Your taste in food changes as you age and you lose your sense of smell.
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I used to somewhat like playing basketball (not that i was particularly good at it). Due to smoking that would not even physically be an option now.
I also was a (quite good) lead guitarist. It ended forever when uni started. In retrospect... It didnt suit me either.
I also was a (quite good) lead guitarist. It ended forever when uni started. In retrospect... It didnt suit me either.
Don't overcook them, don't dice them into too small bits, add some butter and salt. Yum.
Again... bacon, bacon, bacon.
Making sure your children get proper nutrition and don't starve to death is like, at a minimum...50% of parenting...
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I loved broccoli and cauliflower as a child and still do to this day. My favourite vegetables by far. That cauliflower is so damn expensive now is a travesty.
I really liked spinach as a kid. I don't now. Cooked spinach, anyways. As a replacement for lettuce on a sub it's good.
There are many things I change my mind on, either due to continued exposure or I'm in a different place in life. Most of this applies to food and entertainment, but it's applied to a few fundamental things as well. My perspective on romance and love has changed dramatically over the previous six years. I used to be a real hard-liner for purity and strict monogamy. This has lifted a little in the sense that I'm far more understanding of different approaches and circumstances.
I hated The Office the first two times I tried to watch it. The third time was the charm, and I now rewatch it once or twice a year.
On the other hand, I liked Battlestar Galactica the first time I watched it but I can't sit through a rewatch because it's just not what I'm interested in.
I really liked spinach as a kid. I don't now. Cooked spinach, anyways. As a replacement for lettuce on a sub it's good.
There are many things I change my mind on, either due to continued exposure or I'm in a different place in life. Most of this applies to food and entertainment, but it's applied to a few fundamental things as well. My perspective on romance and love has changed dramatically over the previous six years. I used to be a real hard-liner for purity and strict monogamy. This has lifted a little in the sense that I'm far more understanding of different approaches and circumstances.
I hated The Office the first two times I tried to watch it. The third time was the charm, and I now rewatch it once or twice a year.
On the other hand, I liked Battlestar Galactica the first time I watched it but I can't sit through a rewatch because it's just not what I'm interested in.
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Math: Hate, Love, Hate, Love
Hate
Math always made me feel dumb growing up. The thing is that I'm not dumb and I am really prideful and as a result I really hated math because it messed with my self esteem. I could not understand basic concepts for the longest time and because I couldn't understand them I had a lot of trouble even memorizing them. When learning math formulas, for example, I could not understand how they worked. What this meant is that I would kind of mentally reject them and was unable to memorize them as a result. I I can't even blame the teachers through primary and secondary school for teaching it wrong - I actually think that the part of my brain that does math was late to develop and by the time it started to kick into gear I had already acquired a healthy hatred of it.
Love
After dropping out, getting my GED and then enrolling in community college, I was terrified of math. I started college with a pre-Algebra level of math understanding knowing full and well I would have to take: Algebra I, Trig, Intermediate Algebra, College Algebra, Calculus I, II, III and Differential Equations if I wanted to become a rocket scientist. So I was scared to death of it even if I was highly motivated - working for $5.15/hr with no career prospects will make you do crazy stuff.
I was fortunate to have I landed this amazing professor in community college right off the bat (Dr. Jaime Manche, Southwestern Illinois College) that was able to communicate the material in a way that I could digest it. I took off and loved all of my algebra classes. I began to love math.
Hate
Then came the calculus sequence and my straight A's turned to B's and once again I struggled to learn and began to feel dumb. I squeaked by DiffyQ with a C that really should have been a D. I had fully come back round to hating math and it didn't help that after transferring to university, I didn't have to use the calculus I had learned except sporadically over the years. This meant I had forgotten the material and there was no way of forecasting when I would need to brush up on it as it was usually sprung on me during project assignments. So I came out of university once again hating math.
Love
It turns out once you are in the working world, there is no artificial barriers holding back your approach to mathematical problems. There are no time limits, internet restrictions or purposefully daft problem sets that are meant to trip you up. You also don't have to reinvent the wheel for yourself every time either - there's a ton of material out there to crib from when facing mathematical problems.
