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I've never really thought about it. Good question! My gut reaction is to say the Inuits. Such interesting and resilient people!

Probably the GameCube - I have pretty strong nostalgic connections to it.

Hmm - you've just made me realize that I don't do much trading. So the closest answer I have is the tractor I bought. It's a 1964 Massey Ferguson Super 90 with a loader and snowblower. Someone down the road was selling it for 4k. I thought it was a fair price and was prepared to give him that amount, and then as I was writing the check, he said I could give him 3.5k. It was a pretty neighborly thing for him to do!

My strategy was non-conventional, normally a university doesn't want to hire their own graduates, for a few reasons. I demonstrated that I was a decent teacher and their were vacancies for the class that I could teach so a natural fit sort of evolved.

That's a tough one. I have things to like about every season - but I've gotta go with Summer. No big teaching commitments, lots of time to pursue my side interests.

I thought I had a spam blocker installed on this site.

PDIP, 1206, TO-220, Axial, SOP

Aragorn, son of Arathorn.

As an intern I had to design this circuit board that converted one type of aerospace connector to another. It was like 144 pins, very high density. I interpreted the footprint wrong and basically ended up with a scenario where all 144 traces had to overlap. I designed this crazy 12 layer board with this huge via matrix. Wasted like 20 hours until someone pointed out my error.

I don't think I'm smart enough to play Chess.

Show - Breaking Bad. Brian Cranston's acting is just undeniably great. Movie - The Prestige. Excellent story and acting. Plus Magicians.

I've really been digging Castles of Mad King Ludwig recently. But I suppose my all time favorite would be Lord's of Waterdeep with the expansion.

I ended up getting accepted here for grad school doing research in a field that I thought was interesting (Additive Manufacturing), then fell in love with the area and school. So here I stayed.

Digital Logic! Followed closely by Microfabrication Lab.

If a person goes to bed every night feeling fulfilled, I consider them to be successful.

I could probably help - there's not too much to those devices electronically speaking. Bring them by my office and I can provide some advice!

The games I'm currently playing are - Dwarf Fortress, Deep Rock Galactic, and Farthest Frontier on PC - and then I've been playing a bunch of Ninja Turtles games on the Switch.

I'm going to go with 8. I use an over-abundance on my toast and it's excellent. But then I get little bumps in the back of my throat. Should I see a doctor?

When I was in undergrad, I remember a conversation with a friend. The theme was "Dude, it would be so cool to be a professor." I remember at the time thinking that it was something unobtainable. Especially because my GPA at the time was like 3.5 and I figured I'd never be able to get into graduate school. So I just sort of assumed I'd go into industry, and I was okay with that. Then there was this conversation I had with a faculty member at SVSU that I respected, Brooks Byam, where he had basically explained to me that it wasn't just your GPA that got you into grad school, there were several other factors. After that, my mind was abuzz for like 2 months straight - "What if I did to go grad school and pursue my dream?". Looking back, it felt like the first "real decision" I'd ever made, rather than just going with the flow of things. There's not a day that goes by that I don't wake up excited for my job - so I think I made the right decision.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough!

I wood work, play guitar, read, raise my daughter, one wheel, cross country ski, D&D, and game. I play Deep Rock Galactic with my cousin quite often. I've been playing Dwarf Fortress a bit recently as well.

It's gotta be the RHCP (Red Hot Chili Peppers). Solo Artist would be their guitarist - John Frusciante.

I believe investing is a big part about being a responsible adult. I dump like 20% of my paycheck into my retirement account. I do have a smaller "hobby fund" that I use for more risky / fun investments. I managed to ride the GME wave and time it to make a nice little bundle. But I think my days of investing like that are behind me. Slow and steady wins the race. Compound interest is king.

I don't know if I can share it for copyright reasons - but I'm quite partial to Chloe Coscarelli's Waffle recipe.

In grade school, my favorite was physics. In college, it was Digital Logic. To be teaching that topic now is a dream come true.