living for the past 50 years or so!
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While we are in a confessing mood, I have a no joke fantasy about traveling in an airport and being “forced” to have to eat at a McDonalds there, just so I have an excuse to indulge in a Double Quarter Pounder again.
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That’s right up there with my locked in a fully functioning pizza shop during an apocalypse day dream.
Like it could be zombies, social discord/rioting, brisk wind storm. I’m pretty loose with the definition of “apocalypse”.
Edit: OK now that those gears are turning, I’m thinking of surviving on little pockets of pizza dough about the size of a pierogi, with all of the sauce, toppings, etc. Folded up inside, allowed to rise slightly, then deep fried.
During like a dandelion apocalypse like we’re about to experience later this spring.
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Spoken like a mathematician.
I will say in general, abstract mathematics or “rigorous” mathematics is definitely more challenging as the applications aren’t as readily apparent.
Hardest math class I took was a grad level course in probability and stochastic processes. That class nearly did me in.
Yes, gives most students a brownian motion.
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Engineers are just scientists/mathematicians that live on the applied side, rather than fundamental side. When we don’t see a reasonably obvious application, it becomes a bit difficult to focus.
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IMO, for some of the more advanced math (not super advanced / the math required for engineering for example), a lot more time should be spent on analytical methods and firmly understanding the concepts. I can hardly derive or integrate any functions anymore. I can graph them and draw rectangles under them to “integrate”, or draw a tangent line on a curve to “derive”.
My calculus classes had us integrating / deriving arctan(sin(1/x^2)). What the hell is that useful for? I could spend all day trying to figure that out, or I could just plot it and do an estimation.
Also, that popular statement about not always having a calculator on you turned out to be total bullshit.
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damn, some of ya’all’re some smart MoFo’s.
Mebbe if I hang out here, I can get some residual smarts.
Think?
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There seems to be quite a few engineers. IME, we just think we are really smart, and not just about engineering, we are experts in almost all fields.
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Having worked with many engineers, I agree with this statement.
There are always some exceptions, but I haven’t seen it with this crowd.
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