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sniffnoySome things that either happened on the last day or that I never talked about...
So this year at the Frisbee game (which I missed), we had a chant that went like this: Bernie would loudly shout "COCKPUNCH!" and everyone else would respond "RSI!". Occasionally he would substitute "DICK KICK!". We actually got a preview of this at the talent show, when Charlie brought some of his RSI friends along, although then it was only Dustin responding. Anyway, after the Frisbee game, this chant would occasionally start up somewhere else - often in the cafeteria, in front of all the other programs, usually with Anton doing the shouting, as, well, he's good at that. If I'm not mistaken, there have even been some non-PROMYS people joining in. So yesterday at dinner, Anton started shouting it really, really loud - loud enough to certainly drown out any other noise in the area. It was great. :D
So yesterday someone left a newspaper on the floor of Stone B50 after lecture. It had a great headline: "Another Manhole Explodes in North End." *Another* one.
Oh, two of the rules on the blackboard during the final were, consecutively, "No eating" and "No first years". Someone pointed out that these combined to "No eating no first years."
Also, on the way to the final, I saw some sort of lifter machine carrying these packages labeled:
ROXUL AFB
Acoustical Fire Butts
...WTF?! I am so wondering what in space an "acoustical fire butt" could be...
Oh, one other great thing from ∞-boy: He said he didn't get a T-shirt because his parents never got an order form.
Things to do in the month or so before leaving for Chicago:
1. Fix computer (by which I mean reinstall the OS (by which I mean switch distributions))
Things I owe:
1. A copy of a book on polynomials which I apparently never returned to Mr. Holbrook
2. A copy of the Civil Engineering Handbook that I borrowed from my neighbor last year for that stupid bridge-building thing
Things owed me:
1. My Tom Lehrer CDs!
Things I owe that I will not be able to return for quite some time:
1. Ben Wolf's extension cord that he lent me on the first day of PROMYS
And now, because someone wanted it last year, I'll do it again this year:
[Anything in brackets is my commentary. [R] means a Rohrlich quote. [B] means a Bernie quote. [!] means anything I thought needed to be pointed out but don't really have a specific comment on. Not many quote were submitted this year, but still I'd say it turned out well.]
Let's have a moment of inertia.[R] * Harry Altman * They're topologically equivalent, but they don't taste the same.[3] * Margy Baruch * They're carefully numbered white through blue. * Rebecca Bellovin * If someone tries to rope you, just rope them right back.[0] * Tom Belulovich * The beach blew up. * Jason Bland * Curse you, 37! * Lawrence Chan * It's your body telling you 'I don't want to be an owl!' * Connie Chao * It's like playing tag with a kid with no legs. * Tao Chen * The 'huh?' formula[4] * Hana Cho * Look at my calves. If I were a chicken, I would be tasty. * Jae Chung * F&%# matrices, man! * Dustin Clausen * I draw small balls. * David Coley * HOORAY! * Lucas Culler * You leave my mom out of this, and I'll leave this out of your mom. * Nakul Dawra * Mike Ding * Who ate the pi?[R] * Caroline Drucker * A-Dan Echlin * Euclidean vanilla * Brian Edwards * R5 is like a kid without his ADHD medicine. * Phil Engel * Fergie[5] * You backstabbing fronstabber! * Eric "The Red" Frackleton. * Cameron Freer * David Fried * Elena Fuchs * It's party... it's party... it's party peanuts! * Issao Danger Fujiwara[!] * Andy Furnas * There are a LOT of primes! * Fay Gao * Milena Georgieva * Francois "Manwich" Greer * Ingrid Guha * Spherical strawberry[8] * Chang Hahn[9] * A goat would feel more at home on the esplanade, so I'll go with that.[10] * Yi Han * Jon Hanke * I told Origami Boy that I was just going to the bathroom. * Ben Huan * Kevin "Pimpmasta K" Hughes * That's a dumb corollary.[11] * C-Dan Jerison * Athena Jiang * You put in s=1 and it goes SPLURT![R] * Feiqi Jiang * Tan Dan Kahn * I eat my ham with zest.[B] * Joy Kang * Adam Kaye * I have committed the unpardonable crime. If any of you have a tape recorder, you could turn me in.