Work-sensitive enough that I decided to delete it. Sorry.
Posted by Observer at April 8, 2003 06:58 AMComments on entries can only be made in pop-up windows while those entries are still on the main index page. Sorry for the inconvenience this causes, but this blocks about 99.99% of the spam the blog receives.
Ha ha! Yeah, every Weds at 3:30 there's a talk in the classroom that is directly below my office. I can't hear anything that happens down there (unless physical plant is doing concrete core drilling) but there's always free coffee and cookies outside there to entice the dept to come, and at least once every other month somebody brings a laptop and had trouble hooking it up to the projector.
Nothing I like more than having to debug computer problems on a stage in front of the entire dept. Heh.
At least I don't have to go to 'em. The only interesting ones are the ones on oceans on other planets and how to explore the oceans under the ice on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn.
Posted by: Humbaba on April 8, 2003 08:56 AMI always enjoyed the "guy at the back of the room who needs to prove that he knows more than the presenter." Even more than the free donuts.
Posted by: Shamhat on April 8, 2003 09:40 AM35 minutes is 35% of an hour, of course!
Posted by: Polerand on April 8, 2003 10:42 AMActually Pole Cat it's 58.3% of an hour.
Posted by: Bav on April 8, 2003 01:51 PMIt was a two-pronged joke attack. First, I didn't do math, or what would be called "horribly bad math" -- and secondly, to the Observer, I'm sure it seemed more like 10% of the speech and that he'd have to sit there and listen to mroe and more. Afterall, time is relative.
Anyhow, I think you should give a presentation, a talk, on Clan Lord. I'm sure everyone would enjoy it.
Posted by: Polerand on April 8, 2003 02:24 PMOOOooooooo how 'bout an "Ode to Felicity"?!
She is a hottie, ya know. ;)
Posted by: Felicity on April 8, 2003 03:35 PMyes, I know Pole Cat! I also had tongue in cheek as well. (But I did do the math...)
What was the boring subject of the talk Observer?
Posted by: Bav on April 8, 2003 09:55 PMI hate to be too specific (you never know what those search engines will pick up, maybe I should look into robot exclusion protocols). Let me try an analogy. You have a mild interest in reading blogs, so you decide to attend a talk. You discover too late that the talk is about applying set theory to the algorithms used by programmers who design new fonts used only in tables for web pages that will be compiled properly by the time Internet Explorer gets to version 13.1. In Latin.
Posted by: Observer on April 8, 2003 10:12 PMThat's a *VERY* nice analogy. *G*
Posted by: Polerand on April 8, 2003 10:39 PM