unpythonic

Today I had a meeting with my manager's manager who, among other things, told me that people didn't think I "engaged" or "paid attention" during meetings because at pretty much every meeting I take notes.

Where I work we develop tablet devices and pen devices and the software to take notes on them, so I use the tools that we make to take notes during the meeting. I do this precisely so that I remain engaged, focused and don't spend the hour daydreaming. Last week someone caught me after a meeting to ask how I configure everything because I appeared to be so organized.

This manager knows that it is a compensation strategy for ADHD - I have no idea to respond. If I stop taking notes purely

Once upon a time I told myself that I could become a great collector and curator of fine cinema. Then life happened. For years I've told myself that I need to stop holding onto the relics of the dreams I didn't follow because I have enough relics of the dreams I did. However I cannot stomach the thought of sending these to the landfill and I just cannot pay enough attention to sell through eBay. To that goal, I need to offload these to someone reasonably local who might love the format and enjoy collecting them. Can anyone recommend something local that will find a good home for these discs and this (kinda broken) Player?

https://imgur.com/a/OAffhv9

In a bit of really poor decision making, I followed a link from a "friend" on Facebook that led to Conservapedia. (Did I mention it was a really poor decision?) That led to this article on ExtremeTech which mentioned a theory by James Franson about the neutrino-detection-to-light-arrival for SN 1987a that I had never heard before: the light of SN 1987a arrived several hours later than expected.

Reading the Wikipedia entry on the subject seems to suggest, unsurprisingly, that the ExtremeTech article

I seem to have a problem with finding doctors who take my issues seriously.

It started decades ago when, as a 6'1" 135lb 18 year old male, I got the bright idea to try fixing a stuck pneumatic chair lift with the awesome power of my back. The pain was absolutely surreal but my doctor refused to give me any pain medication beyond the couple of days between my injury and making it into his office. I probably didn't fit the usual description of an 18 year old with acute back pain and the area I lived in was pretty well drug-ridden - I think the doctor just didn't believe I was really in pain and I was either a junkie or a dealer. I spent the next week curled up in a ball contemplating what my

For a while I've been toying with a tool to prune my picture files which I've been dumping onto a NAS at home. For various reasons non-duplicate images could have the same file name and duplicate images could have different EXIF data. The tool gives me a list of the dups and allows me to review them and pick one to delete.

Right now it "fingerprints" the images by doing an MD5 hash of the pixel data which works well for exact matches. What I'm now pondering adding is something which will detect images which are likely the same except that one has been resized and/or resampled (cropped versions I consider to be new images so I'm not trying to detect those). False positives are okay since t

I was recently the Presiding Juror on a jury that convicted a person on 9 of 10 counts charged by the state. It's a Jessica's law case so the punishment could be quite severe. I feel that there were mitigating circumstances such that while this person must be punished, it should not be a sentence that stretches into the 22nd century. Can Jurors give statements to the court before sentencing, or is that exclusively reserved to the prosecution, defense counsel, defendant and victim(s)? This was in Oregon.

What is it that motivates race volunteers? Is it just the good feelings that come from philanthropy?

Recently I thought about volunteering for the Hood to Coast relay since it is apparently a bit late to find a team. I've always been deeply appreciative of the volunteers in my races and I'm one of those who can be functional just about any time of day or night, so it seemed like a good fit.

I have never volunteered for a race before, so maybe I don't get it, but as I researched volunteering, it appeared to me as though it was a terrible deal. I would have to provide: my own transportation; my own food and changes of clothes so that I can stand for 4-6 hours helping runners. Seemed like an

I flipped through my niece's Pre-Calculus book today and came across a proof that I didn't think was correct. I thought I had learned the Pythagorean theorem as:

If a right triangle has legs a and b and hypotenuse c then a^2 + b^2 = c^2 .

The proof in this book depends on the Pythagorean theorem saying the converse:

If a triangle has sides a, b and c such that a^2 + b^2 = c^2 then it is a right triangle.

While it is trivial to use the Law of Cosines to show this second statement is true, it isn't clear to me that the Pythagorean theorem says this. I looked at the Wiki

I think it helped that she was able to see that there were other women in the JPL Mission Support Area. If the skies over Portland clear up tomorrow, I told her I will take out my telescope so that we can look at Mars before it sets. This is truly one of my favorite days being a Dad.

My oldest kids (8 and 10) asked if I could set up a server so that they would have a world available all the time (I apologize if my terminology is wrong, I don't play it myself). I have a home server that is up 24x7 and is used for file serving, streaming video to the media players and sharing the printer - if I were going to create a server for them, that's what it would run on.

I searched here for for a similar topic and turned up this thread, but it is a year old and I do not know if any of it still applies. I also Googled and read through the [setting up a server tutorial](http://www.minec