[R] * Chris Kennedy * Irina Kholodenko * Numericals rock my socks! * Seohyung Kim[12] * Erick "The K" Knight * a: I know what it means, but I don't know how to calculate it. a-1: I can calculate it, but what the hizzle does it mean? * Becky Kung * Perng-Hwa Kung * It's way beyond transcendental. It's mysterious. * Lorelei "L³" Larking.[13] * Hugh "Little Nad" Le * Brian Lee * Quack, quack. * Brandon Levin * Xingfu Liang * Avacado's Number Guacamole![14] * Lei M. "Li-Mei" Lim[15] * Whose nuts are we gobbling up? * Anton "Eric the Small" Malyshev * The fundamental group of my pants acted on your mom fixed point freely last night.[16] * Kasari Masuko[17] * Hyperbolic chocolate * Bobby McWatters * Djordjo Milovic * The negative integers ate up the pi.[R][18] * Svetlana "Ebay" Mokhnach[19] * Man-Yu Moy * So... what's your favorite mathematical result? * Burton Newman * I think I'm going to be ambiguous. Maybe. * Long Nguyen * You have no idea what's going on in my pants. * Funto Olayinka * Corina Oprescu * My name is Thanos, and I go to Hahrvahd * Thanos Papasmurf * How do unicorns have any bearing on this?![B] * Tung Phan * Danielle "She-Dan" Piskorz * Jason Pollack * Veena Ramakrishnan * This is what you get when you take the integers modulo p and put them on steroids.[R] * David Rohrlich * You can report me to Professor Stevens to get spanked.[R][20] * Steve Rosenberg * In this case, 'special' doesn't mean mentally challenged * Yiwei She * Mike "Amazon" Shu * Did somebody just say functor?[B] * Bernie Silberstein[21] * I like my cheese like I like my women. Four.[B] * Sara Silberstein * How do you deal with that exuberance of infinity?[R] * Nick Slowey[22] * Supernovas * Eric "The Pen" Stansifer * Al Staples-Moore * Or less * William Steadman * Glenn Stevens * Let's be Archimedes. * Eli Stickgold * Alexandra Sullivan * Matt Tai * I'm paranoid about the floor. I don't know where it's been. * Victoria Tan * Meagan Thompson * [22] * Mike Ty * Ila Varma * The Bernomial Theorem * Arthur Wang * Ben Wolf * Softly, deftly... * Ben Yang * Thanos' mom * Melissa Yeung * Norman Yu * Josh Zelinsky * Let me end with a bombshell.[R] * Are you going to wear that?
-Sniffnoy
[0]Yay, censorship! The original quote was "rape", not "rope".
[3]Yay, I got a quote!
[4]Not quite as good a name as the other thing Rohrlich called it before Bernie gave it its name: The "when-not-quite-sober formula"
[5]As last year, not "Jason 'Fergie' Ferguson", just "Fergie".
[8]I was talking to CDan, who didn't know that it referred to that thing Fried said about the different flavors of geometry, and he thought it referred to the name after it - and now that he mentions it, it's entirely possible that that's also the case...
[9]Hm, they dropped the "Hoon". They also dropped the second "Tao" in Tao's name (Tao Tao Chen).
[10]And Charlie, despite not being here, manages to get a quote on the shirt anyway...
[11]Not sure who said this, but it makes me think of Rosenberg's "But that's kind of retarded", which didn't make it onto the shirt.
[12]Strange that they got her name right after spelling it "Seo Hyung" everywhere else...
[13]Strange that they would write "L³" without putting her middle name...
[14]Isn't the joke supposed to be a bit longer than that? :-/
[15]I think I saw "Lei M." on an earlier T-shirt... is this an in-joke from a previous year? Why was it revived now?
[16]I'm a bit disappointed they didn't actually write "F2 in your pants" anywhere...
[17]Nothing to do with the T-shirt, just someone who deserves comment, about whom I haven't written before. We called her "Disappearing Japanese girl." She would show up for lecture each day, and then... disappear. Not that most of us noticed this, of course, as we weren't exactly looking for her, but Connie, being her counselor, did. Apparently she was going home everyday. She didn't even come to most of the other mandatory events, though she did show up for Josh's totally optional perfect numbers lecture. It was really weird.
[18]I still don't think he actually said this.
[19]Good, they failed to mention this nickname last year.
[20]This actually goes with "I have committed the unpardonable crime..." from before.
[21]As last year, not "Aaron 'Bernie' Silberstein", just "Bernie Silberstein".
[22]See last entry for my comment on this.
