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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 02/10/2026

One of the bigger men's soccer matchups of the regular season in Bloomington tonight. Add in a little home advantage (usually ~0.25) and we'd have Indiana favored by about half a goal.

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 01/10/2026

Appropriate image for midterm week for students (and faculty).

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 28/09/2026

They make good machines. 😁

Front of a Digital Equipment Corporation DECpc 450D2LP computer

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 26/09/2026

I love a good football score.

Indiana 5, Northwestern 0, 2nd Quarter, 12:25 remaining

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 22/09/2026

In the spirit of promoting quality work, high standards, owning your effort, readability, and communication skills, I'm requiring my dynamics students to attach a "homework checklist" to every assignment they turn in this semester.

Homework Cover Sheet

Name: _____________________________________________

Please respond to these questions and attach this as a cover sheet to your assignment before you hand it in.

My mathematical work follows a clear, linear progression with every major algebraic substitution and integration/derivation step explicitly shown.
_____ Done this for all problems
_____ Done this for most problems
_____ Done this for some problems
_____ Done this for few problems

I have annotated my work with text explaining the physical principles being applied (e.g., 'Applying Hydrostatic Balance' or ‘Using the Quotient Rule’ or ‘Hold this Variable Constant’).
_____ Done this for all problems
_____ Done this for most problems
_____ Done this for some problems
_____ Done this for few problems

All final answers are boxed or underlined, and all axes on hand-drawn sketches or plots are clearly labeled with units.
_____ Done this for all problems
_____ Done this for most problems
_____ Done this for some problems
_____ Done this for few problems

I have verified my final answers against physical expectations (e.g., correct units/dimensions, reasonable magnitude, proper sign for the hemisphere/ direction).
_____ Done this for all problems
_____ Done this for most problems
_____ Done this for some problems
_____ Done this for few problems

If I am turning in handwritten work or equations, my writing is large enough and clear enough that we could show it on the classroom document camera right now and it would be legible.
_____ Done this for all problems
_____ Done this for most problems
_____ Done this for some problems
_____ Done this for few problems
_____ Doesn’t apply, all work is typed/typeset electronically

I have clearly circled or starred any specific steps where I became stuck or where I am unsure of my logic.
_____ Done this for all problems
_____ Done this for most problems
_____ Done this for some problems
_____ Done this for few problems
_____ Does not apply, there are no questions on which I got stuck or unsure

Disclose any outside help received, collaborations, group discussions, and so on for this homework assignment:

I believe that the overall quality of the work I am handing in today is:
_____ Excellent
_____ Good
_____ Fair
_____ Poor
_____ Incomplete

The two questions on this homework that I want to submit for careful grading are (list TWO):

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 18/09/2026

Wouldn't be surprised if a few small limbs come down with this one. Arriving in the next 5 minutes.

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 18/09/2026

Alright here we go. Rain is incoming, umbrellas are needed. Luckily not much lightning... at the moment. Don't count on that not happening though.

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 18/09/2026

Couple of little rain showers off to the southwest.

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 16/09/2026

Fell right into my hand while I was walking across campus. My lucky leaf for the semester! Into the journal you go.

A small brow maple leaf on a piece of lined paper

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 16/09/2026

I've been running David's code the "old way," on legacy hardware, for a ***long*** time. My first download of the source:

Blurry screenshot of a windows explorer window, with file modification dates all showing August 2001

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 16/09/2026

Can't use it for football yet (his method starts all seasons with a blank slate) but men's soccer is moving along fine. IU sitting at #7 based on games played so far. I love my retro, no question, but for efficient uploading to the web doing this in a modern way is a massive win.

Screenshot of the current top 10 rankings in collegiate D1 men's soccer, using David Rothman's formula.

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 16/09/2026

I've tried off and on for something like 4 years to get David's original code converted into something modern. It has virtually no comments and he did some really weird array stuff & file writing to save memory. Now, finally, I have it. Except for single/double precision, got a *perfect* match. 🥳

Blurry old screenshot of code from David Rothman's BASIC program to calculate sports ratings.

