Nuclear power, I'm taking a nuclear shower for a nuclear hour, fools I devour, destroy the mechanics run off like manics
Update: It seems I now have basically an open job offer at Trondheim University in Norway, in case working there should appeal to me any time in the next few years. Hmmm.
Paper is finished. It's due tomorrow, just proof-reading left, and one calculation. 10 bucks to anyone that finds a typo for me. I can't be arsed.
Each one of those graphs sucked more blood, sweat and tears from my body than must be healthy, in terms of fluid loss.
The billion and one things that can go wrong in experiments make me yearn for the days when everything was simulation, the slippery ice where there is no friction and so in a certain sense the conditions are ideal, but also, just because of that we are unable to walk. We want to walk: so we need friction. Back to the rough ground! (apologies to LW)
Another busy week ahead, then I'm off to Korea on Saturday morning to do battle with Kim Jong Il. It probably hasn't made the papers yet, but the latest development is this: The UN has brokered a deal with Mr Il, that the greatest fighter in the free world would take on the greatest fighter in North Korea, man-to-man, one-on-one, hand-to-hand, and face-to-face, winner takes all, loser has to run all around the world in his grundies. So it's me vs Kim.
The worst suffering due to North Korea's nuclear antics so far has been dealt out by George W. Bush, who has given countless press conferences condemning the "nucular" tests. Oh god, it makes me cringe.
On that note, in case anyone hasn't seen it yet, check out the hilari-bottom exploits of Alecksey Vayner. Go to the bottom and read up. I'm sure everyone knows someone who's a little bit of a bullshitter, but this guy takes it to the next level.
A sample of the gold:
Here's a picture:
Not by me, by the legend David Doubilet, Ansel Adams of the sea. With luck on my side I may just take a piccie 1% as awesome when I go diving with the seals of San Diego in December.
Fuckit, here's some more:
Stunning.
Paper is finished. It's due tomorrow, just proof-reading left, and one calculation. 10 bucks to anyone that finds a typo for me. I can't be arsed.
Each one of those graphs sucked more blood, sweat and tears from my body than must be healthy, in terms of fluid loss.
The billion and one things that can go wrong in experiments make me yearn for the days when everything was simulation, the slippery ice where there is no friction and so in a certain sense the conditions are ideal, but also, just because of that we are unable to walk. We want to walk: so we need friction. Back to the rough ground! (apologies to LW)
Another busy week ahead, then I'm off to Korea on Saturday morning to do battle with Kim Jong Il. It probably hasn't made the papers yet, but the latest development is this: The UN has brokered a deal with Mr Il, that the greatest fighter in the free world would take on the greatest fighter in North Korea, man-to-man, one-on-one, hand-to-hand, and face-to-face, winner takes all, loser has to run all around the world in his grundies. So it's me vs Kim.
The worst suffering due to North Korea's nuclear antics so far has been dealt out by George W. Bush, who has given countless press conferences condemning the "nucular" tests. Oh god, it makes me cringe.
On that note, in case anyone hasn't seen it yet, check out the hilari-bottom exploits of Alecksey Vayner. Go to the bottom and read up. I'm sure everyone knows someone who's a little bit of a bullshitter, but this guy takes it to the next level.
A sample of the gold:
- A member of the Yale tennis team wrote in to dispute Aleksey's claim that he competed on the Satellite tour: "I played for Yale tennis, and he tried to walk on the team. He got cut the second day. I had one conversation with him, and he claimed to have KILLED 24 people in the caves of Tibet."
- "I too played for Yale tennis, and Vayner/Garber claimed that he has trouble flying on planes because he has to register his hands as lethal weapons each time he goes to an airport."'
- "Among the claims [a dance teammate] said she has heard is one that Vayner is one of four people in the state of Connecticut qualified to handle nuclear waste."
Here's a picture:
Not by me, by the legend David Doubilet, Ansel Adams of the sea. With luck on my side I may just take a piccie 1% as awesome when I go diving with the seals of San Diego in December.
Fuckit, here's some more:
Stunning.
posted by I-Rock at 11:46 PM
7 Comments:
you're missing a full-stop at the end of the first paragraph in the conclusions.
i'll email you my account details....
Good work alex. You get a gold star as well, for being the first to respond!
Nice pics!!
Those pictures are awesome. If I even get the chance to touch someone who has taken a picture 1% as awesome as those I will count myself blessed.
Agreed choc and tangles.
He's on another level.
Congrats on your paper, by the way. Milestones and all that. Nice to have them behind you. Like that Douglas Adams quote - I love deadlines... I especially like the wooshing sound they make when the fly past.
yeah, thanks dood. It's a self-contained little nugget of work, Like the acorns in that song by the white stripes.
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