So this year at the Frisbee game (which I missed), we had a chant that went like this: Bernie would loudly shout "COCKPUNCH!" and everyone else would respond "RSI!". Occasionally he would substitute "DICK KICK!". We actually got a preview of this at the talent show, when Charlie brought some of his RSI friends along, although then it was only Dustin responding. Anyway, after the Frisbee game, this chant would occasionally start up somewhere else - often in the cafeteria, in front of all the other programs, usually with Anton doing the shouting, as, well, he's good at that. If I'm not mistaken, there have even been some non-PROMYS people joining in. So yesterday at dinner, Anton started shouting it really, really loud - loud enough to certainly drown out any other noise in the area. It was great. :D
So yesterday someone left a newspaper on the floor of Stone B50 after lecture. It had a great headline: "Another Manhole Explodes in North End." *Another* one.
Oh, two of the rules on the blackboard during the final were, consecutively, "No eating" and "No first years". Someone pointed out that these combined to "No eating no first years."
Also, on the way to the final, I saw some sort of lifter machine carrying these packages labeled:
ROXUL AFB
Acoustical Fire Butts
...WTF?! I am so wondering what in space an "acoustical fire butt" could be...
Oh, one other great thing from ∞-boy: He said he didn't get a T-shirt because his parents never got an order form.
Things to do in the month or so before leaving for Chicago:
1. Fix computer (by which I mean reinstall the OS (by which I mean switch distributions))
Things I owe:
1. A copy of a book on polynomials which I apparently never returned to Mr. Holbrook
2. A copy of the Civil Engineering Handbook that I borrowed from my neighbor last year for that stupid bridge-building thing
Things owed me:
1. My Tom Lehrer CDs!
Things I owe that I will not be able to return for quite some time:
1. Ben Wolf's extension cord that he lent me on the first day of PROMYS
And now, because someone wanted it last year, I'll do it again this year:
[Anything in brackets is my commentary. [R] means a Rohrlich quote. [B] means a Bernie quote. [!] means anything I thought needed to be pointed out but don't really have a specific comment on. Not many quote were submitted this year, but still I'd say it turned out well.]
Let's have a moment of inertia.[R] * Harry Altman * They're topologically equivalent, but they don't taste the same.[3] * Margy Baruch * They're carefully numbered white through blue. * Rebecca Bellovin * If someone tries to rope you, just rope them right back.[0] * Tom Belulovich * The beach blew up. * Jason Bland * Curse you, 37! * Lawrence Chan * It's your body telling you 'I don't want to be an owl!' * Connie Chao * It's like playing tag with a kid with no legs. * Tao Chen * The 'huh?' formula[4] * Hana Cho * Look at my calves. If I were a chicken, I would be tasty. * Jae Chung * F&%# matrices, man! * Dustin Clausen * I draw small balls. * David Coley * HOORAY! * Lucas Culler * You leave my mom out of this, and I'll leave this out of your mom. * Nakul Dawra * Mike Ding * Who ate the pi?[R] * Caroline Drucker * A-Dan Echlin * Euclidean vanilla * Brian Edwards * R5 is like a kid without his ADHD medicine. * Phil Engel * Fergie[5] * You backstabbing fronstabber! * Eric "The Red" Frackleton. * Cameron Freer * David Fried * Elena Fuchs * It's party... it's party... it's party peanuts! * Issao Danger Fujiwara[!] * Andy Furnas * There are a LOT of primes! * Fay Gao * Milena Georgieva * Francois "Manwich" Greer * Ingrid Guha * Spherical strawberry[8] * Chang Hahn[9] * A goat would feel more at home on the esplanade, so I'll go with that.[10] * Yi Han * Jon Hanke * I told Origami Boy that I was just going to the bathroom. * Ben Huan * Kevin "Pimpmasta K" Hughes * That's a dumb corollary.[11] * C-Dan Jerison * Athena Jiang * You put in s=1 and it goes SPLURT![R] * Feiqi Jiang * Tan Dan Kahn * I eat my ham with zest.[B] * Joy Kang * Adam Kaye * I have committed the unpardonable crime. If any of you have a tape recorder, you could turn me in.[R] * Chris Kennedy * Irina Kholodenko * Numericals rock my socks! * Seohyung Kim[12] * Erick "The K" Knight * a: I know what it means, but I don't know how to calculate it. a-1: I can calculate it, but what the hizzle does it mean? * Becky Kung * Perng-Hwa Kung * It's way beyond transcendental. It's mysterious. * Lorelei "L³" Larking.