After one meeting, here are the standouts!
Physicist Phuckhead- I know you consider my branch of the sciences beneath you, but hovering around in my blind spot before announcing that you don't do memorization, and almost managed to get out of my class is not the best plan of attack.
Transferring Trisha- Ok Hon, I know you're off for greener pastures at the end of the semester, but you do need to do something besides stare at your lap before you go.
Sneezy Snelly- I applaud your commitment to education. Now go home before I catch what you've got!
Please refer your Physicist Phuckhead to me. As an astronomer, I eat these for breakfast: as everyone knows, astronomy is much cooler than physics. ;-)
ReplyDeleteP.S. The next time your Physicist Phuckhead tells you he doesn't do memorization, ask him to write down Maxwell's equations. I have no doubt he'll gleefully do so, and then midway through the third equation (out of four of them) he'll pause, realizing he's doing it from memory, since the derivation from scratch is a real pain.
ReplyDeleteThis problem all started with Neils Bohr and his stamp collecting comment. Jerk.
ReplyDeleteWasn't it Ernest Rutherford, Bohr's supervisor when he was still a postdoc, who said that? It was unfortunate, but he probably had a few beers in him when he said it. He sometimes did say things that were much more worthwhile, such as:
ReplyDelete"If you can't explain to a barmaid in five minutes what you're doing, you don't know what you're doing."
Now, THAT's true wisdom.
There was also:
"We don't have the money, so we're going to have to think."
And:
"For Mike's sake...don’t call it 'transmutation.' They’ll have our heads off as alchemists."