Cancer Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 Re: The Last Word Not looking for that. If there's something I never was, it's a back door man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 Re: The Last Word You dirty, dirty man! Or is it me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 Re: The Last Word As Richard Feynman once said, that is between you and your rabbi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 Re: The Last Word I have none. Vondy is the closest, but I'm very much a Gentile. ^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 Re: The Last Word I figured as much, but I was quoting R.F. and wanted to stay true to the source. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 Re: The Last Word I gather Feynmann had a rabbi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 Re: The Last Word I would assume so, but I don't know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 Re: The Last Word Ah, it's all good in the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 Re: The Last Word Meanwhile, trying to set a curve in one class now. I have one guy I desperately want to give an F to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 Re: The Last Word On the cusp? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 Re: The Last Word Depends on what I do with four assignments he turned in way too late, and if I put in a weighting term on the time derivative of his exam scores. 72 of 100 on the first mid-term (pretty good); 27 of 100 on the second mid-term (really bad), and four mercy points out of 140 on the final. He blew off my class, and I want to crucify him for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 Re: The Last Word You want to let him get away with crucifiction? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 Re: The Last Word Well, it'd fit. The assertion he's been working on my class is a different sort of fiction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 Re: The Last Word Everyone likes a good story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 Re: The Last Word ... the first spread of torpedoes are running. Next to take care of the other course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 14, 2010 Report Share Posted December 14, 2010 Re: The Last Word And now that's in the bag, too. Happy happy. Time to sleep in tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 Re: The Last Word ... And I stayed up late (01:09 am right now) to watch the Geminids, but overcast skies rained on my parade ... I'm gonna be a wreck tomorrow. +_+ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Re: The Last Word Unless the weather forecast is really favorable, AND the meteor shower forecast is for something special, I don't even try for winter meteor showers. The odds are so poor, and the payoff so modest. Our cloud cover is so ubiquitous during the November through March season that it's foolish to make such plans here. Sure, it's worth peeking out the windows every now and then, but not much more dedicating planning than that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Re: The Last Word But it was supposed to be clear! At ten in the evening the stars were shining bright ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Re: The Last Word I've had more than a few observation plans skronked by weather, up to and including entire 4-night runs where I never opened the dome. And I'm a spectroscopist, and we're pretty tolerant of adverse weather as groundbased astronomers go. I've known photometrists who bailed on night 2 of a ten-night run. Now, that last was right after El Chichón erupted and put an unholy bunch of junk onto the stratosphere and spoiled the ultraviolet transparency of the atmosphere for months.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Re: The Last Word Mother Nature is a beeyatch that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Re: The Last Word And not the "take it" kind, either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Re: The Last Word She has her limits, I gather. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Re: The Last Word Limits exist, but good luck figuring out what they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 17, 2010 Report Share Posted December 17, 2010 Re: The Last Word ... One of those inscrutable types ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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