[13] * Hugh "Little Nad" Le * Brian Lee * Quack, quack. * Brandon Levin * Xingfu Liang * Avacado's Number Guacamole![14] * Lei M. "Li-Mei" Lim[15] * Whose nuts are we gobbling up? * Anton "Eric the Small" Malyshev * The fundamental group of my pants acted on your mom fixed point freely last night.[16] * Kasari Masuko[17] * Hyperbolic chocolate * Bobby McWatters * Djordjo Milovic * The negative integers ate up the pi.[R][18] * Svetlana "Ebay" Mokhnach[19] * Man-Yu Moy * So... what's your favorite mathematical result? * Burton Newman * I think I'm going to be ambiguous. Maybe. * Long Nguyen * You have no idea what's going on in my pants. * Funto Olayinka * Corina Oprescu * My name is Thanos, and I go to Hahrvahd * Thanos Papasmurf * How do unicorns have any bearing on this?![B] * Tung Phan * Danielle "She-Dan" Piskorz * Jason Pollack * Veena Ramakrishnan * This is what you get when you take the integers modulo p and put them on steroids.[R] * David Rohrlich * You can report me to Professor Stevens to get spanked.[R][20] * Steve Rosenberg * In this case, 'special' doesn't mean mentally challenged * Yiwei She * Mike "Amazon" Shu * Did somebody just say functor?[B] * Bernie Silberstein[21] * I like my cheese like I like my women. Four.[B] * Sara Silberstein * How do you deal with that exuberance of infinity?[R] * Nick Slowey[22] * Supernovas * Eric "The Pen" Stansifer * Al Staples-Moore * Or less * William Steadman * Glenn Stevens * Let's be Archimedes. * Eli Stickgold * Alexandra Sullivan * Matt Tai * I'm paranoid about the floor. I don't know where it's been. * Victoria Tan * Meagan Thompson * [22] * Mike Ty * Ila Varma * The Bernomial Theorem * Arthur Wang * Ben Wolf * Softly, deftly... * Ben Yang * Thanos' mom * Melissa Yeung * Norman Yu * Josh Zelinsky * Let me end with a bombshell.[R] * Are you going to wear that?
-Sniffnoy
[0]Yay, censorship! The original quote was "rape", not "rope".
[3]Yay, I got a quote!
[4]Not quite as good a name as the other thing Rohrlich called it before Bernie gave it its name: The "when-not-quite-sober formula"
[5]As last year, not "Jason 'Fergie' Ferguson", just "Fergie".
[8]I was talking to CDan, who didn't know that it referred to that thing Fried said about the different flavors of geometry, and he thought it referred to the name after it - and now that he mentions it, it's entirely possible that that's also the case...
[9]Hm, they dropped the "Hoon". They also dropped the second "Tao" in Tao's name (Tao Tao Chen).
[10]And Charlie, despite not being here, manages to get a quote on the shirt anyway...
[11]Not sure who said this, but it makes me think of Rosenberg's "But that's kind of retarded", which didn't make it onto the shirt.
[12]Strange that they got her name right after spelling it "Seo Hyung" everywhere else...
[13]Strange that they would write "L³" without putting her middle name...
[14]Isn't the joke supposed to be a bit longer than that? :-/
[15]I think I saw "Lei M." on an earlier T-shirt... is this an in-joke from a previous year? Why was it revived now?
[16]I'm a bit disappointed they didn't actually write "F2 in your pants" anywhere...
[17]Nothing to do with the T-shirt, just someone who deserves comment, about whom I haven't written before. We called her "Disappearing Japanese girl." She would show up for lecture each day, and then... disappear. Not that most of us noticed this, of course, as we weren't exactly looking for her, but Connie, being her counselor, did. Apparently she was going home everyday. She didn't even come to most of the other mandatory events, though she did show up for Josh's totally optional perfect numbers lecture. It was really weird.
[18]I still don't think he actually said this.
[19]Good, they failed to mention this nickname last year.
[20]This actually goes with "I have committed the unpardonable crime..." from before.
[21]As last year, not "Aaron 'Bernie' Silberstein", just "Bernie Silberstein".
[22]See last entry for my comment on this.
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Date: 2005-08-15 04:03 am (UTC)...another SUV-eating sinkhole!
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Date: 2005-08-15 05:05 pm (UTC)and as for [18], rohrlich did say it...after the said quote he also said "pi is irrevocably real". somewhere in that same lecture, he said "allow me to live dangerously--i'm going to be perverse and let s=1 in zeta(s)"
oh how we love rohrlich.
-seohyung
Re: [17]
Date: 2005-08-16 08:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-18 05:18 pm (UTC)But then again...if I had the opportunity to choose between being there and, say, having a chocolate milkshake, I think I'd go for the milkshake. Yep.
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