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.
@colby I actually haven't modeled NFL for a couple years...
@colby I haven't actually modeled any soccer games yet, though I'm currently in the process of rewriting the code from scratch to make it possible to model any sport based on changing configuration files
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.
