Northern & Southern Lights

amazingly, the dissertation is only about 40% bullshit.
the other 60% is data. and figure legends. and other such annoyances.

 

It's the girls who refuse to go out with me. I ask them out when (occasionally) I manage to get up the nerve. I asked one out last week. She said no, of course.

aurora australis.

Or nicest looking PhD candidate (soon to be nicest-looking PhD) on Prius Chat, you win hands down.

 

hmmm, must be older photos... on the Puget Sound pic, looked for my 2010 (after the wax job i did, should be shiny enough to see from space) but couldn't spot it.

but then again, it actually kinda looks like the pic actually missed me by about 10 miles or so. it took a while to determine what i was looking at until i realized that picture is oriented to where east is up on the picture

 

That is amazing.

Although I personally would never make up data, I've found it quite useful to apply Bulls*** 101, 102, 103, Advanced Bulls*** 104, and Remedial Bulls***, to make the topic appear *far* more exciting than it would normally be

 

My bad. I didn't read the caption

 

Good job Daniel. I get turned down too. Just gotta keep asking.

 

I think I could deal with it if I got turned down 99% of the time and accepted 1% of the time. It's being turned down 100% of the time that hurts.

I've been listening to a lecture series from The Teaching Company on The Psychology of Human Behavior. I've just finished listening to the section on the classification of mental illnesses. About half of them seem to describe me. That's probably why girls won't go out with me. I've got half the mental illnesses in the book. I have friends who are women. Some people (women included) like crazy people. And as crazy people go, I'm nice enough. But they don't want to date them.

 

The Teaching Company is great. I have 8 of their lecture series. Geology, Biology, Climate Change, Superstring Theory, Quantum Mechanics, etc.. I spend a lot of evenings watching them, that's how big of a nerd I am.

 

Ithought master's dissertations were 98% BS. I base this on a former roommate who, instead of researching his mastersD, simply sat at home smoking pot and watching sports on TV while making up all the data on his dissertation. His prof was amazed at the 'quality and extent' of his 'research'. One of them was more of a BSer than the other, but I can't tell which was which.

 

This is where I live.

Tom

 

I have no doubt, and he probably enjoyed his college experience one hell of a lot more than I did as a result. He's probably now the CEO of a successful start-up, or healthy company

 

Daniel, lets say you follow Bev's advice and you go to the south pole, and you are standing a metre or so from the true south pole at 12 midday. Now take a half dozen steps toward and past the pole, 180 degrees around the world in just a few steps, now instead of being midday it's midnight and your not all that much more tired than you were a few seconds ago, awesome hey? Now that it's after midnight look toward the sky for the southern lights.

back off on the grumpy old fart act and hear the intent or the request not the literal meaning.

Bev, if you time it right the southern lights can be seen from the southern end of the South Island of New Zealand, not as expensive as going to Antarctica. If you're really lucky they can be seen from the bottom of Tasmania!

 

Sounds like a good excuse to take a quick trip

 

Here's a trip, right here:

It's even cooler full screen.