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Someone in the building next to me just threw their computer monitor out the window. I just so happened to see it hit the parking lot. It must have dropped at least four stories. The first thing that came to my mind.....
.....Annoy-a-tron.
(This is the honest truth)
The saga continues... (wait...hold on...can't st..op...lau...ghing...phew...ok...)
My brother planted some more annoy-o-trons around the office and the best story I've heard so far is that one guy disassembled his computer three times (this is a financial firm, not IT).
This thing is potent!
It's almost like a subterfugal weapon.
"Have a workaholic workmate that's stealing all your glory?
Never fear! The annoy-o-tron will help you rid your co-worker of their -aholic tendencies. WARNING! May cause temporary or permanent insanity!
__________________ Hypography Science Forums Moderator
--- "There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew." - Marshall McLuhan
"We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it." - Marie Curie
Just for today, think of everything related to light in terms of photons. When you see light, think of all the photons coming to you. When you see red rose, think of all the different kinds of photons going to the rose and only the specific kind (the red wavelength one) coming back to you.
Use “canonical” when you mean “usual” or “standard.” As in, “the canonical example of talking like a physicist is to use the word ‘canonical.’”
Use “orthogonal” to refer to things that are mutually-exclusive or can’t coincide. “We keep playing phone tag — I think our schedules must be orthogonal”
“About” becomes “to a first-order approximation”
Things are not difficult, they are “non-trivial”
Large discrepancies are “orders of magnitude apart”
Refer to coordinates and coordinate systems. “I got shafted” becomes “I took one up the z-axis
For Today's TGIF suggested link, I give you Empty and Meaningless. Really a neat and trippy documentation on the canonical modeling of Life as a functional matrix of experience and religion, yielding eigenvalues of Empty and Meaningless; and how these eigenvalues can be used in a quasi-Fourier transform to produce Life Functions that assymptotically fit any desired curve.
__________________ Hypography Forums Moderator -- - - - - - What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Epictetus, Greek Philosopher The map is NOT the territory.
Korzybski, Polish-American Philosopher
__________________ Hypography Science Forums Moderator
--- "There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew." - Marshall McLuhan
"We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it." - Marie Curie
Nice one... Wanna know if the Earth's destroyed, in real time?
They'll notify you with email in case Earth is blown to bits. A must-have, so that you can at least plan your wardrobe for the day, if the Earth is blown up.
__________________ [size="1"]Michael the Archangel
m "For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to
(a) mate with,
(b) eat,
(c) run away from,
and
(d) rocks."
Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites.
In science, getting something named after you is like getting the winning touchdown at the Super Bowl or being employed as personal gigolo to Scarlett Johansson.
An unfair comparison. The latter would be far easier and Im sure school kids in 400 years wouldnt have heard of you
__________________ Jay-qu
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Einstein said that if quantum mechanics is right, then the world is crazy. Well, Einstein was right. The world is crazy.
-Daniel Greenberger
And just like that when I had given up all hope,
I said nope, there’s just one way to find that slope.
And so now I, I will derive.
Find the derivative of x position with respect to time.
It’s as easy as can be, just have to take dx/dt.
I will derive, I will derive. Hey, hey!
I don't know if anyone has seen this, but it's bizzarre and cool rolled up into one. You can trade stock on lots of different speculations. People are making (and losing) tons of money doing this. Think Obama is going to be president? Buy some stock in that belief.
__________________ Hypography Science Forums Moderator
--- "There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew." - Marshall McLuhan
"We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it." - Marie Curie
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