Comments on: Carroll to Caltech http://crookedtimber.org/2006/04/06/carroll-to-caltech/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:39:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: sir thomas crapper http://crookedtimber.org/2006/04/06/carroll-to-caltech/comment-page-1/#comment-151003 sir thomas crapper Sat, 08 Apr 2006 17:47:17 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/04/06/carroll-to-caltech/#comment-151003 <i>what twee expression they used for rest room</i> You can´t get much more twee than "rest room". I hate to break it to you Yanks, but people don´t go in there to "rest", they go in there to piss and/or shit. what twee expression they used for rest room

You can´t get much more twee than “rest room”. I hate to break it to you Yanks, but people don´t go in there to “rest”, they go in there to piss and/or shit.

]]> By: TJ http://crookedtimber.org/2006/04/06/carroll-to-caltech/comment-page-1/#comment-150989 TJ Sat, 08 Apr 2006 05:54:15 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/04/06/carroll-to-caltech/#comment-150989 Kieran, Sadly, the engineers are not in charge here, anymore. No, it's really all about the producers of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433309/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxrdz0xfHE9bnVtYmVyc3xmdD0xfG14PTIwfGxtPTUwMHxjbz0xfGh0bWw9MXxubT0x;fc=3;ft=50;fm=1" rel="nofollow">NUMB3RS</a> and <a>er</a>, both of which shoot on campus, regularly screwing over the parking situation, and occasionally making my favored vending machines verboten. Kieran,

Sadly, the engineers are not in charge here, anymore. No, it’s really all about the producers of NUMB3RS and er, both of which shoot on campus, regularly screwing over the parking situation, and occasionally making my favored vending machines verboten.

]]> By: Kieran Holland http://crookedtimber.org/2006/04/06/carroll-to-caltech/comment-page-1/#comment-150981 Kieran Holland Sat, 08 Apr 2006 00:05:17 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/04/06/carroll-to-caltech/#comment-150981 Careful now, you wouldn't want to end up in some London court on plagiarism charges. http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0509041 Careful now, you wouldn’t want to end up in some London court on plagiarism charges.

http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0509041

]]> By: tylerh http://crookedtimber.org/2006/04/06/carroll-to-caltech/comment-page-1/#comment-150970 tylerh Fri, 07 Apr 2006 19:03:40 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/04/06/carroll-to-caltech/#comment-150970 <i>You have to love a campus with a nine-story library in its middle. </i> When I was at CalTech we proudly rallied around the claim that Millikan Libary has "the highest concrete to books ratio of any library outside of Albania." Because, lord knows, that black eyesore sucks neutron stars through wormholes as a library. <i>what twee expression they used for rest room</i> "restroom" works just fine, as does "bathroom." We get a lot of foriegn visitors, so even "WC" would probably work, as would "Crapper" if you felt compelled to be difficult. You have to love a campus with a nine-story library in its middle.

When I was at CalTech we proudly rallied around the claim that Millikan Libary has “the highest concrete to books ratio of any library outside of Albania.”
Because, lord knows, that black eyesore sucks neutron stars through wormholes as a library.

what twee expression they used for rest room

“restroom” works just fine, as does “bathroom.” We get a lot of foriegn visitors, so even “WC” would probably work, as would “Crapper” if you felt compelled to be difficult.

]]> By: dearieme http://crookedtimber.org/2006/04/06/carroll-to-caltech/comment-page-1/#comment-150942 dearieme Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:20:26 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/04/06/carroll-to-caltech/#comment-150942 Never mind that, tell us what twee expression they used for rest room, bathroom, facility....? Never mind that, tell us what twee expression they used for rest room, bathroom, facility….?

]]> By: JohnLopresti http://crookedtimber.org/2006/04/06/carroll-to-caltech/comment-page-1/#comment-150915 JohnLopresti Fri, 07 Apr 2006 07:52:14 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/04/06/carroll-to-caltech/#comment-150915 The best map to a campus is written on the visages of people exiting it, as you watch the intensity of academic life wash away, relaxing somewhat incrementally as the distance from campus increases. Now, I appreciate the projects CalTech fosters, and am grateful for the 90% of matter in the universe which is invisible, over which their fine minds are entrusted with stewardship. In fact, often I wish CalTech more satellites and the best telescopes in space with the greatest longevity. In a shared project with MIT, Caltech is <a href="http://vote.caltech.edu/" rel="nofollow">monitoring</a> the evolution of voting technology; traveling where politics asymptotically approaches science, whence politicalscientists are born, though there are seams and rifts in our time. The best map to a campus is written on the visages of people exiting it, as you watch the intensity of academic life wash away, relaxing somewhat incrementally as the distance from campus increases.
Now, I appreciate the projects CalTech fosters, and am grateful for the 90% of matter in the universe which is invisible, over which their fine minds are entrusted with stewardship. In fact, often I wish CalTech more satellites and the best telescopes in space with the greatest longevity.
In a shared project with MIT, Caltech is monitoring the evolution of voting technology; traveling where politics asymptotically approaches science, whence politicalscientists are born, though there are seams and rifts in our time.

]]> By: Sean Carroll http://crookedtimber.org/2006/04/06/carroll-to-caltech/comment-page-1/#comment-150911 Sean Carroll Fri, 07 Apr 2006 04:45:37 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/04/06/carroll-to-caltech/#comment-150911 Thanks, Kieran. I could have sworn it was large-<em>N</em> gauge theory, not SU(5), but perhaps my memory is failing. Thanks, Kieran. I could have sworn it was large-N gauge theory, not SU(5), but perhaps my memory is failing.

]]> By: fyreflye http://crookedtimber.org/2006/04/06/carroll-to-caltech/comment-page-1/#comment-150910 fyreflye Fri, 07 Apr 2006 04:42:32 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/04/06/carroll-to-caltech/#comment-150910 <i>You have to love a campus with a nine-story library in its middle. To say nothing of the Deco-Greco auditorium building.</i> Not to mention the fact that it hosts the <i>Skeptic</i> lecture series. You have to love a campus with a nine-story library in its middle. To say nothing of the Deco-Greco auditorium building.

Not to mention the fact that it hosts the Skeptic lecture series.

]]> By: Zeno http://crookedtimber.org/2006/04/06/carroll-to-caltech/comment-page-1/#comment-150909 Zeno Fri, 07 Apr 2006 04:24:59 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/04/06/carroll-to-caltech/#comment-150909 You have to love a campus with a nine-story library in its middle. To say nothing of the Deco-Greco auditorium building. You have to love a campus with a nine-story library in its middle. To say nothing of the Deco-Greco auditorium building.

]]> By: dominic http://crookedtimber.org/2006/04/06/carroll-to-caltech/comment-page-1/#comment-150908 dominic Fri, 07 Apr 2006 04:20:52 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/04/06/carroll-to-caltech/#comment-150908 And when the Institute throws a party, we all have to fall in line with some engineer's idea of what constitutes a good time. And when the Institute throws a party, we all have to fall in line with some engineer’s idea of what constitutes a good time.

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