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[jim hardy]

he now is starting to put things on top of other things.

Encourage that it's good for those little developing brains.

My three kids used to play blocks together. Middle one had an innate sense of balance - he would stack them as high as he could reach and the column wouldn't buckle. Made older sister jealous and she'd knock them over.

He became a mechanical engineer.

 

[Borg]

Made older sister jealous and she'd knock them over.

He became a mechanical engineer.

So, did she go into politics?

 

[collinsmark]

This song sums up my feelings on NYC. Not really the individual lyrics* but the overall sentiment

That's awesome. I do enjoy the song and music.

There's similar sentiment on the other coast though.



[Edit: I think I prefer saxophones in lieu of traffic. That's just me though.]

 

[WWGD]

That's awesome. I do enjoy the song and music.

There's similar sentiment on the other coast though.

Sorry, I don't get it, because my PC cannot output sound , despite my having tried just-about everything.

 

[WWGD]

A worker that belongs to different unions belongs to the intersection of the unions, which may equal the union of the intersections ??

 

[dkotschessaa]

A worker that belongs to different unions belongs to the intersection of the unions, which may equal the union of the intersections ??

We should complain to the set theorists union.

 

[WWGD]

We should complain to the set theorists union.

I did. They said: Let's blow dis joint.

 

[dkotschessaa]

I did. They said: Let's blow dis joint.

I guess no one signed the partition.

 

[dkotschessaa]

Does contributing to a textbook errata count as math publication? It's the furthest I'll get anyway. http://www.thi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~jukna/EC_Book_2nd/misprints-EC.html

Then I can get an Erdos number...

 

[WWGD]

I guess no one signed the partition.

Sorry, I ran out of set theory puns. My pun-set is empty.

 

[fresh_42]

Sorry, I ran out of set theory puns. My pun-set is empty.

That's clear, but what about the other extreme? Is the pun of all puns a pun?

 

[Nicola Escudero]

I watched a mermaid documentary. Is it really true?

 

[jedishrfu]

I watched a mermaid documentary. Is it really true?

No.

 

[jim hardy]

No.

http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/...n-rockwell-art-entertainment/lucky-catch.html

 

[jedishrfu]

Or this

 

[fresh_42]

I don't know, guys. If you gave me to chose between a mermaid and a big rose fish ...

 

[jedishrfu]

I don't know, guys. If you gave me to chose between a mermaid and a big rose fish ...

Where's your sense of adventure?

 

[fresh_42]

Where's your sense of adventure?

Probably lost in experience.
As long as I haven't been to the Great Canyon and the Baikal lake, mermaids range pretty far behind.

 

[jedishrfu]

I've been to the Grand Canyon. It's quite awesome.

 

[dkotschessaa]

I watched a mermaid documentary. Is it really true?

That you watched a mermaid documentary? Yes, probably

 

[dkotschessaa]

Probably lost in experience.
As long as I haven't been to the Great Canyon and the Baikal lake, mermaids range pretty far behind.

Have never understood where the male mermaid fantasy comes from. How are you supposed to... you know?

 

[Ibix]

I watched a mermaid documentary. Is it really true?

Technically I shouldn't comment because I haven't seen the documentary (don't bother linking - it'll get removed for being pseudo-science). But my immediate thought process is "which is more likely: that there are creatures that are a fusion of a mammal and a fish when it's really difficult to cross-breed creatures as similar as lions and tigers, or that there are credulous fools who make documentaries about their foolishness?"

 

[Ibix]

Have never understood where the male mermaid fantasy comes from. How are you supposed to... you know?

Have you not watched Futurama? They address that very question. The answer is that Phillip Fry is now divorced...

 

[dkotschessaa]

Have you not watched Futurama? They address that very question. The answer is that Phillip Fry is now divorced...

YES. Exactly.

I had the thought before seeing the episode so I was pleased that they addressed it.

 

[fresh_42]

Have never understood where the male mermaid fantasy comes from. How are you supposed to... you know?

Yes. Nice solution. I've had the same thought, but couldn't figure out how to express it. Maybe something like: You have all the usual trouble but ...

 

[dkotschessaa]

Met with the Topology professor to do a postmortem on my qualifier. I was kind of close. Ironically I did better on algeabraic topology than on point set, which I thought would be reversed. And the ones I got wrong were the ones I thought I knew, but missed important details. So, 4 more months of study and I should be ok.

