Stuff from 12 April, 2006
This is the archive of tumbledry happenings that occurred on 12 April, 2006.
Rode NT5 Matched Pair
This is the archive of tumbledry happenings that occurred on 12 April, 2006.
Naw, it's just future proofing for more microphones sometime in the misty eventual times somewhere ahead.
Haha, you said anal.
There should be some kind of vote to see who gets the last say in this thread before Alex turns it off. This vote will commence after the high fives ofcourse. Who wants to come give me a high five in Norway? We still have winter here, so that would be a perk. Wait, that's not a perk at all. Damn it.
Damn it, I can't type at all. I should really hire someone that I can dictate to. That would solve the problem.
Yeah, the paper is complete and it was a bitch. I am now basking in the glory of having absolutely nothing to do. You see, it's Easter Break until next Wednesday, and just about all my classmates went back to their homelands for the break, but not I. So I am sitting in a small town, in Norway, doing mostly nothing on a day to day basis. I love it. I just wish it was sunny and/or warmer here. I here it's been in the 70's in MN. You guys better be grateful….
Wait a minute, this isn't a democracy, its a self-perpetuating totalitarian dictatorship, in which only the words of the benevolent Alex Micek are final. All hail our fearless leader! Death to the non-tumbledryers!
Sorry, I think I got a little carried away there, but at least I think I got my point across.
Non-tumbledryers are perfectly welcome to live; this website generally tends towards a Switzerland-esque viewpoint on things. However, without tumbledry, non-tumbledryers do lead darker existences.
Stil, you are in Norway (a foreign country) and we are still here in Minnesota, even if the high is 76 degrees (24.4 Celsius for your Norwegians). We'll enjoy the weather for you and you enjoy the foreign land for us.
Non-tumbledryers are perfectly welcome to live; this website generally tends towards a Switzerland-esque viewpoint on things. However, without tumbledry, non-tumbledryers do lead darker existences.
what?! i did not type that! what the hell is going on here Alex?!
Sure you did'nt… post-whore.
There should be an editing option.
Great idea, great photoshop - This great picture flawlessly merges images of an iPod and Swiss Army knife to give the appearance of a great idea: an iPod with flip-out multi-tools on its sides.
My god. That's the strangest bug ever. I hand edited it to be my comment (which it was) but I simply can not figure out how that happened. Shouldn't occur again.
Today in quantitative chemistry, the lecture topic was the difference between detectors in common spectrography equipment. One detector (the photomultiplier tube) is extremely sensitive, while the other (the photo diode array) is significantly less sensitive (but cheaper). So the professor proposed the following question:
If a PMT yields a limit of detection of 2 zeptomoles (10E-21) and a PDA has an LOD of 1 picomole (10E-12), how much more sensitive is one than the other?
I said “about one billion times” and another kid said “2.” Thankfully, I got the answer right, but I got to thinking about it. I mean, this kid was 500 million off from the right answer. And he wasn’t 500 million units away from the answer - no - he was off by a factor of 500 million. He responded with “oh … whoops.”
He saw the humor, and we all had a good laugh.
well the thing that really sucks is that I had written a great comment about Switzerland and the Tumbledry final solution and it was lost and that post went in its place. I cried a little.
That post confused the heck out of me, you can actually hear the gears grinding in my head trying to figure out what that all means.
lol - well regardless, if you really were writing a comment and hit send the exact same time I did, that explains the problem.
Beep Bop Boop Bep.
It's all robot talk to me.
I want to come and sing into that.
I never thought gears could sound fat…you proved me wrong Dan Mckeown, you proved me wrong.
I didn't have to take quantitative chemistry. And… I dont know what else to say except… that is incredibly complex for someone who wants to drill someone's teeth… The chances of you being off the mark by a factor of 500 million is quite low.. and if you are… God save that poor soul. At least you got it right the first time…
the extent of my chemistry knowledge comes from the periodic table of elements song. nevertheless, i found it humorous that this kid was off by 500 million times, that's a lot, and had i been there, i woulda pointed and laughed as well
From: Micek, Alexander J.
Sent: Tue 4/11/2006 11:50 AM
To: Dr. West
Subject: Lab Schedule
Hello,
Just checking - we have no lab this week, but lab next week (I’m in the Thursday afternoon lab), correct?
Thanks,
Alex
From: Dr. West
Sent: Tue 4/11/2006 11:54 AM
To: Micek, Alexander J.
Subject: Lab Schedule
Alex,
Actually, this week, labs that normally meet on Thursdays will meet this Tuesday, and labs that normally meet Tuesdays will be next Wednesday.
Just kidding, you are correct.
That reminds me of something that happened to me. I emailed one of my professors about a couple things before she had the chance to email the class. She sent me an email saying that I was just a little bit faster than her. So I sent an email back saying, "Thank you Dr. McComas, always one step ahead of you :)" She sent me an email back saying, "Yes, John, and thank you so much for pointing that out…" And that was all she wrote. I almost pissed my pants for pissing off an instructor. I frantically sent an email back apologizing and the next thing I knew she was right beside me in class saying, "I was just joking."
After a very basic 5 minute training course, anyone is welcome to try them out, lol.