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So, playing around with the fact that the Sheetbend and the Bowline have essentially the same structure, I tried tying a Bowline loop but in a Sheetbend way.

I grabbed a bite in the standing end with plenty of rope left in the working end. I then threaded the working end through and around the bite just like you would the end of a different rope for a Sheetbend, and when I finished it off and pulled it tight, the loop was fixed like a Bowline but with the tail coming out the side of the knot rather than the center.

Does this variation have a name, and is it flawed compared to a Bowline?

I am unable to post any pictures of it now, but hopefully the description was sufficient.

So I am home with a sick child today. While the child was napping, I thought, “Score! I can get ahead on some work! (I needed to draft a slide presentation in Beamer for function inverses for next week in my Algebra 2 classes).”

Come to find out my laptop battery was at 1%, and my charger was left at work.

What did I do? I used my phone to draft up an email to myself and pretty much prepared the whole presentation there, complete with equation and align* environments, some tcolorboxes, an enumerated list, and some plots in tikz.

When I get back to work tomorrow, I’ll just copy it all into my editor and should be mostly good to go after a few tweaks.

I love this software. The learning curve has been ongoing for a couple years, but it really does make it possible to be productive on creating high-quality artifacts with nothing more than a keyboard and a bare-basic word processor or email.

Thank you for the support and inspiration that I’ve gathered from this sub.

I’ve been trying out these constraints for lessons and assignments, and, counter intuitively, it’s been liberating.

Lessons: how many of us have been there where our lesson handout takes up three or four (or more) pages? We dedicate a huge chunk of class time going through it, and then there is little time leftover for independent practice. And realistically, the students’ eyes gloss over by the end of the lesson anyway.

I’ve decided that instead, I’ll do a slideshow for each lesson, limit it to eight slides (including title), print them as one-page handouts with four slides on each side, and call it good. If I’ve got too much to fit in that framework, then it is too much to cover in a single lesson.

With assignments, don’t you just love the odd-ball point values after you think you’ve put enough problems on the sheet? “Yeah, today’s is worth, let’s see, 17 points! Divide your score and and multiply by ten…what’s that? Why was yesterday’s 40-point assignment also only worth 10? BeCauSe THaT’S WHy.”

I’m doing twenty problems for each assignment, with a mixture of new material and review. Typically, there’ll be five concepts with four parts each, though these specifics can be adjusted as needed and still keep it to 20. If it’s fewer than 20, then I can reasonably squeeze more on it to re-enforce SOMETHING. If it’s more than 20, then it’s too much and can be trimmed down. Further, it’s very easy to consistently just have assignments be worth 20 without converting, or to mentally convert to a score out of 10.

I’ve found this consistency and predictability makes designing lessons and assignments easier, because I know for sure when I can be done, and because it forces a mindset of keeping things digestible for students. Further, I think student engagement is better because of the routine and predictability as well.

Just thought I’d share and see if anybody has done something similar. Feel free to offer feedback.

I would appreciate some distraction. I’m a little bit late to this milestone, as I’m approaching middle age lol. Anybody else get them removed late? How about who here has them still without any problems whatsoever? Any funny stories from when people were loopy after?

…is just how many times you’ll hear your name repeated any given day. My kids haven’t even been awake for an hour—and not even all of them are awake yet—and I’ve probably heard “Daddy” upwards of 500 times in that span!

“Daddy, so-and-so is doing something.”

“Daddy, why is cereal yellow?”

“Daddy, can we go outside?” My answer was no since many in the neighborhood are still sleeping and I don’t want them being loud.

“Daddy can I have a peanut butter spoon?”

“No! Daddy said I could have a peanut butter spoon. He didn’t say YOU could have one!”

“Daddy, is my underwear in the dryer?”

“Daddy, PLeaSe can we go ouTSiDe? I ReaLLy WaNNa Go ouTSiDe!”

“Daddy…”

“Daddy…”

“Daddy…”

Ugh!!!

Edit: I love my kids. I play with them. I make sure they are taken care of. I read to them. I do all the things. I’m sure I’ll miss it and it will fly by. Just let me vent about this one thing lol

This came up in a Shower Thought post about how referring to a kitchen appliance as a female name, or even describing it using language characteristic of describing a woman, would be considered weird, but it is perfectly common with cars.

A commenter posited that it could stem from when English had a female-gendered word for ships or sailing vessels, but didn’t provide any more information.

The limited related words that I know from German and Spanish are either neutral or masculine.

Does anybody know where the practice of referring to transportation machines using feminine names and adjectives originates?

It’s been a bit since I’ve read BoC, but I seem to remember several mentions of bad chemicals floating around in people’s brains.

It occurred to me that Vonnegut may have been onto something regarding a powerful way to reframe depressive or harmful thoughts. If somebody finds themselves “on the brink” or even just overall feeling down, I could see how recognizing it and acknowledging, “Oh that’s just some bad chemicals in my brain,” could help pull them out of it.

I don’t have a learned background in psychology or depression, so I could be way off. But I wanted to flesh out this thought and get feedback from others.

Has anybody found themselves in moments of self awareness, acknowledging the chemicals in their brain and their effects in the moment?

I’ve booked a pretty big trip in the coming months that will involve a LOT of time on a plane to go to a tropical destination. One of the first things that came to mind regarding logistics—after booking it that is—was what to read on the flight. So I thought I’d come here for suggestions.

