Random Thoughts Thread

[wuapinmon]

My graduating HS senior will be studying nuclear engineering next Fall at Texas A&M. I have the same concerns that the only applications will be in the military which he could not qualify for being a Type I diabetic. He has explored the field and thinks there will be numerous commercial opportunities; he's also considering academia. Maybe he will end up being a contractor for the military...I tried, and failed, to get him to study accounting.

Congrats! I'm glad you failed. Accounting is something that only people who like it should study.

[BigPiney]

Congrats! I'm glad you failed. Accounting is something that only people who like it should study.

Boring people.

[Pelado]

Boring people.

[BigPiney]

[PaloAltoCougar]

The glass cubicles at SLC and other airports where smokers must go to engage in their habit amuse me. I feel like I'm walking past a museum exhibit, but wish there were an accompanying audioguide. "The Smoker's Habitat, circa 1950. In the 20th Century and earlier, it was customary for people to burn tobacco leaves and inhale the smoke. Here we see...."

[Jeff Lebowski]

The glass cubicles at SLC and other airports where smokers must go to engage in their habit amuse me. I feel like I'm walking past a museum exhibit, but wish there were an accompanying audioguide. "The Smoker's Habitat, circa 1950. In the 20th Century and earlier, it was customary for people to burn tobacco leaves and inhale the smoke. Here we see...."

Remember when there was a smoking section on airplanes? Those were the days.

[myboynoah]

Remember when there was a smoking section on airplanes? Those were the days.

Back in the days of temple nudity.

[Eddie]

Wasn't there a bill in this year's legislature that aimed at doing away with those smoke rooms at the SLC airport?

Crazy that the state that doesn't allow you to pour a drink in front of a kid at the restaurant, is also one of the last places to still have smoking rooms.

[Paperback Writer]

A kid that grew up in my ward got a nuclear engineering degree from MIT about 5 years. After about 3 years of unsuccessfully looking for work in the private sector he went back to school and is just graduating this spring with a degree in civil engineering.

Yikes. Thanks for passing that on. I'm still hoping that he finds another engineering discipline to study. For Freshman, there's not much difference in the core curriculum among engineering majors. After his Freshman year, he's thinking of serving a mission so he will have some time to think things over.

Congrats! I'm glad you failed. Accounting is something that only people who like it should study.

I never really cared for it, but I was good at it and there are a lot of job opportunities upon graduation. Such is the case generally with engineering as well so I'm fine with him studying it; even better that he has a strong interest in it. But not everyone can survive the academic demands of an engineering curriculum.

[Pelado]

[Jeff Lebowski]

Happy Day of the Dude, dudes.

[lambdacoug]

https://www.reddit.com/r/KCRoyals/co..._for_a/d0tc0x1

[Sullyute]

I just read that both Wachowski brothers (writers and directors of the Matrix series) have come out as transgendered!?! I haven't really followed them since the Matrix and V for Vendetta, but good for them... I guess.

[Omaha 680]

I just read that both Wachowski brothers (writers and directors of the Matrix series) have come out as transgendered!?! I haven't really followed them since the Matrix and V for Vendetta, but good for them... I guess.

I have been calling them the Wachowski Brother and Sister for years. Now I can just switch to sisters. I think the one who came out years ago is post-op.

[Omaha 680]

Is there a random photograph thread? I think this picture of a father basically saving his son's life from a flying bat at a spring training game yesterday is pretty awesome.

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