Some interesting submissions from the comments of my other weblog:
- Collared shirts. Except for computer scientists.
- The passive voice, often with bizarre action verbs at the end of the sentence. The eradication of this regretable habit has not yet been effected.
- Data, or anything that can be presented as such with minimal massaging.
- Memorizing umpteen digits of the number Pi.
- Modeling real life phenomena with mathematical models.
- Knowing instantly what geometric shape you get from an equation like: x2 + y2 = 8
- Knowing that Quark isn't just a character on Star Trek.
- Seeing the Greek Capital-Sigma and thinking of addition. [Actually, I think it is more accurate to not use the term "addition," but rather "summation"]
Friday, September 12, 2008
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•A subscription to Science because of the articles, but mostly because it impresses fellow scientists.
•A subscription to Scientific American to find out what's going on in science outside their field.
•A subscription to a small technical journal to gain early access to specialty terms other scientists in the field haven't learned about yet.
•Cheap pens, because scientists like to think they're saving money in some manner.
•Pocket protectors, because cheap pens leak.
•Hewlett Packard scientific calculators
Oh dear, I should have known there would be tons of spinoffs of SWPL by now.
None o' those really apply to me, even though I was good in science when I was in school. I'm not really the kind of person that could make a career out of it.
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