Cell phone internet. Verizon Wireless has a setup so you get like 1xRTT that costs against your minutes. So free nights and weekends = free internet. I think other providers have similar setups.
It's interesting that this question was asked. My buddy Dave (Deagel are you my buddy Dave?) is doing almost the exact same thing, except he built his cabin (actually more like a plaster hut) in the middle of nowhere. He's using a solar panel with a 12v battery (I think he should get a UPS myself)
My parents went on their first date to see A Clockwork Orange. They went on their second date to see... (drumroll) ... A Clockwork Orange. All told, they went to see that movie seven times. I asked why they went to such a wierd movie so many times but my dad only said "Son, one day you will realize." Then I figured out that they weren't paying very good attention to the movie the first 6 times. Ugh.
The best physics humour ever Points of View: December 2003
Robert P Crease selects the funniest jokes about physics and physicists from his readers' poll
Three months ago I asked readers of Physics World to contribute samples of new physics jokes, fresh forms of physics wit, or cases of "found humour" in physics (see "So you think physics is funny?"). I received about 200 replies, including jokes in several languages, stories, Photoshop creations, video clips and links to science cartoon databases.
I was also contacted by a representative of BBC Radio Five Live, who claimed to be interested in having me talk about physics humour late one night. My subsequent negative experience - I hope nobody was awake to hear it - illustrates an important lesson about science humour.
Outsiders don't get it When I was first hooked up, the show's host Dotun Adebayo was finishing a segment on dirty bombs, treating the expert being interviewed with deference and respect. When that concluded, he said something like: "And now for something completely different!" That should have alerted me that I was bring set up.
Adebayo retold some jokes from my column in Physics World - accompanied by a conspicuously too-loud laugh track - then asked me to explain the jokes. Stupidly, I complied. Too late, it dawned on me that while some aspects of science, such as safety and health, are sacred to outsiders, other parts are simply targets for ridicule. Professional humour is one. The point of the programme was to laugh, not at jokes, but at physicists for their supposedly mechanical and cerebral wit.
The lesson was that I should have resisted. Being jousted, I should have jousted back - perhaps with the aid of a simple jest. "I can't explain these jokes to you, Dotun, they're only for smart people!" I should have said. "But try this one: did you hear about the restaurant NASA is starting on the Moon? Great food, no atmosphere! Still with me, Dotun? Shall I slow down?" (Thanks to Larry Bays from the Los Alamos National Laboratory for that joke.)
My Five Live experience reminded me of two other cases of comedians appropriating professional humour. One is a recent New Yorker article in which Woody Allen couches everyday anxiety-provoking experiences (being late for work, trying to seduce someone) in language borrowed from physics. A typical sentence runs: "I could feel my coupling constant invade her weak field as I pressed my lips to her wet neutrinos." Allen lumbers across a whole page in this meant-to-be-cute vein. Don't abandon that film career, Woody.
The other comedian to have tackled professional humour is Steve Martin, who tells his audience that he has worked up a joke about wrenches because a convention of plumbers is in town that night. The punchline, when it eventually comes, is: "It says sprocket, not socket!" When the supposedly expected guffaws fail to materialize, Martin feigns puzzlement. "Were those plumbers supposed to be herethis show?" he asks. Now that brings laughs.
These episodes illustrate a mixture of ways in which outsiders can appropriate the technical vocabulary of a profession for humorous purposes. Allen uses the poetic suggestiveness of technical terms (coupling, weak field and so on) for good-natured fun; his sentences do not make sense if you are an insider and go only by the words. Martin makes fun out of our not being insiders and not understanding the words. Radio Five Live made fun of the insiders themselves: the fact that they do understand the words.
Jests Humour, anthropologists tell us, is a flexible tool for managing the social environment. It can be used to draw people in by sharing, to keep people away by intimidating, to build charisma, to impress, to entertain, to relieve tension, to test and challenge oneself and others. But it is an especially useful tool in science, and particularly physics, precisely because it engages, fosters and celebrates the same values that the field itself depends on - namely cleverness, play and
My favorite was the joke about the physics exam in which a young Neils Bohr goes through all the different ways to measure the height of a building using a pen.
Unfortunately I can't remember enough to do it justice... Anyone? I'm sure its good for a +1 Funny.
I recently took a new products development class as part of my MS Management of Technology degree (shameless plug: UNH MS MOT) and what the above poster described is mostly true. Other sources of funding include:
Government grants (Matt-Lesko-style)
Government small business loans (these are largely the reason for Subway's growth since franchisee's typically take one out to open a Subway.)
