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The Day After International Women's [Chat]

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  • electricitylikesmeelectricitylikesme Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Also, Kakos is that you on my Facebooks?

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  • BamaBama Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I like how it was pretty certainly within their power to get that through the senate legally this whole time and they managed to fuck it up.

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Bama wrote: »
    I like how it was pretty certainly within their power to get that through the senate legally this whole time and they managed to fuck it up.

    Like I said, the nakedness of this power grab is astounding. You'd think they have some subtlety.

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  • RichyRichy Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Apothe0sis wrote: »
    Apothe0sis wrote: »
    What happened with evilbob?

    He tried to OD, and ELM managed to summon Paramedics to make sure he was alright.

    :(

    Go ELM GO.

    Nice work man. That is great. And via the forums too.

    D: I knew EvilBob was down lately, but I had no idea...

    Indeed, good work ELM.

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  • RichyRichy Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    This is what I got for Prof Trivia for the graduation dinner so far:
    1. Some nerd stuff I currently own: a Grimlock masterpiece transformer, a miniature DeLorean from Back to the Future, a replica of Mal's gun from Firefly, and not one but two sonic screwdrivers. You could make a multiple choice question out of that. I could bring one of my sonic screwdrivers to dinner if it helps.

    2. A few years ago back, I taught a class on Halloween evening while wearing a devil costume. I used my pitchfork as a pointer. Picture attached.

    3. I am using an old computer's dual-processor liquid cooling unit as a bookend on my office bookshelf right now.

    4. My undergrad graduation dinner was held at Varadero, Cuba (that one will make the kids jealous!)

    5. During my first week here, Orientation Week 2008, one of the red-shirt Student Ambassadors confused me for a first-year student.

    6. Related to 5: I eventually got into the habit of wearing ties to work so people would stop taking me for an undergrad. It did not help.

    7. I spent exactly 10 years as a university student. I began my undergrad in September 1998, and ended my post-doc in August 2008 when I became a prof.

    8. As an undergrad, I was director of the Science & Engineering student newspaper. One year we forgot to make a Halloween issue. So we made up for it by merging it into our Christmas issue and making a Noelloween issue.

    9. While I was doing my Master's, I figured out how to get out on the roof of the Engineering building. One of my friends and I would go there to hang out and have coffee.

    10. My father is also a university professor, and my brother is getting his Ph.D. this year.

    11. Back in Laval University (Québec City) in 2001, my friends and I got a visit from Campus Security for playing with a laser pointer in the residences during the Summit of the Americas. Some bystanders were apparently afraid we had a sniper riffle hidden in the dorm room.

    12. My first job ever was at McDonald's.

    13. My second job was doing tech support at the university. I did that one for two years. I quit the day I got fed up and yelled at someone on the phone because they couldn't find the "view" menu in the menu bar in Windows.

    Good? Enough? More?

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  • BamaBama Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    My prof wants us to calculate the Jordan normal forms of two (non-triangular) 4x4 matrices.

    Just in case anyone online right now knows: Is there an easy way to do this or is he just being a dick?

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  • RichyRichy Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Bama wrote: »
    My prof wants us to calculate the Jordan normal forms of two (non-triangular) 4x4 matrices.

    Just in case anyone online right now knows: Is there an easy way to do this or is he just being a dick?
    Matlab?

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  • LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
  • BamaBama Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Richy wrote: »
    Bama wrote: »
    My prof wants us to calculate the Jordan normal forms of two (non-triangular) 4x4 matrices.

    Just in case anyone online right now knows: Is there an easy way to do this or is he just being a dick?
    Matlab?
    I don't recall him telling us to use Matlab, and I checked the eigenvalues* for the first matrix in Matlab and some of them are fractions with imprecise representations.

    *man, I don't even want to calculate the characteristic polynomial for this thing, let alone factor it.

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  • DynagripDynagrip Break me a million hearts HoustonRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2011
    hmm, someone upped the cookie ante to girl scouts' thin mints and peanut butter cookies in the break room.

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  • BamaBama Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I've seen a kitty on a roof, but that's the first time I've seen a roofie in a cat.

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
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  • LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Bama wrote: »
    I've seen a kitty on a roof, but that's the first time I've seen a roofie in a cat.

    sometimes it's the only way to keep pussy from running away.

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  • BamaBama Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Ludious wrote: »
    Bama wrote: »
    I've seen a kitty on a roof, but that's the first time I've seen a roofie in a cat.

    sometimes it's the only way to keep pussy from running away.
    ok you win

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  • ArchArch Neat-o, mosquito! Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    reading news stories about wisconsin from various sources really really highlights biases of each source

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  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Arch wrote: »
    reading news stories about wisconsin from various sources really really highlights biases of each source

    Politico's regular articles are about as bad as WSJ op-eds these days

    the best irony? Half the comment are insulting them for being too liberal

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  • WMain00WMain00 Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Ludious wrote: »

    "FUCK OFF YOU DICK I'M SLEEPING!"

