I think we broke Dan.
Jul. 15th, 2004 07:04 pmIt's too easy to argue against Dan, Josh says. So I'll give myself a big handicap - I'll argue for creationism!
...and yet *still* Dan failed miserably.
So today we decided we'd try to convince him the moon landing was a hoax.
He didn't even try to argue. We were horribly disappointed. But hey, maybe this means he won't start those stupid arguments anymore. I doubt it, though.
The creationism thing of course soon turned into the usual "Dan is wrong" argument. At one point Josh asked how much it would take to convince Dan that Josh had, say, met his mother at some point in the past. Say, for instance, he could describe her, or say something she had said. Or knew some (well, what would have used to be) some family secret. Dan, being Dan, would not accept that. "Say I have a photograph of me with her." Nope. "I have a photograph of me screwing your mother!" Everybody starts laughing and Josh starts talking about the exact nature of the contents of said photograph, as everyone laughs even more.
Dan, being Dan, still doesn't accept it.
As for other things...
Part 2 of Dustin's lecture was yesterday. He finished constructing the hyperreals and got as far as proving that every limited hyperreal is infinitely close to a unique real number, but still no calculus. At 20:00 will be Josh's lecture on perfect numbers. He did give out a problem set this time, though. There will be a 3rd part.
The creepy guy who bugged me at the computer two days ago yesterday came up to the table where Dan and Rebecca and I were working. Now he seemed not only not to realize that what he was doing was considered rude and creepy, but also completely failed to get all the hints that we wanted him to go away, including when we said "Go away" quite loudly several times.
Hm... that's it, really.
-Sniffnoy
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"pretty much, my thesis can be reduced to the letter tau"
-TimC
...and yet *still* Dan failed miserably.
So today we decided we'd try to convince him the moon landing was a hoax.
He didn't even try to argue. We were horribly disappointed. But hey, maybe this means he won't start those stupid arguments anymore. I doubt it, though.
The creationism thing of course soon turned into the usual "Dan is wrong" argument. At one point Josh asked how much it would take to convince Dan that Josh had, say, met his mother at some point in the past. Say, for instance, he could describe her, or say something she had said. Or knew some (well, what would have used to be) some family secret. Dan, being Dan, would not accept that. "Say I have a photograph of me with her." Nope. "I have a photograph of me screwing your mother!" Everybody starts laughing and Josh starts talking about the exact nature of the contents of said photograph, as everyone laughs even more.
Dan, being Dan, still doesn't accept it.
As for other things...
Part 2 of Dustin's lecture was yesterday. He finished constructing the hyperreals and got as far as proving that every limited hyperreal is infinitely close to a unique real number, but still no calculus. At 20:00 will be Josh's lecture on perfect numbers. He did give out a problem set this time, though. There will be a 3rd part.
The creepy guy who bugged me at the computer two days ago yesterday came up to the table where Dan and Rebecca and I were working. Now he seemed not only not to realize that what he was doing was considered rude and creepy, but also completely failed to get all the hints that we wanted him to go away, including when we said "Go away" quite loudly several times.
Hm... that's it, really.
-Sniffnoy
--
"pretty much, my thesis can be reduced to the letter tau"
-TimC