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also, I think Randall goofed up on the metric conversion by not having the mass of a VW Beetle - Beryllium Jan 5, 13:45
SITWAP: Producers Guild Nominees: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight Frost/Nixon, Milk, Slumdog Millionaire -- nm - Dano Jan 5, 13:44 3
- Clint's being robbed. Changeling was better than MDB imo. -- nm - Loyola Jan 5, 13:47
- Miswallenysts, all of them. -- nm - TFox Jan 5, 13:45
- it's about time Batman did something about Nixon. -- nm - Reagen Jan 5, 13:44
LYC: I just found out that the word "artefact" is an acceptable variant of "artifact" - Walt_Disney Jan 5, 13:36 6
- In the way that "Labour" is an acceptable variant of "Labor". - musubi Jan 5, 13:41 1
  - I think many canucks would call shenanigans on Artefact. Not all, but many. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 5, 13:42
- in german it's artefakt. artifakt doesn't exist -- nm - Marcel Jan 5, 13:39
- yeah, the pretentious British version. -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 13:37 2
  - I put my artefacts in the theatre. -- nm - TFox Jan 5, 13:41 1
    - Operatic Artefactic Theatrics? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 5, 13:43
TTIS&F&MIIM: About how many words are in one page of single-spaced text? - nubby Jan 5, 13:32 29
- in the old dot-matrix days 80 columns x 66 lines (60 with margins IIRC). About 5 or 6 characters per word (12 to 15 per line) times 60. -- nm - zork Jan 5, 13:42 1
  - And in the old papyrus days, it was about 80 cuneiform wide, with approximately 57 lines. - TFox Jan 5, 13:43
- Isn't MLA Format double-spaced? -- (link) - JaxSean Jan 5, 13:40 1
  - Screw MLA. Never liked it. -- nm - nubby Jan 5, 13:41
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- about 500. -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 5, 13:33
- 500? (I'm guessing.) -- nm - TFox Jan 5, 13:33
- what font? -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 13:33 21
  - Depends on how much I end up writing. -- nm - some student Jan 5, 13:36
  - Irrelevant. (nm) - nubby Jan 5, 13:36 18
    - awesome! Goudy Stout 36 point. -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 13:38 17
      - Assigning a word count would negate this. See? -- nm - nubby Jan 5, 13:40 16
        
        Requiring it to be MLA format would require them to all use the same font and spacing. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 5, 13:44 2
        
        I'm starting to really enjoy this thread. -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 13:45 1
        
        *goes to give Professor Nubby a thumbs down on RateMyProfessor.com* - JaxSean Jan 5, 13:47
        
        but what fills a page is based on what you would expect to see as a font. -- nm - Reagen Jan 5, 13:41 2
        
        yes indeed, I needed that info to make a guess. -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 13:43
        
        36 point font would have made a lot of my term papers easier to write. (nm) - musubi Jan 5, 13:43
        
        so pick any damn number! -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 13:40 9
        
        I think you've missed the point. -- nm - nubby Jan 5, 13:41 8
        
        nah, just messing with you. :) -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 13:43
        
        You want a word-count that will limit the number of pages. But since students will be able to choose any font size, t he number of pages will always - Beryllium Jan 5, 13:42 6
        
        That is why physics is really, really, really, really, really, really.. - nubby's students Jan 5, 13:45
        
        then add 20% if it's Dr. Seuss, subtract 20% if it's chemistry. - Reagen Jan 5, 13:43 4
        
        What about if it's Sanscrit? - musubi Jan 5, 13:45 3
        
        how about Hawaiian? -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 13:46 1
        
        Look! This font is getting smaller so we better type more! - con_carne Jan 5, 13:48
        
        i expect that in Dragon, that might be enough space for one word -- nm - zork Jan 5, 13:46
  - about 450 with a 12 pt serif. -- nm - Reagen Jan 5, 13:34
FYI. How I Met Your Mother (May I Sleep With Danger starts airing on Lifetime at 7ET tonight. -- nm - HdnAgnda Jan 5, 13:28 1
- As I arrived at my parents' on my break, my mom was watching a Lifetime movie. - nubby Jan 5, 13:29
Anybody here gotten an MRI before. I'm getting one tomorrow, not claustrophobic at all but the process sounds scary. -- nm - ceregon Jan 5, 13:21 55
- If you're not claustropobic you should be fine. - Mel Profit Jan 5, 13:42
- It's not scary. You're probably just scared of what it might find. You lie down on your own in a machine while the nurse and the guy running the - Loyola Jan 5, 13:38 4
  - Now I'm going to be laughing about your IM whenever they tell me to be still. - ceregon Jan 5, 13:46 1
    - Mission accomplished ;) -- nm - Loyola Jan 5, 13:48
  - ahem. I am scared of the process. so it would be scary to me. -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 13:39 1
    - Interesting. -- nm - Loyola Jan 5, 13:45
- it depends on what part of your body they are imaging - tRuMaN Jan 5, 13:26 20
  - i have. i had it done on my head. just keep your eyes closed. it's not really a big deal. - El Fandie Jan 5, 13:38 2
    - err. should be under original post. -- nm - El Fandie Jan 5, 13:38 1
      - oh, and they have this thing (if your head is in the machine) that lightly blows air on your face, to give the sensation of space around you. - El Fandie Jan 5, 13:40
  - also, if you have a steel rod in your knee, you might want to mention that first. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 5, 13:27 10
    - metal plate in your skull? definitely tell them. -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 13:28 2
      - grenade shrapnel lodged mere inches from vital organs? you'll probably be cool. -- nm - TFox Jan 5, 13:30 1
        
