California sober is a favorite as well.
I’ve heard that phrase thrown around lately. It was tongue in cheek, but I have no doubt that people are actually doing that.
Two academic confession
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Lack of attention to detail strikes again. Linear algebra is kicking my butt
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I promised to stop working on the real 2 problem set. One of my friends gave a hint finally clicked. Proceeded to spend 2 hours doing the problem. I felt like a mouse in those effort experiments where the experimenter takes it out of the water for a bit. There’s one last problem that I do not have the energy to attempt. I feel like a failure
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Fortunately, you’ve surrounded yourself with a community of brilliant meathead scientists & engineers from a broad range of disciplines who love to help.
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Those damn minus signs never show up where they’re supposed to
It’s a good problem and I believe I got it figure out in a bout 5 seconds.
Edit: how old is your kiddo for these kinds of problems?
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Yeah, I walked through it with him in about 5 minutes.
Edit: He’s 10. 4th grade. But they’re supposed to be done with a parent, for extra credit.
That’s good. Fractions are tough that young.
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brag alert
He blasts through that stuff. We usually translate them to equations then solve, when possible.
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Fair flex.
Seems like he has a bit of an aptitude for it. Sets him up well for a career in engineering or hard sciences.
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I hope so. Anything but welding. 
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The fam considers my son a math and sciences kid - AP Pre Calc, Advanced Physics, Robotics, etc…
He did better on the verbal on the PSAT’s. I make fun of him - “You call yourself a STEM kid.”
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I can see that happening with kiddo too. His language skills are better than his math, and his social studies stuff is stunning, but he gets the biggest kick out of the stem stuff. And Pokemon.
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another John dropping some common sense
this guy, MountainDog, John Anderson and Dan John could turn humanity around if people would just read and implement their stuff…
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That’s an excellent combo, social/language skills backed by a STEM toolkit.
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Don’t forget John Berardi as well! It’s too significant to be a coincidence, haha.
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So, here I am at the powerlifting gym, working hard. Looking back upon some fine development over time. All is well actually. I find myself in a good mood.
In the rack next to me is a very small guy, about 25 y.o. He looks more like a marathon runner, though a bit shorter than mid length. Accompanying him as a side kick, is the biggest (fattest) guy ever - which obviously is fine - he needs to train and is where it’s at. Just an odd couple, that’s all.
Doing my stuff I realize something is going on in the rack next to me. The small marathon runner dude is deadlifting 550 lbs for reps of one! Then doing this for several sets.
Hats of to strong marathon dude - but how is this possible? You would expect a guy lifting that weight looking like someone who lifts?
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That is insane
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Indeed. He must be some sort of genetic anomaly. Possibly even PEDs on display here.
Adding: As I come to think of it, he had rather short torso and thighs + long arms. But there must be a limit anyway. I mean he must have deadifted more than 3x his bodyweight! His big sidekick friend did squats with 130 lbs as a paradox. Yes, I lost focus on my own lifting that day…
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