My failures as a father thread

[Smucky]

Well I let him, but mother made him come back in

[NinjaPoodle]

My son is terrified of thunderstorms at night. But right now, a thunderstorm is rolling in and he wants to run outside and hide under a metal hay trough because he says "I'll be safe and dry under there". Should I let him?

Of course you should let him. It doesn't protect him from space lasers though. You need to paint the roof blue first.

[Smucky]

Dude just asked "if two women get married, do they both get pregnant?". I was going to yell "NO" but then I start thinking...

[Smucky]

My son has informed me that he thinks some Pokemon are cute.

[Smucky]

Shit

[NinjaPoodle]

My son has informed me that he thinks some Pokemon are cute.

So, I don't get it. It's stupid cartoon.

[Smucky]

Dude just asked "if two women get married, do they both get pregnant?". I was going to yell "NO" but then I start thinking...

I think he is trying to figure it out. Should I help him?

I tell him that I can see everything he does on the computer. But he is too retarded to believe me.

[Williamson]

Fug, I'll beat my meat to thata shit

[NinjaPoodle]

Porn with FNAF animatronic Chica, this is really horror cranked up to 11. I hope they make a game about it.

[Smucky]

He continually spends too much time in the shower. I tell him time and time again to make it 7 minutes and give him a timer. Timer goes off, but it apparently means nothing. Yesterday he ran the water for a 4 full minutes before he even got in there. The water was running from 9:10 to 9:27. Pisses me off. Spent a ton of time digging for automated shower timers and stuff. Or even those commercial push button things where you push the button and get a 10 second stream. But really couldn't find anything. I did find the Acqua Tempus to be pretty cool though. But I don't have a good way to mount it. It apparently recharges its batteries via water powered turbine (but that requires 2+gpm of water flow). But also expensive at $300.

I guess I'll just go back old school. Usually around 8:30pm I'm out of my office and digging for a snack. I'll tell him then to jump in the shower, but I'll hold on to the timer and give him 2 minutes, otherwise it will be a stick beating. Pretty sure he doesn't use soap either, so the whole process is a waste either way. Everything he does must be micro-micro managed

[NinjaPoodle]

What's the problem, you live in a desert hardly any water?

Females can use the shower for 30 minutes and use the water stream on you know where.

[Smucky]

What's the problem, you live in a desert hardly any water?

Females can use the shower for 30 minutes and use the water stream on you know where.

I'd rather the water go to my lawn. Also it is just the principle of things. Dude does nothing but waste time (and water)

[NinjaPoodle]

Why having kids at all when your biggest concern is that they consume resources?

[Smucky]

Why having kids at all when your biggest concern is that they consume resources?

Because nuttin in pussy feel that good

[Smucky]

For the new school year he gets to choose electives. Either art, drama, book club, or band.

I had been telling him for years how I did percussion in middle school. Shown him pictures,etc

He chose clarinet

[Williamson]

For the new school year he gets to choose electives. Either art, drama, book club, or band.

I had been telling him for years how I did percussion in middle school. Shown him pictures,etc

He chose clarinet

ah dude thats FUCKD

[Smucky]

He chose clarinet

Figured I could grab some good deal locally on facebook market place or ebay... But looks like all the stuff that is below $300, even used, is the plastic stuff which the band director doesn't recommend. But that puts you in the wood tier, and wood, well... rots. But even still, you look at $400+ on ebay for the used brand name wooden stuff in basically unknown condition. Seems the normal trap is, buy ebay stuff, then have to take it to a local shop and pay $300-$500 for an "overhaul".

figured maybe I could just do a re-pad myself, but watch a video and I guess not





So now not sure what to do. I guess find a local music instrument store and then bend over?

[Smucky]

Debated for awhile whether to get a used clarinet from someone on facebook marketplace. It was for the yamaha 450N model, which is sort of the top of the line. Was super sketch about the seller being on the wrong side of town and having a brand new looking $2k clarinet. So went to a local, non-chain, music store. There were several other closer stores but they just seemed to be a front for some instrument rental company nemc.com But once I got there, they just immediately wanted to push rentals on me, which were also from nemc.com
The dude acted like there was no point in buying something used when the rental was a rent to own type of thing. The first option was the yamaha 450n for $40 a month, $2k total price with a 30% discount if I pay in full at any time. What ever that means.
After a bit of haggling, I finally got the guy to admit that there are probably other options for rent other than the expensive wood ones. And after some more paper shuffling and him getting tips for other co-workers, I was in possession of the yamaha 255 plastic version for $30 a month or $1030 paid in full.
So I see now how someone on the wrong side of town got a $2k clarinet on the marketplace. But I still doubt they paid it off, I'd assume it ended up on a credit card that they just abandoned or something.

My AI girlfriend continually told me that clarinet used prices should be in the $200-$600 range. I could find no stores in texas that weren't just directing used sales through nemc. There were some places a few states north that had actual old school web pages and had a clear clarinet section with prices in the 200-600 range.
Kind of starting to feel like I got ripped off. I mean it was never clear whether I was renting a new or used clarinet. That seems to be the catch. A random idea, I guess I could find the cheapest used yamaha clarinet on ebay, then swap that one for my son's rental then mail it back to cancel the rental plan, thus keeping the rental I am not really sure if there are serial numbers on them.

[Smucky]

Starting to get sus over my daughter's home school curriculum
She has the option to take an "intro to coding" class. The first few weeks was an intro to "scratch", that lame puzzle type programming "language" debatable whether that is a good way to learn, but that is another story... Anyway, looking at the syllabus, I see there is only a few weeks of the scratch stuff, then it moves on into text book type work and no more coding stuff. So a couple of weeks of scratch programming means you don't really learn much. And then the rest of the class is like this:

How about we learn the "full network stack":

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And page 2:

Best I can tell, that is the whole lesson

The section on "digital logic" starts a brief talk about "binary" and how you can represent any number as 1's and 0's by continually diving the number by two and keeping track of where the reminders land:

I kind of forgot you could calculate it like that, but doing it that way is completely worthless, even weirder that they use the normal exponent rule but they only show it for decimal

All the "lessons" feel like someone just pulled random paragraphs out of random books. Like the digital logic sections starts with one page of binary and then a couple of pages of logic gate symbols, but never really explains what they are or how used

Most of the "lessons" have a clear copyright holder at the bottom of the page, looking that up takes you to the company's linked in page and home page. And oh, there is a careers section. But only for indians of course

There are a couple of project using https://appinventor.mit.edu/ but that basically a "scratch" ui that you deploy to your android phone and call it an "app"

Looks like there is a contest hosted every year. Last year's winners