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The walking, breathing embodiment of the Dunning–Kruger effect

Jurf_WurburJurf_Wurbur Posts: 5,472
edited June 2019 in Main
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  • Jurf_WurburJurf_Wurbur Posts: 5,472
    How was your weekend? Yes, you. I am talking to you, specifically.
  • Jurf_WurburJurf_Wurbur Posts: 5,472
    Ours was good. Tried to maximize the amount of time I spent with Simon. I took Friday off and he and I went hiking, then did some whittling. He was excited about that from scouts.

    Then we replaced a rotten wooden retaining wall out front with a new one we made from bricks. Looks solid.

    Then yesterday, we did Father's Day a week early. They cooked for me, we played board games, watched a movie, some small gifts. It was good fun.

    How 'bout y'all?
  • captqitncaptqitn Posts: 3,624
    My mom's in town for A----'s graduation. As you might recall, she's a Fox News casualty. We mostly have been having fun. A couple times a day I have to redirect the conversation.

    Made chicken piccata for the first time last night and pretty much nailed it.
  • captqitncaptqitn Posts: 3,624
    What gives with the early Father's day?
  • Jurf_WurburJurf_Wurbur Posts: 5,472
    Simon leaves for Romania tomorrow. Father's Day early sounded better than Father's Day without a kid around.
  • Jurf_WurburJurf_Wurbur Posts: 5,472
    Chicken piccata sounds good. We just did veal saltimbocca and that was good. Same subset of pounded meat, breaded and fried til awesome.

    Heh. Pounded meat.
  • captqitncaptqitn Posts: 3,624
    ohhhh... that snuck up on me. Nice call.
  • captqitncaptqitn Posts: 3,624
    Heh. Nice.
  • captqitncaptqitn Posts: 3,624
    Ok. I'm out for the rest of the week with graduation, then this years 48 hour film challenge.

    See y'all on the flipside.
  • LefunesteLefuneste Posts: 7,989
    edited June 2019
    I've been teaching a class that combines mineralogy and cristalline optics (aka how to use a petrographic microscope). It was too much stuff to teach in a single term, so I've been lobbying for years to get the two subjects separated. I was also hoping that I would get to teach both classes, therefore increasing my pay.

    The department finally separated the subjects. Now there is a mineralogy class and a cristalline optics class.

    But the department, in its infinite wisdom, gave the mineralogy class to someone else. I ain't gonna teach mineralogy this year, and I have no idea if I'll ever get to teach cristalline optics.

    So it looks like I'm down to teaching a single class this year instead of three. I love teaching, but being an adjunct professor fucking blows.
  • LefunesteLefuneste Posts: 7,989
    White House Tried to Stop Climate Science Testimony, Documents Show
    WASHINGTON — The White House tried to stop a State Department senior intelligence analyst from discussing climate science in congressional testimony this week, internal emails and documents show.

    [...]

    But in a highly unusual move, the White House refused to approve Dr. Schoonover’s written testimony for entry into the permanent Congressional Record. The reasoning, according to a June 4 email seen by The New York Times, was that the science did not match the Trump administration’s views.
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  • Jurf_WurburJurf_Wurbur Posts: 5,472
    Sorry about the class load, Dan.
  • LefunesteLefuneste Posts: 7,989
    Thanks Jeff! I'm not sure what I'm going to do. Geology related jobs are not that easy to find in a big city.
  • LefunesteLefuneste Posts: 7,989
    Get a load of this asshole:
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  • LefunesteLefuneste Posts: 7,989
    edited June 2019
    That's my bro Charlie, plugging up the sink with his fur. Dumbass.
  • Jurf_WurburJurf_Wurbur Posts: 5,472
    edited June 2019
    My kiddo is confirmed as safely in the ground and with his grandma in Romania.

    (shakes off 10,000 pound anxiety monster from back)
  • LefunesteLefuneste Posts: 7,989
    You do know that flying is safer than almost any other means of transport, right?
  • Jurf_WurburJurf_Wurbur Posts: 5,472
    Absolutely. It wasn't the flight that was nerve-racking. It was the unaccompanied minor part.
  • LefunesteLefuneste Posts: 7,989
    Ah, that's a damn good reason to be nervous.
  • LefunesteLefuneste Posts: 7,989
    Dumb shit that makes my wife the shrink laugh:
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  • LefunesteLefuneste Posts: 7,989
    "I didn't commit treason before, but I would next time if I get the chance."

    President Ubu
  • Jurf_WurburJurf_Wurbur Posts: 5,472
    We got tickets for the Jason Isbell/Father John Misty show on Saturday and some friends are coming with. Should be good fun.
  • moetownmoetown Posts: 3,276
    edited June 2019
    I read a few articles lately relating heart health to the number of pushups you can knock out. One article stated the number of pushups that signaled a healthy heart was 40. Another stated it was 50. I do slow pushups, so I had no idea how many I could do at a rapid pace. Yesterday I was able to do 35 and today it was 37. So now I have a new fitness goal. I want to be able to do 50 in one go without having to slow down or take a short break. C'mon guys, who's with me?
  • LefunesteLefuneste Posts: 7,989
    I do 30 in one go after yoga. Never felt the need to do more. But I coulda.
  • LefunesteLefuneste Posts: 7,989
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    The.
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  • LefunesteLefuneste Posts: 7,989
    Shooting fish in a barrel.
  • Jurf_WurburJurf_Wurbur Posts: 5,472
    Trump: NO COLLUSION!

    Also Trump: Collusion sounds fine. I would do that. No big.
  • moetownmoetown Posts: 3,276
    The Senate must think it’s perfectly ok, too.
  • moetownmoetown Posts: 3,276
    I was replacing the cabin air filter in my car and I threw out my back. I didn’t even think I was using my back at that moment. Guess I was wrong. I would gladly have spent an extra $30 to have someone else do it if I’d known this was going to happen.
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