Just a couple of nights ago, @peter grimes put me on the spot in the space cadet thread when he asked me to throw up some ballpark numbers for a silly Mars mission. To my surprise, churning through to the answer took me less than an hour and much fun was had in the effort.
After I summarized the answer for him, I took one last look at the spreadsheet I generated with formulas and mathematical assumptions before I closed it. It occurred to me then that I really do like math after all, I just ****ing hate school.
Hate
Math always made me feel dumb growing up. The thing is that I'm not dumb and I am really prideful and as a result I really hated math because it messed with my self esteem. I could not understand basic concepts for the longest time and because I couldn't understand them I had a lot of trouble even memorizing them. When learning math formulas, for example, I could not understand how they worked. What this meant is that I would kind of mentally reject them and was unable to memorize them as a result. I I can't even blame the teachers through primary and secondary school for teaching it wrong - I actually think that the part of my brain that does math was late to develop and by the time it started to kick into gear I had already acquired a healthy hatred of it.
Love
After dropping out, getting my GED and then enrolling in community college, I was terrified of math. I started college with a pre-Algebra level of math understanding knowing full and well I would have to take: Algebra I, Trig, Intermediate Algebra, College Algebra, Calculus I, II, III and Differential Equations if I wanted to become a rocket scientist. So I was scared to death of it even if I was highly motivated - working for $5.15/hr with no career prospects will make you do crazy stuff.
I was fortunate to have I landed this amazing professor in community college right off the bat (Dr. Jaime Manche, Southwestern Illinois College) that was able to communicate the material in a way that I could digest it. I took off and loved all of my algebra classes. I began to love math.
Hate
Then came the calculus sequence and my straight A's turned to B's and once again I struggled to learn and began to feel dumb. I squeaked by DiffyQ with a C that really should have been a D. I had fully come back round to hating math and it didn't help that after transferring to university, I didn't have to use the calculus I had learned except sporadically over the years. This meant I had forgotten the material and there was no way of forecasting when I would need to brush up on it as it was usually sprung on me during project assignments. So I came out of university once again hating math.
Love
It turns out once you are in the working world, there is no artificial barriers holding back your approach to mathematical problems. There are no time limits, internet restrictions or purposefully daft problem sets that are meant to trip you up. You also don't have to reinvent the wheel for yourself every time either - there's a ton of material out there to crib from when facing mathematical problems.
Just a couple of nights ago, @peter grimes put me on the spot in the space cadet thread when he asked me to throw up some ballpark numbers for a silly Mars mission. To my surprise, churning through to the answer took me less than an hour and much fun was had in the effort.
After I summarized the answer for him, I took one last look at the spreadsheet I generated with formulas and mathematical assumptions before I closed it. It occurred to me then that I really do like math after all, I just ****ing hate school.
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This is the truth. I'm in my mid forties, solidly established in my career, and every day I get that "imposter syndrome" shiver, and I wonder when everyone else is going to notice that we're all just winging it.
This is become more and more evident in the last 20 years. I've been a climate alarmist since the early 1990's, and I'm just so exhausted by all the interia in the [US] political system. We had viable action plans 25 years ago, and the best we've had to show for it are some modest steps in California and a defunct NorthEast Carbon trading compact.
I used to think this was something we could fix. But now I see that vested interests have been cutting the brake lines for the last 20 years instead of trying to steer around the wall.
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That's a really great archetype of the Hero's Journey, no? And for the record, I wasn't clear in my "numbers" ask. I was only think to get the amount of fuel needed to get a reorbit module from mars surface to mars orbit. You went above and beyond
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About 4 metric tonnes, give or take. I did the math, solving forwards and backwards (as a double-check) for a wet mass of 13,000 kg and specific impulse of 339 seconds.I will not apologize for making myself out to be the hero of my own story.
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I used to think George Bush Jr. was the antichrist. Now I kind of like the guy. I used to think Nixon was the antichrist. Now I see him for what he is. I used to think Reagan was the antichrist.. And while that is true, at least now I see him as a person who started out with good intentions, but quickly became corrupted. I genuinely think he thought supporting Mujahadeen and supplying them with weapons was the right thing to do. Oh stupid Ronald.
