Dr. Roffles
Aug 25 2010, 02:24 AM
QUOTE (debator @ Aug 24 2010, 10:14 PM)

you guys know we evolved out of africa, right?
whoa, man, you're straight up glass-blowin my mind here
debator
Aug 25 2010, 02:29 AM
i don't even know what that would entail. can we get an eta on that vent?
Jonesy
Aug 25 2010, 02:32 AM
QUOTE (debator @ Aug 24 2010, 09:14 PM)

you guys know we evolved out of africa, right?
And even our most primitive ancestors realized that it was too damn hot down there.
Dr. Roffles
Aug 25 2010, 02:35 AM
the first night in the next week that i get more than 4 hours of sleep, i will write it
until then assume my landlord shot me
(also, when that happens, i will draw the bron playing chess pic)
Jonesy
Aug 25 2010, 02:41 AM
QUOTE (Dr. Roffles @ Aug 24 2010, 09:35 PM)

the first night in the next week that i get more than 4 hours of sleep, i will write it
until then assume my landlord shot me
(also, when that happens, i will draw the bron playing chess pic)
You're going to draw something right after your landlord shoots you?
Dr. Roffles
Aug 25 2010, 04:25 AM
yeah boyyys
i am hardcore rough like the streets is fight aite
beregond
Aug 25 2010, 04:29 AM
PS: Starcraft II, then partying!
Research Monkey
Aug 25 2010, 09:45 AM
QUOTE (debator @ Aug 24 2010, 07:14 PM)

you guys know we evolved out of africa, right?
During cooler periods of the Earth's history, though, perhaps?
Even then, my ancestors said "smurf this smurf, we're going to someplace covered in snow where the temperature never exceeds 80 degrees F. ALSO LULZ COME AND GET US ICE AGES!"
My ancestors were pretty badass like that, all takin' on climate change like real men.
tryingtothinkagain
Aug 25 2010, 12:37 PM
UC: Gov professor just quoted
that chain e-mail about the criminal deeds of members of congress. And then got an A-10 and a C-130 mixed up (I think).
EDIT: talked to him after class, said he knew his stuff was outdated but just used it "for illustrative purposes", figured no one would no the difference. And then suggested that the current congress would has even more criminals. Dude's pretty libertarian. Not sure how useful this class will be, but it will certainly be entertaining.
dizzyizzy
Aug 25 2010, 01:33 PM
QUOTE (Research Monkey @ Aug 24 2010, 07:56 PM)

People weren't supposed to live here, guys.
And that's why you can't have our water.
Widget!
Aug 25 2010, 11:00 PM
QUOTE (Research Monkey @ Aug 25 2010, 02:45 AM)

My ancestors were pretty badass like that, all takin' on climate change like real men.
Canadians are incapable of doing anything like real men.
dizzyizzy
Aug 26 2010, 12:21 AM
QUOTE (Widget! @ Aug 25 2010, 07:00 PM)

QUOTE (Research Monkey @ Aug 25 2010, 02:45 AM)

My ancestors were pretty badass like that, all takin' on climate change like real men.
Canadians are incapable of doing anything like real men.
Real men are even more capable at being incapable of doing anything like real men then canadians are.
Dr. Roffles
Aug 26 2010, 01:18 AM
QUOTE (dizzyizzy @ Aug 25 2010, 08:21 PM)

QUOTE (Widget! @ Aug 25 2010, 07:00 PM)

QUOTE (Research Monkey @ Aug 25 2010, 02:45 AM)

My ancestors were pretty badass like that, all takin' on climate change like real men.
Canadians are incapable of doing anything like real men.
Real men are even more capable at being incapable of doing anything like real men then canadians are.
Do you hear it? That sound, that sound you hear?
It's humor being stabbed every time you tell a joke.
Research Monkey
Aug 26 2010, 04:41 AM
QUOTE (Widget! @ Aug 25 2010, 04:00 PM)

QUOTE (Research Monkey @ Aug 25 2010, 02:45 AM)

My ancestors were pretty badass like that, all takin' on climate change like real men.
Canadians are incapable of doing anything like real men.
I think you need to come with me to Canada some summer and have a few beverages with my relatives. Judging by their liquor cabinet and their bookshelves, I think they're your kind of people.
AF: I might be declaring a math minor...
I feel dirty, guys.
Dr. Roffles
Aug 26 2010, 04:45 AM
QUOTE (Research Monkey @ Aug 26 2010, 12:41 AM)

