What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)

[inanis]

Hit myself in the balls rolling up an extension cord.

RIP

I feel bad saying this, but reading this totally made me laugh out loud. And while I was in a very serious meeting.

[VesperSAINT]

Hit myself in the balls rolling up an extension cord.

RIP

I feel your pain. Reminds me of my boxer (brief) strap slap on the good ol' boys downstairs story.

RIP demik 2K15.

[whmeltonjr]

Hit myself in the balls rolling up an extension cord.

RIP

I did the same thing last week when I cut the grass. feelsbadman.jpg

[HoffmanMyster]

RIP little demiks

[alienman82]

removed.

[BlueNalgene]

chemistry can suck my c***

Hey now.

[alienman82]

removed.

[whmeltonjr]

This keyboard at work is gross. Bothered me enough to make me start taking it apart to clean it.

[Steezus]

This keyboard at work is gross. Bothered me enough to make me start taking it apart to clean it.

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It is better suited for the trash can than for anymore use. That is disgusting, bring a mech from home. :thumb:

[whmeltonjr]

This keyboard at work is gross. Bothered me enough to make me start taking it apart to clean it.

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It is better suited for the trash can than for anymore use. That is disgusting, bring a mech from home. :thumb:

This isn't my keyboard. I use a mech. I was just so bothered by this one I had to clean it. It's getting worse.

[Signature]

This keyboard at work is gross. Bothered me enough to make me start taking it apart to clean it.

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Please nsfl

[R1N3]

Lib tumblr ****ters are encroaching on my social scene (one that has promoted free speech since its inception) and are attempting to censor anyone who might have something to say contrary to their ideal memes.

[beehatch]

Lib tumblr ****ters are encroaching on my social scene (one that has promoted free speech since its inception) and are attempting to censor anyone who might have something to say contrary to their ideal memes.

poop on them

[Computer-Lab in Basement]

This keyboard at work is gross. Bothered me enough to make me start taking it apart to clean it.

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It is better suited for the trash can than for anymore use. That is disgusting, bring a mech from home. :thumb:

This isn't my keyboard. I use a mech. I was just so bothered by this one I had to clean it. It's getting worse.

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throw it away. any keyboard that gets to that point must be destroyed to prevent a public health crisis.

[R1N3]

Lib tumblr ****ters are encroaching on my social scene (one that has promoted free speech since its inception) and are attempting to censor anyone who might have something to say contrary to their ideal memes.

poop on them

I'm gonna need more poop.

[jdcarpe]

This keyboard at work is gross. Bothered me enough to make me start taking it apart to clean it.

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https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=73999.0

[Steezus]

Lib tumblr ****ters are encroaching on my social scene (one that has promoted free speech since its inception) and are attempting to censor anyone who might have something to say contrary to their ideal memes.

poop on them

I'm gonna need more poop.

Eat more!

[ApocalypseMaow]

I'm still bothered anyone dared to compare an MGS game to a Ubisoft 'game' -_-

OK OK, I'm sorry... I didn't mean it 

[demik]

Hit myself in the balls rolling up an extension cord.

RIP

I feel bad saying this, but reading this totally made me laugh out loud. And while I was in a very serious meeting.

Well, at least my pain made somebody laugh. ;_;

[jdcarpe]

I miss these guys: litster, PrinsValium, hashbaz, reaper, Sifo, tsangan, Boost, LethalSquirrel, eth0s, thegunner100, Input Nirvana, mkawa, lysol, rknize, alaricljs, aggiejy, SmallFry.

I know a few of them are still around, just not as active as before.

Nostalgia is bothering me. Not the forum theme or keyset.

[whmeltonjr]

This keyboard at work is gross. Bothered me enough to make me start taking it apart to clean it.

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https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=73999.0

I use the same keyboard on my second computer and I actually like it too.

This one is alive and sanitary again.

[ApocalypseMaow]

I miss these guys: litster, PrinsValium, hashbaz, reaper, Sifo, tsangan, Boost, LethalSquirrel, eth0s, thegunner100, Input Nirvana, mkawa, lysol, rknize, alaricljs, aggiejy, SmallFry.

I know a few of them are still around, just not as active as before.

Nostalgia is bothering me. Not the forum theme or keyset.

damn... the feels

[HoffmanMyster]

chemistry can suck my c***

Hey now.

Yeah wtf alienman.    Chemistry is da best.

I hated it in high school cause my teacher was **** (legitimately terrible teacher), but fell in love with the subject in college once I had a competent teacher.  Maybe you just need to have a better experience with it.    Or maybe you just hate it. 

[demik]

I miss these guys: litster, PrinsValium, hashbaz, reaper, Sifo, tsangan, Boost, LethalSquirrel, eth0s, thegunner100, Input Nirvana, mkawa, lysol, rknize, alaricljs, aggiejy, SmallFry.

