Cancer Posted September 18, 2008 Report Share Posted September 18, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER It's an episodic disease with a 4-year period. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 18, 2008 Report Share Posted September 18, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER . . . Maybe it's an auto-immune illness? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 18, 2008 Report Share Posted September 18, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Well, it's certainly not autofire-immune. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted September 19, 2008 Report Share Posted September 19, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER . . . What is it with you people and politics these days? You can't take a step in the NGD without tripping over a bloated' date=' inflamed, feverish thread![/quote'] It's antibiotic resistant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted September 19, 2008 Report Share Posted September 19, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Hey, this thread was bloated LONG before the '08 elections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 19, 2008 Report Share Posted September 19, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER . . . Elections? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savinien Posted September 19, 2008 Report Share Posted September 19, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Perhaps it is time for another King of the Longest thread hill? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted September 20, 2008 Report Share Posted September 20, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Tragic lack of information: There is no page titled "rocket-propelled chainsaws". Well, we should *make* one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted September 20, 2008 Report Share Posted September 20, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Speaking of statting-out' date=' here's an interesting little tool. A pity it doesn't come with a generated-on-request video, but 3-d hypersonic impacts are kinda tough to model. You should post that tool over on one or more of the Star Hero threads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted September 20, 2008 Report Share Posted September 20, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Long story, but true, just about 20 minutes ago. Terrible joke at the end. The espresso stand down in the atrium of one building I work in is named "An Ounce of Prevention". (This is in a cancer research center.) The name is in segments of letters (trios, I think) above the stand. Well, this morning, the last set ("ion") had fallen off and was sitting on the shade below its former place. "Yes," the barrista told me, "We are now 'An Ounce of Prevent'." "You really need to get that fixed," I replied. "Those free ions will kill you." He hadn't had that one sprung on him yet. You're a radical! Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER *groans* That one rubbed me the wrong way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Always with the negative ions, Moriarty! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER negative vibes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Classes start Wednesday. Except for mine, which start Thursday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archermoo Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Classes start Wednesday. Except for mine' date=' which start Thursday.[/quote'] Wherefore? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER My lecture is 4 days a week, skipping Wednesdays. Nothing deeper than that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archermoo Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER My lecture is 4 days a week' date=' skipping Wednesdays. Nothing deeper than that.[/quote'] No one else has Thursdays off? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I'm sure others do; most of our department's lower-division classes are on 4-days-a-week schedules. It just happens my "off day" for lecture is Wednesday. Since the lab sections meet on Wednesday & Thursday, technically I don't have Wednesday off, but there is no point in having the first lab before the first lecture, so neither lab section will meet this week. I've left a sign on the lab room door to that effect already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archermoo Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I'm sure others do; most of our department's lower-division classes are on 4-days-a-week schedules. It just happens my "off day" for lecture is Wednesday. Since the lab sections meet on Wednesday & Thursday' date=' technically I don't have Wednesday off, but there is no point in having the first lab before the first lecture, so neither lab section will meet this week. I've left a sign on the lab room door to that effect already.[/quote'] Awfully polite of you. I've had any number of profs/TAs that were nowhere near that nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I tried it last spring, going on the very first meeting; not very satisfactory results. Especially in this case it doesn't work well, because I can't legitimately assume they have had a chance to read the syllabus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archermoo Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I tried it last spring' date=' going on the very first meeting; not very satisfactory results. Especially in this case it doesn't work well, because I can't legitimately assume they have had a chance to read the syllabus.[/quote'] Once for a lab that met for the first time before the first lecture the TA decided to give a quiz the first day. The only questions were your name, the name of the class, and the TAs name (which she had already told us and wrote on a chalkboard). She was basically taking attendance, but reinforced with a grade impact. The people that blew it off because it was before we'd even been to lecture once were a bit annoyed. She cut us loose shortly after giving the quiz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I've given trivial quizzes like that too, but I save them for lame-duck days (e.g., once I had to teach on Friday July 5) to reward the folks who show up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Hm. The equinox was about 5 hours ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Yeah! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER So, northern summer is astronomically Over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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