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  • ArchArch Neat-o, mosquito! Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Arch wrote: »
    reading news stories about wisconsin from various sources really really highlights biases of each source

    Politico's regular articles are about as bad as WSJ op-eds these days

    the best irony? Half the comment are insulting them for being too liberal

    like new york times says "Assembly Set to Approve Limits on Collective Bargaining"

    NPR "Senate Advances Bill Curbing Union Rights"

    Arch on
  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Arch wrote: »
    Arch wrote: »
    reading news stories about wisconsin from various sources really really highlights biases of each source

    Politico's regular articles are about as bad as WSJ op-eds these days

    the best irony? Half the comment are insulting them for being too liberal

    like new york times says "Assembly Set to Approve Limits on Collective Bargaining"

    NPR "Senate Advances Bill Curbing Union Rights"

    WSJ non op-ed "GOP Ends Union Stalemate Wisconsin Republicans Maneuver Bill Curbing Bargaining Rights Through Senate"

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  • DynagripDynagrip Break me a million hearts HoustonRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2011
    boo, meeting. i enjoyed my 2 years of employment where i never had to attend meetings. Can't really experience that when you're involved with government work.

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  • WMain00WMain00 Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Arch wrote: »
    Arch wrote: »
    reading news stories about wisconsin from various sources really really highlights biases of each source

    Politico's regular articles are about as bad as WSJ op-eds these days

    the best irony? Half the comment are insulting them for being too liberal

    like new york times says "Assembly Set to Approve Limits on Collective Bargaining"

    NPR "Senate Advances Bill Curbing Union Rights"

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/09/wisconsin-republicans-plan-pass-budget-democrats-sources-say/

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  • iTunesIsEviliTunesIsEvil Cornfield? Cornfield.Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    The NYT's been weird lately. For lack of a better word. I don't want to say their reporting's gone to shit, but there seems to have been a few articles of theirs of late that have been of pretty questionable quality.

    For instance:
    Union Man Hates Unions (But Wait, He's Never Been In a Union): http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/us/22union.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1
    TX Community Really Worried About Well-being of Accused Rapists; Victim Whut Now? http://motherjones.com/rights-stuff/2011/03/new-york-times-texas-rape

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  • Captain CarrotCaptain Carrot Alexandria, VARegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    what the hell, they didn't pass a budget, fox

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  • GooeyGooey (\/)┌¶─¶┐(\/) pinch pinchRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    suck it unions

    Gooey on
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  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    what the hell, they didn't pass a budget, fox

    really nothing is past yet

    the assembly still has t vote then the governor has to sign it

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  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Gooey wrote: »
    suck it unions

    yeah fucking teachers

    moochers

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  • GooeyGooey (\/)┌¶─¶┐(\/) pinch pinchRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Gooey wrote: »
    suck it unions

    yeah fucking teachers

    moochers

    they get summers off

    what else could they want

    Gooey on
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  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Gooey wrote: »
    Gooey wrote: »
    suck it unions

    yeah fucking teachers

    moochers

    they get summers off

    what else could they want

    now most of em will get 12 months a year off!

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  • GooeyGooey (\/)┌¶─¶┐(\/) pinch pinchRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Gooey wrote: »
    Gooey wrote: »
    suck it unions

    yeah fucking teachers

    moochers

    they get summers off

    what else could they want

    now most of em will get 12 months a year off!

    serves them right

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  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    but god help us if bailed out bankers didn't get 4 million dollar bonuses!

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  • iTunesIsEviliTunesIsEvil Cornfield? Cornfield.Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Yeah, but those were already agreed to, nexus. Jeez. It's not like teachers operate on contractual oblig... oh. Oopsy. :P

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  • GooeyGooey (\/)┌¶─¶┐(\/) pinch pinchRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    but god help us if bailed out bankers didn't get 4 million dollar bonuses!

    should have picked a better job then

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  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    hey

    teachers

    leave those kids alone

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    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • YamiNoSenshiYamiNoSenshi A point called Z In the complex planeRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I never knew "Fuck you and the future, I've got mine" could be such a successful political platform.

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  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I never knew "Fuck you and the future, I've got mine" could be such a successful political platform.

    you....haven't been paying much attention have you?

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  • LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    It's only been the most successful political platform for the past ten billion years

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    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • YamiNoSenshiYamiNoSenshi A point called Z In the complex planeRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I never knew "Fuck you and the future, I've got mine" could be such a successful political platform.

    you....haven't been paying much attention have you?

    I try not to. I'd rather not have a drinking problem.

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