Cancer Posted August 14, 2017 Report Share Posted August 14, 2017 Mildly amusing email exchange going on at work, with subject line "Current balance updates from ___ ______" where the blanks are a redacted personal name. Because this is a physics department, and it is work related, it is not an extended wrangle about someone's customer or bank account. Instead, it is about a coming model of this device and the redacted name is one of the engineers of a vendor company working on an improved model of the device which they hope to sell to departments with student electromagnetism laboratories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted August 15, 2017 Report Share Posted August 15, 2017 And so it begins: Three days of meetings that could just as easily be e-mails Professional Development. May Heaven have mercy upon my soul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 15, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2017 Too late. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted August 15, 2017 Report Share Posted August 15, 2017 Even so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 15, 2017 Report Share Posted August 15, 2017 Odds, even. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 15, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2017 Evenly odd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 15, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2017 Did you hear about the cook who joined a mendicant order? He became a friar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 15, 2017 Report Share Posted August 15, 2017 Better than going into one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted August 15, 2017 Report Share Posted August 15, 2017 Happy Pythagoras Day! 8² + 15² = 17² Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 15, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2017 But it's the 16th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted August 15, 2017 Report Share Posted August 15, 2017 That's between you and the Greeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 15, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2017 Fine. I'll take it up with Pythagoras. Luckily, I have his (phone) number. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2017 Ni Nj A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 16, 2017 Report Share Posted August 16, 2017 You are one of the Knights Who Say Ni? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2017 No. They are the "elements of stealth". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 22, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2017 Thales of Miletus - Eclipse source texts May 28th -- Birth of Philosophy & Science Day. Will have to remember for next year. "They were still warring with equal success, when it happened, at an encounter which occurred in the sixth year, that during the battle the day was suddenly turned to night. Thales of Miletus had foretold this loss of daylight to the Ionians, fixing it within the year in which the change did indeed happen.1 [3] So when the Lydians and Medes saw the day turned to night, they stopped fighting, and both were the more eager to make peace...Thales died at an advanced age in 548 B.C. " Herodotus, The Histories (Hdt. 1.74) "Among the Greeks, Thales the Milesian first investigated the subject, in the fourth year of the forty-eighth olympiad, predicting the eclipse of the sun which took place in the reign of Alyattes, in the 170th year of the City2." Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (CHAP. 9. (12.)—AN ACCOUNT OF THE OBSERVATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE ON THE HEAVENS BY DIFFERENT INDIVIDUALS.) Footnote 2: "An account of this event is given by Herodotus, Clio, § 74. There has been the same kind of discussion among the commentators, respecting the dates in the text, as was noticed above, note 4, p. 29: see the remarks of Brotier and of Marcus in Lemaire and Ajasson, in loco. Astronomers have calculated that the eclipse took place May 28th, 585 B.C.; Brewster, ut supra, pp. 414,419." http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126:book=1:chapter=74&highlight=thales http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plin.+Nat.+2.9&redirect=true Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 22, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2017 Suggestion for Pariah: write "May 28th, 585 B.C." on the blackboard/whiteboard and ask the class if anyone knows the significance of the date. Or best guess to what it might be. Good, as it is timely with the recent eclipse. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted August 24, 2017 Report Share Posted August 24, 2017 I had to look it up--or would have, had you not already told us all what it was. Bazza 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 24, 2017 Report Share Posted August 24, 2017 ... Is it edible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 25, 2017 Report Share Posted August 25, 2017 .. proleptic Julian calendar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 25, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2017 That feeling when you watch Great Expectations and feel let down... Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 27, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2017 Sounds like Cancer's IT dept. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 28, 2017 Report Share Posted August 28, 2017 Knowing my IT department, they *told* everyone they changed it to "password", but in fact they changed it to "passsword". Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 28, 2017 Report Share Posted August 28, 2017 Haha -- they are incompetent! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted August 28, 2017 Report Share Posted August 28, 2017 Well, you can't spell password without as...you know what, never mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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