Holy shit my train is just impossible this morning there's giant crowds headed in for the parade today, someone on the platform is blaring house music, bad house music, like top 40 remix house music at 8:30 in the morning.
The buses at 9.45 were also bullshit, but mostly just filled with old people. At least coming from the west.
Holy shit my train is just impossible this morning there's giant crowds headed in for the parade today, someone on the platform is blaring house music, bad house music, like top 40 remix house music at 8:30 in the morning.
The buses at 9.45 were also bullshit, but mostly just filled with old people. At least coming from the west.
Holy shit my train is just impossible this morning there's giant crowds headed in for the parade today, someone on the platform is blaring house music, bad house music, like top 40 remix house music at 8:30 in the morning.
The buses at 9.45 were also bullshit, but mostly just filled with old people. At least coming from the west.
But nic, aren't we now the old people??
I mean yes
but I'm talking remembering-WWII-fondly-old
Oh i am in peak cranky old man mode this morning. Salem has a college in it, this morning was a festival of drunken college kids fuckin up my commuter train. Ive finally made it to work 2 hours late.
"Are there clouds at night?" - colleague who has never look up at night.
i had a colleague that didn't realize that water expanded when frozen, she ended up in a Forbes 30 under 30 thing...
Had another that had Stress = Force / Area on his dry erase board, which for an engineer is like having to have your name tattooed on your forehead.
I expect that lots of people don't know water expands when it freezes
She was an engineer and a new homeowner, she shoulda known!
If anything, being an engineer makes it more likely she wouldn't know
Common sense is especially less common in our profession
I'm assuming based on Dyna's background that these were mechanical engineers as well? I could see an electrical engineer not needing to know (professionally, at least) things like Stress = Force/Area (or maybe it was a joke). I know I've jokingly written things like V=IR.
I'm a mechanical engineer, and this would still be entirely unsurprising coming from another mech
I found our degree mostly split between Future Theoretical Engineers, Future Engineers Who Do Actual Design Work, and Future Project Managers, and each of those groups had their own shortcomings specifically
I'd be unsurprised to find out PM track people have forgotten all but the equations for velocity and acceleration, or to find out one of the theory-type folks forgot that a space heater produces heat and sometimes fire depending on what you put on it
I’ll be honest, I’ve used so many specialty programs or pre-built excel files to do calculations over the last decade or so that I don’t think I could quote more than the most basic formulas off the top of my head. But gimme a sec to look stuff up and of course I can do it. What’s really important is knowing how to find information and how to apply it.
I’ve worked with a lot of engineers that are great at crunching numbers but will hand back designs with glaring safety mistakes or a huge lack of understanding of how the thing they’re working on fits into the overall design. Or they get so caught up in the details that they spend a week getting a calc down to the fourth decimal point when I just need a simple ballpark answer now. It’s so much more important to be able to be practical and efficient.
How much snow did you actually get in Washington? I heard 4-5 inches? We had nearly a foot and that was fine, it was the -30 temp that closed everything
I’m judging people real hard on some “I felt the crunch of ice neath my feet! I must remain at home, where it is safe!”
School closing was the biggest factor for us. Looking outside I'd say we only got 3 or 4 inches maybe?
If there was some field work that needed doing or something I needed to respond to I'm totally capable, but for the most part at this moment my job is readin and writin and so it's nice to be able to do that at home.
So Mori’s dad didn’t feel comfortable driving either so I MADE IT IN. My Prius-C skidded everywhere but I made it. At one point I got stuck behind a poor little Kia Sentra that kept stalling up a hill. I cheered it on and it made it.
We live on top of a hill with a huge dip soooo that’s gonna be fun. I’m going to leave by 4 pm. The road my work is on was well-sanded but that hill? Nothing.
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I wish we only had that much snow
I had to get to our back shed last night to get the roof rake to get snow off our roof (because it's blocking the air intake for our bathroom)...except I couldn't find the whole rake in the piles of snow, once I'd cleared a 20 foot long, 3 foot high, shovel-width path to my back shed. So now I can't flush my upstairs toilet until the snow melts or I venture back there again to search a snow drift for the actual shovel/rake part of the roof rake.