I know a few of them are still around, just not as active as before.

Nostalgia is bothering me. Not the forum theme or keyset.

I'm still here, should be enough. I do miss mallfries tho.

[jdcarpe]

I miss these guys: litster, PrinsValium, hashbaz, reaper, Sifo, tsangan, Boost, LethalSquirrel, eth0s, thegunner100, Input Nirvana, mkawa, lysol, rknize, alaricljs, aggiejy, SmallFry.

I know a few of them are still around, just not as active as before.

Nostalgia is bothering me. Not the forum theme or keyset.

I'm still here, should be enough. I do miss mallfries tho.

Yes, usually I do rely on you to fill most of those spots. No pressure, though.

[demik]

I miss these guys: litster, PrinsValium, hashbaz, reaper, Sifo, tsangan, Boost, LethalSquirrel, eth0s, thegunner100, Input Nirvana, mkawa, lysol, rknize, alaricljs, aggiejy, SmallFry.

I know a few of them are still around, just not as active as before.

Nostalgia is bothering me. Not the forum theme or keyset.

I'm still here, should be enough. I do miss mallfries tho.

Yes, usually I do rely on you to fill most of those spots. No pressure, though.

I thrive under pressure.

[nubbinator]

chemistry can suck my c***

Hey now.

Yeah wtf alienman.    Chemistry is da best.

I hated it in high school cause my teacher was **** (legitimately terrible teacher), but fell in love with the subject in college once I had a competent teacher.  Maybe you just need to have a better experience with it.    Or maybe you just hate it. 

I had a god awful teacher in college.  I thought I understood it in high school, but he ruined it and made electron shells confusing as hell.

[HoffmanMyster]

chemistry can suck my c***

Hey now.

Yeah wtf alienman.    Chemistry is da best.

I hated it in high school cause my teacher was **** (legitimately terrible teacher), but fell in love with the subject in college once I had a competent teacher.  Maybe you just need to have a better experience with it.    Or maybe you just hate it. 

I had a god awful teacher in college.  I thought I understood it in high school, but he ruined it and made electron shells confusing as hell.

To be fair, electron shells are confusing as hell.   

[byker]

chemistry can suck my c***

biochemistry is where its at

[Lurch]

the thought of combing my hair.

[Computer-Lab in Basement]

the thought of combing my hair.

lol

the comb wouldn't make it out alive

[alienman82]

removed.

[HoffmanMyster]

chemistry can suck my c***

Hey now.

Yeah wtf alienman.    Chemistry is da best.

I hated it in high school cause my teacher was **** (legitimately terrible teacher), but fell in love with the subject in college once I had a competent teacher.  Maybe you just need to have a better experience with it.    Or maybe you just hate it. 

I had a god awful teacher in college.  I thought I understood it in high school, but he ruined it and made electron shells confusing as hell.

The teacher isn't really bad but his tests are very hard.  And there aren't many grades in the class either

What are you learning about right now?  O.o

[alienman82]

removed.

[BlueNalgene]

Electron shells are complicated, until you come out the other side.  Then it all seems so simple (albeit difficult to explain).

But thermo, solubility, and packing are so much fun.  I love that stuff.  You just have to give it time to crystallize in your mind.  Phase changes and reaction rates are fun too.  That is what I am doing next week, but for realsies.

[HoffmanMyster]

Electron shells are complicated, until you come out the other side.  Then it all seems so simple (albeit difficult to explain).

I had the opposite experience.  )

Everything made perfect sense until I learned that the orbitals don't really exist. This was particularly confusing in Inorganic because you're basing the structure off of shells that aren't shells but are instead just probabilities of an electron field - all that quantum nonsense really throws a wrench in an otherwise sensible model.

[Computer-Lab in Basement]

apparently it's national kick a ginger day

fortunately i'm only half ginger

[HoffmanMyster]

apparently it's national kick a ginger day

fortunately i'm only half ginger

* HoffmanMyster half kicks CLiB

[jdcarpe]

Electron shells are complicated, until you come out the other side.  Then it all seems so simple (albeit difficult to explain).

I had the opposite experience.  )

Everything made perfect sense until I learned that the orbitals don't really exist. This was particularly confusing in Inorganic because you're basing the structure off of shells that aren't shells but are instead just probabilities of an electron field - all that quantum nonsense really throws a wrench in an otherwise sensible model.

There you are, beginner chemistry student. You understand these circular orbitals and the how electrons are arranged within them now, right? Okay good. Now forget all that, because here is how they work in reality. [Points to 3D models]

[HoffmanMyster]

Electron shells are complicated, until you come out the other side.  Then it all seems so simple (albeit difficult to explain).

