Rick's making me think PhD thoughts. Bad Rick!
Giles: I'm sure we're all perfectly safe. Dawn: We're safe. Right. And Spike built a robot Buffy to play checkers with. Tara: It sounded convincing when I thought it.
'Dirty Girls'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
amych - Oct 16, 2008 2:07:18 pm PDT #4991 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Allyson - Oct 16, 2008 2:11:07 pm PDT #4992 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Going bananas waiting for Agent Kate feedback on Sam.
Also, coming down with a cough. And maybe a fever.
sarameg - Oct 16, 2008 2:13:30 pm PDT #4993 of 10001
So Mister Kitty is in the hospital for the night. I feel good about this. They want to monitor him and get his system all balanced out. They're going to put him on fluids and antibios and keep up with the meds he was on. Tomorrow, more tests (yay$$$) but if like the last time, if we can just get him on the mend...
FIngers crossed.
Now I have to do something about dinner.
Oh, and I missed the FedEx guy. Knew that would happen.
Rick - Oct 16, 2008 2:16:56 pm PDT #4994 of 10001
mr. flea does mathematical/computer modeling of complex systems, but he works with built (water distribution network) and natural environments. Clearly environmental systems modeling is not as cool! Though I think the math and programming is a lot alike.
It's the same thing from the scientific perspective! It's just easier going when chatting up new people if your application of those techniques is how cells self-assemble into organisms, or how internet users self-organize into communities, or how neurons know which other neurons to connect to, or why there are traffic jams. Electrical and water distribution systems are more of an acquired taste.
I'm a clinical psychologist who collaborates with math modelers, and they all think it's very unfair that normal people are intrinsically interested in clinical research but not in their more abstract work. They are always telling their students "You need to do a project with Rick, so you will have something to talk about at cocktail parties!"
But this new complex systems stuff is cool enough to interest anyone.
(Edited for complex yet unsystematic spelling)
amych - Oct 16, 2008 2:23:17 pm PDT #4995 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
The best 'shop I've seen yet of that particularly bad McCain photo: [link]
tommyrot - Oct 16, 2008 2:56:51 pm PDT #4996 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
From Wonkette: What Monster Did McCain Become Last Night?
Rick - Oct 16, 2008 3:05:23 pm PDT #4997 of 10001
Rick's making me think PhD thoughts. Bad Rick!
Graduate school is a great place to sit out a recession. Three squares and genteel poverty.
flea - Oct 16, 2008 3:07:45 pm PDT #4998 of 10001
information libertarian
Resist, amych, resist! Or at least wait until you finish the current degree, eh?
sarameg - Oct 16, 2008 3:07:45 pm PDT #4999 of 10001
I just used the last kleenex.
This week is going GREAT.
Gadget_Girl - Oct 16, 2008 3:32:08 pm PDT #5000 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
PhD thoughts follow me everywhere I go...
Am I an awful person for not getting DD a card and gift for Boss's Day? I don't think anyone got him anything. I wonder if it wounded his over-inflated ego.