L. Marcus Posted November 4, 2017 Report Share Posted November 4, 2017 But they themselves are not Oompa-Loompas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 4, 2017 Report Share Posted November 4, 2017 Not usually, but more information is needed to make a definite statement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 4, 2017 Report Share Posted November 4, 2017 There's the old joke about why University of Tennessee fans like orange: They can wear it to the game on Saturday, hunting on Sunday, and picking up trash the rest of the week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 4, 2017 Report Share Posted November 4, 2017 What color is the trash wearing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 7, 2017 Report Share Posted November 7, 2017 I taught Little Boy Pariah to wave like Vir Cotto tonight. Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 7, 2017 Report Share Posted November 7, 2017 Commendable. He's receiving a classical education, then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 8, 2017 Report Share Posted November 8, 2017 They're coming to take my computer away (ha ha) They're coming to take my computer away (ha ha) . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 8, 2017 Report Share Posted November 8, 2017 They are replacing it with a new and better one, I presume. Or at least a functional abacus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 8, 2017 Report Share Posted November 8, 2017 Tablets are all the rage nowadays. Not clay ones. Then an abacus would be better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 8, 2017 Report Share Posted November 8, 2017 Etch-A-Sketch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 8, 2017 Report Share Posted November 8, 2017 Yeah, supposedly I am getting a new Mac to replace the 5-year-old Mac. Hasn't happened yet, possibly by end of day today, more likely tomorrow. For now I am in my other office. The Etch-a-Sketch idea is, however, attractive. Definitely would consume less power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 8, 2017 Report Share Posted November 8, 2017 I had a student today tell me that she couldn't do the assignment because she didn't have a copy of the patriotic table. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 9, 2017 Report Share Posted November 9, 2017 I guess she is patriotic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 9, 2017 Report Share Posted November 9, 2017 I may end up developing and teaching an astrobiology course after all. What a twist of fate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 9, 2017 Report Share Posted November 9, 2017 The best and the sexiest sciences combined! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 9, 2017 Report Share Posted November 9, 2017 What about quantum astroneurobiology ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 9, 2017 Report Share Posted November 9, 2017 14 minutes ago, Bazza said: What about quantum astroneurobiology ? It sounds both immensely fascinating and unspeakably tedious simtaneously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 9, 2017 Report Share Posted November 9, 2017 Happily, it's also so far out in the theoretical boondocks that you can't teach it at the undergrad level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 9, 2017 Report Share Posted November 9, 2017 I'm pondering an alien animal analogue clade that never developed a peripheral nervous system -- all their signals pass through their muscles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 9, 2017 Report Share Posted November 9, 2017 6 hours ago, Pariah said: It sounds both immensely fascinating and unspeakably tedious simtaneously. No, that would be quantum astroneurobiochem. In collidge I had a bunch of cute nursing students on my floor*; biochem was by far their hardest subject. * aka "The Friendzone". Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 9, 2017 Report Share Posted November 9, 2017 I liked biochem so much I took it twice. Bazza 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 9, 2017 Report Share Posted November 9, 2017 You must like biochem the same as I liked tax law. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 9, 2017 Report Share Posted November 9, 2017 I never took college chemistry, because the chem dept at my undergrad institution were a bunch of sunzabeeches who thought it was their purpose on campus to chase off campus anyone who took a chem course and wasn't a chem major. They got away with this because the dean was also a chemist. They also had lots of far-side-of-Pacific=Rim TA's who passed you if you were their ethnicity and flunked you if you weren't, because their spoken English was so bad no one who didn't speak their native language could understand them. A few years later the Legislature intervened on the TA issue, and mandated a proof in spoken English using an examiner that wasn't the department in question. Couldn't happen to nicer bunch of a-holes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 10, 2017 Report Share Posted November 10, 2017 My three calculus teachers in college were all native English speakers. One was from the U.S., one was from the north of England, and one was from India. My quantum mechanics professor, on the other hand, was from Hong Kong and was definitely not a native English speaker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 10, 2017 Report Share Posted November 10, 2017 Yeah, my calc professors and TAs were all native English speakers from North America (one Canadian, else USers). I think I had an Asian physics TA but language was not an issue with him. The horror stories out of Chemistry are things I have only second hand, i.e., direct from people who had experienced them first hand. When I returned as postdoc/research faculty a decade later, our department did have one grad student (a Korean) who couldn't pass the spoken English requirement. He also couldn't pass the General Exam, so he didn't last very long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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