Never let Dr. Ostfeld make you dinner
Sep. 7th, 2004 06:53 pmSo today in philosophy, now that we'd finished most housekeeping issues and didn't have a half day, Dr. Grieco had us introduce ourselves. Something which, by the way, we never finished. So it got to Yelena, and she notes about how she tends to overanalyze things. "Ah. And what, exactly," says Dr. Grieco, "is to analyze?" And some suggestions are given; I think of saying "to break something down", noting that that's what it means etymologically (although really I only know that's what the "lyze" part means, I don't know about the "ana"), but I don't get around to saying it and eventually Dr. Grieco does say that it means to break something down, and I start nodding, because I'm expecting him to note the etymology. But he doesn't. But that's really not the point of this story. The point is, he says, to break something down, and someone else adds, and to put it back together again. And Dr. Grieco says, and hopefully to get what you originally started with.
And I say, "Or perhaps to get two copies of what you originally started with."
Now of course, when later recounting this story to Tom and Chris, at this point they started laughing, but in the class, everyone seems to take this seriously, as a comment about how sometimes you can copy something without destroying the original, and I just sort of stop listening at this point, I'm just thinking, wow.
I mean, I'm the only real math nerd in the class (Emily and Vlad certainly don't count), so I suppose I shouldn't have expected anyone to get it. But then I know I'd definitely told Mike about Banach-Tarski, so I would have thought he would have - I mean, Banach-Tarski isn't exactly the sort of thing you forget very soon.
...yeah. On to material science, where Dr. Ostfeld talked about glasses, and, what we care about for this entry, how they can shatter due to thermal shock or other reasons, and how different types of glass are more or less resistant to this. And he gives the example of making a turkey on the wrong sort of glass and taking it out of the oven only to find that the... whatever it is that's supporting it... shatters as you carry it to the table.
"I mean the real problem isn't that the turkey falls on the floor," he says. "You can probably cover that up. [See title of entry.] It's that now you've got glass all over, and in your turkey, and how are you going to explain that?" "It's seasoning!" someone shouts.
Dr. Ostfeld: "Now lead is a problem, because it kills you."
In other news, "blue" is not an element. Dr. Galitskiy continues to call me "Gary". He also refers to Choketsu as "Yuga".
And I definitely need to change my locker to the 1st-floor senior hallway, because unless I want to carry my lunchbox around all day (which is what I did today), I would have to go back and forth across the entire school *twice* every day due to my schedule of Nevard-lunch-Nevard.
The Jellyfish of Pass-Equivalence guards my locker. Ryan attempted to invade with the Euglena of Death-Pacifism, but the Jellyfish managed to untie it.
-Sniffnoy
POSTSCRIPT: You know, I just realized. Considering that apparently nobody knew what I was referring to, it's kind of strange that nobody asked what I *actually* meant.
--
"It's OK, BenZor. Windows isn't real. It's just a fairytale Linux users
use to scare their kids."
-NiffTuRNaL (bash.org)
And I say, "Or perhaps to get two copies of what you originally started with."
Now of course, when later recounting this story to Tom and Chris, at this point they started laughing, but in the class, everyone seems to take this seriously, as a comment about how sometimes you can copy something without destroying the original, and I just sort of stop listening at this point, I'm just thinking, wow.
I mean, I'm the only real math nerd in the class (Emily and Vlad certainly don't count), so I suppose I shouldn't have expected anyone to get it. But then I know I'd definitely told Mike about Banach-Tarski, so I would have thought he would have - I mean, Banach-Tarski isn't exactly the sort of thing you forget very soon.
...yeah. On to material science, where Dr. Ostfeld talked about glasses, and, what we care about for this entry, how they can shatter due to thermal shock or other reasons, and how different types of glass are more or less resistant to this. And he gives the example of making a turkey on the wrong sort of glass and taking it out of the oven only to find that the... whatever it is that's supporting it... shatters as you carry it to the table.
"I mean the real problem isn't that the turkey falls on the floor," he says. "You can probably cover that up. [See title of entry.] It's that now you've got glass all over, and in your turkey, and how are you going to explain that?" "It's seasoning!" someone shouts.
Dr. Ostfeld: "Now lead is a problem, because it kills you."
In other news, "blue" is not an element. Dr. Galitskiy continues to call me "Gary". He also refers to Choketsu as "Yuga".
And I definitely need to change my locker to the 1st-floor senior hallway, because unless I want to carry my lunchbox around all day (which is what I did today), I would have to go back and forth across the entire school *twice* every day due to my schedule of Nevard-lunch-Nevard.
The Jellyfish of Pass-Equivalence guards my locker. Ryan attempted to invade with the Euglena of Death-Pacifism, but the Jellyfish managed to untie it.
-Sniffnoy
POSTSCRIPT: You know, I just realized. Considering that apparently nobody knew what I was referring to, it's kind of strange that nobody asked what I *actually* meant.
--
"It's OK, BenZor. Windows isn't real. It's just a fairytale Linux users
use to scare their kids."
-NiffTuRNaL (bash.org)
