My entire life I've obviously learned base-10 math, but in my mind everything is base-5.
I naturally break everything into units of 5 and stack them.
It also helps that I see the grids, which when I try to explain to people they look at me like I'm crazy, but I see a grid of numbers in front of me all the time, and as it moves I see the answer to whatever I'm trying to solve.
So when I was back in school teachers would get mad when I didn't "show my work", but it was because there was no work to show, I saw the numbers move, the grid stacked, and that was the answer. it was instant.
They just assumed I was cheating.
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I amaze friends, family, and acquaintances with my ability to remember what the atomic mass and symbol are for common elements.
Bitch please, I fucking work with this shit daily. I'm not a super genius or some kind of elitist nerd, I've just remembered these things over time and constant use.
I'm also getting tired of people groaning or making a WTF face when they ask me what my job is and I say Analytical Chemist. I'm sorry you hated chemistry in high school. I did not make it up, I just work with it. It was worse trying to explain to them I was a research scientist in glass chemistry and applications.
I need to make up a socially easier fake job/education to talk about. Something about sales. Maybe postal worker or pimp for teenage runaways and illegal alien sex workers.
Human Trafficking and Organ Procurement Management, and I do Web Design on the side.
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If I ever say things like "yeah, I left it in my lab at work", people just go crazy thinking I'm making monsters, injecting food dye into bunny eyes, or playing with contagions that will make your tongue fall out.
I do those things on my own time, not at work people.
Ever think about doing some casting or shaping? For instance, titanium? Because.... the one place I've found down here with the equipment wants a fortune to do one-offs.
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I've done work with aluminum casting, but not titanium.
Glass is a bit different because the viscosity can go from flowing water-like liquid to a bit like syrup to molasses in January to it ain't fucking moving very quickly with only a small drop in temperature.
Also it tends to explode from internal stresses if you don't anneal it properly, which adds a wrinkle in casting.
Yeah, I wanted to cast some hardware for the smoker I have plans to build, and it was almost $2500 for setup. To say nothing of the materials, which were 5x what I found them for on-line
After I did the math, I realized I'd pay almost $5k for parts. I could just buy a professional rig and trailer for that.
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I can only imagine the revolution LiquiGlide will cause when combined with beer bongs. Double-time.
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Try telling people you're an auditor. Everyone just assumes I work for the IRS and, by extension, hate me.
I've gotten to the point where, when people ask me what I do, I tell them that I'm a comedian, children's magician, and amateur chef, but I am an accountant during the day. I'd much rather talk about my hobbies than my job.
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Hunter just tell them your job is to fuck their wives correctly.
I usually duck the question, or lie. Because everyone makes the same face and almost nobody knows how to respond intelligently and it's just such a conversation killer.
I usually duck the question, or lie. Because everyone makes the same face and almost nobody knows how to respond intelligently and it's just such a conversation killer.
I usually duck the question, or lie. Because everyone makes the same face and almost nobody knows how to respond intelligently and it's just such a conversation killer.
wait what do you do for a living
isn't it something sciencey
It depends who's asking and where they ask. But generally I am a bio-roboticist. I work with behavioural biologists and neuroscientists to create bio-inspired sensors and algorithms for insect-inspired visual control of autonomous vehicles, usually flying ones. Sometimes I go out and spend hours filming insects, sometimes I spend days locked in a dark room doing really tedious mathematics, mostly I do a lot of programming and data analysis, and sometimes i build things (that's the fun bit).
I usually duck the question, or lie. Because everyone makes the same face and almost nobody knows how to respond intelligently and it's just such a conversation killer.
wait what do you do for a living
isn't it something sciencey
It depends who's asking and where they ask. But generally I am a bio-roboticist. I work with behavioural biologists and neuroscientists to create bio-inspired sensors and algorithms for insect-inspired visual control of autonomous vehicles, usually flying ones. Sometimes I go out and spend hours filming insects, sometimes I spend days locked in a dark room doing really tedious mathematics, mostly I do a lot of programming and data analysis, and sometimes i build things (that's the fun bit).
okay that's the coolest thing i ever heard
so basically you go and you look at bugs, and you try to figure out how they do the things they do, and then you build robots which do the same things using the lessons you learnt from the bugs
which makes sense because bugs are really just tiny chitinous robots anyway
I would talk the shit about wings, and materials and scalability and power sources.
Seriously how is that not a conversation.
Oh yeah, definitely, sometimes you get really interesting conversations. And if I know the person I'm talking to is in any way science or technically inclined then I'm happy to natter. But if you're just chit-chatting with a random person for five minutes in a doctor's office or whatever that kind of thing is often just an impediment to the natural flow of small-talk. And even with my close friends, unless they're in similar jobs/fields, they don't really get what I do day to day or understand the problems and challenges I have. at least not without a lot of background explanation. Which is kind of tiring ... so I just end up not talking about work much to most people.