AF: I might be declaring a math minor...
I feel dirty, guys.
...what?
Research Monkey
Aug 26 2010, 05:21 AM
I took a semester of calculus longer than I'm required (because it's helpful for econ) and I'm going to take linear algebra (for the same reason), so those would put me three classes away from a minor. I'd just have to take a proofy math structures class, a pretty simple upper division problem seminar, and then an advanced calculus class.
By the same logical process, I'm probably also going to declare a history or philosophy minor in addition to my two majors and a certificate.
Yeah, I have too much free time.
debator
Aug 26 2010, 05:52 AM
QUOTE (Research Monkey @ Aug 25 2010, 09:41 PM)

I think you need to come with me to Canada some summer and have a few beverages with my relatives. Judging by their liquor cabinet and their bookshelves, I think they're your kind of people.
wait wait wait
canadians are people?
Research Monkey
Aug 26 2010, 07:49 AM
QUOTE (debator @ Aug 25 2010, 10:52 PM)

QUOTE (Research Monkey @ Aug 25 2010, 09:41 PM)

I think you need to come with me to Canada some summer and have a few beverages with my relatives. Judging by their liquor cabinet and their bookshelves, I think they're your kind of people.
wait wait wait
canadians are people?
Well, half. The rest is mostly caribou.
We use that nomenclature for convenience.
dizzyizzy
Aug 26 2010, 05:20 PM
QUOTE (Research Monkey @ Aug 26 2010, 03:49 AM)

QUOTE (debator @ Aug 25 2010, 10:52 PM)

QUOTE (Research Monkey @ Aug 25 2010, 09:41 PM)

I think you need to come with me to Canada some summer and have a few beverages with my relatives. Judging by their liquor cabinet and their bookshelves, I think they're your kind of people.
wait wait wait
canadians are people?
Well, half. The rest is mostly caribou.
We use that nomenclature for convenience.
Wait, are half of all canadians people, while the rest of the population is caribou, or are canadians a crossbreed of people and caribou?
tryingtothinkagain
Aug 26 2010, 06:37 PM
Got so hot yesterday that a cheap lighter in my car exploded.
PS: I discovered this by sitting on a sharp piece of plastic shrapnel, not by finding my car blazing in the parking lot.
debator
Aug 26 2010, 07:57 PM
pretty sure that alleged phenomenon has been mythbusted...
tryingtothinkagain
Aug 26 2010, 08:10 PM
The part where the pressure from the hot butane causes the casing to fail spectacularly, or the part where the hot butane combusts on contact with the air? Cause if it's the former, either mythbusters is wrong or someone broke into my car, smashed the lighter with a hammer, scattered the pieces around my car, and then locked my car back up. Without stealing anything.
debator
Aug 26 2010, 08:20 PM
oh yeah, that was me. sorry forgot to mention that.
tryingtothinkagain
Aug 26 2010, 08:26 PM
And you passed on the iPod, sub, and $20 just laying in the console?
Sir, you just set a new standard for human decency in carrying out pranks.
Jonesy
Aug 26 2010, 08:58 PM
QUOTE (tryingtothinkagain @ Aug 26 2010, 03:26 PM)

And you passed on the iPod, sub, and $20 just laying in the console?
Sir, you just set a new standard for human decency in carrying out pranks.
Obviously the real prank would be to replace every song on the ipod with "Never gonna give you up"
If you want to be REALLY evil you then alter the port slightly so the ipod can't be synced again.
debator
Aug 26 2010, 09:01 PM
i think my best prank ever was changing every number in my friend's phone to his driving instructor's. it took him like a week to figure it out.
Dr. Roffles
Aug 26 2010, 10:06 PM
PS: so guys i am moved into my room
i am basically the king of duke dorm rooms now you don't even know
beregond
Aug 26 2010, 10:25 PM
PS: Both of my history courses look to be AWESOME. Amazing first day. And I'm the king of scheduling: Earliest class ever is a 9 oclock section, everything else is 10 or later, I have at least an hour and a half break at lunchtime every day (four hours on MWF), and the best hours overall. Three hours of class a day, with only two hours on Mondays. 16 units (more than the average of what I'd need to graduate), and 14 hours. My life is amazing.
EDIT: Question: Is it proper to wear sheets of a color other than white to a toga party? And providing I can find the right sheets, should I go tonight?
debator
Aug 26 2010, 10:57 PM
dude, last semester i didn't have class before 1 pm, had no class fridays, and never got out after 5:30. pretty sure that was the best schedule ever.
dizzyizzy
Aug 27 2010, 12:38 AM
from what i hear i pulled the history professor that brings in swords for us to examine for educational purposes play with.
Jonesy
Aug 27 2010, 12:41 AM
QUOTE (dizzyizzy @ Aug 26 2010, 07:38 PM)

