Digest for Sunday, May 01, 1994

Topics of the day:

1. Professorial quotes
2. Denver airport (clean)

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Date:         Sun, 1 May 1994 10:02:31 -0500
From:         Ian Chai <spectre@UIUC.EDU>
Subject:      Professorial quotes

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Q: What do you get if you cross a mosquito and a mountain climber?
A: You can't: a mosquito is a vector and a mountain climber is a
scalar.
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A Senior mathematician was asked which language he used for some of his
computing. He replied that he used a very high level language:
RESEARCH STUDENT
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And from a particle physics course :
 "This course will contain a lot of charm and beauty but very little
 truth."
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In the true style of Cambridge Maths Tripos we have the following:
 "Proof of Thm. 6.2 is trivial from Thm. 6.9"
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Why do mathematicians insist on using words that already have another
meaning?
 "It is the complex case that is easier to deal with."
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Talk about ulterior motives...
"This handout is not produced for your erudition but merely so I can
practice the TeX word-processor."
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Date:         Sun, 1 May 1994 19:36:21 EDT
From:         Whitmark Christop CDT <x63555f1@USMA3.USMA.EDU>
Subject:      Denver airport (clean)

From an article in the New York Times:
     The opening of the new Denver International Airport will be delayed again
due to problems with the computerized baggage system.  It seems that the bags
are "being hurled into the air."  Sounds like Samsonite has a new comercial.

Chris

Go Army Sailing!     O -
Catch the Breeze!     ^
                     \_/  Smile, it makes people wonder what you're thinking!
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