See this just reminds me of the time I accidentally watched 5 minutes of Beauty and the Geek, and they were coaching this guy on how to talk about his job, and kept trying to get him to avoid describing it as 'Tracking monkeys with lasers', as he tended to do
And I just remember thinking "But... but that sounds awesome why would he not say that"
I can only imagine the revolution LiquiGlide will cause when combined with beer bongs. Double-time.
You do understand that beer is not a viscous, sticky fluid and already has no problem flowing through the beer bong, right?
I could get a measurement of viscosity for you if you need proof. I have a Brookfield in storage and I believe the right spindles to test ketchup and beer. Would you like the results in poise or centipoise?
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My entire life I've obviously learned base-10 math, but in my mind everything is base-5.
I naturally break everything into units of 5 and stack them.
It also helps that I see the grids, which when I try to explain to people they look at me like I'm crazy, but I see a grid of numbers in front of me all the time, and as it moves I see the answer to whatever I'm trying to solve.
So when I was back in school teachers would get mad when I didn't "show my work", but it was because there was no work to show, I saw the numbers move, the grid stacked, and that was the answer. it was instant.
They just assumed I was cheating.
Bitch please, I fucking work with this shit daily. I'm not a super genius or some kind of elitist nerd, I've just remembered these things over time and constant use.
I'm also getting tired of people groaning or making a WTF face when they ask me what my job is and I say Analytical Chemist. I'm sorry you hated chemistry in high school. I did not make it up, I just work with it. It was worse trying to explain to them I was a research scientist in glass chemistry and applications.
I need to make up a socially easier fake job/education to talk about. Something about sales. Maybe postal worker or pimp for teenage runaways and illegal alien sex workers.
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I do those things on my own time, not at work people.
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Ever think about doing some casting or shaping? For instance, titanium? Because.... the one place I've found down here with the equipment wants a fortune to do one-offs.
Glass is a bit different because the viscosity can go from flowing water-like liquid to a bit like syrup to molasses in January to it ain't fucking moving very quickly with only a small drop in temperature.
Also it tends to explode from internal stresses if you don't anneal it properly, which adds a wrinkle in casting.
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After I did the math, I realized I'd pay almost $5k for parts. I could just buy a professional rig and trailer for that.
I am lazy do you not know this
Why don't you just show him the equation mr future man
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I would but this damned computer isn't working
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I've gotten to the point where, when people ask me what I do, I tell them that I'm a comedian, children's magician, and amateur chef, but I am an accountant during the day. I'd much rather talk about my hobbies than my job.
Coran Attack!
Tell the wives you give sex lessons.
Satans..... hints.....
if you ask he changes the subject and he will just keep changing it no matter how pushy you get
pretty sure he works for the mob
wait what do you do for a living
isn't it something sciencey
It depends who's asking and where they ask. But generally I am a bio-roboticist. I work with behavioural biologists and neuroscientists to create bio-inspired sensors and algorithms for insect-inspired visual control of autonomous vehicles, usually flying ones. Sometimes I go out and spend hours filming insects, sometimes I spend days locked in a dark room doing really tedious mathematics, mostly I do a lot of programming and data analysis, and sometimes i build things (that's the fun bit).
I would respond with a short moment of silence.
Then say.
That's.
So.
Cool.
Satans..... hints.....
The ones I work on are just linear axis robots.
THAT LITTLE FUCK.
I SPECIFICALLY TOLD HIM THAT CHINA WAS MY TURF.
Seriously how is that not a conversation.
Satans..... hints.....
okay that's the coolest thing i ever heard
so basically you go and you look at bugs, and you try to figure out how they do the things they do, and then you build robots which do the same things using the lessons you learnt from the bugs
which makes sense because bugs are really just tiny chitinous robots anyway
that's fantastic
Because it does
Oh yeah, definitely, sometimes you get really interesting conversations. And if I know the person I'm talking to is in any way science or technically inclined then I'm happy to natter. But if you're just chit-chatting with a random person for five minutes in a doctor's office or whatever that kind of thing is often just an impediment to the natural flow of small-talk. And even with my close friends, unless they're in similar jobs/fields, they don't really get what I do day to day or understand the problems and challenges I have. at least not without a lot of background explanation. Which is kind of tiring ... so I just end up not talking about work much to most people.
@Crimson King Yep that's it exactly!
And I just remember thinking "But... but that sounds awesome why would he not say that"
You do understand that beer is not a viscous, sticky fluid and already has no problem flowing through the beer bong, right?
I could get a measurement of viscosity for you if you need proof. I have a Brookfield in storage and I believe the right spindles to test ketchup and beer. Would you like the results in poise or centipoise?
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