Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

Go ahead. Sneeze.
I dare ya.


Oh hai gaise!
How ya been?
I really need to make more time to drop in. I miss a lot of hilarity when I'm gone.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

HI SQUIDDY!!!

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Squiddy! How's FL hangin?

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

Squiddy! How's FL hangin?

Like a big hot wang.
It was like 86 degrees today.
Flip flops and shorts? In December? Why not.

[Reginald Ret]

I am annoyed and frustrated with orbital hybridization. Everything else makes sense to me, why doesn't this make sense to me? Off to school for a bonus study session.

Try to think wave instead of particle. I know, it is quantum but that is how reality works, sadly.
Hybridized orbitals are wave interference patterns¹, don't think of it as some random area where electrons just magically happen to prefer to hang out.

¹ These are electron 'waves', as in: areas with increased probability. The reason we call them waves is because waves are results of density differences in the water² And quantum wave effects are the result of differences in probability density.

²Water waves don't measure as density differences because they instantly get equalized with air pressure, but that is all there is to them. The high bits of the wave are symptoms of a higher potential water density straight below them when compared with the potential water density of the low parts of the wave.

Dammit, I lost track of my train of thought. Anyway, electrons are nothing more than potential interactions. Why these interactions are limited to a certain area is not something that is currently understood in any human way. I'm sure there is some math out there about this subject, but let's avoid that headache. Anyway, these probability areas act exactly like pressure areas because they are the exact same thing. Pressure is nothing more than the probability that one molecule will bump into another one. Likewise, these electron orbitals are nothing more than areas with a disproportianally higher chance that an 'electron bump/interaction' will happen there. This can be said even if we do not know if electrons actually exist as particles. Now if we combine two of these orbitals they will act just like the waves in water in that they will create interference patterns that can be stable. If they are not stable they will immediatly resolve so we can ignore the unstable patterns. What is left is what we see in reality, some atoms allow orbital hybridization because that is a stable interference pattern between the previous³ high-probability-of-electron-interaction areas.



³ For any value of previous, including never. Don't bother to try to form a metaphore to understand this shit, it is quantum.



Sorry for leaving this brainfart half-finished but my brain hurts, I am going to bed.

No, I understood that part. The part I was having trouble with were questions in my homework about potential pi bonding for atoms of various electron geometry. I went to school and talked to my lab instructor about it and she said that the questions don't make any sense and to not worry about them.


Anyway, we had some good study time and it all makes a lot more sense, and I understand now why predicting potential pi bonds in an unbonded atom didn't make any sense.

Is it because context is everything?

[Cain]

Good luck!

The upsides: It will get you some cash while you're in school.
It's work you won't take home.
You won't be on call. Pretty much ever.
It's not forever.

I seriously considered looking for bar back work I could do for a few hours a week at night. It would be nice to have something I could just go do, put in the hours, and go home, and not think about it in between.

Yeah, the only downside is that it's a temporary contract.  On the plus side, it's with a large firm, and I know more positions will be available once this contract ends.

[Cain]

In other news, Youtube is gently, but persistently suggesting I monetize my videos.

I might do that in the New Year, once I have a greater number of videos up.  Even if I get the job I'm going for, I'm only working 17 hours a week...I'll be more than able to upload videos.  Hell, I'm sitting on videos currently, the only reason I'm holding them back is because I'm thinking of doing a class guide to Mass Effect 3 MP, as a kind of warm-up before doing the Dragon Age stuff.

[LMNO]

Well, I must say I enjoy looking at those vids, even if I have very little idea what's going on, as my last 1st person shooter was Doom.

Also, your speaking voice has gotten better.  One could even say you sound sexy.

[Cain]

Thanks.  I know I still need to play around with the settings somewhat, as well as just improve generally.  I think I might mix it up between live commentary and voice-overs, since I can at least prepare a script for the latter, and don't have to concentrate on what I'm doing all the time.

But since live commentary is more fun, I obviously want to get better at that, rather than become complacement with voice overs.