I don’t know if I want something action-packed or something with more prose and such.

I’d say my favorite authors, in descending order of how many of their books I’ve read, are Vonnegut, Dostoevsky, Agatha Christie, Steinbeck, and Robert Louis Stevenson.

I have also liked Middlemarch, Siddhartha, Catch-22, and short-story collections by Tolstoy and Pushkin.

Give me your best recs!

First, I’ll say this sub was invaluable to me during the early years of my twins. They’re now in lower-elementary school, and I will say that for those of you in the thick of it with infants: IT. DOES. GET. EASIER. Hang in there.

That said, despite getting easier, twins are going to go back and forth between fighting like mad and being best friends—sometimes multiple times within the same day or even the same hour 😆. Mine were recently fighting verbally, so I had them both come sit in time out on opposite corners of the room.

I eventually called each over individually to tell their side of the story. Not finding anybody at fault for anything more egregious than typical sibling bickering, I settled it the following way.

I had them come and stand on either side of me. I had them each raise their right hand—“no, your RIGHT HAND…yes, the other one”—and then touch their nose with their other, and repeat after me: I’M SORRY—I’m sorry—FOR MY PART—for my part—IN OUR FIGHT—in our fight. I LOVE MY TWIN—[giggling] I love my twin—TO THE MOON AND BACK—[more giggling] to the moon and back—AND WILL TRY TO GET ALONG—aND WiLL TRy To GeT aLoNG.

I then sent them on their way…unless either of them wanted to sit longer in their very comfy time-out spot on the floor. They went on their way and have been playing nicely and laughing together since.

Sometimes, you don’t need to find either one of them at fault in their disagreements. Getting them to reset with something silly, while reminding them that they love each other, can go a long way.

I worked in food service at a retirement home in high school. It seemed that there was ALWAYS some kind of random food salad as an option, from fairly common ones to obscure combinations. Potato salad, egg salad, chicken salad, tuna salad, fruit salad, bean salad, ham salad, carrot & raisin salad, broccoli salad, ambrosia salad, celery salad, cucumber salad, bell-pepper salad, etc.

As I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized they were onto something. I almost always have leftover food from main dishes, and they often go bad, forgotten in the fridge. I’ve started taking those scraps, mixing them with some mayo, and maybe some carrots or celery or pickles, and—voila!—got me a salad to spread between two slices of toast for any meal of the day.

My favorite so far is bean salad, in part because beans are so freaking cheap. But who is really going to sit down and eat a bowl-full of beans? This concoction let’s me enjoy them quite a bit.

Once my beans are exhausted from the fridge, I think I will have way too many diced carrots leftover, so I’ll probably try making a carrot & raisin salad, which I would’ve gagged at back in my food-service days.

What are some other good salad ideas that you may not have thought would work but turned out to be pretty good?

I worked in food service at a retirement home in high school. It seemed that there was ALWAYS some kind of random food salad as an option, from fairly common ones to obscure combinations. Potato salad, egg salad, chicken salad, tuna salad, fruit salad, bean salad, ham salad, carrot & raisin salad, broccoli salad, ambrosia salad, celery salad, cucumber salad, bell-pepper salad, etc.

As I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized they were onto something. I almost always have leftover food from main dishes, and they often go bad, forgotten in the fridge. I’ve started taking those scraps, mixing them with some mayo, and maybe some carrots or celery or pickles, and—voila!—got me a salad to spread between two slices of toast for any meal of the day.

My favorite so far is bean salad, in part because beans are so freaking cheap. But who is really going to sit down and eat a bowl-full of beans? This concoction let’s me enjoy them quite a bit.

Once my beans are exhausted from the fridge, I think I will have way too many diced carrots leftover, so I’ll probably try making a carrot & raisin salad, which I would’ve gagged at back in my food-service days.

What are some other good salad ideas that you may not have thought would work but turned out to be pretty good?

State governments can respond more readily to the needs of their citizens than the federal government. They used to get a say in the federal government via senatorial elections, but not anymore. State governments now have to constantly play catchup to whatever the fed says because they have zero say whatsoever.

Think about some of the worst federal decisions in the last century, like Reagan’s trickle-down economics or No Child Left Behind. Would such policies have flown if state governments had had direct representatives advocating for them in the Senate? We can only speculate.

I see this trope all the time that, “It’s a waste of time to study opening theory if you’re below XY00 rating level.” This is wrong.

When you’re playing, do you really want to have to think hard about your next move when you’re not even five moves in? THAT is a waste of time.

Am I saying that everyone should know the most common lines of the Ruy Lopez up to move 20? NO!

But if you play 1. e4 and Black meets you with 1…e6, should you have a general idea of whether or not you want to play into the French Defense, and what style of French Defense you want to play into? You betcha.

I’ve moved onto playing chess now.

For me, it’s the Guilford Courthouse flag. It screams, “They’re a little confused, but they’ve got the spirit!” Thirteen stripes and stars? Check. Red, white, and blue colors? Check.

But oh my god. I don’t know what’s worst? The clashing red and blue stripes? The side ratio? The proportion of the canton to the flag? The eight-pointed stars? The inverted blue and white in the canton? The awkward star pattern that almost works?

It’s all just so terrible, but together they make something oddly lovable.

What’s your favorite ugly flag? And be more creative than old-school Pocatello or Milwaukee.

They make you take a roundabout way to get anywhere.