An asteroid can leave behind a lengthy scar rather than a circular crater, of course. Depends on angle of incidence, speed, etc.
If a tornado stood still, it'd leave a circular crater-like scar.
Interesting.
. . . then there's the time my UNCHANGED technical essay from high school (one of my absolute lowest grades, a C-) won a writing contest at a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY.
THE C- ESSAY
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We saw a restaurant was too busy so I pulled over behind a car that was slowly backing up. I flashed my lights to let them know they had enough space.
While we looked for a different restaurant, they backed up again, did a U-turn to tell me she thought I was a cop that pulled her over.
We laughed.
For my PhD work, I opted for Maple for its handling of the convergence of an infinite sum of Legendre polynomials. The version I had gave a different result every time. Luckily, the newest version was more advanced & selected the best convergence algorithm each time. Results were identical each run
WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST COLLEGE JOB?
Mine involved working with alumni donations.
With ~4k graduate and ~2k undergraduate students, IIT was a solid professional academic experience. The strong alumni donation record backs this up.
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Did you follow through with Visual FORTRAN?
Will AI replace coders?
I dodged the bullet in 1992 by pursuing physics instead.
For most scientists, we sort of pick-up coding along the way.
What was the 1st computer language you learned?
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HITTING THE GROUND CRAWLING
When I began college at IIT (Illinois Tech) @illinoistech.bsky.social, I arrived already three semesters behind.
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Curiously, I just found an old boombox of mine in the basement a few hrs ago. Plugged it in. Soon will be digging into my CD collection to annoy some 20-somethings.
Sadly, I gave up my 500+ cassette collection (TY Columbia House) to a couple a decade ago to help with baby adoption expenses.
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Arriving in Chicago for college in 1992, my parents took a wrong turn on the southside.
I learned more about my parents from their reactions.
We arrived at Illinois Tech--my home for the next four years.
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First City
Leaving everything you know and realizing distance isn’t measured in miles.
Backseat.
Highway.
A city rises where the future begins to feel real.
The opening of
Clarity: Emergent Phenomenon
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Zeus, who's almost four months old, loves sleeping next to me by the window as I work.
Zeus and Athena were born October 1, 2025.
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I've been having MOMENTS OF CLARITY about my life and writing them down online as a scaffold of my autobiography.
I'm on my way to college.
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CLARITY. My online autobiography.
Part 5: Emergent Phenomenon.
It's punchier. Sharper. Tighter. Deeper.
College begins. I left the cornfields for Chicago.
Moment 312. Appropriate.
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CLARITY. My online autobiography continues today with part 5: Emergent Phenomenon.
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On a brief break from my online autobiography, I came across some old photos I took in the late 80s, early 90s in my rural bedroom.
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My story continues with college years in Chicago on Monday.
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The newest members of our house.
ZEUS and ATHENA were adopted tonight and they're acclimating beautifully.
About 3.5 months old.
This video was within minutes of their arrival after a 30 min car rise.
We played with them for a couple hours.
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I played a game on my Timex Sinclair 1000 for the 1st time since ~1985.
Video: 2×.
Viewed on VIZIO flat screen (CH3)
Total onboard memory: 1k.
Many trials/errors getting it to work using android phone as audio source to LOAD the game on the EAR port.
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all.
Here's a sidebar post in my continuing daily autobiography you may like.
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Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas.
May your heart be light.
Here's a quick video I did of our home tonight for you.
Enjoy.
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Got a buck? I just watched this one across the street from our house.
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It was 1992.
I was 17.
I just graduated from high school with an admission to a top tier engineering university in hand to study physics, and I let the world into my personal world for the first time.
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Read about my '92 graduation from Weyauwega-Fremont High School. Subscribe for post reminders as I venture to college in Chicago as a physics major and beyond.
High School Graduation
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Today's follow-up "behind the moment" post includes the real photograph from my HS graduation ceremony and a couple video clips I obtained only a couple years ago.
Behind the Moment
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With over 300 daily posts spanning stories of my earliest memories through my HS graduation, the experience has been exceptionally informative.
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Looking back over my HS experience long after a PhD has been informative and chaotic. Chaotic in the sense that every memory led to a cascade of memories as well as not recalling the correct sequence of events. I mostly daydreamed through high school.
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High School Graduation
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