Dustin does his slave time
Aug. 10th, 2005 07:34 pmSo, the Barbie Girl thing had to be dropped because nobody could find Andy. But otherwise, it went well.
Rather than appear in his boxers, Dustin decided to borrow a skirt from Seo Hyung. People who didn't know the exact conditions of the slave time figured at first that we told him to wear a skirt, but we made a point of pointing out, no, we didn't actually tell him that.
He actually didn't mess up the proof (of the maxflow/mincut theorem) that much, and finished proving it within the slave time. Naturally enough, people asked a lot of pointless questions just to get him to say "Well, you shouldn't trust me, because I nearly failed out of Harvard, but...", such as Josh's question of, in your formalization of a directed graph, does (a,b) mean an edge from a to b or from b to a? Eric the Pen often raised his hand, and when Dustin asked if he had a question, simply said "No."
Infinity-boy appeared towards the end, probably expecting the review session which was to follow, and asked, as Dustin was near to completing the theorem, asked what a cut was.
Someone - I think it was Adam - asked if Dustin could do a pirouette on rollerskates, and, well, he tried. Though of course if he haddn't, we would have simply ordered him to anyway. :D
Someone, I think it was Eric, asked him how alegraically closed fields are like pink puppies, so we also got him to do the whole "Pink puppies with green spots" thing.
...yeah, that's really it.
-Sniffnoy
Rather than appear in his boxers, Dustin decided to borrow a skirt from Seo Hyung. People who didn't know the exact conditions of the slave time figured at first that we told him to wear a skirt, but we made a point of pointing out, no, we didn't actually tell him that.
He actually didn't mess up the proof (of the maxflow/mincut theorem) that much, and finished proving it within the slave time. Naturally enough, people asked a lot of pointless questions just to get him to say "Well, you shouldn't trust me, because I nearly failed out of Harvard, but...", such as Josh's question of, in your formalization of a directed graph, does (a,b) mean an edge from a to b or from b to a? Eric the Pen often raised his hand, and when Dustin asked if he had a question, simply said "No."
Infinity-boy appeared towards the end, probably expecting the review session which was to follow, and asked, as Dustin was near to completing the theorem, asked what a cut was.
Someone - I think it was Adam - asked if Dustin could do a pirouette on rollerskates, and, well, he tried. Though of course if he haddn't, we would have simply ordered him to anyway. :D
Someone, I think it was Eric, asked him how alegraically closed fields are like pink puppies, so we also got him to do the whole "Pink puppies with green spots" thing.
...yeah, that's really it.
-Sniffnoy