from what i hear i pulled the history professor that brings in swords for us to examine for educational purposes play with.
You realize that you have to show up wearing a kilt on the day he brings in the swords. Just stand outside of the classroom and wait till the swords come out. Then run in, grab one, and shout "THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE" while you have a sword fight with a friend. Even better if you get the teacher in on the fight. Highlander jokes never get old.
dizzyizzy
Aug 27 2010, 12:55 AM
QUOTE (Jonesy @ Aug 26 2010, 08:41 PM)

QUOTE (dizzyizzy @ Aug 26 2010, 07:38 PM)

from what i hear i pulled the history professor that brings in swords for us to examine for educational purposes play with.
You realize that you have to show up wearing a kilt on the day he brings in the swords. Just stand outside of the classroom and wait till the swords come out. Then run in, grab one, and shout "THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE" while you have a sword fight with a friend. Even better if you get the teacher in on the fight. Highlander jokes never get old.
They do when the professor majored in scottish history and the back row of wanna-be frat boys know that.
Jonesy
Aug 27 2010, 03:06 AM
QUOTE (dizzyizzy @ Aug 26 2010, 07:55 PM)

QUOTE (Jonesy @ Aug 26 2010, 08:41 PM)

QUOTE (dizzyizzy @ Aug 26 2010, 07:38 PM)

from what i hear i pulled the history professor that brings in swords for us to examine for educational purposes play with.
You realize that you have to show up wearing a kilt on the day he brings in the swords. Just stand outside of the classroom and wait till the swords come out. Then run in, grab one, and shout "THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE" while you have a sword fight with a friend. Even better if you get the teacher in on the fight. Highlander jokes never get old.
They do when the professor majored in scottish history and the back row of wanna-be frat boys know that.
Nope, highlander jokes are like the highlander, eternal.
beregond
Aug 27 2010, 03:08 AM
UC: There's actually such a thing as too much Starcraft. Feeling like I did back in the old gaming days: sans interest or any kinda inertia. Maybe I'll go practice up on the roof instead.
Jonesy
Aug 27 2010, 03:08 AM
QUOTE (beregond @ Aug 26 2010, 10:08 PM)

OBVIOUS STATEMENT: There's actually such a thing as too much Starcraft.
fixed.
dizzyizzy
Aug 27 2010, 03:16 AM
QUOTE (Jonesy @ Aug 26 2010, 11:06 PM)

QUOTE (dizzyizzy @ Aug 26 2010, 07:55 PM)

QUOTE (Jonesy @ Aug 26 2010, 08:41 PM)

QUOTE (dizzyizzy @ Aug 26 2010, 07:38 PM)

from what i hear i pulled the history professor that brings in swords for us to examine for educational purposes play with.
You realize that you have to show up wearing a kilt on the day he brings in the swords. Just stand outside of the classroom and wait till the swords come out. Then run in, grab one, and shout "THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE" while you have a sword fight with a friend. Even better if you get the teacher in on the fight. Highlander jokes never get old.
They do when the professor majored in scottish history and the back row of wanna-be frat boys know that.
Nope, highlander jokes are like the highlander, eternal.
Are you in that row?
Jonesy
Aug 27 2010, 03:31 AM
QUOTE (dizzyizzy @ Aug 26 2010, 10:16 PM)

Are you in that row?
PLEASE! Insult my taste in music. Insult my state. Insult my humor if you must, but how dare you accuse me of being in a frat?!
dizzyizzy
Aug 27 2010, 03:46 AM
QUOTE (Jonesy @ Aug 26 2010, 11:31 PM)

QUOTE (dizzyizzy @ Aug 26 2010, 10:16 PM)

Are you in that row?
PLEASE! Insult my taste in music. Insult my state. Insult my humor if you must, but how dare you accuse me of being in a frat?!