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 15/09/2026

Hydrate. Sunscreen. Watch out for your friends.Don’t let the time of year fool you, this is July style heat for us.

Headlines from Accuweather
Beginning: Tue 15 Sep 08 AM ET
Becoming hotter today. A heat wave from today into Thursday. Near record-breaking high temperatures Thursday.

Tue 15 | D: 94F Intermittent clouds
N: 71F Intermittent clouds

Wed 16
D: 92F Partly sunny w/t-storms
N: 71F Partly cloudy w/t-storms

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 13/09/2026

How have the conferences done against each other so far? Tale of the tape in FBS (both P4 and G6) and FCS. Ratings on the last screen grab use David Wilson's formula.

Screenshot of FBS college football standings that treat all teams in a conference as a group, to allow for inter-conference comparison. P4 in order: SEC, ACC, Big 12, Big Ten. G6 in order: American, Pac-12, Sun Belt, Mountain West, Mid-American, Conference USA.

Screenshot of FCS college football standings that treat all teams in a conference as a group, to allow for inter-conference comparison. In order: Patriot, MVFC, Big Sky, Coastal Athletic, MEAC, Southland, UAC, SWAC, Southern, OVC, NEC, Pioneer.

Screenshot of computer ratings for all Division I treating all teams in a conference as a group, to allow for inter-conference comparison. Uses the Wilson system. Standings:
--- Division I ---
*=FCS
W L T
- - -
1 SEC 28 2 780
2 ACC 20 6 735
3 Big Ten 28 8 726
4 Big 12 23 7 721
5 American 14 11 671
6 Sun Belt 17 11 656
7 Pac-12 5 11 644
8 Mountain West 11 9 636
9 Mid-American 12 14 627
10 *Patriot 4 7 596
Conference USA 8 14 596
12 *MVFC 18 8 590
13 *Big Sky 10 13 586
14 *MEAC 11 7 582
15 *UAC 10 11 575
16 *Southland 9 10 567
17 *Southern 9 13 559
18 *SWAC 14 14 551
19 *Coastal Athletic 10 18 549
20 *OVC 5 17 525
21 *NEC 3 15 498
22 *Pioneer 12 17 489

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 13/09/2026

I need to open some windows. 😷 (And do some dusting, I guess.)

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 09/09/2026

Sometimes at work I use the bad word mug.

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 06/09/2026

Welp, there's the reason for the Labor Day Classic delay at Prairie View A&M. ⚡

Radar image centered on Prairie View, Texas

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 05/09/2026

Realizing there was a 🏈 game declared a tie in Division II today and what I'm gonna have to do to the ratings page to get it ready...

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 04/09/2026

(It makes formatting the printouts of our departmental enrollment report so easy!)

Screenshot of a document open in Word for DOS version 5.5

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 04/09/2026

The number of these I have muted...

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 04/09/2026

Two questions. It took only two effing questions. 😂

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 02/09/2026

And now, officially, a thunderstorm. Seeing that cloud initially gave me a little pause because I didn’t bother with an umbrella today. (My personal threshold is at least a 25% chance of rain, or I’ll risk it. Most of the time, works every time.)

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 02/09/2026

I can’t see the rain shower that has popped up to our northwest, but I do have a view of this one that has just barely begun to sprinkle out past Lake Lemon. Even though our conditions today don’t support thunderstorms, it’s *so hot* that there’s enough rising air to get a couple of showers!

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 02/09/2026

Pablo Torre in LA right now

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 28/08/2026

My Bloomington friends, as you commence your alcohol intake for the next 48 (or 60) hours, please remember to occasionally

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 28/08/2026

Fewer and fewer cumulus clouds in the last three hours (4 to 7 p.m. Eastern) as the sun gets lower & heating decreases. Love a good example of a typical summer day.

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 27/08/2026

It still astonishes me that the city and others in the city would consider using a security company that won’t even keep its license plates renewed properly. Last year, multiple cars had plates expired for over two months. How do trust a company like that.

