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From: SIRPip on 30 Jul 2010 20:32 Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote: > 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. I've seen him fall, but couldn't tell you which side of the line. It wash all a bit bluurrred by then, shee? -- SIRPip : B12
From: Dr Ivan D. Reid on 30 Jul 2010 20:56 On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:32:39 +0000 (UTC), SIRPip <gingerbloke(a)gmail.com> wrote in <xn0gx9w5k6saqi901t(a)news.eternal-september.org>: > Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote: >> 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. > I've seen him fall, but couldn't tell you which side of the line. It > wash all a bit bluurrred by then, shee? I don't remember meslef, except that you and I were on opposite sides, and Ellie wasn't on my side. <story of my life/> -- 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: SIRPip on 30 Jul 2010 21:23 Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote: > On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:29:25 +0000 (UTC), SIRPip > <gingerbloke(a)gmail.com> wrote in > > I'm sure something will turn up: perhaps not Bosun-shaped, but > > something, eh? > > There are interesting jobs on the websites I've visted so far > (tho' Oxford is pushing it as a commute). There's a meeting of my old > field of expertise in Oxon in Sept, so I might try to activate the Old > Boys' Network there. Ah, the OBN. That's the way forward, Ivan. > > I'm not panicking yet. Neither should you. It'll all turn out for the best, as my old Granny used to tell me - excepting the mangle incident, but we never mentioned that, never. -- SIRPip : B12
From: EMB on 30 Jul 2010 21:24 On 31/07/2010 7:34 a.m., Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote: > Then I lost my job. I thought I was safe on a two-year rolling > grant but apparently the possibility of grant cuts from Swindon Town > Football Club is so great that Brunel can't renew my contract on October > 1st. So, no Higgs discovery for me[1], and mebbe I'll be going back to Oz > earlier than I thought. Soddit and commiserations and stuff.
From: Dr Ivan D. Reid on 31 Jul 2010 03:15
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:23:39 +0000 (UTC), SIRPip <gingerbloke(a)gmail.com> wrote in <xn0gx9xig6u4bk601u(a)news.eternal-september.org>: > Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote: >> I'm not panicking yet. > Neither should you. It'll all turn out for the best, as my old Granny > used to tell me - excepting the mangle incident, but we never mentioned > that, never. Well, no, grannies and mangles never did go well together. The one time gramps got something caught in the mangle, well that was altogether eyewateringly different! -- 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". |