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From: bobharvey on 30 Jul 2010 19:07 On 30 July, 22:58, Salad Dodger <salad.dod...(a)idnet.com> wrote: > Thanks, I've now got an image of Ivan leaping about on a battleship in > a wig, leather jacket and revealing leotard. IRTA 'revolving leotard' and the image was no less disturbing. Maybe slightly more so.
From: Dr Ivan D. Reid on 30 Jul 2010 19:10 On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:26:07 +0100, Ancipital <ancipitalISPERSUEDBYEVILCLOWNS(a)hotmail.com> wrote in <4kI4o.5$pW4.0(a)hurricane>: > (Also, all levity aside, if they don't let you continue to smash stuff > up, hopefully you'll at least land some decent teaching gig to keep you > in fast women and wild bikes, and possibly tea. Anyone who can infect > passers-by with such enthusiasm for the esoteric is probably an asset to > edumacation.) Thanks, I'll save that for posteriority. I've had some official events where I've done "outreach" but I don't think I've had more success educating the public than on these two newsgroups. Hard to quantify for a performance review, thobut... (Especially if the reviewers don't ride motorcycle sheds!) [Note to self: email Jim Al-Khalili in the morning] -- Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005 WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon) KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
From: Ancipital on 30 Jul 2010 19:24 On 31/07/2010 00:10, Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote: > > Thanks, I'll save that for posteriority. I've had some official > events where I've done "outreach" but I don't think I've had more success > educating the public than on these two newsgroups. Hard to quantify for a > performance review, thobut... (Especially if the reviewers don't ride > motorcycle sheds!) > > [Note to self: email Jim Al-Khalili in the morning] > Do that. This world needs more eccentric scientists with motorbikes, IME. -- "I'm the Bishop of Southwark, it's what I do"
From: SIRPip on 30 Jul 2010 20:25 Ancipital wrote: > Do that. This world needs more eccentric scientists with motorbikes, > IME. Or scientists with eccentric motorbikes. -- SIRPip : B12
From: Wicked Uncle Nigel on 30 Jul 2010 20:30
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, SIRPip <gingerbloke(a)gmail.com> typed >Ancipital wrote: > >> Do that. This world needs more eccentric scientists with motorbikes, >> IME. > >Or scientists with eccentric motorbikes. Yebbut, it's an exceedingly fine line between yer "eccentric" scientist, as is all charming and amusing and whatnot, and yer actual "mad" scientist, as wants to genetically modify the ozone layer using a black hole with a mouse's ear growing on it. And I, for one, cannot state with certainty which side of the aforementioned line our Doctor falls. Not with certainty, I can't. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" I've always been a man who's open to persuasion |