As a Canadian that doesn't look bad but we're equipped to deal with a lot of snow and used to driving in it. When I lived in Seoul one winter we got a little snow and nobody could deal. People were shoveling their steps with cutting boards and bowls.
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"Are there clouds at night?" - colleague who has never look up at night.
i had a colleague that didn't realize that water expanded when frozen, she ended up in a Forbes 30 under 30 thing...
Had another that had Stress = Force / Area on his dry erase board, which for an engineer is like having to have your name tattooed on your forehead.
I expect that lots of people don't know water expands when it freezes
She was an engineer and a new homeowner, she shoulda known!
If anything, being an engineer makes it more likely she wouldn't know
Common sense is especially less common in our profession
I'm assuming based on Dyna's background that these were mechanical engineers as well? I could see an electrical engineer not needing to know (professionally, at least) things like Stress = Force/Area (or maybe it was a joke). I know I've jokingly written things like V=IR.
I'm a mechanical engineer, and this would still be entirely unsurprising coming from another mech
I found our degree mostly split between Future Theoretical Engineers, Future Engineers Who Do Actual Design Work, and Future Project Managers, and each of those groups had their own shortcomings specifically
I'd be unsurprised to find out PM track people have forgotten all but the equations for velocity and acceleration, or to find out one of the theory-type folks forgot that a space heater produces heat and sometimes fire depending on what you put on it
Obviously all designers are perfect, though, so
That is a similar breakdown of engineering streams from my experience as well.
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Yeah, I mean, everyone likes to make fun of that photo from the snowstorm Raleigh got and a car on the highway on fire, but Orange County and Wake County each had fewer than 100 pieces of snow clearing equipment and some people were trapped on the road for upwards of twelve hours.
It's easy to go "pshaw, it's just snow you babies" when you live in areas that get quickly cleared (I'm guilty of it myself), but if the roads aren't cleared and someone doesn't have a car that's well optimized for driving in snow and they're unfamiliar with driving in snow and thus more likely to be tense and overreact...a couple inches can genuinely be extremely dangerous.
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View from my front porch. This was the picture I sent my boss this morning.
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Yeah see that right there is a road I would really prefer not to drive on unless there was an emergency. And I grew up in a snowy area!
Yeah, I mean, everyone likes to make fun of that photo from the snowstorm Raleigh got and a car on the highway on fire, but Orange County and Wake County each had fewer than 100 pieces of snow clearing equipment and some people were trapped on the road for upwards of twelve hours.
It's easy to go "pshaw, it's just snow you babies" when you live in areas that get quickly cleared (I'm guilty of it myself), but if the roads aren't cleared and someone doesn't have a car that's well optimized for driving in snow and they're unfamiliar with driving in snow and thus more likely to be tense and overreact...a couple inches can genuinely be extremely dangerous.
I think how common snow is in your area is probably the biggest influencing factor. I've told the story here before of how my first winter here in Portland I was the first one to go home early on a day that snow was coming and my coworkers all gave me shit for it because I was from Alaska. I was all "I'm not the one with the problem - you are." I got home quickly and safely and everyone else who stayed til the end of the day was doomed to a 4 - 6 hour commute. One of our guys had to ditch his vehicle on the highway.
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I stayed home because it's fucking cold and I can do that
The amount of snow has nothing to do with driving being safe. It is entirely on your area's infrastructure's dealing with it that makes driving safe or not. Fuck everyone trying to make their "my snow is worse, suck it up" stories make them sound cool or whatever.
The snow meant my 3 hour drive to a cottage near Looe (it's in Cornwall) took 6 hours. Fuck the snow
Stupidest weather I ever hit was a blizzard on bodmin Moor at 11pm one February. Visibility was so low it was practically negative, I ended up pulling off into a servo until the worst had passed because I genuinely was not sure which side of the road i was on.
