DrewDad
 
  1  
Tue 27 Sep, 2005 02:13 pm
Noddy24 wrote:
Is that graduate student thinking of robbing the cradle or is
Sozlet into Older Men?

I figured it to be a mentoring deal. One smart woman to another.
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Thomas
 
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Tue 27 Sep, 2005 02:14 pm
Noddy24 wrote:
Is that graduate student thinking of robbing the cradle or is
Sozlet into Older Men?

Sozobe said it's a 'she'. Female physicists are very rare. The good looking ones among them will get lots of compliments about it, and are quite likely to have a similar reaction as Sozlet did. My guess is that this graduate student thought she had found a soulmate. And who knows, maybe she has.
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Thomas
 
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Tue 27 Sep, 2005 02:20 pm
DrewDad, I see you have become a pastafarian?
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sozobe
 
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Tue 27 Sep, 2005 02:21 pm
Yep, that's about the size of it.

Sozlet's taking to the faculty brat thing like a duck to water.
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DrewDad
 
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Tue 27 Sep, 2005 02:26 pm
Thomas wrote:
DrewDad, I see you have become a pastafarian?

Is a meatball spicy? R.Amen.
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Noddy24
 
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Tue 27 Sep, 2005 02:54 pm
Alas, my generation gap is gaping! And in public!
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Thomas
 
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Tue 27 Sep, 2005 02:57 pm
Noddy24 wrote:
Alas, my generation gap is gaping! And in public!

No, actually, you're just a well-known apologist of male chauvinism. You don't think women have a place in physics. That's not a generation gap at all! Razz
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nimh
 
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Tue 27 Sep, 2005 03:10 pm
Thomas wrote:
sozobe wrote:
"Well, yes, but I'm smart too."

Obviously the young lady knows how to make a point. And a well taken one at that! Very Happy

Wonder who shes got that from... ;-)
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Noddy24
 
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Tue 27 Sep, 2005 04:31 pm
Thomas--

You wound me--but not as deeply as the wounds I've inflicted on myself.
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OCCOM BILL
 
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Tue 27 Sep, 2005 09:36 pm
sozobe wrote:
BF was having a whiny fit and sozlet said firmly, "[BF], pull yourself together!"
Laughing Thank you, Soz. Laughing
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sozobe
 
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Sun 2 Oct, 2005 09:21 pm
I need to go to bed, reminder to self to write down the one E.G. just told me, about the monster wasp + robot...
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sozobe
 
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Tue 4 Oct, 2005 01:53 pm
Oh, still haven't gotten to that one. No time now, but wanted to get down a quickie, show the less-cute side of Ms. 4-going-on-14...

I did something to my foot, still don't know what, turned it weird or something and the side of it HURTS when I walk. I was trying to figure out where the problem is exactly, and was walking around the room -- one way of walkingwas fine, then another way and whammo! So the whammo times set me off on loud exclamations of pain -- "ow ow ow OW!" and such.

After I sat back down (no wiser as to what's up), sozlet, who had been watching, said, "Mama, next time you do that, even if it hurts, can you NOT say 'ow ow ow'? It embarrasses me."

:-?

Just you wait, little missy...
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dagmaraka
 
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Tue 4 Oct, 2005 02:03 pm
HA ! hahaha!

sebastian, my nephew, has read his first words today: 3 HOUR parking. he asked, most casually, why can one only park there for 3 hours? my sis nearly fainted. he's a genius, like the rest of us!
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sozobe
 
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Tue 4 Oct, 2005 04:58 pm
Wowee! Congrats, Sebastian!
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sozobe
 
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Wed 5 Oct, 2005 06:23 pm
I couldn't piece together the robot story correctly, so E.G. did it for me.

Preface is that they saw this absolutely huge wasp sort of creature -- must've been an actual wasp, yellow and black and wasp-waisted and everything -- and were speculating about what it was. They were tossing around "queen bee?" then "king bee?" and then E.G. said, "Maybe it's a robot come to take over the worrrrlld..!"

E.G. wrote:
Sozlet said, no, it's not a robot, after thinking for a moment.

I asked her how she knew, and she said that a part of her brain
could tell if something was true or not. After more questioning,
what came out is that this part of her brain is special, and it's
in the front. There's a man there, and he has something like a
movie projector. If another part of her brain hears something,
and can't figure out if it's true or not, then she gives it to
the man, who puts it in the projector and checks whether it is
true or not, and then tells her. Apparently, she has complete
confidence in his judgments.

Other parts of her brain can handle things that are a mixture of
true and untrue, like imaginary. I think the back of her brain
is where the imagination part is.

I asked her how she knew all this stuff, and she said that she
just figured it out. Nobody told her.


Later, I asked her if she liked to think about thinking. She
thought it was sort of a nonsensical question, so instead I asked
her what she thought about when she was alone. She said that
she likes to make up stories for herself. _Weird_ stories.


There was something else more subtle that I can't remember about stuff that is a mixture. Like, how something can be partly true and partly not true at the same time. Interesting stuff.

OK, I just asked her about that, and got something like this:

There is a little thermometer, like that one we have [meat thermometer?] yes!, and it has parts to it, and one part is blue and that's true, and one part is red and that's not true, and then the middle part is purple and that's sort of true and sort of not true.

[where is this thermometer?]

It's right inside that guy's studio.

[That one's a direct quote, uttered without hesitation.]
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ossobuco
 
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Wed 5 Oct, 2005 07:47 pm
Studio, she knows about studios...

not to bring the recounting down, just the opposite, what a girl..
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sozobe
 
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Wed 5 Oct, 2005 08:07 pm
That guy evidently has a name... Jones.

She has ongoing problems with dinosaur dreams. It developed that part of the problem is that Jones goes to sleep when she does, and so isn't available to remind her that dinosaurs aren't alive anymore and she has nothing to worry about. We tossed around some ideas for keeping him awake ("but I need him during the daytime, too, and he needs to sleep sometime...!") or automating the process...
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Noddy24
 
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Wed 5 Oct, 2005 08:25 pm
She's a precious child, and much too young to have a Jones.

Quote:
The slang term "jones," meaning an addiction to drugs, is said to have originated among addicts who lived in Great Jones Alley, off Great Jones Street, ...



www.yaelf.com/slang.shtml
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mac11
 
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Wed 5 Oct, 2005 08:46 pm
Maybe Jones needs an assistant to take over the night shift?

Her mind is astonishing!
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ossobuco
 
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Wed 5 Oct, 2005 09:25 pm
I'll agree on astonishing mind. Consider the parents.

Still, in some ways sozlet lives here as experimenter for all children.. going forth into the bright new world, which some of us from our side of it look at askance.
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