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Author: aron

  • Statistics

    I don’t ever want to play the part

    Of a statistic on a government chart

    The Police -1981

    Tough luck, you are a statistic on a government chart, just hope you’re in the upper part of it.

    I’m taking a statistics class and my eyes are crossing. If your selling point to get people to acquire knowledge is that you will now have a better idea of the probability of heads vs tails of 10 coins being flipped 5 times you really need a better point.

    And then what’s with this Bayes Rule and its comparison to cancer and false vs positive tests. I mean we’re dealing with something so abstract why bring a deadly disease into it? You want my attention? Start showing me how this relates to something I wouldn’t mind running across, like Vegas gambling odds on various games or how to handicap the ponies given their previous record damnit, something I may actually give a flying flip about…

  • If pirates wrote code, what language would it be? Rrrrr

    We’ve discovered that you can, by following some really archaic directions, use R in Jupyter Notebooks. So the next step of my educational journey seems to consist of the R programming language which is done (not surprisingly) in R-Studio.

    As I work through the micro degree on my way to the full size one, I’m having to learn R-language, and I must say I’m impressed with how easy it is to pick up and the things you can do from a graphing capability. It’s just 2 credits worth of class but a neat little language

  • Mass Shooting – Uvalde, TX

    So as I was going through my day the news started to filter through. School shooting, lockdown, 2 dead, gunman arrested. It barely registered because there were only two after all, tragic as a school shooting is it’s hardly news anymore.

    The next I hear there are multiple fatalities and the gunman isn’t in custody… Uh oh, if they’re having trouble nailing down the number dead and where the gunman is, it ain’t over. Sadly that would be correct and after it was all said and done, 19 innocent children and two teachers were gunned down with an AR rifle. I can’t even begin to imagine.

    We have to act, something has to happen. We can’t let this continue. As a gun owner let’s start the concessions. You have to have a license to own a gun. Absolutely god damn right. You have a license to drive a car, you have to show that you know the rules of using that car and you have to prove you’re physically and mentally able to drive. Same with a gun, prove you know how to use it and are of a sane mind and physically able to have it. No gun ownership until 25. Exceptions are made for our military who are trained and cleared for ownership.

    This is not the state or country that I care to be associated with. We’re forcing women to have kids who are fodder for the nut cases that can buy a gun because that’s our right as Americans. Disgraceful and we must do better.

  • More Excercise

    As we celebrate another week in the books, I’m excited to say we’ve been doing a great job of moving for at least 30 minutes a day. Today we walked outside but even in the morning, it’s starting to get hot.
    One of the really nice things about the rec center is that the walking course on the second floor is cool, I mean to the point where some folks have to wear sweaters for their walk. I think it feels great and if you get a card you can grab some weights and work out your arms while you walk. I have to be a bit careful with that as I overdid it yesterday and I think I bruised a bicep, ouch!
    We’re also going to try racquetball sometime as no one is ever on the courts.

  • Toxic Relationships

    I REALLY REALLY don’t want to hear about the Johnny Depp – Amber Heard trial but it’s kind of hard not to see it somewhere. It’s hard to fathom what led the once-great actor/heart-throb to expend so much time and energy on a self-destructive, heart-crushing relationship.

    The bottom line is there are things that poison our soul and yet we embrace them. The alcoholic with his bottle, the addict with his needle, the fat guy with GrubHub one-click order set up, and Johnny with his Amber. It’s sad to see but it’s never too late to walk away and start new. With all the entertainment that Depp gave to us, he offers us one last lesson, walk away before it gets to this…

  • We got our rec center passes!

    After not having it for several years, Sandy and I went and got our rec center passes today. For $100 for both of us, we have access to all the equipment and walking track in the AC. We walked for 30 minutes and picked up our passes on the way out (they had used our old pictures) and they gave Sandy my sister’s picture.

  • Sundaze, a hazy shade of summer

    I had a decent day, I actually worked all day on school and got it turned in, and spent about 7 hours on it. I turned it in and within an hour I got the notice that it’s deficient:( Three things need to be fixed and at first I was up in arms but as I reviewed the issues they were correct. I’m tired of working on it today.

    I’m still undergoing a crush at work but I’m slowly but surely unwinding that snake. I’m hoping it comes to a close so I can get some traction on the classes. I need to get this over with, I don’t mind being a lifelong student but I need to finish this up, I’ve got things to do:)

  • Watched – Firestarter (2022)

    I’m not usually a fan of remakes, and this movie makes me remember why.

    I fondly remember the 1984 movie with Drew Barrymore, it was (I guess) a little more believable or maybe it’s because I was 12 and Drew’s character of Charlie was really cute. That movie seemed to flow right, you sympathized with the main character. This one not so much, after she torches her mom and a cat and leaves one of the antagonists intact it’s hard to be a big fan. In the end, the character disappoints on almost every front.

    Nothing against any of the actors, the acting was adequate, it’s just when you try to rehash a story that’s been played you get a tired, unrefreshing hour and thirty-six minute waste of time. 1.8 out of 5 and I’m being generous.

  • Roasted Potatoes

    I’ve needed a go-to recipe for a potato side dish that isn’t mashed. I’ve done this with red potatoes and even froze them but I’ve never gotten the frozen ones to taste like fresh, go figure…

    In any case, I started with this recipe and changed it up like so:

    • 1.5 pounds of potatoes. This was originally done with yellow potatoes.
    • 4 tablespoons of ghee
    • 1 teaspoon garlic powder
    • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
    • 1 tablespoon parsley
    • 2 tablespoons ranch dressing

    The following cook times are for 1″ potato cubes:

    • Bake at 350°F for 45-50 minutes.
    • Bake at 375°F for 35-40 minutes.
    • Bake at 400°F for 30 minutes.
    • Bake at 450°F for 20-25 minutes.

  • Sandy’s Birthday

    Today my wife turned 50 years old. What different lives we’ve led. We met mom and sister at Pinstripes over off of Chisolm trail. It was a nice place and not too busy, the food was good too.