Cancer Posted November 9, 2015 Report Share Posted November 9, 2015 Oh, and post #30000! Whee! Bazza 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 9, 2015 Report Share Posted November 9, 2015 That's a number of posts, to be sure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 10, 2015 Report Share Posted November 10, 2015 Only took me 45 minutes to get the spectroscopes set up and everything else about the lab ready. Fresh batteries in the flashlights, power down all the computers. You'd think I'd done this a few times before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 10, 2015 Report Share Posted November 10, 2015 Experience something something age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 10, 2015 Report Share Posted November 10, 2015 The cheat of using a laser (visible without putting one's eye into the light path) to position the prism correctly and rotate the eyepiece into approximately correct position probably cuts the time required by two-thirds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 10, 2015 Report Share Posted November 10, 2015 What does the umpires rule? Cheating? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 10, 2015 Report Share Posted November 10, 2015 I am disregarding certain safety procedures when I do things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 10, 2015 Report Share Posted November 10, 2015 So you are technically a "mad scientist"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 10, 2015 Report Share Posted November 10, 2015 Slightly vexed, at times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 10, 2015 Report Share Posted November 10, 2015 Like when the twits in Conferences and Events steal most of the chairs out of my classroom over the weekend and leave my 35-student class only 10 chairs in the classroom for the 8AM Monday class. Since the responsible office only opens at 8AM, I left something of a tirade on their voicemail at 0745 on Monday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 10, 2015 Report Share Posted November 10, 2015 I'd be mad about that, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 10, 2015 Report Share Posted November 10, 2015 That's worth a facepalm or two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 10, 2015 Report Share Posted November 10, 2015 As long as "palm" here means the tropical tree, I can go for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 10, 2015 Report Share Posted November 10, 2015 A face full of fronds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 Really strange here this morning. I'm almost the only one here. It's as if the rest of ... campus? the city? ... has decided to take today & Friday off (after yesterday the federal holiday) and turn this into a clone of Thanksgiving week, but a couple weeks ahead of schedule. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 Ah. Klämdagar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 Sort of. More like a gutshot week: two days on, holiday off, then two more days on. Except it feels like folks are taking the second two days off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 We don't get Veterans Day off, but we do get MLK Day off. I remember it being the other way around when I was in high school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 *sigh* MLK was still alive while I was in elementary school; that assassination happened shortly before I started junior high. (Well, technically, I had about 2 months of 6th grade left at the time.) We get Veterans Day off here in WA partly because of the accident that 11/11 is also the anniversary of Washington's statehood. (That happened in 1889 so the juxtaposition with the end of WW1 is, in fact, an accident.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 13, 2015 Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 Calendarial accidents are bound to happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 13, 2015 Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 Such things are textbook exercises in probability, in fact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 13, 2015 Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 Is good! Ned mor exorcise! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 17, 2015 Report Share Posted November 17, 2015 ... my students might say "exorcisms" there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 19, 2015 Report Share Posted November 19, 2015 Last lab of the quarter today, Last lab of the quarter today, Last lab of the quarter today, Last lab of the quarter today! Pardon me while I dance a little jig of grief. L. Marcus and Pariah 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 19, 2015 Report Share Posted November 19, 2015 "Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!" Scott Baker 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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