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 27/08/2026

Yep, already, all the pixels that have switched from gray to teal/aqua have an estimate of 1 inch of rain. Those couple of dark green pixels between Ellettsville & the airport have already received (an estimated) 2 inches.

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 27/08/2026

Not much to say except thunderstorms are probably incoming, and therefore evening patio time should be wrapped up once the thunder gets here. Make good decisions.

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 26/08/2026

Absolutely my favorite Tim Curry photo ever.

Tim Curry dressed as Pennywise, holding an umbrella in the rain, and smoking a cigarette

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 26/08/2026

I have a stash of scratch-off multiple choice cards - so you can basically do partial credit for multiple choice questions! Will be using them for small quizzes every couple of weeks. 🪙

“Immediate feedback assessment technique” form for scratch off multiple choice testing

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 25/08/2026

A bag of pennies for the first day of dynamics….. 🤔🤔🤔

A bag of pennies sitting on top of a stack of syllabi

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 24/08/2026

I mean, when one uses Windows Media Player, the meteorologist’s choice of visualization should always be “my tornado is resting”.

Windows Media Player visualization on a windows 7 machine

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 23/08/2026

That one big flat cloud we could all see on the west side of town for the last hour is the remnant anvil from one of the few thunderstorms that formed today back near Peoria, Illinois. Not much left of it!

Remnant anvil cloud behind power lines and traffic signals

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 22/08/2026

Fun but probably useless thing accomplished during lunch today: a graph of water vapor brightness over the region. Neat to see Thurs. morning's cluster of storms pop up for 6 hours. (non-nerds: tells us about the atmosphere's overall humidity & coverage of deep clouds and storms over the region)

A graph of "median water vapor brightness temperature" across roughly Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana. X-axis is time in UTC; y-axis is brightness temperature in C. Black line for the median; dark green shading for the interquartile range; and light green shading for the 10th to 90th percentiles.

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 21/08/2026

Nice little exam question on Reddit. “Any suggestions for this title?”

Screenshot of a Reddit post with title and photo

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 21/08/2026

I’ve got my spreadsheet open and am ready to participate in the discourse.

Screenshot of the About Microsoft Excel information box from Microsoft Excel Version 4.0, Copyright ® 1985-1992.

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 19/08/2026

Hahaha yes, that’s exactly what it is! I have a receipt printer that prints the 5-day forecast every morning for me before I walk out the door. 🤓 I’ll freely admit that “Umbrella today!” has saved me a couple times!

Photo of a receipt with a weather forecast printed on it

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 19/08/2026

Random data thought while I was on the bus home: is there a particular time of day that has bigger class wait lists (demand greater than seats available)? How are the wait lists distributed across the day? In the College of Arts & Sciences, it's pretty flat: similar excess need, regardless of time.

Graph showing the waitlist percentage of capacity for College of Arts and Sciences courses in Fall 2026. X-axis is starting hour, Y-axis is percentage of seats over capacity in that hour.

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 18/08/2026

Official mascot of Indiana University vs. Official mascot of the City of Bloomington

Hoosier Bison, the official mascot of IU

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 18/08/2026

Bloomington, you may have one (1) rain-free day, as a treat.

Mon 17

N: 59F Fog

Tue 18

82F Mostly sunny
65F Partly cloudy

Wed 19

78F Partly sunny w/t-storms
*** Umbrella today! ***
64F Thunderstorms

Thu 20

81F Thunderstorms
*** Umbrella today! ***
N: 60F Mostlyclear

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 16/08/2026

Yep, looks like multiple outages across town thanks to this set of storms.

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 16/08/2026

Pretty sure we are all going to get rain from this one… (Videos won’t upload for some reason, sorry)

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 16/08/2026

Wrap up the picnics, sigh, here comes another round of thunderstorms. (Bluesky is taking its sweet time with uploads today, been trying to post something for a few minutes now.)

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 16/08/2026

Well, there went our last pre-7 a.m. sunrise of the summer. :-/

Screenshot of Geoclock 6 showing much of North and South America. Software by Joe Ahlgren, 1994.

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