comments from the computer
so the other day joe had sent me this link.
it's about a computer that saves the world from a boring master's thesis.
my question: will adding a car chase to my thesis on neutron stars help to involve the reader in my work? and then, how does one add a car chase to a thesis on neutron stars? this will take some thinking.
at anyrate, this is what my computer thought of something i had written last summer:
in case you can't make out the web-cam picture of my paper, the computer decided to call my section "Observations and Analysis", "stupid Observations and Analysis".
this is not a good sign...
somehow the word "stupid" was put into my ps file of a lightcurve and it only showed up when i put this picture in a latex file.
or: blah blah blah, my computer thought the section was stupid.
in knitting news: i got the new interweave and i'm itching to make the icarus shawl. yum yum yum.
in other news: go oilers!!!
posted by Princess Tuborg @ 10:40 PM
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7 Comments:
That's crazy!! Are you sure? Cause this was posted late at night, and the last I heard of you there was talk of beer.... ;)
i sure am sure! ask gil. he was the one that helped me figure out where the "stupid" was.
laughing at me the whole time.
This happens all the time. When I was writing my undergrad thesis my computer decided, just like that, to replace all my graphs with big red "X"s. You must imagine how pleased I was with it.
Maybe a car chase isn't sucha good idea, but how about presenting your work as a murder mystery, something like: "...there's something about the collapse of star "X" that puzzles me, I have the feeling that star "Y" is somehow involved."
If you want to stay current, make it like the Da Vinci Code, except you will base it on the Schrödinger equation.
i heard there was a car chase in the da vinci code.
Did i tell you about the time I went to a conference and checked my presentation one last time, just in case... only to find that because of a missing font or something, all my equations had turned into relations between skulls and cross-bones, flags and candles!! You should have pirates! Princess Tuborg could have been the name of a pirate ship!!
Ok I'm being silly now. feeling sick about tomorrow. Should shower and then work. Talk to you guys soon.
It's true! I saw it!!!! I still think someone made your computer call you stupid, maybe you should take a closer look at the people in your office... Btw, was your drawer locked? Go Oilers!!!
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