Am I right in understanding your assertion that boring is subjective?! What blasphemy is this! Everyone knows that anything outside of my realm of interest is BO-RING with a capital hyphen!
I would like nascar if they really had drivers like the one Sacha Baron Cohen played in that Will Ferrell movie. Which, actually, I liked a lot, despite generally finding Nascar boring. (I don't like explosions much, though I do enjoy driving very fast.)
I myself have missed my bedtime in the past while reading a discussion on the L2 cache in the latest intel processors vs competing AMD processors. It would have bored most people I know to tears, but I thought it was genuinely interesting.
I'd probably find that interesting as well.
I also have a suspicious feeling that I might know why a mechanical engineer would be brushing up on their biology, but need to ask. Does it involve MEMS devices, Stef?
Damn you're good. 100% correct, I work with MEMS now. Today I'm learning how to culture bacteria-- tomorrow I build an army of microscopic robots to take over the WORRRLLLD!
JC!, I am here; I just downloaded your thesis (thanks!); it's been a busy few weeks in real life; and yes, let's talk, dude. I'll PM you my contact info if you don't have it.
And...wow, Rice University! I didn't realize you were there. Dan Sandler (also of DS guest strippery) is a CS PhD student there, too. I applied to Rice when I lived in Texas; apparently it's harder to get into than MIT. At least for Texas residents.
Well, at this precise second-- not so hot. Our ceiling leaked, and then I submitted a sweater design for a book, and then a cat puked, and one of my lab machine's power supplies died, and then it was like 10:00 and I hadn't done any work today.
-- tomorrow I build an army of microscopic robots to take over the WORRRLLLD!
No. We need to build microscopic NASCARs to race around tiny tracks. It'll be like playing with Hot-Wheels, except we might be able to get the government to pay for the research.
I swear, one day I will meet Stef, and I'll be all like "I like to think that I could possibly make video games."
Then Stef will be all, "Cool. I have a PhD in SCIENCE! and I specialize in awesome."
So I'll be like, "Awesome? You mean...like...a micro-machine?"
And she'll be all like, "Well, more than like; I MAKE micro-machines. Lots of them."
All I'd say is, "Oh, Ok then."
Thank you, gentlemen, but the truth of the matter is that I spend all day reading about any array imaginable. Engineering grad students are not nearly as rad as Jeff's NaNoWriMo novel makes them sound.
Re. the knitting pattern, I found out that it will be published in the upcoming Stitch and Bitch Men's Patterns book! Eee! I can't wait to go back to that girl I disliked in my college dorm and tell her that I AM TOTALLY THE ALPHA KNITTER!
Good God, the knowledge that such a thing exists automaticlly made my life 10 times more awesome. I can't thank you enough Stef. Where might someone be able to purchase the afore-mentioned product?
The book's not out in stores yet, and won't be until sometime next year. But SnB books have been getting a pretty decent release, so you'd be able to find it on Amazon, at Borders or Barnes & Noble, and likely at your local Michael's, Jo-Ann Fabrics, or Beverly's as well as specialty yarn stores. Plus, the previous books in the series have been really well-written and reasonably priced at around $17.00 (USD) so I have really high expectations for this book.
I just finished my last class yesterday. I'm a librarian now. And still a linguist, I guess. I haven't decided if I prefer 'libringuist' or 'linguarian' yet-- in any case, when I get my business cards printed up, they'll say "JC Fletcher, male librarian." I've got my blogging business cards already... which I think I'll post in Gamercraft.
I'm also not in school or planning to go to school for the first time ever. I'm just... done.
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I'd probably find that interesting as well.
I also have a suspicious feeling that I might know why a mechanical engineer would be brushing up on their biology, but need to ask. Does it involve MEMS devices, Stef?
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*dies*
Someone needs to explain some stuff to me. MEMS?
EDIT: Also, I'm sorry for hijacking your thread. There are horrible puns here now.
And...wow, Rice University! I didn't realize you were there. Dan Sandler (also of DS guest strippery) is a CS PhD student there, too. I applied to Rice when I lived in Texas; apparently it's harder to get into than MIT. At least for Texas residents.
Go, JC!, go.
I'll ask her tomorrow.
edit: so Stef, you're using organic gunk-life for tiny machines? ...How's that going?
Sweater design for a book? Please tell me (us) more!
No. We need to build microscopic NASCARs to race around tiny tracks. It'll be like playing with Hot-Wheels, except we might be able to get the government to pay for the research.
Then Stef will be all, "Cool. I have a PhD in SCIENCE! and I specialize in awesome."
So I'll be like, "Awesome? You mean...like...a micro-machine?"
And she'll be all like, "Well, more than like; I MAKE micro-machines. Lots of them."
All I'd say is, "Oh, Ok then."
And she said she was boring.
Re. the knitting pattern, I found out that it will be published in the upcoming Stitch and Bitch Men's Patterns book! Eee! I can't wait to go back to that girl I disliked in my college dorm and tell her that I AM TOTALLY THE ALPHA KNITTER!
Good God, the knowledge that such a thing exists automaticlly made my life 10 times more awesome. I can't thank you enough Stef. Where might someone be able to purchase the afore-mentioned product?
The book's not out in stores yet, and won't be until sometime next year. But SnB books have been getting a pretty decent release, so you'd be able to find it on Amazon, at Borders or Barnes & Noble, and likely at your local Michael's, Jo-Ann Fabrics, or Beverly's as well as specialty yarn stores. Plus, the previous books in the series have been really well-written and reasonably priced at around $17.00 (USD) so I have really high expectations for this book.
So remember way back in the beginning of the thread, when I relayed the rad news that I had started library school?
I just finished my last class yesterday. I'm a librarian now. And still a linguist, I guess. I haven't decided if I prefer 'libringuist' or 'linguarian' yet-- in any case, when I get my business cards printed up, they'll say "JC Fletcher, male librarian." I've got my blogging business cards already... which I think I'll post in Gamercraft.
I'm also not in school or planning to go to school for the first time ever. I'm just... done.
So yeah, jc news for the jc news thread!