Andre the Chemist

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may the fourth of february be with you

Set of 2 Itty-bitty Natural Intelligence paintings in Green and Blue - Michele Banks's Ko-fi Shop 2 tiny original watercolor paintings in 5x5 inch mats This set features green and blue watercolor in swirling patterns with text printed on top. One ...

F#%K AI. Buy some analog art and support a human artist ko-fi.com/s/27cacd97de

I'm sure it's something like that.

Good morning! What instrument booking system are you all using? Any recommendations? #Chemchat 🧪

My microwave: the clock drifts so much I have to set it once a week

My ricemaker: plugged in for maybe 45 minutes 2-3 times a month, the clock on it is five minutes off after like ten years (and I don't think I ever set it in the first place)

The awkwardness happened Saturday night at the Alfalfa Club dinner, an invitation-only event for some 200 of the rich and powerful who gather together each year on Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s birthday.

I’m sorry, what?

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A text from my mom that says”good luck on your first day of school.”

I am a middle aged college professor. My mom does this every semester. And it is one of very favorite things.

Punxsutawney Phil predicted humanity would annihilate itself through tribalism and environmental indifference

The justices claim their papers belong to them, not the government or the public, and generally arrange to have them locked away until long after their deaths. The court releases no visitor logs to reveal who meets with the justices.

like this is absurd, get over yourselves

(today I learned there is not an animated gif of Blargg from any Mario game on the bluesky gif repository that I could find)

Image of Blargg from Super Mario World, the monster that comes out of the lava and looks like a cartoon hippo/dinosaur with a bitchin' flame paint job, coming out of the lava.

mood

Much like strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is not the basis for a system of government.

As someone who loves both ridiculous holidays and crappy Pennsylvania towns, I still cannot stand Groundhog Day.

Get bent Phil.

Kids are (rightfully) home from school for a sixth day in a row.

Going to be doing all my work today wearing my Comfy™.

Like it's so horrible that pretty much all of our elites, across both parties, big business, and universities are mostly either pedophiles or people who won't do anything when they see a pedophile. What kind of world is that?

If you are a Californian who doesn’t think throwing more money at OpenAI is a good use of state resources (or a useful intervention for learners in a teaching focused university system), add your voice.

The amazing thing is how my kids, who I'm pretty sure have never seen an episode of Family Feud before, just picked up habits of the contestants on the show.

The encouraging teammates ("good answer!"), the holding their arms like an X when the other team is guessing. Is it something instinctual?

The Family Feud game that we have (on Nintendo Switch) has a generic host.

I'd pay more for a game with digital Steve Harvey or Louie Anderson or Richard Dawson. Hell, I'd pay more for digital Richard Karn.

The family was playing Snipperclips and, as usual, things were getting heated.

We switched to playing Family Feud.

That did not help things.

Americans will use anything but the metric system. (complimentary)

Maybe? We have a lot of takers for intro and organic chemistries even with boring-ass names. If we can't hook them with two years of content, I'm not sure calling analytical something flashier is going to draw them in (but it's worth a try!)

Graduate courses always sound much more exciting (even if the material isn't) because the names are more descriptive as students get to specialize more.

In all honesty I think this happens because, for most chemistry departments, the majors don't have a lot of (or any) choice in classes to take, unlike other majors. Neither my undergrad, grad program, or current position have what I would call "electives" for chem undergrads.

I would take Electronology.

Thinking about not just how the pieces go together but how to describe the spatial positioning of each piece is not as easy as I thought it would be.

Not only have we developed our own nomenclature to refer to specific individual blocks, but also for how they connect to other blocks.

So my youngest child (9) and I decided to do a similar thing with Lego sets that we both have yet to build. One of us will look at the instructions and describe to the other how to do the build.

I have found it to be mentally draining (either role)!

We got this game where you are a given a card with a shape made by Lego blocks and one person has to instruct how to build the shape out of the supplied blocks to their teammate who cannot see it.

It's a fun challenge.

*Insert the Predator handshake gif*

Yeah, it's very stange how the financials work out when it comes to higher ed.