If i called you "in a frat" at lake erie, I would mean you're one of a few skinny, nerdy white boys who started their own brand-new frat in 2008. yeah. the only frat at my school is only at this school, not nationwide, and started in 2008.
VarsityBoy
Aug 27 2010, 04:27 AM
RT: I'm actually at college.
I hope academically I don't get smurfed. I'm taking a 300 level English, Art History, and Econ. With a 100 level Classics class. Too much reading?
AK_WDB
Aug 27 2010, 04:29 AM
QUOTE (VarsityBoy @ Aug 26 2010, 08:27 PM)

I hope academically I don't get smurfed. I'm taking a 300 level English, Art History, and Econ. With a 100 level Classics class. Too much reading?
You, sir, are going to die.
Chloe
Aug 27 2010, 04:54 AM
PS: You know you picked the right professor when he gives a slideshow titled "Stealing and Remixing video," part of which shows you how to best use TPB
Then I get to have him again two hours later for my Game Design class? Soooo goooooood
Not to mention he's got a thick Italian accent, in his late-twenties, wears awesome t-shirts, and is pretty easy on the eyes
UC: Wondering how I will survive my 8:30am - 10 pm Tuesdays
beregond
Aug 27 2010, 06:44 AM
Nevermind, there isn't such a thing as too much Starcraft when you're playing realtime against two of your roommates and everyone's cursing at each other. Epic bonding experience.
Also, the epic Korean Starcraft skills apparently apply to a lesser degree with other asians, like my Taiwanese roomie.
Research Monkey
Aug 27 2010, 11:44 AM
QUOTE (debator @ Aug 26 2010, 03:57 PM)

dude, last semester i didn't have class before 1 pm, had no class fridays, and never got out after 5:30. pretty sure that was the best schedule ever.
Full time student: >12 hours
Me: 18 hours
Never start before 12:00, never end after 4:15.
Awwwwwwwyissssssssss
QUOTE (VarsityBoy @ Aug 26 2010, 09:27 PM)

RT: I'm actually at college.
I hope academically I don't get smurfed. I'm taking a 300 level English, Art History, and Econ. With a 100 level Classics class. Too much reading?
Nope.
Just keep up. Having fun and budgeting your free time is okay. Just don't spend hours and hours doing nothing.
Dr. Roffles
Aug 27 2010, 03:15 PM
ps: i figured out how to set up the fans so that i am cold when i sleep
ps: slept for 10 hours
uc: oh wait did I actually agree to help andrew move his stuff nooooooooo
Jonesy
Aug 27 2010, 04:48 PM
PS:I almost made it through the first week without sleeping through a class.
HR: almost
Also, UC/ambivalent fact: UNL monitors bandwidth usage and has a soft cap of 500MB per day, after which they throttle you back until the counter resets the next day.
PS: The RESNET website for UNL will tell you how much bandwidth you have used so far that day. Yay for the university actually having something handy on their site.
beregond
Aug 27 2010, 07:03 PM
QUOTE (Jonesy @ Aug 27 2010, 09:48 AM)

Also, UC/ambivalent fact: UNL monitors bandwidth usage and has a soft cap of 500MB per day, after which they throttle you back until the counter resets the next day.
PS: The RESNET website for UNL will tell you how much bandwidth you have used so far that day. Yay for the university actually having something handy on their site.
Yeah, in our dorms, we had a bandwidth cap too: 12GB a week. Not exactly a soft cap though. You go over, you're screwed.
tryingtothinkagain
Aug 27 2010, 07:19 PM
So glad ERAU didn't have a bandwidth limit. Though that was probably because they had so many students running giant simulations for meteorology or aerodynamic models through their central server.
But then we had students taking advantage of that by downloading thousands of dollars worth of blu-ray-quality movies off the internet.
Jonesy
Aug 27 2010, 08:37 PM
QUOTE (beregond @ Aug 27 2010, 02:03 PM)

QUOTE (Jonesy @ Aug 27 2010, 09:48 AM)

Also, UC/ambivalent fact: UNL monitors bandwidth usage and has a soft cap of 500MB per day, after which they throttle you back until the counter resets the next day.
PS: The RESNET website for UNL will tell you how much bandwidth you have used so far that day. Yay for the university actually having something handy on their site.
Yeah, in our dorms, we had a bandwidth cap too: 12GB a week. Not exactly a soft cap though. You go over, you're screwed.
Ya, the 500MB/day thing is kinda annoying, but I'm grateful that it's a soft cap. Getting kicked off the internet when you didn't realize you were close to the cap would suck.
Widget!
Aug 27 2010, 09:49 PM
HR: Quiz Bowlers at ASU are a baaaaaaaad influence on me.
Chloe
Aug 27 2010, 10:29 PM
UC: The day after I buy a book for my art history class, my professor sends us an email telling us that he put all the reading online, "but we should still buy the book anyway"
Really? Really.
Nineteenth Century European Art by Doesschate Chu had better grant me some form of magical powers, or...
or I am going to give him dirty looks in lecture
...forever!
Make ME spend money for no reason will you
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