Your Rich Uncle
An angel investor. An angel investor typically will invest in early-stage companies to help them get going. They are tough to find, but usually have lots of experience and business acumen to help you out. Like other forms of VC, these want a return on their investment, but will want you to be heavily involved in the company, which means you will own your IP.
My younger brother bought a pbg4 like a week before they released the new ones, so I'm going to have him call the store and see what he can do about gettin money back. You called the brick-and-mortar store? Did you have to do a lot of bitching, or just state what happened and hoped for the best?
On a mac? the first nomad jukebox will work. I have an NJB3 and i can assure you it doesnt.
On windows? probably none... Apple wants you to buy its ipod, not a competing device. Besides, creatives drivers SUCK. if you're anything like me you use Notmad Explorer that makes your nomad basically as easy to use as an external hard drive.
There's a display trick (enabling compression in the display postscript) that speeds it up to be usable on toilet seat ibooks and pbg3s... although i do recommend a memory upgrade.
Couldn't artists feel that their art is in the album?
Granted, there are a billion Xtina's and Justins that you would want to just get a song or two from, but radiohead, jewel, and most of the artists I listen to make albums, not singles, with a specific feel to the flow of the album. F.E.: The Wall. Would you want to just get one or two songs? Or should you experience it as an album?
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Um... South Park is rendered.
So is most of "the anime stuff."
My Ecuadoran friend Beatriz pronounces "focus" as if it's two words, "fuck us" Seems like an appropriate mispronunciation.
But it's hard to get back to work when a girl yells "fuck us!" because you're goofing off.
I hate being blasted with loose bone/muscle mass too! But I work in a slaughterhouse, so it kinda makes sense.
Cell phone internet. Verizon Wireless has a setup so you get like 1xRTT that costs against your minutes. So free nights and weekends = free internet. I think other providers have similar setups.
It's interesting that this question was asked. My buddy Dave (Deagel are you my buddy Dave?) is doing almost the exact same thing, except he built his cabin (actually more like a plaster hut) in the middle of nowhere. He's using a solar panel with a 12v battery (I think he should get a UPS myself)
My parents went on their first date to see A Clockwork Orange. They went on their second date to see ...
... A Clockwork Orange. All told, they went to see that movie seven times. I asked why they went to such a wierd movie so many times but my dad only said "Son, one day you will realize." Then I figured out that they weren't paying very good attention to the movie the first 6 times. Ugh.
(drumroll)
The best physics humour ever
Points of View: December 2003
Robert P Crease selects the funniest jokes about physics and physicists from his readers' poll
Three months ago I asked readers of Physics World to contribute samples of new physics jokes, fresh forms of physics wit, or cases of "found humour" in physics (see "So you think physics is funny?"). I received about 200 replies, including jokes in several languages, stories, Photoshop creations, video clips and links to science cartoon databases.
I was also contacted by a representative of BBC Radio Five Live, who claimed to be interested in having me talk about physics humour late one night. My subsequent negative experience - I hope nobody was awake to hear it - illustrates an important lesson about science humour.
Outsiders don't get it
When I was first hooked up, the show's host Dotun Adebayo was finishing a segment on dirty bombs, treating the expert being interviewed with deference and respect. When that concluded, he said something like: "And now for something completely different!" That should have alerted me that I was bring set up.
Adebayo retold some jokes from my column in Physics World - accompanied by a conspicuously too-loud laugh track - then asked me to explain the jokes. Stupidly, I complied. Too late, it dawned on me that while some aspects of science, such as safety and health, are sacred to outsiders, other parts are simply targets for ridicule. Professional humour is one. The point of the programme was to laugh, not at jokes, but at physicists for their supposedly mechanical and cerebral wit.
The lesson was that I should have resisted. Being jousted, I should have jousted back - perhaps with the aid of a simple jest. "I can't explain these jokes to you, Dotun, they're only for smart people!" I should have said. "But try this one: did you hear about the restaurant NASA is starting on the Moon? Great food, no atmosphere! Still with me, Dotun? Shall I slow down?" (Thanks to Larry Bays from the Los Alamos National Laboratory for that joke.)
My Five Live experience reminded me of two other cases of comedians appropriating professional humour. One is a recent New Yorker article in which Woody Allen couches everyday anxiety-provoking experiences (being late for work, trying to seduce someone) in language borrowed from physics. A typical sentence runs: "I could feel my coupling constant invade her weak field as I pressed my lips to her wet neutrinos." Allen lumbers across a whole page in this meant-to-be-cute vein. Don't abandon that film career, Woody.
