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Let that be a lesson to you

Either never use a flash stick or never go down to the basement and mingle with those weird experimentalists.

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boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:10, archived)

Never a problem with my old one

just this new one I have.
I love my SQUID.

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Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:13, archived)

i yearn for the day

when i too can invite famous professors to my department and enjoy myself pulsing a 5T magnet at their pacemaker. and credit cards.

ahahahahahahahahahha.

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boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:15, archived)

"My pulsing 5T magnet"

Science phone box card, anyone?

New paper out last Friday, another out on tuesday and one more submitted last wekk.
Busy times...

*smugs*

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Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:18, archived)

Oh god yes.

Bagsy Nikola Tesla.

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We are the lemon irked your craw on, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:23, archived)

yeah yeah yeah WOTEVA

i wrote a paper LONGHAND last weekend. all it needs are the results, which i've dumped on a phd student here. he'll do it shortly (it won't take all that long actually, just when he's built a code he has to build anyway) and then a nice easy paper which will offend everyone in the field because they take life too seriously. i'm well looking forward to this. this time I'M claiming first author, so i get to have the outraged emails in german.

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boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:29, archived)

Excellent work!

I'm part-way through writing a few. Very, very pissed off my old supervisor has been sitting on a paper that's finished for nearly a month now. I've even written the cover letter and he still hasn't submitted it.
Rrrrraaaagggghhhh!

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Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:31, archived)

on the other hand

i've just looked at the list of papers i've got to write that's pinned to my wall. right now it lists 13 of the things -- one pretty much done except the actual results part of things. one half-done with most of the results but no actual writing. one that's been going for almost 5 years and is full of good but insanely slow code i can't optimise. and so forth.

it looks ace until i think that i want to get them all out. soon.

also there's one i should have delivered results on two months ago and the coding turned into a right bitch and i have to spend next week hammering that desparately or i get some pissed off south africans coming after me.

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boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:34, archived)

Do you know the ALPS project?

Monte Carlo simulations for magnetism. Except it only runs on f***ing linux and the b*****ds at the computing department won't install it on the cluster.
Any chance of writing a windows verion....?

*no, I guess...

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Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:38, archived)

calm down.

you are making me feel guilty about not doing any BOINC projects recently.

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Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:44, archived)

ah, boinc

i was meant to write a code based on that a few years ago. it went ok and then my contract ran out. quite nice software, actually, in some ways.

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boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:51, archived)

actually no, never heard of it

sorry :( also, i'd be very tempted to write it in linux, i'm afraid. windows doesn't like makefiles very much. nor does it have decent c or f90 compilers.

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boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:50, archived)

I know... :(

It's hard for us non-geeks.*

*by 'geek', I mean comparatively within the sciences as opposed to the general populace.

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Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 6 Jun 2008, 23:02, archived)

I actually still find it hard

to learn that I'm viewed as a relative non-geek in science. How the hell did that happen....?

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boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 23:17, archived)