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edited February 2019
In NY the plows usually had the roads cleared by the time the snow finished falling and the private plow guy would come through and do our driveway in the middle of the night. Now that I'm in Raleigh if it snows I don't leave the house for three days because I know the roads are going to be solid ice that entire time.
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The buses at 9.45 were also bullshit, but mostly just filled with old people. At least coming from the west.
an unimpressed manager got rid of it
But he was an artist by training and not mathematically inclined, so we never made fun.
But nic, aren't we now the old people??
I mean yes
but I'm talking remembering-WWII-fondly-old
I'm a mechanical engineer, and this would still be entirely unsurprising coming from another mech
I found our degree mostly split between Future Theoretical Engineers, Future Engineers Who Do Actual Design Work, and Future Project Managers, and each of those groups had their own shortcomings specifically
I'd be unsurprised to find out PM track people have forgotten all but the equations for velocity and acceleration, or to find out one of the theory-type folks forgot that a space heater produces heat and sometimes fire depending on what you put on it
Obviously all designers are perfect, though, so
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I’ve worked with a lot of engineers that are great at crunching numbers but will hand back designs with glaring safety mistakes or a huge lack of understanding of how the thing they’re working on fits into the overall design. Or they get so caught up in the details that they spend a week getting a calc down to the fourth decimal point when I just need a simple ballpark answer now. It’s so much more important to be able to be practical and efficient.
And now the snow is coming down hard enough people are planning to leave early.
The weather is really conflicting with trying to be productive.
At least I bus so I can relax if traffic backs up.
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If there was some field work that needed doing or something I needed to respond to I'm totally capable, but for the most part at this moment my job is readin and writin and so it's nice to be able to do that at home.
So Mori’s dad didn’t feel comfortable driving either so I MADE IT IN. My Prius-C skidded everywhere but I made it. At one point I got stuck behind a poor little Kia Sentra that kept stalling up a hill. I cheered it on and it made it.
We live on top of a hill with a huge dip soooo that’s gonna be fun. I’m going to leave by 4 pm. The road my work is on was well-sanded but that hill? Nothing.
For me it's more like "I must remain at home, so it does not take me 180 minutes to get to work because SL is useless!"
The only day since last Monday that has been good for commuting was Friday.
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I had to get to our back shed last night to get the roof rake to get snow off our roof (because it's blocking the air intake for our bathroom)...except I couldn't find the whole rake in the piles of snow, once I'd cleared a 20 foot long, 3 foot high, shovel-width path to my back shed. So now I can't flush my upstairs toilet until the snow melts or I venture back there again to search a snow drift for the actual shovel/rake part of the roof rake.
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This too. It makes no sense for me to spend three extra hours driving to and from and office in order to do something I can just as well do from home.
Yeah, Mori and I both have hatchbacks with summer tires. Ooops!
It only takes an inch or two of unplowed snow to make driving enormously unsafe.
That is a similar breakdown of engineering streams from my experience as well.
Especially when the source is a goosey neighbor who shovels their driveway into the street/carriage road.
Thankfully, we're in our new house now, which has changed our commute from 20 minutes down the highway to less than 5 minutes.
It's easy to go "pshaw, it's just snow you babies" when you live in areas that get quickly cleared (I'm guilty of it myself), but if the roads aren't cleared and someone doesn't have a car that's well optimized for driving in snow and they're unfamiliar with driving in snow and thus more likely to be tense and overreact...a couple inches can genuinely be extremely dangerous.
Ive been driving an FRS through seven canadian winters thanks to decent tires.
I think how common snow is in your area is probably the biggest influencing factor. I've told the story here before of how my first winter here in Portland I was the first one to go home early on a day that snow was coming and my coworkers all gave me shit for it because I was from Alaska. I was all "I'm not the one with the problem - you are." I got home quickly and safely and everyone else who stayed til the end of the day was doomed to a 4 - 6 hour commute. One of our guys had to ditch his vehicle on the highway.
Stupidest weather I ever hit was a blizzard on bodmin Moor at 11pm one February. Visibility was so low it was practically negative, I ended up pulling off into a servo until the worst had passed because I genuinely was not sure which side of the road i was on.