        phew. -- nm - Tony Stark Jan 5, 13:33
    - or dental work like bridges but they can work around it. -- nm - zork Jan 5, 13:28 6
      - I have a small metal wire around the back of the front five teeth on my lower jaw ... I wonder what festivities that would result in. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 5, 13:33 5
        
        five? that's an odd number. retainer? -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 13:34 4
        
        One of the front four was pulled due to poor placement -- nm - Beryllium Jan 5, 13:35 3
        
        aahhhh. When I had the wire it was behind the lower front six, anchored to the canines. - loosilu Jan 5, 13:39 2
        
        this one is just glued on to what would normally be the front six, I don't think it's "anchored" in the banded sense -- nm - Beryllium Jan 5, 13:40 1
        
        exactly what I had. watch out if it gets loose, it stabbed me in the palate one day. -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 13:43
  - 2 hours? I've never been in one longer than 45 minutes. (knee from Hell) -- nm - Diva Jan 5, 13:27 5
    - umm, it might have been longer actually - tRuMaN Jan 5, 13:30 4
      - I would have gone nuts. totally claustrophobic. -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 13:30 3
        
        yeah, like i said - tRuMaN Jan 5, 13:32 2
        
        is t here an option for a sedative? seriously. -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 13:32 1
        
        they never offered me one. - tRuMaN Jan 5, 13:34
- I've only had my knee MRI'd before, but so claustrophobia wasn't a big factor. (nm) - musubi Jan 5, 13:26
- mrs. zork just had one and was nervous about it ... - zork Jan 5, 13:25 1
  - Thank you for that Salma link, btw - con_carne Jan 5, 13:26
- it's actually surprisingly dull. either you go into machine, machine buzzes, or machine rotates around you and buzzes, depending on the machine. - mafic Jan 5, 13:24 11
  - *lemon donuts.* where have you been? -- nm - the last semester ever loves mandy lane Jan 5, 13:24 10
    - and lemon donuts sounds like the world's mildest curse. -- nm - mafic Jan 5, 13:29 8
      - but perhaps the tastiest. -- nm - nubby Jan 5, 13:33 5
        
        We should have Mild Curse Mondays. -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 13:34 3
        
