Andy Napper

@quantumdot2.bsky.social

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Professor of Chemistry, Shawnee State University. Real Ale fan. Chemistry nerd. Power BI, SharePoint, and Power Platform geek.

A screenshot of Windows 3.11 for workgroups from: https://winworldpc.com/product/windows-3/311
A floor lamp from Honeywell, with a (to me) nonsensical description: “Optikprocessor ensures that every beam is a note in nature’s symphony, while SICLS orchestrates the ambiance, adapts to life’s dance. … Liguilator is the maestro of hues, painting with the palette of soul.”
A floor lamp from Honeywell, with a (to me) nonsensical description: “Optikprocessor ensures that every beam is a note in nature’s symphony, while SICLS orchestrates the ambiance, adapts to life’s dance. … Liguilator is the maestro of hues, painting with the palette of soul.”
RSS feeds showing "Confessions of a Community College Dean" as being "unread" from Inside Higher Education.
Le Chatelier spelled without the circumflex in the 2nd edition of Pauling's College Chemistry book.
A screen cap showing a letter Linus Pauling received about misspelling Chatelier in his Gen Chem textbook (1950)
An excerpt from Linus Pauling's General Chemistry book where he misspells Chatelier as Châtelier.
A set of wooden shelves with cutouts allowing cats to climb from shelf to shelf. Occupied by three cute cats demoing how much they love it!
A honey bee overlaid with A4 paper proportioned rectangles
Text Shot: I knew the gig was up when a student submitted correct answers to randomly generated percent yield and limiting reagent stoichiometry problems – the historic stumbling block in developing understanding – and submitted those correct answers 68 seconds after first seeing the problems.  That student didn’t do the problems by themself, or even with the help of an expert tutor. Again, these chemical equations and mass amounts were randomly generated. Something technological had to be helping.  And that’s how I used Chat-GPT for the first time myself, throwing my own ethical and moral concerns to the site, and input a randomly generated homework problem of my own to be solved.
Text Shot: Even the first Apple Pencil has a 32mhz 32 bit cpu w 64k, which almost certainly blows any home computer around at the time of the spectrum out of the water - it’s kind of crazy how much computing power is just casually sloshing around in everyday objects now
An interactive timeline of infographics.
If you want to see real, old-fashioned bronze of a kind that would have been recognized thousands of years ago, take a close look at a drum kit. Bronze has been the preferred metal for bells and cymbals for hundreds of years. The more tin in the mix, the lower the timbre…
25 Days of DAX Fridays - 3rd edition - day 1 answer (Camembert Pierrot). See https://curbal.com for details!
Fabric icons from Github showing "gift open warning"
Power Query interface (July 2024 desktop PBI app) showing a larger than usual function definition text.
Pixelated art of a set of trophies
A Power BI graph showing views of a video vs time along with a shaded region that shows a dynamically chosen percentile range from prior data
Power BI visual showing the number of video views as a line, and an area representing the interquartile range. The average (mean) and median lines are also plotted as comparisons.
Power BI chart showing a grey interquartile range in order to compare a video's views since inception