I had the opposite experience.  )

Everything made perfect sense until I learned that the orbitals don't really exist. This was particularly confusing in Inorganic because you're basing the structure off of shells that aren't shells but are instead just probabilities of an electron field - all that quantum nonsense really throws a wrench in an otherwise sensible model.

There you are, beginner chemistry student. You understand these circular orbitals and the how electrons are arranged within them now, right? Okay good. Now forget all that, because here is how they work in reality. [Points to 3D models]

Exactly!  )  But even the 3D models make sense eventually, because I can imagine how the P-orbitals go together and how the shells end up interacting.  It's that damn quantum stuff that knocked me back to the side of not-fully-understanding-the-theory-but-can-apply-the-models.  :|

[demik]

Got real nerd up in here. That's bothering me.

[alienman82]

removed.

[absyrd]

Got real nerd up in here. That's bothering me.

Yeah. For once I am lost in OT. Halp.

[nubbinator]

chemistry can suck my c***

Hey now.

Yeah wtf alienman.    Chemistry is da best.

I hated it in high school cause my teacher was **** (legitimately terrible teacher), but fell in love with the subject in college once I had a competent teacher.  Maybe you just need to have a better experience with it.    Or maybe you just hate it. 

I had a god awful teacher in college.  I thought I understood it in high school, but he ruined it and made electron shells confusing as hell.

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To be fair, electron shells are confusing as hell. 

It was made worse by the fact that he was a chug and plug style teacher and an awful professor who played favorites with athletes.  I would try and go to office hours, but he was a huge ******* and would just tell you to read your textbook and if you didn't understand it, tough ****.

I don't do well with plug and chug, I need to see why I'm doing what I'm doing and how it relates.  It's why I did poorly at stats and physics, because I've never had a professor explain the relationships within the equation and what the math is telling you.  Once I understand what it's telling me, it takes on a grammatical and logical component that you can build on.  That's why calculus was easy for me, because I had a teacher who was good at explaining what the equation actually said.

[alienman82]

removed.

[inanis]

The maths are hurting my brain!

[HoffmanMyster]

It was made worse by the fact that he was a chug and plug style teacher and an awful professor who played favorites with athletes.  I would try and go to office hours, but he was a huge ******* and would just tell you to read your textbook and if you didn't understand it, tough ****.

I don't do well with plug and chug, I need to see why I'm doing what I'm doing and how it relates.  It's why I did poorly at stats and physics, because I've never had a professor explain the relationships within the equation and what the math is telling you.  Once I understand what it's telling me, it takes on a grammatical and logical component that you can build on.  That's why calculus was easy for me, because I had a teacher who was good at explaining what the equation actually said.

Plug'n'chug always bothered me too, and there were quite a few equations that didn't make sense (like partial derivatives and stuff like that). But then once I learned how to do those and what everything meant, it was better. Thermo was confusing during the course because the prof taught it as pure plug'n'chug, but by the time I graduated I had taken enough other classes with actual profs teaching things (diffusion, etc) to fill in the gaps. 

But I totally agree with you on the method of teaching being really important.  Some people can be told and equation, memorize it, and be fine.  I need to understand the equation in order to have any hope of remembering it.

[BlueNalgene]

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chemistry can suck my c***

Hey now.

Yeah wtf alienman.    Chemistry is da best.

I hated it in high school cause my teacher was **** (legitimately terrible teacher), but fell in love with the subject in college once I had a competent teacher.  Maybe you just need to have a better experience with it.    Or maybe you just hate it. 

I had a god awful teacher in college.  I thought I understood it in high school, but he ruined it and made electron shells confusing as hell.

[/spoiler]

To be fair, electron shells are confusing as hell. 

It was made worse by the fact that he was a chug and plug style teacher and an awful professor who played favorites with athletes.  I would try and go to office hours, but he was a huge ******* and would just tell you to read your textbook and if you didn't understand it, tough ****.

I don't do well with plug and chug, I need to see why I'm doing what I'm doing and how it relates.  It's why I did poorly at stats and physics, because I've never had a professor explain the relationships within the equation and what the math is telling you.  Once I understand what it's telling me, it takes on a grammatical and logical component that you can build on.  That's why calculus was easy for me, because I had a teacher who was good at explaining what the equation actually said.

I agree with that sentiment entirely.  I have had teachers that focused on memorization as part of the learning process, and rote learning is only useful to pass.  If you ever want to use it, you need to get to that point where the concepts become linguistically native, even if you can't put them in simple terms. 

I mean ****, I'm doing my PhD in a Physical Chemistry lab, and I couldn't solve a Schrodinger without looking things up.  But I can still imagine what the shape of the orbitals would look like without the equation because I understand the concepts of how the nodes form from the wavefunction.  The holistic approach is often shied away from in the physical sciences, but it is often the source of actual development in the field.

/geekrant

[hwood34]

phys 2 exam just ****ed my **** up

[jonathanyu]

My flight delayed two hours...