Also, the professors name auto-corrects to "Dr. Camelhair" in spellcheck so I need to be careful about sending him emails. (It hasn't happened yet)

-Dave K

 

[Ibix]

Good luck!

Also, the professors name auto-corrects to "Dr. Camelhair" in spellcheck so I need to be careful about sending him emails.

I had a colleague whose name auto-corrected to "hashish".

 

[dkotschessaa]

Good luck!
I had a colleague whose name auto-corrected to "hashish".

I remember the earlier days of e-mail spellcheck. (MS-mail or something?). It would just spell check and autocorrect automatically, and the dictionaries were not that large. I was doing secretarial work for a guy in a big company, and he had just met with somebody at Harvard the previous day.

"It was good meeting you at haggard yesterday."

-Dave K

 

[1oldman2]

Irrefutable proof, "It's as much whom you know as it is what you know"
From http://www.sciencemag.org/news/sifter/how-one-smart-doggo-got-editorial-boards-seven-medical-journals
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wes...u/news-story/a4de0d201ce420e0302c69532a399419
(Professor Daube said none of them smelt a rat, despite Dr Doll’s listed research interests in "the benefits of abdominal massage for medium-sized canines" and "the role of domestic canines in promoting optimal mental health in ageing males".

Today Ollie is being featured in a more reputable publication, the Medical Journal of Australia’s Insight magazine, which is looking at the surge in journals which charge desperate would-be researchers up to $3000 to get their studies published.)

 

[WWGD]

Mistery cleared. The non-souther looking guy is named Lyubov, not Lou Bob, which was what I understood. That explains the Russian/Ukrainian accent, not often found in, e.g., Alabama.

 

[Borg]

I'm really getting tired of customer service representatives this week...

 

[dkotschessaa]

I'm really getting tired of customer service representatives this week...

The feeling is probably mutual. :D

 

[Borg]

The feeling is probably mutual. :D

I am very polite (most of the time). I don't have a lot of patience though for incompetent reps who insist on telling me completely wrong information.

 

[dkotschessaa]

I am very polite (most of the time). I don't have a lot of patience though for incompetent reps who insist on telling me completely wrong information.

Indeed. I am the same way. But I often just get the feeling nobody cares anymore.

 

[jim hardy]

don't have a lot of patience though for incompetent reps who insist on telling me completely wrong information.

wow
Especially when they get officious.
One of Hamlet's "Slings and Arrows" is "insolence of office"

Another Boring Anecdote but ending is happy..
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Politeness pays even if it's just that you feel good inside about being kind to somebody who's got a pretty undesirable job..

Fair Anne's cellphone quit one day in March mid-conversation. Said "Unable to find network" and all the bars disappeared.
i spent probably twenty hours with T-Mobile's customer service trying to get it working again.

The ladies in their Phillipines call center were extremely polite(well with one exception) , but you could tell they worked from a script and were unable to penetrate their own company's computer to find out why the account wouldn't recognize either the old phone or the new one i'd bought in desperation.

So i packed both phones and all three simcards in a box,
Looked up T-Mobile's 'investor relations' webpage and found the company president in their Bellevue Washington headquarters.
I mailed the box to him with a letter describing my misadventures.
I made sure to praise by name those nice ladies in their Manila call center who'd work so hard trying to make my doggone T-Mobile phone recognize their T-Mobile network.
And i told him i intended to sue in small claims court and when they didn't show up i'd win , and would have the sheriff seize and turn over to me all of their transmitters in Sharp County .
Then I went to local ATT store and got Anne a new phone .

A few days later i got a phone call on the landline from an assistant to T-Mobile's president . He said all records of our account had vanished along with our 1200 prepaid minutes. He sent me a new phone and promised to re-instate the minutes.

When the new phone arrived and i called to activate it, another very nice lady in T-Mobile's Manila call center one Miss "Ika" magically discovered our old account with all its minutes intact. She re-aligned my new phone to that account . She even called my landline two hours later to make sure we'd had success.

So, using the new phone i called that president's assistant and told him he owed Miss Ika lavish corporate level recognition for customer service above and beyond call of duty. , and a steak dinner .
I followed the conversation with email to same effect and included the links to both of Manila's Outback Steakhouses. I offered to pay for her dinner myself. He wrote back assuring me he would see to it.So now i the ultimate luddite find myself in a two cellphone family.

oh well, at least i can laugh about my stubborn-ness.

And i really hope Miss Ika got her steak dinner.

old jim