Okay, traffic map checked, flight schedule checked. I am off.
Thanks for the packing help. I will send the TSA to you guys when they want to know why I have bacon in my suitcase.
This is a time of celebration, so sit still and be quiet.
Snyder ,'Chosen'
Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Dana - Feb 23, 2006 6:07:25 am PST #8925 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Kalshane - Feb 23, 2006 6:08:28 am PST #8926 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
I will send the TSA to you guys when they want to know why I have bacon in my suitcase.
"Because it's bacon" isn't a valid reason?
Gudanov - Feb 23, 2006 6:09:16 am PST #8927 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
Ah man, that sounds really stressful Kalshane. I hope things go as well as they can.
Rick - Feb 23, 2006 6:09:46 am PST #8928 of 10002
If that Canadian professor had tenure at a U.S. university there is no way that he would have been fired over that stuff. The idea of tenure is that academia is the place for orthodoxy to be challenged. It is the place where old ideas are supplanted by new, better ideas, and the only concern should be for the quality of the ideas. The process of overthrowing orthodoxy usually offends many powerful people, and tenure provides a protection for those who would dare to offend. It looks like a protection for professors, but it really is a protection for the ideas, who after all cannot speak for themselves.
Of course, for tenure to work it has to offer broad protection, which means that people will always find ways to exploit it for other purposes. A jerk with tenure is hard to control. But the basic idea is that in a community dedicated to a life of the mind, we will accept those unintended effects of tenure for the sake of the ideas. For the sake of progress.
Gudanov - Feb 23, 2006 6:10:56 am PST #8929 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
I will send the TSA to you guys when they want to know why I have bacon in my suitcase.
I don't think bacon is generally considered a weapon. Although maybe there is some concern about the if-you-let-me-fly-the-plane-you-can-have-some-bacon scenario.
Vortex - Feb 23, 2006 6:11:37 am PST #8930 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
If that Canadian professor had tenure at a U.S. university there is no way that he would have been fired over that stuff.
not necessarily. one of the few things that tenured professors can be fired for is misconduct. they might not win, but they have a decent argument.
DXMachina - Feb 23, 2006 6:15:10 am PST #8931 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I don't think bacon is generally considered a weapon.
No, but some of the organic compounds that could be derived from the nitrites they use to make bacon might be picked by the sniffers as explosive-like compounds.
Gudanov - Feb 23, 2006 6:16:12 am PST #8932 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
That's a good bacon saftey tip.
tommyrot - Feb 23, 2006 6:19:42 am PST #8933 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
A big block of frozen bacon might be used to bludgeon someone. And if you happened to dip a thin bacon slice into liquid nitrogen or hydrogen, you might end up with a sharp edge-weapon. (Not 100% sure about that last one - I might need to do some testing.)
DXMachina - Feb 23, 2006 6:23:23 am PST #8934 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Congrats to Mr. and Mrs. Wolfram!