The other comedian to have tackled professional humour is Steve Martin, who tells his audience that he has worked up a joke about wrenches because a convention of plumbers is in town that night. The punchline, when it eventually comes, is: "It says sprocket, not socket!" When the supposedly expected guffaws fail to materialize, Martin feigns puzzlement. "Were those plumbers supposed to be herethis show?" he asks. Now that brings laughs.
These episodes illustrate a mixture of ways in which outsiders can appropriate the technical vocabulary of a profession for humorous purposes. Allen uses the poetic suggestiveness of technical terms (coupling, weak field and so on) for good-natured fun; his sentences do not make sense if you are an insider and go only by the words. Martin makes fun out of our not being insiders and not understanding the words. Radio Five Live made fun of the insiders themselves: the fact that they do understand the words.
Jests
Humour, anthropologists tell us, is a flexible tool for managing the social environment. It can be used to draw people in by sharing, to keep people away by intimidating, to build charisma, to impress, to entertain, to relieve tension, to test and challenge oneself and others. But it is an especially useful tool in science, and particularly physics, precisely because it engages, fosters and celebrates the same values that the field itself depends on - namely cleverness, play and
My favorite was the joke about the physics exam in which a young Neils Bohr goes through all the different ways to measure the height of a building using a pen.
Unfortunately I can't remember enough to do it justice... Anyone? I'm sure its good for a +1 Funny.
I suck. I put the wrong URL for my program, I dont go to UVM anymore! The correct link is here.
I recently took a new products development class as part of my MS Management of Technology degree (shameless plug: UNH MS MOT) and what the above poster described is mostly true. Other sources of funding include:
Government grants (Matt-Lesko-style)
Government small business loans (these are largely the reason for Subway's growth since franchisee's typically take one out to open a Subway.)
Your Rich Uncle
An angel investor. An angel investor typically will invest in early-stage companies to help them get going. They are tough to find, but usually have lots of experience and business acumen to help you out. Like other forms of VC, these want a return on their investment, but will want you to be heavily involved in the company, which means you will own your IP.
oh ya!! thats it!
Gotta go find that again...
There was some anime called "Big Wars" i think that had lots of these things in it... haven't seen it since probably like '95
Every english movie I saw in japan was subbed. From "What Ries Beneasu" (the commercial pronounced it japanese-style) to spielberg's "duel."
That said there are some dubs too, especially movies meant for younger audiences.
Wouldn't it be "low-lives"?
My younger brother bought a pbg4 like a week before they released the new ones, so I'm going to have him call the store and see what he can do about gettin money back. You called the brick-and-mortar store? Did you have to do a lot of bitching, or just state what happened and hoped for the best?
I assume/hope that they will make extensions available for these features...
On a mac? the first nomad jukebox will work. I have an NJB3 and i can assure you it doesnt.
On windows? probably none... Apple wants you to buy its ipod, not a competing device. Besides, creatives drivers SUCK. if you're anything like me you use Notmad Explorer that makes your nomad basically as easy to use as an external hard drive.
Somehow, someway, Mitt Romney is responsible for this. (He's the governor of my home state. I blame him for everything bad that happens.)
What happened to interference with interstate commerce?
Where I lay my dish is home YEA YEA!
There is one. (kinda)
KnopMyth.
It doesn't just work off the cd like you'd think, but it is an easy installation.
I actually asked myself the same question the other day, but I haven't tried it yet. Need to get a capture card first.
There's a display trick (enabling compression in the display postscript) that speeds it up to be usable on toilet seat ibooks and pbg3s... although i do recommend a memory upgrade.
My workout?
Cock Push-ups.
(I can only do one in a set, but I'm working on more!)
They shoudl just change the filters so that bad words come up as "the f-word" or "the a-word" or "the c-word" or something.
I can just picture the browsing now.
"Hot sluts dying for your hard the c-word. These the w-words want to the f-word you until you can't walk!!"
Why does it have to be just about money?
Couldn't artists feel that their art is in the album?
Granted, there are a billion Xtina's and Justins that you would want to just get a song or two from, but radiohead, jewel, and most of the artists I listen to make albums, not singles, with a specific feel to the flow of the album. F.E.: The Wall. Would you want to just get one or two songs? Or should you experience it as an album?
Why not just stick with SVCDs for now and see what the market bears?