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Pretty much all the networking I've done has been by accident, like, happening to know someone who knows someone who's into something that relates to something I do, and them making the connection without me prompting it.
The other day I saw this explanation of Gödel's first incompleteness theorem and I thought it was cool, it helped me demystify the whole thing.
Also IJBM: People who say "infamous" when they mean "famous".
Tapping back into the networking skills thing; things are only awkward if you think they are. Whether or not you project this energy outward is another thing entirely that depends on any cues are read and if you luck out everybody will think nothing of it.
As long as you don't come off desperate it'll probably be fine. In my personal experience, professors seem to be desperate to see former students, as if to confirm they aren't just wasting their lives teaching thankless credential-hounding monsters.
He looks like the sort who plays black metal and cuts chicken's throats as performance art.
I like that his bald head easily alternates to "old aging rocker".
The other was just a typical pilot guy.
(Not so much credential-hounding monster but I'm certainly not someone who's made good use of the credentials I did get.)
While disassemblying it I noticed the other thermal cut-off is short-circuited with a soldered wire. Being generous I'd believe the guy who fixed it ages ago didn't replace it for the sake of time/convenience in addition to fixing the main board, as he claimed. Being less generous I'd believe he just did a hack job while claiming he had the main board fixed. *shrug*
Speaking of damaged stuff, my UPS just failed to prevent my PC from shutting off during a brownout. I've sometimes mistakenly believed it's started bloating, but looking at it right now it really does look kind of bloated. It's been over a year since I bought it so maybe it doesn't have much more to live?
IJBM: Things aren't indestructible.
Things quickly breaking is worse but less common.
https://dragonturtlegamesstore.com/collections/all
...I kinda want to get fired so I can stay at home doing whatever.
Besides that, TIL the rest of the world doesn't have the non-dark chocolate Oreos we have in Venezuela.
From what little I've read, it's not from Dutch cocoa but some other (local?) variety.
Personally I think the biscuits tend to override weaker flavors (like the birthday cake Orea mainly just smells like vanilla icing).
But then, on the other hand:
* People do pick up loot (consume food) and then discard less-desired though possibly still valuable loot (food that they cannot use, which may in some cases be useful to other organisms).
* A continual supply of new loot (or the promise thereof) is one thing that seems to keep players coming back to a game. This is essentially analogous to in-game survival.
The other is dynamics, which for us was more like high-school except super-fast (and super-hard). I want to be able to do stuff like demonstrate the theory behind the bicycle wheel thing on command.
I think I'll start trying to keep up now rather that saying "Next year I'll...".
I also have several books I've been meaning to read but again, distracted.
Plus I still want to try and learn Japanese, Afrikaans, possibly revise some French from high school, etc etc
With Japanese it's funny because somehow I do have a decent rudimentary understanding of a lot of random concepts but then in terms of actual full understanding of even 70% of simple concepts I end up with something along the lines of [わかりませーん].
There's so much I wanted to do this year but I guess the only solution is to do it starting now.
I did surprise myself with Blender though. At least that's one actually useful skill?
- I practiced quite a bit of 日本語, and I feel I've gotten much better at making out what's being said, I suppose all that passive input has had its effects.
- Same goes for French except I don't think I practiced that much.
- I didn't practice that much 3DCG as I should've, but I did practice and I do feel I improved as a result.
- I don't feel I advanced at all in drawing, but not due to a lack of trying, I still think that's the reason I had that shoulder ache for IIRC weeks.
- I did a bunch of programming stuff, but I'm not sure I'd say I got anywhere (no programs done or new concepts put to practice). I think I'm lacking direction in that regard.
- I didn't get fired, so that's good. I also saved a nice sum that I'm going to need once I do get fired, whatever it is I end up doing. Anyday now...
- I didn't follow online courses despite having had chances to do so, I suppose that's one thing I can improve on, especially noticeable since it's the year much of the world was forced to do so.
- I got into Danganronpa (well, that was late last year, but still). It may seem weird that I list a videogame here but I think it's a good thing that I have something more to dive into.
- I also reintroduced myself to MtG, though that's probably not a positive thing since I've spend lots of time just looking whatever up for no good reason, time that could've been spent elsewhere.
- I know there were times I could've put more effort into stuff, and other times were daily life drained me out so that I shouldn't feel guilty about not doing something. I'm not sure to which extent I'd say I made good use of this year.
I thought about coming up with something like new year's resolutions but maybe I should just tell myself to do better each day?Always great.
Just... always.
Man now I feel like doing a more comprehensive post but I feel like the majority of it would just be berating myself for getting so distracted.
(I don't really have much to say in response to your recent post in the politics thread though. Sorry. =P)
I once posted everything I remember about fluid mech on HH.
https://heapershangout.com/index.php?p=/discussion/comment/1011407/#Comment_1011407
*posts a YTPMV in the videos thread*
Speaking of which, someone threw an explosive at a tyre shop very close to home, right next to one of the technicians there (he survived), apparently out of an act of extortion.
Took pictures of various flora and fauna in a local park, went too late in the day so I got mosquito-bitten all over, then grabbed Cuban food on the way back home.
Man, that's terrible.
>ends up researching Australian jobs market
It's never all that fun to deal with them.
* I should append to the thread title "(not necessarily SFW)"
* I should not only specify the Christian Bible but also the edition because different editions may number/divide chapters and verses differently
* I should decide whether I'm randomizing based on verse, or randomizing based on book then chapter then verse
* this is a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Testament_verses_not_included_in_modern_English_translations
Amusingly this would be easier if I instead did this for the Book of Mormon or something.