In Development
Good morning all! The HMFICs have granted me contributor status, so I can create content a bit more easily, although it will still have to be reviewed, etc. I think this is mostly because when I get my professional geek on, the posts can be a pain for anyone else to format. This way I can get the posts the way I want them and all they have to say is “I have no clue what you are talking about, but they fit the style sheet!”
Anyway, I have 3 posts running around in my head right now; two more that will discuss numerical modeling (specifically meshing & solvers), and one that Richard H. and DavidTC have inspired about the state of the art in self driving vehicles & what the near future may look like in that regard.
However, I also have a major software release due before Halloween (code I’ve been building for two years now) and that is sucking up all my free time right now. Therefore I hope everyone can be a touch patient, let me finish up my release, and then I promise to produce some actual, intellectually stimulating content for this site.
I’m glad you’re on board. And I’ve been granted the same status, so….I guess we’re blog-brothers?Report
BFNGsReport
Congrats to both of you!Report
Yay! Congrats!Report
HAHH… Also known as “hopefully, a helpful hint” I have a habit of skipping people who use to many of those cute capped letters signifying who knows what.. Right now I am thinking you are Beautiful Nubile Finnish Girls which makes me look forward to pictures more than capped letters.Report
FNG = Frickin New Guy (common Military acronym, as is HMFIC)
B =Blog
But feel free to skip, I use lots of common & well worn acronyms you maybe unaware of.Report
SYDCARIWSY. WEPDTSBMLAGOGSHCTA.Report
The terms “common” & “well worn” escape you, don’t they?
Here are some more common, well worn military acronyms I’m known to use.
Once again, people who overreact to non-issues create a SNAFU, generating conversational threads that are FUBAR. Nothing for it I guess but to BOHICA.Report
Yes, I recognize the terms common and well worn, but am under the impression that one person’s common is another’s rarity. For example, I am much more likely to know the source of a quote from Hamlet than Snoop Dog’s third album. I would not know Beyoncé if she got on an elevator with me but would recognize Taj Mahal. Where does that put common?
And as to over reacting, I thought I was making a helpful hint that might increase readers and was told that if I didn’t like it to go away.Report
@dexter
In my posts, when I use acronyms, I always define them when first used, so I would write something like this:
CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics)
so the reader makes the immediate association & I don’t have to type out Computational Fluid Dynamics anymore. This is my norm, as I have written such guest posts here in the past (under the current moniker, and as MRS (Mad Rocket Scientist)).
Now HMFIC (Head Mother F**ker(s) In Charge) is used a bit playfully, and defining it would be silly. Either you know it already, or you can ask & I’ll explain it in the comments.
BFNG was not meant for everyone, it was meant for Gabriel, which is why it was threaded to his comment.
Finally, HAHH – yes, I see NOW that you meant that as an acronym – but it wasn’t obvious to me when I first read it. I read it as a laugh, and given the context of you declaring that you skip writers who use acronyms, I read it as derisive.
I use acronyms in my normal writing, a LOT. I always define them upon first use because many of them are uncommon & specialized. If you really have an issue with this, you may want to skip my posts, as by the end, they can take on an element of word salad.Report
Hurray!Report
Man, they’ll let anyone in this place.Report
It’s obvious that they admins have recognized that this site lacks a certain element of scientific rigor with regard to topics of Engineering & Physics.
Why they asked me to write about such things, I’ll never know…Report
The STEM takeover of the world continues apace!Report
Tell me about it.Report
Welcome! Is now a good time to get back together about that post we talked about writing together?Report
@aarondavid
Anytime! Why don’t you get the ball rolling by starting to write something, then let me know where it is.Report
Welcome aboard, always good to have another modeller on the team.Report