        Fiddlesticks! -- nm - con_carne Jan 5, 13:42 1
        
        oh sugar. -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 13:45
        
        You're darn tootin'. -- nm - nubby Jan 5, 13:41
        
        *honestly.* it's a compliment, donuts! I swear. -- nm - the last semester ever loves mandy lane Jan 5, 13:34
      - laughing. -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 13:31
      - I let that one slip once, and boy did that put me in a dilly of a pickle! -- nm - Flanders Jan 5, 13:30
    - it's that damn dateline again. makes me into a night person. -- nm - mafic Jan 5, 13:26
- It's not that bad. What part of the body are you having imaged? -- nm - Diva Jan 5, 13:24 3
  - My head. I started getting migraines about a year ago. They ruled out the usual stuff, so now they want to make sure there's nothing wrong in my brain -- nm - ceregon Jan 5, 13:25 2
    - when I was a kid, I had a cat scan cause I kept getting headaches - tRuMaN Jan 5, 13:31
    - What sucks, is that they put you in a brace thing so that you can't move your head. That being said, I fell asleep in the tube twice it's so boring - Amy Jan 5, 13:28
- No big deal. -- nm - nubby Jan 5, 13:23
- Scary *boring*. I've had four. (five?) -- nm - Amy Jan 5, 13:22 7
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    - the big danger is if you have something metal in your body. bad things result when you turn on a giant magnet. -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 13:27 1
      - or when they forget to remove an oxygen tank -- nm - zork Jan 5, 13:29
    - Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Just a big electro magnet aligning your molecules. -- nm - TWuG Jan 5, 13:25 2
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      - i.e. zero radiation in the nuclear sense above the general background levels from the big bang and your standard cosmic waves -- nm - zork Jan 5, 13:27
  - Do repeated MRIs cause memory loss? I forget. - Beryllium Jan 5, 13:23
GMAC announced that it intends to significantly lower its lending standards in order to, in its own words �� (get) back in the game.� -- (link) - Loyola Jan 5, 13:21 3
- Poor lending practices got us into this mess, by God, they'll get us out! -- nm - TWuG Jan 5, 13:22 1
  - :) More orange! -- nm - Loyola Jan 5, 13:25
- boy, if only I was in the market for a new vehicle, would love to take advantage of automakers -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Jan 5, 13:22
A couple of articles being heavily blogged/twittered/forward today on financial matters, if you're interested. (link) - mara Jan 5, 13:20 1
- Buy! Buy! -- nm - Mop Jan 5, 13:25
ok, here its is. the misogynistic troll in career services sent me this email: - the last semester ever loves mandy lane Jan 5, 13:18 23
- Ignore. Certainly within the bounds of etiquette to ignore unsolicited email. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jan 5, 13:42
- engineer an elaborate meeting situation that ends with you kicking him in the jimmies. it'll be cathartic. - mafic Jan 5, 13:27 1
  - Watch The Office for inspiration. -- nm - nubby Jan 5, 13:30
- Can you maybe trick his system by scheduling an appointment a ways down the road, and then cancelling it last minute? - TFox Jan 5, 13:27
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  - there are three counselors. I was just assigned the only one who ... (sw) - the last semester ever loves mandy lane Jan 5, 13:31 1
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- Meet him halfway under his bridge. -- nm - Inigo Jan 5, 13:22 1
  - Ew. -- nm - nubby Jan 5, 13:24
- Unless you are required to meet to graduate, skip it. -- nm - TWuG Jan 5, 13:20 2
  - ignore? or write back with an excuse? -- nm - the last semester ever loves mandy lane Jan 5, 13:24 1
    - Ignore until you've met with "new guy" then when paul asks, you can say you've taken care of it. -- nm - TWuG Jan 5, 13:26
- Based on this, just ignore and don't go. (if it's that important he will call?) -- nm - con_carne Jan 5, 13:19 3
  - follow up: how bad does it look that I have an appointment with another career counselor on wednesday? - the last semester ever loves mandy lane Jan 5, 13:22 2
    - I wouldn't worry about it. Bigger fish to fry! -- nm - con_carne Jan 5, 13:24
    - Ignore until you meet with "new guy", then if paul asks again, say "been there, done that with "new guy"" -- nm - TWuG Jan 5, 13:24
- I don't suppose you can tell him you've already been hired. -- nm - mara Jan 5, 13:19 5
  - I *wish.* find me a job, mara! -- nm - the last semester ever loves mandy lane Jan 5, 13:19 4
    - No, I mean just tell him that. -- nm - mara Jan 5, 13:21 3
      - then I would be removed from the CS database and not get service at all. -- nm - the last semester ever loves mandy lane Jan 5, 13:24 2
        
        you know that many here would be willing to service you -- nm - zork Jan 5, 13:31
        
        The nuclear option. Abort. Abort. -- nm - mara Jan 5, 13:26
- Ignore. -- nm - nubby Jan 5, 13:18
Moderate clerical work and light filing won't even get you a handjob. (nm) - musubi Jan 5, 13:16 1
- "I don't sleep with every guy that writes me a sappy letter..." - TFox Jan 5, 13:21
Jeff Jagodzinski will interview with the Jets tonight. -- nm - David Jan 5, 13:16 1
- You're fired. -- nm - Donald Trump Jan 5, 13:17
converting to metric -- (link) - Marcel Jan 5, 13:16 10
- I had no idea that Raptors were so good on hoverboards. (nm) - musubi Jan 5, 13:24 6
  - Also, until he updates that to include the mass of Summer Glau, he's just wasting my time. (nm) - musubi Jan 5, 13:28 4
    - I imagine there's confusion over the Terminator and Serenity version of Summer Glau. -- nm - Reagen Jan 5, 13:31 3
      - Are we *sure* that River wasn't a Terminator? - musubi Jan 5, 13:34
      - They should meet. - nubby Jan 5, 13:34 1
        
        that would be a great emmy joke skit -- nm - Beryllium Jan 5, 13:46
  - Duh! You'd never last in an invasion. -- nm - nubby Jan 5, 13:28
- There are three liters in a two-liter bottle? -- nm - nubby Jan 5, 13:19
- I'm assuming "3L - Two-litre bottle" is a subtle joke instead of an error? -- nm - Reagen Jan 5, 13:19
- 14cm... -- nm - Mop Jan 5, 13:18
"...BART is looking into a number of issues, including whether the officer had meant to fire his Taser stun gun rather than his gun." -- (link) - Reagen Jan 5, 13:16 2
- And holy crap - video of the shooting. -- (link) - Reagen Jan 5, 13:26
- Eat my shorts! -- nm - Bart Jan 5, 13:16
Bros before hos? Fuck that. Prose before hoes! -- (link) - Mr. Havens Jan 5, 13:16
BOOM -- nm - psilotum Jan 5, 13:15
My voice is my passport. Hyphenate me. -- nm - nubby Jan 5, 13:15 3
- My voice is my passport. Illuminate me. -- nm - mara Jan 5, 13:17 1
  - aren't you already an Illuminatus? -- nm - zork Jan 5, 13:32
- Nuh-be -- nm - TWuG Jan 5, 13:15

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