Drag Coefficient

What the heck is drag coefficient? Well, it's complicated. And I sure as heck am not going to give it justice here. If you really want to know what it is, start with taking a physics class from a real teacher. 

But, seriously, I hope you enjoyed this episode. I enjoyed recording it. 

Talking d&d with the DM. Danny found some Covid time fun playing d&d. I started shortly after that. 

In this episode we talk the campaigns we’ve played together, personalities, and character development. 

Image: https://www.ebay.com/itm/384898486509

AI chatbots and image generators have made a huge impact on me and how I use the internet. My curiosity takes me to this question: how will AI be impacted with the continued advancement of computing, specifically super computers and the supposed discovery of room-temerature superconductors. 

Enjoy! :)

Here's the world AI created when I asked what this future may look like: 

 Continuing on with my question--what sparked your curiosity as a child? I had the pleasure of having my good buddy Sean on the podcast. We talked magic, the movie Hook, Calvin and Hobbs, art, board games, and Dungeons and Dragons. 

 Where's our curiosity gone? There are times now where I feel as though it's gone. Survival has taken front and center. Casual curiosity has taken a back seat. This episode is an effort to change that--at least for today. 

Since I was a boy, I was fascinated with populations of cities. I started with wondering what the population was in the city I lived, Santa Fe. Then I moved outward to my state, to the largest cities in my state. My journey took me to the largest cities in the USA--New York City, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles. 

The populations of cities can be really boring on the surface, but once your imagination takes over, you start to wonder what life is like in those cities. You wonder what the architecture is like, the food, the people, the smells. It can really be a great journey. So, in this one I found myself rambling off numbers of populations, but I challenge you to picture yourself in those cities, being just one of those people in that number. 

I hope you enjoy!

 This episode ended up being very personal. I learned that a self-image is largely formed in childhood, I learned that a self-image is likely not to change, and I learned that there is a tons of research in "the self", what we think about our self, awareness, and most of these concepts that are miles above my head. I also learned that I have work to do on my own self image and that as a parent I have a huge impact on my kids' self image. 

Today, I'm going to try to be more of a Mr. Rogers and less of a mean guy from my church. 

As long as there have been humans, there have been stories. This episode began with my curiosity about how stories are used to deliver information to humans. We enjoy stories. We use stories to teach. 

But my journey took a turn when I began to consider the ways stories are told. We tell stories in art, in music, in dance, in film, in podcasts. We are a story telling people. I think we all want our story to be heard. And we enjoy hearing the stories people have to tell. 

I also read a couple of chapters from the book of Job in the Bible. 

(Job, 1880. Leon Bonnat)

Sources: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative

Job, Chapters 1 & 2, NRSV

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Job