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When I get home, I’m going to gather up all the stuff for my intuos, and sell it.
I don’t use it at all anymore (since I have my cintiq) so might as well get rid of it to someone who will use it. It’s still in near new condition after all.
I did no drawing at all during my week off…
Spent pretty much the whole week either sleeping, or playing the division..
Will have to make up for lost time..
Might stream after I get off work in the morning.
Where I went to college, football is basically a religion. During home games, parking fills up for several miles around the stadium. Tailgating/parking space gets reserved on a first-come-first-serve basis, and people camp out days in advance to rope off territory. Once you’ve roped off your spot, you may consider it claimed, and you don’t have to stay there.
My tailgating group had laid claim to a patch of grass and a half-dozen parking spots. We had followed all rules and regs, and were totally within our rights.
Well, the morning of the game, we arrived to discover that some jackass has driven over our ropes and parked his car in one of our spots. We were none too happy about this, and we got an idea.
Our group consisted of a dozen young, strapping dudes, half of whom were powerlifters. So what did we do? We picked that shit up and moved it. It was some small, lightweight Japanese import (don’t recall specifically), and we were able to lift it just enough to fully extend the suspension and cause the tires to break contact with the ground. We carried it about 50 feet away and “parked” it illegally.
A little while later, a cop came by and ticketed him. The cop was very confused as to why we were waving at him with shit-eating grins while he wrote out the ticket.
After the game ends, Mr. Jackass comes walking up, looks around in bewilderment, then spots his car nearby. He starts swearing up and down when he sees the ticket, and summons a nearby cop (a different one). We sat there and watched with bubbling delight as Mr. Jackass tried to convince the cop that he shouldn’t get a ticket because that’s not where he left his car, and clearly someone else put it there.Obviously, the cop rolls his eyes and tells Mr. Jackass that that’s the worst excuse he’s ever heard.
Mr. Jackass then came over to our group and asked, with some hesitation, “Did you….move my car?”
We looked at him like he was crazy, and explained that that was clearly impossible, since his car was still locked, and hadn’t been hot-wired or anything. Looking even more confused, he walked away to go get in his car and leave.
Seriously, it kills me when I see people hold scientists up as pinnacles of logic and reason.
Because one time the professor I was interning for got punched in the face by another professor, because mine got the funding, and told the other professor his theory was stupid.
This same professor told me to throw rocks to scare the “stupid fucking crabs” into moving so we could count them properly.
SCIENCE
thank you
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I have witnessed:
Two professors hiding around a corner and snickering, “Shhh, here she comes!” While a female professor approached and, when she finally found them, she proceeded to scream while pointing from one to the other, “You! I called your office but you weren’t there! So I tried to call YOUR office to figure out where HE was but YOU weren’t there!”
Two grad students standing outside a closed and locked door yelling, “Come out of the damn office. You haven’t left for days. If you didn’t have a couch in there I’d be concerned as to where you were sleeping!”
A religious studies professor apologizing for being late to class because, “security stopped me because I’m dressed like a hobbit”
Watched a professor snort the results of my experiment to determine if I had the right final compound.
Two archeology professors toss priceless fossilized teeth back and forth in an attempt to figure out who is smarter by “guessing the type of tooth and species of animal before it lands”
Multiple fully degreed individuals throw dry ice at one another in an attempt to be first to use the lab/get that piece of equipment/or change the iPod song.
A genetics professor build furniture out of stacks of paper and planks of wood because she is that far behind in grading papers/responding. One of the impromptu furniture pieces housed a fish tank.
I could go on but I think that covers the larger portion of the insanity…
Every time it comes around on my dash, it gets better.
– I have had a professor buy a huge fuckoff bottle of rum during fieldwork in Costa Rica and let the undergrads get wasted because “you’re not underage in Costa Rica and we’ll be up all night with the bats anyway!”
– Same professor hung a bat from her headlamp and wore it as a decoration for an entire night.
– A whole swarm of older women – and these are women with PhDs and world-renown bat experts, the bigwigs – all, to a woman, go to the formal charity dinner at an international research symposium in Toronto in late October dressed in skimpy Batgirl costumes. Because Halloween was that weekend, you see.
– At a different conference, a professor get blackout drunk and pass out on the side of the road.
– “Yeah, we have to say we did it properly for the grant but to be really honest, Miracle-gro works better.”
– Teaching lab: we had liquid nitrogen for a demo, and after class the professor, the other TA, and I spent a good two hours freezing and breaking things in it.
a chemistry class begins with 30 students nine months later just six of us left sitting on tables dipping paper into contaminated chemicals to see what happens when we burn it teacher making idle suggestions while he marks our work
“go to the fume hood thing, yeah now put some potassium in chlorine” can i burn the results sir? “fuck it sure whatever its tainted anyway”
The prof I’m working for just asked me if I knew how to pick a lock, and when I responded “yes” she replied, “see, this is why I hire the former delinquents instead of the suck-ups. You’re actually useful.”
I then let her into her office.
“Security stopped me because I’m dressed like a hobbit.” I would bet anything this has happened to Dr. Medievalist.
Semi-related non-academic anecdote: The concert hall security guys tried to throw out our violone player in between performances this spring because they thought he was a homeless guy. Despite the fact that he was wearing concert black… and carrying a violone. There is no more obvious instrument.
One of my English Professors admitted that sometimes “you just have to do a soliloquy” and would phone up the main office of the department on the internal phoneline to recite a Shakespearean monologue at them. No greeting, no warning, just “To be or not to be”.
every time i read this stuff i think about how upset vulcans would be to meet earth’s greatest scientific minds
