Andrew Barron

Absolutely mythic pull at while out running errands with my wife today

Another day of “ah sweet, man made horrors beyond my comprehension”

@JacobAShell I’ve been saying the same thing to my wife since we visited last year. I can’t imagine what it’s like to live surrounded by such beautiful scenery

Some photos I took in Utah. I'd love to live here.

@mrbobman15 Sneak into the engineering school’s career fair. Way more worth the time.

@mrbobman15 Crazy how some people just cannot bring themselves to try to figure things out. There are infinite resources these days. I see it with junior staff at work all the time

@mrbobman15 Yeah, I think this is one area that LLMs like ChatGPT really excel because it’s hard to hallucinate like it does for document writing. It’s literally a computer speaking computer. A major time saver. Being able to understand the output and edit/troubleshoot is the important part

@mrbobman15 How did the Chat output turn out?

@mrbobman15 My wife and I have had a pierogi night every Thursday since we started dating like 8 years ago

So hungry tonight. Made a Scooby Doo ass sandwich

@mrbobman15 This is what peak performance looks like

@mrbobman15 Slovenia easily. Highest density of forest cover in Europe, lovely coastline and Italian vibes (Piran), Ljubljana is a small but lovely capital. Food has nice diversity. Easy access to Central Europe by train or car. Much safer than most other countries on this list

@mrbobman15 I think I had this as a gen ed my freshman year. Honestly had a great time with it but I think I was one of like 3 people with any background in music. My final paper was on the effects of communism on music behind the iron curtain - was a fun one to research.

@mrbobman15 I have three in my house in addition to a wired one. I clean my floors every day though because I’m psychotic, so I don’t need the high power one every time I clean. Would never get a Dyson though, those are just scams

@JacobAShell Don’t know if this is true, otherwise business majors (aside from maybe actuaries and a handful of others) would be doing much more difficult coursework in relation to their general ‘prestige’ outside of the academic environment.

Can’t say I disagree with this. My read on the trendiness of intersectionality in humanities depts in 2010s is the theory is easy and formulaic, luring in students who are finding everything else too academically frustrating. But while good for goosing enrollement numbers, this badly damages the humanities’ standing in the clout hierarchy among majors

Had a Krimpet for the first time in years. Shrinkflation is so real

Wife got me a PS5 for my birthday

@MyLordBebo @JacobAShell I’m sure you’ve seen this (or similar) before but just in case you haven’t -

🇹🇭 Thai army mobilizes assault elephants

@mrbobman15 That model battleship looks pretty cool ngl. I’d put that on my desk too

@JacobAShell How could I forgot that there’s a massive island off the SW coast of Mexico

Community Notes this horribly incorrect map which well-meaning dummies are buying

@JacobAShell Had to drop off a rental Grand Wagoneer from a road trip in Vegas on a Saturday evening. Most stressful drive of my life - trying to get essentially a monster truck through complete deadlock. Took almost an entire hour to go about 1.5 miles. Horrible city

When I rented a car in Las Vegas a few months back, I found it truly miserable to get around, bc they've planned the streets to funnel 100% traffic onto a finite set of arterials. Bumper-to-bumper traffic on those arterials most of the day. And every parking lot packed.