Joe Flood @JoeJimFlood@transportation.social
Awkward absurdist nerd. Pantheist who likes being in nature. Develops models of people's daily going abouts for a living.
The space of time between Mendeleev’s first stab at a periodic table and Einstein’s paper on special relativity was smaller than the time between the release of Goonies and today.
@nerd4cities Just watched today's video with my dad (we both liked it), though he's curious about which baseball player is in the picture behind you.
I spoke to a retired educator about the importance of teaching kids accurate US history. They lamented, "A student told me our military has raped & pillaged people in poor countries. I was horrified he said such misinformation. I sat him down & corrected him."
Y'all—& I say this as the brother of a US Marine—our standard must be justice. Acknowledging that members of the US military committed such atrocity isn't anti-American—but what true Patriotism looks like. Let's demand justice above all.
I suppose I'm overdue for an introduction... Was born and raised in Indiana, attended Purdue for undergrad (Math/Stats, Psychology) and the University of Washington (Civil Engineering, Applied Math) for grad school. Worked at the Indianapolis MPO for a year and a half doing land use modeling and other nerdy number things, and then four years at DVRPC and the past year at SANDAG doing travel model development (mostly of the activity-based variety).
I woke up today to find out that an Elon fan had informed me that I was detached from reality. This gives me validation that the approximation of reality my brain has compiled in 32+ years of life is at least somewhat accurate.
Awkward absurdist nerd. Pantheist who likes being in nature. Develops models of people's daily going abouts for a living.