[LMNO]

Also, I wasn't sure if there's player-to-player chat -- you had mentioned that you do some of these games to troll; I wasn't sure if you got any direct feedback from them, or if you just get kicked out of rooms.

[Cain]

There is, but the PC Master Race are aloof bastards - unless I'm playing with friends, there is almost no chatting.  Which is probably for the best, given how that usually goes on Xbox (12 year olds calling you "faggot").

I'm also not broadcasting what I'm actually saying, the computer mic is on for recording purposes, but I need to hold down a button to chat in-game.  You'll hear some chatter on my next video, actually.

[Suu]

Squiddy! How's FL hangin?

Like a big hot wang.
It was like 86 degrees today.
Flip flops and shorts? In December? Why not.

There will be beer happening between us in that hot fucking peninsula of crazy soonish.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

In other news, Youtube is gently, but persistently suggesting I monetize my videos.

I might do that in the New Year, once I have a greater number of videos up.  Even if I get the job I'm going for, I'm only working 17 hours a week...I'll be more than able to upload videos.  Hell, I'm sitting on videos currently, the only reason I'm holding them back is because I'm thinking of doing a class guide to Mass Effect 3 MP, as a kind of warm-up before doing the Dragon Age stuff.

I'm not a fan of the "monetize everything" culture, but on the other hand I do like that it's an opportunity for the little guy to get something out of it. I'm also a pragmatist and a proponent of the "whatever it takes" approach to getting by while finishing school. So, I say, go for it!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I am annoyed and frustrated with orbital hybridization. Everything else makes sense to me, why doesn't this make sense to me? Off to school for a bonus study session.

Try to think wave instead of particle. I know, it is quantum but that is how reality works, sadly.
Hybridized orbitals are wave interference patterns¹, don't think of it as some random area where electrons just magically happen to prefer to hang out.

¹ These are electron 'waves', as in: areas with increased probability. The reason we call them waves is because waves are results of density differences in the water² And quantum wave effects are the result of differences in probability density.

²Water waves don't measure as density differences because they instantly get equalized with air pressure, but that is all there is to them. The high bits of the wave are symptoms of a higher potential water density straight below them when compared with the potential water density of the low parts of the wave.

Dammit, I lost track of my train of thought. Anyway, electrons are nothing more than potential interactions. Why these interactions are limited to a certain area is not something that is currently understood in any human way. I'm sure there is some math out there about this subject, but let's avoid that headache. Anyway, these probability areas act exactly like pressure areas because they are the exact same thing. Pressure is nothing more than the probability that one molecule will bump into another one. Likewise, these electron orbitals are nothing more than areas with a disproportianally higher chance that an 'electron bump/interaction' will happen there. This can be said even if we do not know if electrons actually exist as particles. Now if we combine two of these orbitals they will act just like the waves in water in that they will create interference patterns that can be stable. If they are not stable they will immediatly resolve so we can ignore the unstable patterns. What is left is what we see in reality, some atoms allow orbital hybridization because that is a stable interference pattern between the previous³ high-probability-of-electron-interaction areas.



³ For any value of previous, including never. Don't bother to try to form a metaphore to understand this shit, it is quantum.



Sorry for leaving this brainfart half-finished but my brain hurts, I am going to bed.

No, I understood that part. The part I was having trouble with were questions in my homework about potential pi bonding for atoms of various electron geometry. I went to school and talked to my lab instructor about it and she said that the questions don't make any sense and to not worry about them.


Anyway, we had some good study time and it all makes a lot more sense, and I understand now why predicting potential pi bonds in an unbonded atom didn't make any sense.

Is it because context is everything?

Yes, because (at our level, at least) you can't fucking predict pi bonds in an unbonded atom, because there's no context for the bonds.

The homework question made me think that I has missed something crucial, because it was asking that I do exactly  that.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Well, I must say I enjoy looking at those vids, even if I have very little idea what's going on, as my last 1st person shooter was Doom.

Also, your speaking voice has gotten better.  One could even say you sound sexy.

Yes, Cain has a marvelous speaking voice. As does Payne, actually. It isn't just the accents; they are both rather mellifluous.